Robin McDonnell
Untitled, 2018
collage on panel, acrylic, paper
7 x 5 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Item #117: Robert Duncan Signed Broadside
Robert Duncan Signed Broadside - Passages / In Blood's Domain
Signed Broadside w/ handwritten erratum
Black Mesa Press (1982)
13.75 x 20.75 in. unframed, though this copy framed and matted (not shown)
Item #116: Family spot in the online workshop "Trans/queer Hirstory 4 Rainbow Families"
Family spot in the online workshop "Trans/queer Hirstory 4 Rainbow Families"
1 family spot for the workshop below!
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Trans/queer Hirstory 4 Rainbow Families ✨An online course with Ariel Goldberg
The ongoing attack on trans/queer life is an old playbook that we can learn about. 📚
This current wave of fear and confusion surrounding trans/queer life is not new 🛟 Come together with other kin of trans /queer people with the same questions you may have. This course will provide an antidote to the confusion, fear and despair by creating a community that grows and learns together!
Sample Weekly Lecture & Discussion Topics include:
Learning the Lingo!
Support Structures for LGBTQAI youth: 1970s to the Present
Community Based News
Allyish! What Can you DO?
Hypervisibility of Trans/queer Life
The Culture Wars
Decoding Laws Today
Wild Card! Participants Request a Topic!
Why Political Education? Trans and queer hirstory of the last fifty years has blueprints for day-to-day actions and support for those we love. The current repression of trans and queer life through the schools, public space, state legislatures, and the healthcare system relies on old strategies trans and queer people have fought against before–and won!
Course Format: This course will use short history presentations followed by a space to ask hard questions, brainstorm and share resources. Together we will learn about the joys of trans/queer life so we can support trans and queer youth and adults most impacted in this current moment.
Goals: Participants will gain a robust understanding of our current political moment by learning about real-life trans and queer organizing, media projects, and mutual-aid projects for healthcare, education, and housing. This course is designed to arm us with hirstory–by learning from actual survival and how to fight fascist authoritarianism.
Accessibility: When registering for the course, we ask for you to tell us any access needs and questions you may have about the course. Taylor Cook, the Course Manager, and I are here to support and build this course as a place for your learning and growth.
Participation: Asynchronous participation is welcome! What does that mean? Participants can miss classes and keep up with recorded lectures and transcripts or simply attend when they can. Each week, participants will receive suggested readings, resources, and discussion prompts that they can engage before or after class time. Participants are welcome to show up to class without doing any homework.
Digital Security: Participants can join class anonymously to protect their privacy.
Who might take this course: Parents of trans/queer kids who want to deepen their allyship! You are welcome to take the course with members of your family or solo. Teenage kids, romantic partners, best friends, grandparents, siblings, aunties, uncles, cousins, whoever is in your chosen family is welcome! The materials will discuss mature topics such as police violence, HIV/AIDS, and sex & gender based discrimination.
Size: 12 families
WHEN: June 11-July 30, 2025
8 weeks, Wednesday Nights
7-9pm ET / 4-7pm PT
WHERE: ONLINE! Join from anywhere!
Asynchronous participants are welcome; while all lectures are audio-recorded & circulated, discussions will not be recorded.
COST: $1,000 per family (up to four seats!)
$500 for solo enrollment
Venmo, Zelle, or bank transfer
Payment plans available / If this course is not financially accessible to you please stay tuned for Ariel's next sliding scale workshop!
If you cannot join at this time slot, and are interested in learning with us, please reach out to seekingcaptionscourse@gmail.com about your availability–if there is sufficient interest, we will open a 2nd section of the course.
Sign up here, and you will receive an email with next steps.
About the instructor: Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and educator devoted to trans and queer lineages. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s, was on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, and the Chicago Cultural Center from 2022-2024. Goldberg was a recipient of the 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Book Grant and a 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. Goldberg has taught photography, writing, and contemporary art practices independently and at Bard College, The New School, New York University, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and Rutgers University. Goldberg also works independently as a Conflict Mediator, trained through the New York Peace Institute.
IG: @r.e.l.goldberg
Item #115: Jasmine Zhang - Toast
Jasmine Zhang
Toast, 2023
Carbonized bread, signed bag, edition of 20.
Presented with performance Toast (Act 1&2) at Climate Control Oct 2023.
Item #114: Rare 4 issues of VOLT spanning 28 years & on
Rare 4 issues of VOLT spanning 28 years & on
VOLT 2 (Thomas Ingmire cover), VOLT 11 (Joan Mitchell cover) VOLT WAR ISSUE (Sephen Galbreath typography) and VOLT 23 (Hawley Hussey cover). Writers include Barbara Guest , Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Yusef Komunyakaa, Peter Gizzi, Wanda Coleman, Brian Teare, John Yau, Lida Abdull, Valzhyna Mort, Kathleen Fraser, Aaron Shurin, Garrett Caples, Thibault Raoult, dimensions 10" by 14" and 9" by 11". 1993,, 2005, 2007, 2017.
Item #113: Chris Duncan - unique, site-specific work
This item is a collaboration with Chris Duncan on a painting — for a few years Duncan has been setting out fabric on various rooftops and allowing the fabric to fade and change in the sun.
He will set up fabric on your home (needs to be somewhere relatively close by) and after a period of months he will collect the fabric and finish the work into a 20 x 16 inch work. The images above are for reference; the work will be unframed.
