next time you’re in san fran, check out the addison street poetry walk. along both sides of addison street (between shattuck avenue and milvia street), there are about 120 plates in the sidewalk – each containing a poem reflective of berkeley’s history in some way.

there’s a poem from richard (another shot here). the poem is ’30 cents, two transfers, love’:

thinking hard about you
i got onto the bus
and paid 30 cents fare
and asked the driver for
two transfers
before discovering that i
was alone.

and if you can’t get to san fran, there’s The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk book and photos of the plates on flickr.

oliva is working on an adaptation of the ‘abortion’. she’s aiming for an early 2008 debut (in san fran).

as part of the production, she is asking for book contributions. not copies of ‘the abortion’ but your very own book which you would like to add to a library like the one in richard’s story. she’s hoping to send the contributions to the brautigan library (which i think is still in limbo waiting for the SF public library to take on the project).

check out her page or read more about the library & various incarnations

the eagle’s nest art gallery in quincy CA USA is hosting ‘western images’ – an exhibit of erik weber’s western images (which includes a couple of richard). runs thru feb. erik took lots of photos of richard during his life including several book covers.