Tuesday, June 1st: A Virtual Reading with Cole Swensen, Forrest Gander & C.S. Giscombe 22 May 2021 9:27 AM (3 years ago)

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Cole Swensen has published 19 volumes of poetry and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. Her most recent book, Art in Time, which just came out from Nightboat, focuses on innovative landscape art. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over 20 volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. www.coleswensen.com

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in northern California. His books, often concerned with ecology, include Be With, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, the novel The Trace, and Twice Alive, just out (now!) from New Directions. Gander’s translations and co-translations include Alice Iris Red Horse by Gozo Yoshimasu, Spectacle & Pigsty by Kiwao Nomura, and Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems.

C. S. Giscombe’s poetry books are Prairie Style, Giscome Road, Here, etc.; his prose books are Into and Out of Dislocation, Border Towns, and Ohio Railroads (“a poem in essay form”). Recognitions include the Stephen Henderson Award, an American Book Award (for Prairie Style) and the Carl Sandburg Prize (for Giscome Road). Forthcoming poetry texts are Similarly (a “selected and new” volume) and Train Music (a collaboration with the painter Judith Margolis) both due in 2021. Other books are in progress. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a long-distance cyclist.

Friday, March 19th: A Virtual Celebration of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers 10 Mar 2021 4:32 PM (4 years ago)

Please join the Studio One Reading Series and the Community of Writers on Friday, March 19th @ 5:30 PM PST/8:30 PM EST to celebrate the collection Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers

Featuring readings from:

*Lisa Alvarez*
*Kazim Ali*
*Arlene Biala*
*Jennifer Swanton Brown*
*Blas Falconer*
*Molly Fisk*
*Major Jackson*
*Danusha Laméris*
*Robert Lipton*

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Lisa Alvarez has edited two landmark collections: Writer’s Workshop in a Book: The Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction with Alan Cheuse and Orange County: A Literary Field Guide with Andrew Tonkovich. She is a fiction writer and poet whose work has appeared in Huizache, PANK, Santa Monica Review and others. Her commentary has been featured in the Los Angeles Times. She teaches writing at Irvine Valley College and co-directs the Community of Writers.

Kazim Ali first attended the conference as a participant in 1998 and has returned often as teaching staff. His writing spans genres, including poetry, novels, and essays along with translations. His poetry collection The Far Mosque won Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award in 2005, and Sky Ward was the winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Cofounder of Nightboat Books, Ali is currently a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent books are The Voice of Sheila Chandra, a volume of three long poems; and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water.

Arlene Biala is a Pinay poet; the 2016–17 Santa Clara County poet laureate; and author of continental drift, her beckoning hands (2015 American Book Award), and one inch punch. She lives in Sunnyvale, California.

Jennifer Swanton Brown served as the second poet laureate of her hometown, Cupertino, California, and works at Stanford University in clinical research administration.

Blas Falconer is the author of three poetry collections, including Forgive the Body This Failure, and a coeditor of two essay collections, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. His poems have been featured by Poetry, Harvard Review, and The New York Times, and his awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and Poets and Writers. He is a poetry editor for The Los Angeles Review and teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University.

Molly Fisk edited California Fire &Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, the culmination of her 2019–20 Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship, and is a writing teacher, radio commentator, and radical life coach in Nevada City, California.

Major Jackson first joined the conference staff in 2011. He is the author of five books of poetry, including Leaving Saturn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and the Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. His honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and fellowships including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is poetry editor of The Harvard Review and is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is The Absurd Man.

Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August and Bonfire Opera and lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she served as poet laureate from 2018 to 2020.

Robert Lipton is the author of the collection A Complex Bravery and the winner of the 2018 Gregory O’Donoghue Competition at the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, with his poem “Official Story”; he lives in Richmond, California, where he has served as poet laureate.

Thursday, January 7th Virtual Reading feat. Gillian Conoley, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, and Robin Myers 31 Dec 2020 11:14 AM (4 years ago)

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Gillian Conoley’s A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems, with Nightboat Books, won the 39th annual Northern California Book Award in 2020. She received the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America, and was also awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. She is the author of seven previous books, including PEACE, an Academy of American Poets Standout Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s translations of three books by Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken, appeared in 2014 with City Lights. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University where she edits VOLT.

