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reading!

Silvi — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:41:35 +0000

join us for a night of on-demand poetry,
reading, music, and love letter writing!
reading at 6:30pm. wine will be served.

we look forward to seeing you!

POETRY:
come see the poetry store’s latest work and get a poem from the poet herself! silvi alcivar will be writing on-demand poems and at 6:30pm she’ll read some poems, including excerpts from her new book “sometimes we must swarm.” (www.thepoetrystore.net)

MUSIC:
jamie mckenzie of pocket full of rye will be strumming her ukelele and filling the gallery with gorgeous song. hooray! (www.pocketfullofrye.net)

LOVE LETTERS:
help create a love themed art piece! join shannon weber, creator of www.LoveYou2.org, and help change the world one love note at a time by writing your own love note. no prep necessary. just bring your heart.

GALLERY:
the gallery opens at noon! yep, noon! come in early and check out the current show by silvi alcivar and sonya philip (sonyaphilip.com) and shop amazing art, jewelry, and clothing by in-house and local designers. read all about it and see a sneak peak of the show at www.secessionsf.com

the revolution begins here.

Silvi — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:29:00 +0000

with this.

my new remington rand kmc industrial typewriter. purchased from the good people of viracocha, a magical world of all things beautiful & desires you never even knew you had.

why is this big little machine a revolution?

because it means no more 8 inch margin barriers. no more inability to make horizontal pieces. because it means 11×14, maybe even 14×11. all so unimaginable before i chanced upon meeting this remington rand.

this chance meeting is a reminder. dreams do come true. even when you didn’t know they were there for you to dream.

come to viracocha this tuesday september 14th, 7:30-10:00pm, for a night of poetry & jazz. the poetry store will be on hand writing poems & all donations will go toward the purchase of the newest member of my typewriter family (pictured above).

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special thanks to nate munger, of the union trade, for helping make this dream come true.

in collaboration.

Silvi — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:20:23 +0000

andy westhoff, a local illustrator i’ve been collaborating with, wanted to give his mom something special for mother’s day. so he drew this, referencing an old photo of her taken in the early seventies coming out of a kansas wheat field. he added his own sunflower and wheat patterns to get a more “kansasy” flavor. and he asked me to write a poem on it. i used my olympia script writing typewriter for the first time on this piece. so happy with how it turned out. his mom was too.

help me win $5000 to fund my art!

Silvi — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:34:24 +0000

this will only take a minute!

how? help me have the most meaningful conversation! now and continuing a month from now!

STEP 1: i want to know: what do you want a poem about? and/or what do you consider poetry?

STEP 2: join the conversation on
gravity.com: http://tinyurl.com/2ew5vp3.
just log in & answer the question.
takes 3 minutes or less!

END RESULT: help me win $5000 to keep writing poems & teaching poetry to the elderly!

NOTE: YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON GRAVITY. ANSWERS IN OTHER PLACES DON’T COUNT!

tell your friends, your lovers, your frienemies, anybody, everybody!

thank you!

yours in poetry & gratitude,
silvi

p.s. once you join, you can comment again and again! so when you want poems about something else, tell me! when you have more thoughts about what poetry means to you, tell me! when you have questions about poetry, ask!