Ping-Pong Free Press and Poetry International will be hosting a poetry reading/performance art exhibit at the Coagula Curatorial Gallery at 7:30 pm on March 31st, 2016 during the AWP conference. If you can’t make it come by our table at the conference: 559!

Featured Readers:

Malena Morling

Michael Waters

Katie Farris

Mihaela Moscaliuc

Katie Ford

Jesse Nathan

James Meetze

Janel Spencer

Jenny Minniti-Shippey

Adam Deutsch

Maria Garcia Teutsch

River Atwood Tabor

with special guest: Babe Teeth in performance!

Dear Reader,

Let me begin with a meditation: speech is not free, someone has paid the tab for you. This year we mark the 50^th anniversary of the 1964 overturning by the Supreme Court of an earlier ruling which found the Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller to be obscene. Henry says:

It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! (Tropic of Cancer) Read More >

Dear Reader,

If you are reading this you are already doing the thing most desperately needed by artists: supporting them. At the Henry Miller Memorial library we are dedicated to supporting free speech, enhancing our global dialogue through the arts, and maintaining a space where redwoods can continue to suck water from the air and live. Read More >