Richard Modiano, Milo Starr Johnson, and Richard Loranger reading @ Bound Together Books!

Name: Richard Modiano, Milo Starr Johnson, and Richard Loranger reading @ Bound Together Books!
Start: 2026-01-18T14:00:00-08:00
Location: Bound Together Books

Schedule

Sun, 18 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Bound Together Books | San Francisco, CA

SPEAKING OF GOOD TROUBLE, Richard Modiano (LA), Milo Starr Johnson, (SF) and Richard Loranger (Oakland) will be reading poetry and prose at good ol' Bound Together Books on Upper Haight. That's right, these three fab rads are gonna lay it out for you right there. And we ain't messin around.
With an open mic for about 10 readers. Please join us!
Bound Together Books
1369 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA
Starting at 2pm
And we'll each have books available.
Milo Starr Johnson will be reading from her terrific recent book Miss Experience White (with illustrations by John Seabury!).
Milo is a California-based writer and multidisciplinary artist: a poet, playwright, performer, producer, and indie-pop singer-songwriter. As co-producer, writer, and performer of the podcast version of Miss Experience White, she won a 2022 Signal Gold Award for Fiction in a Limited Series and a 2022 Silver w3 Award for Cause Awareness in a Miniseries. Other poems have been published in Insurgent Imagination #1 and Sparring Artists 2. A seeker by nature, she specializes in creating provocative and personal work advocating for change with love and mischief. She is a fifth generation Californian with ancestors going back to colonial America. For more info, see http://milostarrjohnson.com.
Richard Loranger will be reading from Unit of Agency, his collection of pissed-off leftie poems.
Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, performer, text artist, and all-around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. They’re the author of six books of poetry and flash prose, including Mammal, Unit of Agency (now in its second edition), Be A Bough Tit, Sudden Windows, Poems for Teeth, The Orange Book, and ten chapbooks, and have work in over 100 magazines and journals. They’ve recently joined a multi-disciplinary performance troupe, the Wandering Ensemble, based in the East Bay of San Francisco, and have been singing and dancing away. You can find more about their work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com.
Richard Modiano will be reading from his fantastic and provocative collection The Forbidden Lunch Box, published by Punk Hostage Press.
While a resident of New York City Richard Modiano became active in the literary community connected to the Poetry Project where he came to know Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs and Ted Berrigan. Modiano served on the board of directors of Valley Contemporary Poets from 1995 until 2001. In 2001 he was a programmer at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, joined the Board of Trustees in 2006, and from 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director. In that time he produced and curated hundreds of literary events, and with Henry Morro, Suzanne Lummis and Liz Camfiord co-founded and named Beyond Baroque Books’ sub-imprint The Pacific Coast Poetry Series. In 2019 he was elected Vice President of the California State Poetry Society. In 2023 Modiano joined the board of directors of the Los Angles Poetry Society. The Huffington Post named him as one of 200 people doing the most to promote poetry in the United States. In 2022 the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition awarded Modiano the Joe Hill Prize for labor poetry, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His collection The Forbidden Lunch Box is published by Punk Hostage Press. Richard is a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the World and a member of the National Writers Union.