91:. In Los Angeles, Isaacson was one of the featured poets at the Poetry in Motion series at Helena’s and Largo (Hollywood) and at Tommy Tang’s in NYC. These readings mixed long-term poets with poetry performances by some of Hollywood’s actors. Isaacson also lived seven months in Leningrad immediately after the opening to the West in 1992. He was involved in poetry activities at the Leningrad Writers Union. His poem, "Rolling into Red Square" appears in Signs of Life: Channel-surfing Through '90s Culture. He has also lived in Michoacan, Mexico, moved to Las Vegas in 1995, and was active in many Las Vegas poetry communities, including readings at the Café Espresso Roma and Enigma Garden Cafe. His work appears in Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State.
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Isaacson is best known in San Francisco Bay Area poetry as an organizer and poet in the Café Babar readings, an anarchistic poetry free-for all which led the poetry resurgence of the mid-1980s. These readings helped inaugurate a new presentation style and aesthetic often called SF Spoken Word;
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Zeitgeist Press include Bad Dog Blues (1988), Love Affairs with Barely Any People in Them (1990), Ghosts Among the Neon (2005), and Dumbstruck at the Lights in the Sky (2008).
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College, Brooklyn, NY, English Department of Brooklyn College, 1992, "After Doing Too Much Schoolwork" and "Feeling a Little Depressed".
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Isaacson was involved in poetry also in other cities. In New York City, he was a surprise finalist in the first season of the famed Poetry Slam at the
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Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas, 2008, pp. 389-390.
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On The Bus, Bombshelter Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1989, A review by John Oliver Simon including prominent reference to Isaacson’s work.
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Logsdon, Rich (Spring 2005). "On the Importance of Ghosts: A Review of Bruce Isaacson's Ghosts Among the Neon".
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Isaacson, Bruce; Lerner, David (1 September 1988). "Bad Dog Blues and I Want a New Gun".
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