Think of it as a unique portrait of a place special to you, think of it as a collaboration between Chris, you, and the sun/elements.
Item #112: Chapbook consultation with Gillian Conoley
Chapbook consultation with Gillian Conoley
A one-hour consultation over Zoom for a chapbook mss. of no more than 30 pages.
Item #111: Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art "Hiroes & Trancestors" poster and poster key
Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art "Hiroes & Trancestors" poster and poster key
Reprint of the 2013 original ! 4 poster sets available !
Black & white on whiter paper poster is 33" x 28"
Lavender poster key is 11 x 17"
Starting bid: $20
Estimated value: $40
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Item #110: Chapbook Bundle - Poets Theater Jubilee + Occupy Chapbook
Chapbook Bundle - Poets Theater Jubilee + Occupy Chapbook
Poets Theater Jubilee (2002) 12-page program with insert and illustrations by David Larsen
The Feeling I$ Mutual: A List of Our Fucking Demands (2012) poetry anthology edited by Sara Wintz and printed by Michael Cross to benefit Small Press Traffic
Starting bid: $20
Estimated value: $50
Current bid: $30
Item #109: Dodgems
First edition, first issue (1977) of Dodgems, edited by Eileen Myles
This copy features stamps from The Poetry Center
Starting bid: $150
Estimated value: $250
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Item #108: Trio of Michael Cross Broadsides - Elrick / Lee / Victor
Trio of Michael Cross Broadsides - Elrick / Lee / Victor
5 bundles available!
Three broadsides printed by Michael Cross in varying dimensions:
"Methane Sea" by Laura Elrick
"brace position" by Divya Victor
"from Toshiro Mifune" by Sueyeun Juliette Lee (2011)
Starting bid: $25
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Item #107: SPT 50th Anniversary Swag Collection
SPT 50th Anniversary Swag Collection
4 bundles available! Bid $25 or more!
Each includes:
- tote (your choice: Cliff Hengst, Paul Ebenkamp, Aki Newmann)
- copy of High Dawn anthology
- postcard set of 9
- poster with Ed Aulerich-Sugai drawing of SPT's original homebase
- 2024 San Francisco Poets Theater longsleeve tee (L or XL, art by Ari Banias)
If you need us to mail this to you, add $12 shipping!
Starting bid: $25
Estimated value: $50
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Item #106: Dodie Bellamy & Bruce Boone Chapbook Bundle
Dodie Bellamy & Bruce Boone Chapbook Bundle
Summer BF Press reprint chapbooks of these instant classics
Donated by Lindsey Boldt
Starting bid: $40
Estimated value: $80
Current bid: $77
Item #105: Ocean Vuong - Queer Innovation Broadside from Tender Heart Press
Ocean Vuong
Queer Innovation Broadside from Tender Heart Press
13" x 19"
Printed on recycled paper.
Donated by Julian Carter
Starting bid: $20
Estimated value: $45
Current bid: $20
Item #104: Ajit Chauhan - untitled
Ajit Chauhan
Four works, 2023
Found image, cast acrylic, matboard
Starting Bid: $100 (each)
Estimated Value: $1200 (each)
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Item #103: Peach Kander - Diorama
Peach Kander
BINGO!, 2025
Cardboard, paper, fabric, fishing line, beads
12” long x 4” wide x 3.5” deep
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Item #102: Danielle Lawrence - 'A is for Anarchy' risograph
Danielle Lawrence
2-Color Risograph prints
Limited edition - 6 copies (2 light green, 1 dark green, 1 dark blue, 2 dark brown)
2024, 2-Color Risograph print, 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches)
Sold separately
Starting Bid: $40
Estimated Value: $150
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Item #101: Dana Hemenway - Untitled (Cord Weave No. 2 - Yellow)
Dana Hemenway
Untitled (Cord Weave No. 2 - Yellow), 2017
Ceramics, glaze, extension cord, light bulb, zip ties, fixture
35 x 16 x 4 3/4 inches
Starting Bid: $700
Estimated Value: $2500
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Item #100: Poetry Consultation with Solmaz Sharif
One-hour poetry consultation over Zoom with Solmaz Sharif.
Share 20 pages of poetry or less. Consult will be scheduled for Fall 2025.
Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Shirley Shenker Chair of Arts and Humanities at U.C. Berkeley.
Starting Bid: $50
Estimated Value: $300
Current Bid: $150
Item #89: A selection of books from Passages
Poems by Charlie Hinkle (San Francisco, 1988) Selected by William McPherson and Thom Gunn, and privately printed in an edition of 200 copies.
18 Poems and (Soma)tic Rituals by CA Conrad (Portland, OR, 2019) Eco-Speculative Pamphlet Series
Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Corvallis, OR, 2007) Special issue of Poetry International
silence and license by William L. Fox (Kenosha, 1994) Experimental visual poetry
Ten Versions from Trilce by César Vallejo, translated by Charles Tomlinson & Henry Gifford (Cerrillos, NM, 1970)
Opening the Eyelid by David Rattray (Brooklyn, 1990)
Writing Writing by Robert Duncan (Portland, OR, 1971)
On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista, translated by Chris Daniels (San Francisco, 2003)
Starting Bid: $60
Estimated Value: $200
Current Bid: $65