The Broken Teacup

animated kafka, i bet it rocks.

in my random website hopping i came across this short film maker named Shawn Atkins who: has been developing a distinct style of handmade animation to visually narrate dreamlike journeys of inner transformation.

now i want to see one. and so the obsession begins...

this always happens when it rains. i go inside and seek out new things in cyberspace. damn the rain and its introspective effects.

in other news: i'm going to Corteo tonight!

Feelings

from Andrea Bakers book: Like Wind Loves a Window

"And so I paid $2.35 for the artichoke because I wanted that type of intimacy with my husband. Though we all agree we don’t like having these feelings, I keep looking for something I can steal."

humerus

Humerus

longest bone of the forelimb herringbone tights made of nylon, spandex, wool extending from the shoulder to elbow, I slipped them on over a wrist, patterned perfect along my arm, breathable holes articulating above by a rounded head with the glenoid fossa [see glenoid cavity] quick, flick your hand out no snags against fabric a broad articular surface divided by a ridge into a medial pulley-shaped repetitive and plain I wonder if they come in grey, because black is for fishnets portion and a rounded eminence that articulate with the ulna and radius respectively, with holes showing thighs, and calf bones that gleam providing modified surfaces for the attachment of muscles encased like sausages


also called upper arm








Here is—


glenoid cavity

the concavity in the head remember when we sat of the scapula thigh to thigh that receives my elbow poised at the top—red chair the head of the humerus I skimmed your wrist bone then, to form the shoulder joint and you knew it too

also called glenoid fossa

14 Hills Related Events

Please join 14 Hills Press as we celebrate the release of SWELTER by
Elise Ficarra.
Friday, December 9, 2005 @ 7pm

The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St, @ Mission St.

Swelter by Elise Ficarra
Chapbook Release Reading
with guest reader Robin Romm
Join us in celebrating the release of the chapbook Swelter that is:

"Exploratory in form yet ultimately grounded in, and devoted to,
everyday experience. Elise Ficarra's Swelter seeks to rescue te
lyric during the latest war's assault on our senses." -Brian Henry


"Where words foreshadow and mirror each other in Elise Ficarra's
Swelter, where we apprehedn their correspondences, our re-reading is
always a first reading--startling--as of a poem which can be
inhabited in multiple dimensions at once." -Benjamin Hollander


"These brilliant and engaging poems do double time as the world's
most innovative and advanced Ouija board." -Stacy Doris


About the Author:

Elise Ficarra's work has appeared in Bird Dog, Commonweal, Fourteen
Hills, Small Town, Transfer and other journals. She was awarded the
Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor College Prize in 2004. She is
a contributor to Hinge a BOAS anthology of eight Bay Area
experimental women writers (Crack Press, 2002). Her first chapbook,
Onslaught Beings, was made in 2002. She lives in San Francisco where
she has worked for a number of years as the business manager of The
Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives.

Robin Romm's collection of stories, The Tilt, won last year's Michael
Rubin Chapbook Award from San Francisco State University. Her short
fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in many national magazines
including Tin House, One-Story, Threepenny Review, Nimrod, and The
Portland Review. She teaches at Laney College, The Writing Salon, and
San Francisco State University. She'll be a MacDowell Fellow in spring
2006.

Visit www.14hills.net for more information.

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This Saturday! Celebrate and support small presses!

The Ecstatic Monkey Small Press Fest:
A Showcase, Reading, and Party in Celebration of Local Independent
Presses

Saturday, December 10th 7:30
at the Peacock Lounge (552 Haight St. btwn Steiner and Fillmore)

With Readings From Small Press Publications by:

Stacy Doris
David West
Jeff Johnson
April Hayley
Diana Thow
Todd Chapman
Jason Morris
Susanne Dyckman

Live musical performance by BOUND TO GET FULLER, featuring Brandon
Brown and Alli Warren

Music provided until 1:00 am by: DJ Nathan Moomaw of Fallout and DJ
EMDEE of Club Neon

Participating Presses:

Manic D Press
Kitchen Sink Magazine
New American Writing
Watchword Press
Two Lines: A Journal of Translation
Five Fingers Review
Parthenon West Review
The Skinny
14 Hills: The SFSU Review
Instant City Magazine
Eleven Eleven Journal
Cherry Bleeds
Other Magazine
Meritage Press
Lost Island Press

Free party favors donated by Good Vibrations!

Copious amounts of hors d'oeuvres donated by Trader Joe's!

Full Bar

Lovely raffle prizes generously donated by:

City Lights Bookstore, 826 Valencia, Borderlands Bookstore, Bird and
Beckett Bookstore, Good Vibrations, Cody's Books, Clean Well-Lighted
Place For Books, Dog Eared Books, Needles and Pens, Fly Bar, Fabuloid
(two $100 gift certificates!), Ruby Gallery, DEMA, Candystore, and
Fluffyco

Admission: sliding scale $5 (includes one raffle ticket) - $10
(includes three raffle tickets)

Proceeds benefit the survival of the Bay Area's independent presses
and the innovative and experimental literature they publish

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Monday, December 12, 2005 @7:30pmCafe La Onda
3159 16th St. (between Guerrero & Valencia)

14 Hills: The SFSU Review, Volume 12.1
Issue Release Party

Please join us for the release of the next issue of Fourteen Hills,
No. 12.1, one of our best yet with many great contributors including
art by Laleh Khorramian, and pieces by the following event readers:

Rodney Koeneke is the author of Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003) and
a work of history on I.A. Richards in China. A mini-chap, On the
Clamways, was published by Sea.Lamb.Press in 2004. His newest
manuscript, musee mechanique, reflects the rhythms and terrors of a
year spent working at the gift shop inside the Musee Mechanique on
Fisherman's Wharf. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Lesley
Poirier, and their son Auden.

Chaz Reetz-Laiolo recently received a Writer's Grant from the Vermont
Studio Center. He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. He lives in California with his daughter, Isa.

Tina Petrakis is an MA student in poetry at SFSU, with a special
interest in translation and cross-genre writing. She has recently
translated the work of Maria Laina and other contemporary Greek
poets. Her own poetry has appeared in Talisman, Transfer, and in the
anthology, The Pagan's Muse (Jane Raeburn, Ed.). Ms. Petrakis works
as a medical writer in the biotechnology industry and is the author
of many scientific journal articles and reports.

Jason Morris is a bartender in the turbulent Haight St. district of
San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Mirage Period(ical) #4,
Salt Hill, and Parthenon West Review. Jason;s all-time favorite
Beatles song is "And Your Bird Can Sing," and he is currently reading
Rousseau's Confessions and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by
Edgar Allen Poe.

Joseph Moulian is a small-town kid at heart. Currently, he lives and
dreams in San Francisco, where he is earning his MA in English at San
Francisco State University. His work has appeared in Brushfire.

Luke Trent's poetry has appeared in Fence, The New Review, and Volt,
among others, and will soon be appearing in various prose poetry
journals. He is a past winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award for
poetry.

Visit www.14hills.net for more information.