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…
We are honored to be curating at this year’s Beast Crawl in Oakland, CA on July 22, 2023. We have participated in some form each year since the beginning (Full of Crow, Kiss This Missile, Red Crow, Audrey’s Coffee, etc.) and this is a community building event that is dear to our hearts. Our event this year will be Leg 3 at Oaklandish. We have posted information on Facebook and Instagram and the details are also on the Beast Crawl website here. For this year’s 2023 information, here. Below is our event listing with performers and bios: COLLAPSE PRESS: BEASTS OF THE APOCALYPSE Collapse Press is a small literary publisher specializing in poetry and prose by authors, established and new, whose work addresses the current social atmosphere of a society in turmoil and on the verge of transformation. Hey everyone, let’s shudder together! Armageddon’s a comin’ and Collapse Press has got the writers and poets to make it all go down easier. Or harder. Or whatever you want. Because it doesn’t matter! Join us as Juba Kalamka, Richard Loranger, Missy Church, Taneesh Kaur, The Propaganda Poet and Lynn Alexander ride roughshod over the terrain of the End Times. Performers: Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, performer and all-around squeaky wheel currently residing in Oakland. His upcoming collection of poetry and flash prose, Mammal, is due out from Roof Books in the fall of 2023. You can find more about his work and scandals at his website. E. Lynn Alexander is a poet, artist, and zine/book maker. She cohosts The Friday Collapse and the Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic. Her recent books include Find Me In The Iris (Collapse Press) and The Shouldspeak Disease, published by Naked Bulb Press, exploring themes of shame language. Website here. Taneesh Kaur is a teaching artist of East Indian descent based in San Francisco, a social justice advocate who uses nature to…
Darrell Parry Darrell Parry is a writer, artist and event organizer from Easton, Pennsylvania. He founded the online publication Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly and the monthly Stick Figure Poetry open mic. He also co-hosts Lehigh Valley Poetry’s Virtual Salon, which meets on Zoom the first Monday of every month. His alter ego works in higher education, not a professor, but as one of those reviled peddlers of unaffordable course materials. Believe it or not, he even sometimes sells poetry books. https://www.stickfigurepoetry.com Steve Goldberg Steve Goldberg has been part of the Cleveland poetry scene for longer than anyone expected. Steve has been published in many of Cleveland’s small press zines and is included in the book Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama & Anthology (Bottom Dog Press) and the coffee table book, Hotel Poem, Poets of Cleveland (Language Foundry). As a poetry event organizer, Steve led the legendary Literary Café Reading Series for four years, the bombastic Metrical Singularity Supernova festival, and Broken Pulpit poetry weekend and crawl in Cleveland. He has read all across the country and participated in poetry festivals such as Kansas City’s Unregulated Word, Oakland’s Beast Crawl, the Tremont Art and Cultural Festival, and has been the MC for Rainy Day in Seattle poetry festival. He has written chapbooks, Corner Café Drugstore and other Poems (Inkstained Dagger Press) and sold out in its 3rd printing Tremont Crawl (WhatsInTheBag Press). His full length book, History is An Afterthought (Spartan Press), is due out in October. Youssef Alaoui Youssef Alaoui is a Latino Arab. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. He is a quiet individual experiencing the swirling cosmos as it taps against his window in a house not far from the sea. www.youssefalaoui.info Photo by…
