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Bruce Isaacson, Sarah Menefee and Jan Steckel read for Poetry Flash, hosted by editor Joyce Jenkins.Bruce Isaacson is a founder of Zeitgeist Press with 115 titles, mostly by street poets, punks, and misfits. He submitted a thesis to noted American poet Allen Ginsberg and has lived or worked in Mexico, Paris, Leningrad, and Berkeley. In New York, he was a finalist in the inaugural Nuyorican Poetry Slam. In San Francisco, California, he was associated with the Cafe Babar reading, a raucous spoken-word rebellion sometimes referred to as Gladiator School for Poets. He was also the first Poet Laureate of Clark County, Nevada where he founded Poetry Promise, a non-profit that provides poetry programs.
San Francisco poet Sarah Menefee, originally from Reno, Nevada, is a homeless and poor people’s rights activist, a founding member of the San Francisco Union of the Homeless, Homes Not Jails, the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, the Revolutionary Poet’s Brigade, and “First they came for the homeless.” Her poetry collections include I’m Not Thousandfurs, The Blood About the Heart, Human Star, In Your Fish Helmet, and Stella Umana (Italian & English), and various chapbooks. She has worked in hospitals, casinos, bars, day care centers, offices, and bookstores, and has taught poetry in homeless shelters, half-way houses and at Occupy (Occupy Your Visions). She is retired and works part-time as an artist’s model.
Jan Steckel is a Jewish, disabled, bisexual poet, writer, and retired pediatrician. Her debut short fiction collection Ghosts and Oceans came out in 2023. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone won two Rainbow Awards. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital also won awards. Her creative prose and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Assaracus and elsewhere. She has four Pushcart and four Best of the Net nominations. She lives in Oakland, California.
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