Collapse Press at Beast Crawl 2023
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…