Ezequiel Zaidenwerg is a poet, translator and essayist, not necessarily in that order. His most recent book is 50 estados: 13 poetas contemporáneos de Estados Unidos, a novelized anthology of recent American poetry. He translates a poem a day at zaidenwerg.com, produces the podcast series Orden de traslado, and writes on poetry, translation and politics for El Malpensante.

Robin Myers lives in Mexico City and works as a translator. Her poems have recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, PANK Magazine, 32 Poems, and the Massachusetts Review, among other publications. Her book-length collections have been translated into Spanish (mostly by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, also featured in this reading) and published in Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. She writes a monthly column on translation for Palette Poetry. You can find her at robinepmyers.com.

Friday, November 6th, Virtual Reading feat. Brenda Hillman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, & Andrew Zawacki 24 Oct 2020 9:48 AM (4 years ago)

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Brenda Hillman’s most recent book is Extra Hidden Life among the Days (2018). Hillman has co-edited and co-translated numerous volumes, including Ana Cristina Cesar’s At Your Feet (Parlor Press, 2018), co-translated from Portuguese with her mother Helen Hillman. Her awards for poetry include the 2020 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for Innovation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California and currently serves as a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets. https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/brenda-hillman/

Cynthia Parker-Ohene is a graduate of the MFA program at the Saint Mary’s College of California where she was the Chester Aaron Scholar for Excellence in Creative Writing. She is a Tin House Summer Writer’s Conference alum, awarded the Pittman Scholarship from Juniper at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an awardee at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Callaloo Fellow and Hurston/Wright Fellow, among others . Her poems have appeared or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Kweli, Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Yellow Medicine Review, and others. She is a Pushcart Nominee, and the winner of the 2017 chapbook prize for Drapetomania published in 2017 by Backbone Press.

Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry books Unsun : f/11 (Coach House), Videotape (Counterpath), Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia). His work has appeared in Poems for Political Disaster, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, Great American Prose Poems, The Eloquent Poem, and other anthologies, as well as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New Republic. His translation of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo (Burning Deck), received a French Voices Grant, and his translation of Smirou’s See About (La Presse) earned an NEA Translation Fellowship and a fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. He was a 2016 Howard Foundation Fellow.

Friday, September 11th Virtual Reading feat. Aricka Foreman and July Westhale 26 Aug 2020 8:22 PM (4 years ago)

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Aricka Foreman is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit MI. Author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books), she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Offing, and spends her time in Chicago, IL engaging poetry with photography & video. https://www.arickaforeman.com/

July Westhale is an essayist, translator, and the award-winning author of Trailer Trash, and Via Negativa, which Publishers Weekly called "stunning" in a starred review. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Huffington Post, among others. She also has an inventively-named collection of salty chapbooks. When she’s not teaching, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP Magazine. www.julywesthale.com

Friday, June 12th Virtual Reading feat. Jeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet, Jr. 4 Jun 2020 2:56 PM (4 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, June 12th from 6:30-7:10 pm PDT

for a virtual reading featuring

Jeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet, Jr.!

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Jeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the poetry collection Fur Not Light (Burnside Review Press, 2019). Forthcoming is a chapbook on the literary work of the deceased writer and environmental activist Mark Baumer and a full-length book centered around masculinity and shyness. In addition to his own writing, Alessandrelli also runs the literary record label/press Fonograf Editions. He’s at https://jeffalessandrelli.net/.

Alix Coupet, Jr. is both poet and educator who teaches writing and tricksterdom to public school youth. His aim is to land the plane somewhere between playful pain and peace. Born in Chicago, Alix jokes that many people say subjective things about his city, but that, objectively, Chicago is the greatest city in the world. Since the time of this writing, he has been rejected from six more publications.

Friday, May 8th Virtual Reading feat. Garrett Caples and Ava Koohbor 23 Apr 2020 4:12 PM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, May 8th from 6:30-7:10 pm PST

for our first ever virtual reading featuring

Garrett Caples and Ava Koohbor!

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Garrett Caples is a poet living in San Francisco. His most recent book of poems is the bilingual Noches Apátridas: Poesía escogida, 1999-2019 (Unstated Nights: Selected Poems, 1999-2019) (Juan Malasuerte, 2019). He's an editor at City Lights Books, where he curates the Spotlight Poetry Series.

Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker, poet and visual artist. Her poems have appeared in various publications. Her chapbooks include Triangle Squared (Bootstrap Press) and Sinusoidal Forms (Lew Gallery). Death Under Construction is her first full collection of poetry in English by Ugly Duckling Presse. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is.

