SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission SF
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7:30 Pitta of the Mind
Maw Shein Win - poetry
Amanda Chaudhary - keyboard/electronics

8:30 Anbian/Robinson/Romus
Robert Anbian - poetry
Rent Romus - saxophones/flutes
Donald Robinson - drums


Maw Shein Win's writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing, Cimarron Review, Poetry International, Fanzine, and others. Along with Amanda Chaudhary, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. Win's most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press. Her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press and was a City Lights Books bestselling paperback. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito.

Anbian/Robinson/Romus
Will explore the intersection between the inner and outer reaches of what is means to seek and nurture one's haven.
Robert Anbian, second generation beat poet and rabble rouse, writes about sex, politics, seas and oceans, city streets, deserts, war, love, music, highways, petty larceny, ecstasy, childhood, death, memories. His poems and stories are populated with the poor, lost, exiled, angry, crazy in love, and intoxicated. “We, the chaos people/ the pre-manufactured people….” His syntax is mangled, his narrative a montage. He has little use for metaphor. He means exactly what he says. His texts are homespun, esoteric, oddly familiar and strange. He’s discovering the music in language, in thought, in the cortex of consciousness.
That Anbian, a leading voice in the San Francisco poetry underground, isn’t more widely known is as much a tribute to his “odd man out” obstinacy as to the usual reluctance of society to deal with its critics.
“Anbian is a raw mixture of poet, preacher, seer, and rebel... generally these poems are unlike anything else on the market.” — Choice
Donald Robinson first studied classical percussion at the New England Conservatory. During the early 1970's he served his musical apprenticeship in the jazz world of Paris, studying with Kenny Clarke and playing with Alan Silva, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake and Bobby Few among many others. He first played with Spearman as a duet partner during this period in Paris, an association which continued through various configurations and many recordings until the saxophonist's death in 1998.
Robinson is currently playing in many configurations with a broad range of musicians throughout Europe and the US.

Cost: $10-$20 sliding scale

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