CREATIVE WRITING

at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco

Welcome! CW develops the art and craft of creative writing through instruction, collaboration, and respect. This blog showcases STUDENT WRITING and how to APPLY to Creative Writing.

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Once upon a time, cats were lonely, so they wanted someone whose only purpose in existence was to love and cherish cats. Thus, the Creative Writers were born. Out of the glowing bundle of soft and squishy warmness and fluff was a stack of Post-It notes that absolutely adored cats. Cats named that stack Midori, and that was that.

Category: Readings

  • Jane Hirshfield at City Lights!

    Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco Jane Hirshfield is the author of six previous collections of poetry, a now-classic book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, and three books collecting the work of women poets from the past. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the…

  • Poetry Cafe

  • Jarett Kobek @ City Lights

    Tonight, at CIty LIghts Bookstore, you can hear “Jarett Kobek musing on the existential psychedelia of Mohammed Atta…” Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

  • Fort Mason Reading tomorrow

    Thursday 29 September 29, 2011 6:30 pm Readers Café & Bookstore Building C, South End Fort Mason Center, San Francisco (415)771-1011 Thursdays at Readers Cafe Al Young and Pauline Craig curated by Jack Hirschman, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library poet-in-residence – Reba

  • Reading in the Mission

    Thursday September 22, 2011 7pm to 10 pm Om Shan Tea 233 14th Street, corner of Natoma, (bet. Mission & South Van Ness) San Francisco map Open Heart Poetry Hosted by Marc Kockinos Featured Poet La Tigresa reading from her acclaimed new book, NAKED SACRED EARTH POEMS La Tigresa is a consummate performer, who brings…

  • Open Mic- Poetry in the Mission

    Sunday September 18, 2011 4:00 pm Sun Rise Restaurant- 3126  24th. Street (near folsom) San Francisco …Continuing with the great tradition of poetry in the Mission District. Poesía Revuelta/ Mixed Poetry. Open mic. Mixed poetry with hope Mixed poetry with wind Mixed poetry with anger Mixed poetry with rivers Mixed Poetry with mountains Mixed poetry…

  • Poets for Change- Check out CWROPPS

    Anybody interested in participating in a pretty impressive-sounding reading, check the following out–this memo was sent to me via cwropps@aol.com. Join their email group to receive a consistent stream of writing opportunities of all kinds. We are seeking submissions for TEN THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE, http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/ This amazing world-wide event is happening on Saturday September…