Friday, February 7th, featuring Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Will Vincent, Joshua McKinney, and Veronica Kornberg! 9 Jan 2020 5:14 PM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, Februray 7th from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Will Vincent,

Joshua McKinney, and Veronica Kornberg!

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All of our readings are free & open to the public.

Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.

365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the forthcoming collection Look Alive, winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press, along with six chapbooks, most recently Tender Age, winner of the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew chapbook contest, and Shadow Box, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor's Prize. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast, Pleiades, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere.

Will Vincent's poems and articles have appeared in PANK, HTML Giant, The Elephants, The Iowa Review, Entropy, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Wildfires, I-XVI was published recently by sPect! He lives in Oakland, CA, where he teaches 8th grade English.

Joshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is co-editor of the online eco-poetry zine, Clade Song. A member of Senkakukan Dojo of Sacramento, he has studied Japanese sword arts for over thirty years.

Veronica Kornberg is a poet based in Pescadero, on the Central Coast of California, a place of significance for the imagery and inspiration of her writing. Recipient of the 2018 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salamander, Spillway, Tar River Poetry, Crab Creek Review, Catamaran, Beloit Poetry Journal, The New Guard, New Ohio Review, and Swwim Every Day among many other journals. She is at work on her first book of poetry.

Friday, December 6th, featuring sam sax, Thea Matthews, and Alix Coupet, Jr.! 27 Nov 2019 7:53 AM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, December 6th
from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring
sam sax, Thea Matthews, & Alix Coupet, Jr.!

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sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer & educator. He is the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series, and bury it, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He's the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, & Buzzfeed. He’s a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Fellow from The Poetry Foundation & currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Thea Matthews is a Black feminist, poet, scholar who earned her BA in Sociology at UC Berkeley where she studied and taught June Jordan's program Poetry for the People. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Acentos Review, The Rumpus, For Women Who Roar magazine, and others. Her first collection of poems Unearth [The Flowers] (Red Light Lit Press) will be available in spring 2020. More information can be found at www.theamatthews.com

Friday, November 1st, featuring Maxine Chernoff, Donna de la Perrière, Derrick Austin & Chris Stroffolino 18 Oct 2019 6:45 PM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, November 1st from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Maxine Chernoff, Donna de la Perrière, Derrick Austin, & Chris Stroffolino!

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365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Maxine Chernoff has published 17 books of poetry and six of fiction. Her latest poetry collection is Under the Music: Collected Prose Poems (MadHat Press). She is the recipient of a 2013 NEA and the 2009 PEN Translation Award for her co-translation of Friedrich Hoelderlin. Her fiction has won the Chicago Sun-Times Fiction Award, twice been a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and been named a NYT Notable Book of the Year. In 2016 she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She is a professor of Creative Writing at SFSU and the former editor of New American Writing.

Donna de la Perrière is the author of three full-length books — Works of Love & Terror (Talisman House, 2019), Saint Erasure (Talisman House 2010), and True Crime (Talisman House 2009), as well as two chapbooks, Night Calendar (Omerta Publications 2017) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange 2013). She teaches in San Francisco and lives in Oakland.

Derrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water (BOA Editions). A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, New England Review, The Nation, and Tin House. He was a finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Chris Stroffolino is the author of 5 books of poetry, a memoir, and two collections of essays. He is currently still residing in Oakland and teaching at Laney College.

Friday, October 4th, featuring Rusty Morrison, Jay Deshpande, and Trisha Peck 25 Sep 2019 11:11 AM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, October 4th from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Rusty Morrison, Jay Deshpande,

and Trisha Peck!

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All of our readings are free & open to the public.

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365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Rusty Morrison’s five books include Beyond the Chainlink, the true keeps calm biding its story. Recent poems at Poetry Foundation website & podcast Poetry Now, Fence, Iowa Review. She’s a recipient of Civitella Ranieri fellowship. She’s co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com). She offers private consultations. For more info, see her website: www.rustymorrison.com

Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the Scotti Merrill Award, has received fellowships from Kundiman and Civitella Ranieri, and is currently a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

Trisha Peck is a writer and visual artist from a census-designated place just south of the Wisconsin-Illinois border. She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a late-in-life degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Trisha has exhibited her paintings and drawings in Chicago and Los Angeles, and her poems have appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review and Berkeley Art + Design. She works as a production editor at North Atlantic Books, and is a poetry editor and book designer at Omnidawn.

