from richard hansen:

POETIC JUSTICE

A benefit for frank andrick
Monday April 2, 2007
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts
1719 25th Street
(25th & R Streets)
Doors open at 6
$10 donation

Hosted by Edie Lambert

With readings by

frank andrick
James Rollins
Becca Costello
Tim Kahl
Star Vaughn
Mario Ellis Hill
Terryl Wheat
Mary Zeppa
and more

With music by

J. Greenberg
Joel Ginsberg

Frank Andrick has devoted his life to helping other people,
from teaching poetry to troubled teenagers to promoting the
arts across our community. Now, Frank needs our help. He
was diagnosed with a range of serious health conditions
in August 2006 and at the same time learned that a paperwork
error had wiped out his Medi-Cal benefits. On April 2nd,
friends will gather to help frank with his medical expenses.

A Sac-Franciscan experimental mythologist whose work spans
poetry, prose, and tale telling. Frank Andrick is the producer
and host of the "Pomo Literati" a two hour spoken word program
broadcast on KUSF. It features live reading performances,
contemporary recordings, and archival rarities from pre-beat to
post modern. Published in the Poems-For-All Series, and Rattlesnake
Press, he authored Soluna a collection of poetry and prose and is
working on Mandorla. He also co-hosts "Poetry Unplugged @ Luna's"
an open mic/featured reading series, the peoples choice for Best
Open Mic venue as per the Sacramento News & Review. frank is
currently editing a collection of works by inspirational women
authors
entitled 'La Musee' de Muse', 'The Museum of Muses'. Interpolating
sound, visual, and performing arts is life for frank. He believes
"there is more space inside of us than we'll ever find outside of
us."
He is inspired by fire, images, dreams, tarot cards, the Knights
Templar, the Surreal, the Symbol, the eternal & the unknown.

- - -

the poet
is a thief
of fire

by frank andrick

To
be a poet
entails more than
the writing of poems.
It demands a commitment
to live and die with great style
and an even greater sadness.
To wake up each morning
with the fever raging,
and to know that it can never
be extinguished except by
death,
and yet to be convinced that this suffering,
this sensitivity carries its own unique
reward ...
I want to be
the Hierophant
of an unapprehended
Inspiration