Three Poems
accidentally leaving lanes
accidentally leaving lanes
like when I shave my nose
or peel a carrot
or touch the numb region
along my left ear
where the surgeon peeled back
the skin, oh so gingerly
to not damage the nerve
but still it’s numb now a year later
she carefully turned over my cheek
like the left page of a book
to access the tumor
the way to reveal the next line
Triptych
The moon peeked from behind the blinds.
The dog on a leash looked up to make eye contact with the man who was
looking through the field of stars at the black firmament.
You look at my body to see me.
The hard part of getting a mouse to sign a contract is that you have to hold him down using the cover sheet
The hard part of getting a mouse to sign a contract is that you have to hold him down using the cover sheet, but when you hold him down he can’t hold the pen.
November becomes a frozen October. My plan is to crawl into a nest of hatching owls and be raised once again by my mom who brought me mouse after mouse last time.
Renny Pritikin
Renny Pritikin was born in New York City, and received a BA from New School College, NYC, where he studied with Paul Blackburn and an MA from San Francisco State where he studied with Stan Rice. He was co-director of New Langton Arts in San Francisco from 1979 to 1986 and executive director from 1986 until 1992, where he started the noted Poet in Residence program. He was chief curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1992 to 2004. He was director of the Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis from 2004 until 2012. He was chief curator of The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco from 2014 until 2018. Pritikin is the author of five published books of poetry, most recently Westerns and Dramas, published by the Prelinger Library, where he was poet in residence (2020). He is a regular contributor to the art review site Squarecylinder and has been the United States correspondent for the Portuguese art magazine Umbigo since 2020. His memoir, At Fourth and Mission: A Life Among Artists, was published in October 2023; Hyperallergic said it “positions him staunchly in Bay Area art history.”
Theo Huber
Theo Huber is a visual artist based in Hamburg, Germany.
In his painting practice, he looks for images that tell of the daily struggles, joys, longings, and failures of being human. In combining autobiographical references, everyday observations, comic elements and surreal inventions, he creates pictures in which inner processes (feelings, memories etc.) meet the circumstances of the world surrounding him (paying rent, traffic, nightlife, etc.).
Most of his paintings relate to the urban space. The dialectic of its myth between the dreamy romanticism of the big city and the place of failure, impoverishment, and isolation has become a central motif of Huber's work and research.
He studied in Halle, Dresden, Boston and at the HfBK Hamburg, in the class of Jutta Koether, where he completed his MFA in 2024.
Find out more at: www.theohuber.de