Friday, September 6th featuring Lyn Hejinian, Margaret Ronda, and Kristin George Bagdanov 6 Aug 2019 6:00 PM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, September 6th from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Lyn Hejinian, Margaret Ronda,

& Kristin George Bagdanov!

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365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Lyn Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun (Belladonna, 2019) and Tribunal (Omnidawn, 2019).

Margaret Ronda is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California-Davis, where she teaches American poetry and environmental theory and literature. She is the author of two books of poems, Personification (Saturnalia Books, 2010) and For Hunger (2018), and a critical study, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End (Stanford University Press, 2018).

Kristin George Bagdanov received her MFA from Colorado State University and is currently a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of California Davis. Her first full-length poetry collection, Fossils in the Making, was published by Black Ocean in April. Her chapbook, Diurne, which won the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press this September. She is the recipient of fellowships from Phi Kappa Phi, Lilly Graduate Fellows, and the Vermont Studio Center and is the senior poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine.

Friday, June 7th, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience 22 May 2019 5:35 PM (5 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, June 7th from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading from the anthology

America, We Call Your Name:

Poems of Resistance and Resilience,

featuring readings by Miriam Bird Greenberg,

Lucille Lang Day, Judy Halebsky, and Julia B. Levine!

The evening will be hosted by Sr. Editor Murray Silverstein!

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All of our readings are free & open to the public.

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365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Miriam Bird Greenberg is a poet and occasional essayist with a fieldwork-derived practice. The author of In the Volcano’s Mouth and the chapbooks All night in the new country and Pact-Blood, Fevergrass, her work has appeared in Granta, Poetry, and The Baffler, and been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and the NEA. She’s currently working on a book about the economic migrants and asylum seekers of Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions.

Lucille Lang Day has published ten poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Becoming an Ancestor and Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, which received the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize. She has also co-edited two anthologies, Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, and is the author of two children’s books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and an award-winning memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story.

Judy Halebsky is the author of the poetry collections Tree Line and Sky=Empty, which won the New Issues Prize. Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Canada Council for the Arts have supported her work. Her poems have been published in APR, Field, Zyzzyva and elsewhere. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she moved to California to study poetry at Mills College. She now lives in Oakland with her spouse and young daughter. She is an associate professor at Dominican University of California and teaches in their low residency MFA program.

Julia B. Levine’s most recent poetry collection, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, (LSU press 2014) was awarded the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Her awards also include the Tampa Review Poetry Prize for her second collection, Ask, the Anhinga Prize in Poetry and a bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection, Practicing for Heaven, the Pablo Neruda Prize in poetry from Nimrod, and a grand prize from Public Poetry. Widely published, her work has been anthologized in many collections. She lives and works in Davis, California.

Murray Silverstein is the Sr. Editor of America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (2018), and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (2010), both from Sixteen Rivers Press. He is the author of two books of poetry, Master of Leaves (2014) and Any Old Wolf (2007), both also from Sixteen Rivers. Any Old Wolf received 2007 Independent Publisher medal for poetry. In addition to being a poet, Murray is a retired architect and co-author of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press). His poems have appeared in RATTLE, Brooklyn Review, Spillway, California Quarterly, Poetry East, West Marin Review, RUNES, Nimrod, Connecticut Review, Zyzzyva, Fourteen Hills, Pembroke Magazine, Elysian Fields and other journals.

Friday, May 3rd, featuring Terry Taplin, William "Endlesswill" Davis, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas! 16 Apr 2019 8:09 PM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, May 3rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring Terry Taplin, William "Endlesswill" Davis,

and Caroline O'Connor Thomas!

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author bios & photos below.

All of our readings are free & open to the public.

Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.

365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Terry Taplin is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at Saint Mary’s College. Terry serves as Poetry Editor for MARY: A Journal for New Writing, Co-Editor of Baest, and is the Social Media Manager at speCt! books. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016), and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions.

William “Endlesswill” Davis, 2016-2018 poet laureate of Hillsborough, NC, and author of Broken Perception and Falling Apples, is a spoken word artist who is dedicated to continuing the tradition of poetry in living form. Ambitious in his craft and performance, Endlesswill offers audiences unforgettable performances that evoke thoughtfulness, introspection, and connection as a community. William is a publisher, graphic design artist, basketball coach, and radio host, and manages to juggle all of that under the umbrella of being a father and a husband.

