The Rounds...

SPARRING GALLERY

Poet Steve Arntson holds the record for sparring through the most
rounds of the SWBG spoken word series. Arntson is pictured above
performing for an audience at Round II: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts
@ The Beat Museum on 4/22/09. Photo by Steve Wilson.







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SWBG, Round 13 @ "The Gothic Church Reading"
First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco 3/19/11.
Latif Harris (with Phil Deal), Joyce Jenkins, Sam Sax, Kathleen Wood, Tom Stolmar, Dee Allen. Special Guests: Luke Warm Water,
Jennifer Barone. Musical Guests: Daniel Heffez on sax
and Geordie Van Der Bosch on drum. Kirk Lumpkin (Host)

(click link below for highlights)











SWBG, Round 12 @ Kasa Indian Restaurant, San Francisco, 1/19/11.
3115 Fillmore is the original site of the famous Six Gallery reading of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. We Sparred with a plethora of ghosts that night.
Floyd Salas, Marc Olmsted, MamaCoAtl, Pablo Rosales, Steve Arntson, Lunation (Clara Hsu and Bill Mercer). Special Guest Vince Storti. Music by Geordie Van Der Bosch and Stephen Kuehn. Keith Savage (Host)







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"Triple Spar" Spider logo by Santa Cruz artist Melissa West. Check out her marvelous website: www.mswest.com


TRIPLE SPAR (Rounds 9, 10, 11):

Round 11:
SWBG, Round 11 @ Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, 10/16/10.
The Ellyn Maybe Band (w/Harlan Steinberger & Robbie Fitzsimmons),
Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Gary Young,, Jeanne Spicuzza, Ron "The Lamp" Lampi, Dennis Holt, Mel C. Thompson, Brenda Petrakos,
William Taylor, Jr., Debbie Kirk, Marc Kockinos (Host)

Round 10:

         SWBG, Round 10 @ Art House Gallery & Cultural Center in Berkeley,
            10/15/10 - Bucky Sinister, J.R. Brady, Tim Donnelly, A.M. Stanley,
        D'dra White, The Ellyn Maybe Band, Q.R. Hand, Jr., Jezebel Delilah X,
              Mike The Poet (aka: Mike Sonksen),  Mark States, (Guest Host)

Round 9:
Triple Spar kicked off @ The Beat Museum in San Francisco, 10/14/10:
David Meltzer, Jerry Ferraz, Whitman McGowan,
Margery Snyder, Steve Arntson, Chris Vannoy, Richard Loranger,
Martin Hickel, Keith Savage, Julie Rogers,
The Ellyn Maybe Band (with Robbie Fitzsimmons and Harlan Steinberger),
Ginger Murray (Guest Host)








Round VIII:
Alan Sitar Brown, Diamond Dave, Julia Vinograd,
Debra Grace Khattab, Bob Booker,
Marc Wilson (Amusia, with music by Michael Shockey),
Jane Ormerod, Special Guest Will Dodger, Gail Mitchell (Host)





Round VII:
Ellyn Maybe, Iris Berry, Michael C. Ford,
Mike The Poet, Rachel Kann, Jim Bolt,
Brenda Petrakos, Gary Justice, Mani Suri (Host)

Hear audio from the Beyond Baroque show:








Round VI:
ruth weiss, Avotcja, COPUS, Mark States, Alohi,
Alfonso Texidor, Jessica Loos, Clive Matson, MamaCoAtl,
NKECHI, Charlie Getter, Bethany Rose, Marc Kockinos(Host)




Excerpts of Mark States at Round Six: Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts
from 4/24/10 @ Viracocha. Video montage by Molaan Mosell.






Round V:
Jerry Kamstra, Hanna Rifkin, Marc Kockinos,
Pablo Rosales, Len Anderson, Bea Garth, Nicholas Pierotti,
Steve Arntson, Daniel Yaryan (Host)

Round IV:
Keith Savage, H.D. Moe, Jerry Ferraz,
Wise Proof Avatari, Jane Ormerod, James Cagney,
Lunation (Bill Mercer & Clara Hsu), Don Brennan, Cara Vida,
Ingrid Keir, Marsha Campbell, RAmu Aki (Host)





 

Round III:
Neeli Cherkovski, Joie Cook, Jonathan Siegel, Jerry Ferraz,
Mel Clay, Charles Curtis Blackwell, The Bishop, Will Dodger,
Steve Arntson, Camincha, Philip T. Nails (Host)

  




Round II:
Charles Curtis Blackwell, Steve Arntson,
Lunation (Bill Mercer & Clara Hsu), Jennifer Barone, Craig Easley, Ana Elsner, Gail Mitchell, Alfonso Texidor,
Black Earth & The Laughing Childe, Yaryan, Bob Booker (Host)




   

Round I:
  Jeanne Spicuzza, Cara Vida, La Tigressa, Steve Arntson,
  Artemas Rex, Philip T. Nails, Miriam Spier, Steven Gray, Thorne,
 Richard Loranger, Annie Klopfer, Daniel Yaryan (Host)