vadi party

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[josevadi]

my debut collection of essays INTER STATE will be published by Soft Skull Press fall 2021

[josevadi]

Writing page updated. 

Also, hi. It’s been awhile. I’ve been writing a book and plotting films. I hope you’re doing well.

[vadiparty]

Litquake poetry reading, October 7th, 2017 @ Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA Just re-did my writing website >> josevadi.tumblr.com

[souleyes]

Curtis

[vadiparty]

published more work in 2016 than any previous year.

Essays

“Enter the Mars Volta” | Catapult 

“Gem From a Broken Rock: Remembering Isaiah ‘Ikey’ Owens” | Los Angeles Review of Books 

“Getting to Suzy’s” | Catapult

Poems / Prose

Forthcoming poem | HOLD: a journal (Pre-Order Issue 2) | 2017

“A Scab Briefly Unconscious on 14th & Broadway” & “1073 Natoma” | Prelude Mag 

“Saturn Returned a Racist 2016” & “In The Absence of Color is a Void That Won’t Sit Next to Me on the Train” | Quiet Lightning 

“Point and Shoot” | Sundog Lit 

“[still]” | Permafrost Magazine

“Tide Will Die” | Berkeley Poetry Review

“Rodney King Isn’t Candyman” | Bodega Mag

thanks to the many journals / readers who made this possible. and thanks to SF coffee shops that open at 7a and gimme a second round on the house. 

[catapultbooks]

“My reclusive summer was interrupted that June when my housemate and I decided to see the Mars Volta up the street at the Greek Theater, touring in support of their sophomore album Frances the Mute. This massive stone outdoor amphitheater tucked in the Berkeley Hills was filled with the proverbial diaspora of brown/black rockers all in one spot. It was like the opening scene of The Warriors where all the boppers of New York gathered to hear Cyrus speak.”

A new essay by José Vadi on his fandom for the Mars Volta.

(via Catapult | Enter the Mars Volta | José Vadi)

[josevadi]

here is my essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books in honor and memoriam of the incomparable Ikey Owens. 

[vadiparty]

"In the absence of a color is a void that won't sit next to me on the train" poem written and performed by José Vadi

10/5/16 @ EM Wolfman in Oakland for the Berkeley Poetry Review x McSweeney's joint reading

http://josevadi.com http://twitter.com/vadiparty

[vadiparty]

performed 10/5/16 @ EM Wolfman in Oakland for the Berkeley Poetry Review x McSweeney's joint reading poem to be published in forthcoming issue of HOLD: a journal (http://holdajournal.com) http://josevadi.com http://twitter.com/vadiparty

[vadiparty]

me reading my piece “Claustrophobia” at Duboce Park for Lit Seen / Quiet Lightning. read my interview here.

[vadiparty]

Wrote a poem about MJs big win in the 95-96 season: winning his fourth NBA Championship on Fathers Day, within weeks of his fathers murder. Link in bio for my poem "MJ 96" #ballislife #worldpoetryday #poetry @medium #jordan #jumpman

[benrohrbach]

And we have ourselves a dunk-off.

[vadiparty]

#linkinbio 🚩"Getting to Suzy's" for @catapultcatapult #bayarea #sanfrancisco #bars #literaryselfie #nonfiction #essay #coffee #sf

[josevadi]

my new essay “Getting To Suzy’s” for Catapult is now live.

[johncassavetes]

A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes changed the way I believed narrative cinema could be made. The film was fragile and temperamental and relentless, both formally and narratively. How should I read it? What is it saying? Where is the message? It felt not only unburdened by the typical weight of those questions but also as though it existed prior to them, an event like other events on this side of the fiction, not simply an exercise in manifestation. It operated by rules that felt very similar to the rules of engagement in life, more particularly of social orders collapsing as they inevitably do.

Rick Alverson (x)

[vadiparty]

#oakland #nofilter (at Jack London Ferry Terminal)

[micdotcom]

A black church in Oakland faces a $3,529 fine for being too loud 

A predominantly black church in Oakland, California, was warned it would be fined more than $3,500 this week. The crime? Hosting choir practices too loud for some of its neighbors’ liking. The church has been there for 65 years, so what changed? Gentrification.

[theequeenpin]

Smfh.

[avocadoshawty]

!!!!!

[beautifull-chaoss]

i have no hope for this country 

[turningtricksbdwozhere-deactiva]

Fuck sake.