I love Green Apple Books and their creative events is one of the reasons why.
This Sunday, Green Apple will welcome poet Silvi Alcivar. Profiled recently in the Chronicle, Alcivar has found a new niche in the mega-business that is poetry.
She works events or special occasions, like a wedding or a fashion show, churning out original poems, on the spot, for anyone who asks.
Alcivar is, quite literally, a poet for hire. The Chronicle interviewer asked her to compose a poem. The only direction was that it be about sunflowers for a 4 year old who “planted seeds in this seemingly intractable piece of land and now they’re taller than he is.”
Alcivar loaded a sheet of paper into her old Royal typewriter and soon after, produced this lovely piece (typed on the page in the shape of a sunflower):
What things can grow
from little seeds
flowers with onhealthy cheap viagra heads
as big as the sun and
taller than you & me. they will keep growing & the birds will come eating
seeds then spilling them back into the earth again, to make more suns grow
for birds like you and me.
Alcivar told the Chronicle, “I do everything with the typewriter. I like the sound. I like the process of loading the paper, of hitting return. I rarely write on a computer. I do blog posts on the typewriter. I think differently using a typewriter.”
Read more about Silvi Alcivar at SFGate.com or visit her website at thepoetrystore.net.
This Sunday, stop by Green Apple Books at 506 Clement between 11am and 1pm and Alcivar will compose an original poem for or about your Mom, or any other topic.
“Poetry suits me because – the way I do it – it is without form,” Alcivar said. “Writing just pursues me.”
Sarah B.
Silvi is cool (she performed at the Muni Diaries event last month) and this should be pretty fun!