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Michael Klam Performs at Poetry & Art Series
By Ted Washington, Publisher, Puna Press
After six years of organizing and hosting the Poetry & Art series, Michael Klam will finally step up to the microphone and present his latest book, Emma and the Buddha Frog, Puna Press, 2007.
At 6:30 p.m. on November 15, Klam will read selections from his new collection of poems and short stories about everything from genetically engineered Super Bowl cheese to Bushcon's war on thinking to ruminations about his children.
Klam’s deft and clever use of words along with his offbeat outlook brings forth the poetic, lyrical and absurd in every situation, even auto accidents. Tenderness seeps from pages in meditations about love and family, while his caustic wit and eye for the politically preposterous takes aim at our current administration.
“Wit, social commentary that verges on rabble-rousing, and an eye for the quotidian detail, Michael Klam’s work is as disturbing as it is pleasurable; the perfect combination for a book of poems,” says Judy Reeves, teacher and author of A Writer’s Book of Days. Klam has run the Poetry & Art series in The Museum of The Living Artist since 2001. The quarterly program cultivates collaboration between the spoken word and the visual arts communities -- a beautiful concept that publisher Puna Press extols in Emma and the Buddha Frog. A marriage of text and images, the written word will become a delectable multimedia visual-verbal feast at the next installment of Poetry & Art. Klam’s performance will include a slideshow of artwork from the book by local artists David Lonteen, Ron Moya, and Emily Larlham.
A freelance journalist and elementary school teacher, Klam is also a successful slam poet. He received a perfect score in 2002 for his performance of “The Inner Flojo” at the National Poetry Slam in Minneapolis. As host, Klam has never taken the stage at his own Poetry & Art series, but with the release of Emma and the Buddha Frog, we will be treated to an extended reading. Come early to sign up for the open mic portion of the evening. Sign-ups start at 6 p.m., and artists are encouraged to bring visual art to accompany their poetry.
Entry is $5, free for members. For more information call 619-957-3264 or 619-236-0011. Visit www.punapress.com and www.sandiego-art.org.
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