We will be hosting an event in the crawl this year on Saturday, July 27, 2024 in Leg 2. Please see our Collapse Press IG posts and event on Facebook (Events, Collapse Press Page) Paul Corman-Roberts will MC, with poets LaMar Mitchell, Heather Flescher, Han Raschka, E. Lynn Alexander, and Lee Foust.
We are excited to be part of the annual Beast Lit Crawl, in Oakland. If you are looking for the latest in fest events, please check out the Beast Lit Crawl website and SM at www.beastcrawl.org. We have a lot of event information shared on our pages as well and you can reach out if needed, Collapse Press IG. We have been a part of this festival in some way since it started, with Paul as a founding organizer. I have been coming out most years since year one, curating events for various small presses including our current- Collapse Press. The festival has changed over the years, with different organizers and curating presses, organizations, and series hosts. Many of the core organizers are still involved and the group have pressed on despite the challenges of covid. This has become an annual gathering and meet up of writers from all over the country, about much more than a festival and celebration- it is a community. (Photos- Previous Beasting in the Bay) This year, we have the “unofficial kickoff” reading on 7/25 at Oakland’s First Edition upstairs stage, a great outdoor space to meet up. There are readings from there, spanning Friday evening until the after party on Saturday night. Collapse Press will be hosting another BEASTS OF THE APOCALYPSE in Leg 2 at The Good Hop at 2421 Telegraph Avenue Oakland from 5:30-6:30. Paul will be the MC, with featured poets Heather Flescher, Han Raschka, E. Lynn Alexander, LaMar Mitchell, and Lee Foust. Our “sibling press” Naked Bulb will be at the same venue, in Leg 3 from 7:00-8:00. Missy Church will be hosting with featured poets G. Macias Gusman, Gary Turchin, Rhea Melina, and Andrew Thomas. We will have bios and more on our Facebook page and Instagram, and of…
Please join us in celebrating the long awaited release of Taneesh Kaur’s first full length poetry collection, “Thawing: A Poetic Memoir”. An in person launch event was held recently in California and a virtual launch will be hosted by Collapse Press on Friday, June 14, 2024. Event information is available on our Facebook and Instagram pages. You can purchase this book directly from the author or from Collapse Press, information here with options. Details: Cover Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-1-7352669-9-2 About Taneesh Kaur Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco, a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her visual art has been shown in galleries in the Bay and SoCal, and has received praise from the international Luxembourg Art Prize 2023. Her poetry appears in journals and anthologies, most recently in Narrative Northeast. Taneesh has a Master’s in linguistics from San Francisco State University with training abroad in Mexico and Chile. She is currently in the MFA program for poetry at University of San Francisco. More of her work can be found in English and Spanish at www.TaneeshCantos.com