Caroline O'Connor Thomas is a writer who lives in Oakland, California. Her poetry has appeared in 580 Split, Tin House, Sixth Finch and others. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag, 2018) and a graduate of the MFA program at St. Mary's College of California. https://carolineoconnorthomas.com

Friday, March 1st, featuring Morgan Parker, Maw Shein Win, Heather June Gibbons, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett 9 Feb 2019 5:41 PM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, March 1st from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Morgan Parker, Maw Shein Win,

Heather June Gibbons, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett!

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author bios & photos below.

All of our readings are free & open to the public.

Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.

365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Morgan Parker is the author of the poetry collections Magical Negro, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her debut YA novel Who Put This Song On? will be published in late 2019 from Delacorte Press, and her debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World/Random House. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets with Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Los Angeles.

Maw Shein Win is a writer, editor, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and several anthologies including MARY: A Journal of New Writing, Talking Writing, Poetry International, Cimarron Review, and others. She was an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Her collaborative book with paintings by artist Mark Dutcher, Ruins of a glittering palace, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Her poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press. Her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 - 2018) and her forthcoming second full-length collection of poetry will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020.

Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press, as well as two chapbooks, Sore Songs and Flyover. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Blackbird, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, jubilat, New American Writing, and West Branch. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Vermont Studio Center, Academy of American Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University, The Writing Salon, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop, a youth arts education non-profit.

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of four chapbooks, including Twice Shy forthcoming from Nomadic Press and Harm’s Way forthcoming from dancing girl press. In 2018, she was a finalist for both the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry from Tupelo Press. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast, The Journal, The Common, Granta, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of the queer literary journal Foglifter and lives in sunny Oakland, California.

Friday, February 1st, featuring Sara Mumolo and giovanni singleton for our 10-year anniversary reading! 24 Jan 2019 4:48 PM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, February 1st from 7:30-9:30 pm

for our 10-year anniversary reading, featuring

Sara Mumolo and giovanni singleton,

plus art by tomye neal-madison!

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author & artist bios & photos below.

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Sara Mumolo is the author of Day Counter (Omnidawn, 2018) and Mortar (Omnidawn, 2013). Sara serves as the Associate Director for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. Poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms, Action Yes, Lana Turner, The Offending Adam, PEN Poetry Series, Volta, and Volt, among others. She has received residencies to Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Center for the Arts, and has served as a curatorial resident at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA.

Photo Credit: Amarnath Ravva

giovanni singleton is the author of Ascension and the poetry/art collection AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper. She has received the California Book Award Gold Medal, the African American Literature and Culture Society’s Stephen E. Henderson Award for literary achievement, and fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Cave Canem. Her work has appeared in many journals and publications, and has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum, Oakland's Digital Literature Garden, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. She served as the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California-Berkeley and has held visiting professorships in creative writing at Sonoma State University, New Mexico State University, and CalArts. Additionally, she has taught poetry at the de Young Museum, California College of the Arts, and Naropa University. She collects bookmarks and enjoys figs and greek style yogurt.

tomyé neal-madison has shown a passion for Drawing & Painting of various subjects since a child of elementary school age. By the time she relocated from the East Coast to the West, her abilities included, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Calligraphy. In the S.F. Bay Area, she learned how to frame Artworks, woodworking, being a guest Art Teacher, curating exhibits, fabricating with glass and using all these skills as a Visual Arts Specialist employed by the City of Oakland’s Parks and Recreation Department for 18 years. Currently, tomyé’s Artworks are small scale as well as larger for Public Art sites. She mostly enjoys depicting portraits and figurative Artworks. Due to the shift in humanity, tomyé often depicts more serious content that addresses disparities and inequitable politics, knowing there are others who relate to her images and need reaffirmation.

Fugitive Slave Act / Belonging (Gouache Painting), by tomyé neal madison

Bind Up The Broken Hearted (Fused Slumped Glass atop Text), by tomyé neal madison

Friday, December 7th, feat. Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout! 11 Nov 2018 10:34 AM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, December 7th, from 7:30-9:30 pm,

for a reading featuring Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout,
plus art by Patrick Sumner and Peggy Videtta!

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author & artist bios & photos below.

All of our readings are free & open to the public.

Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.

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Brenda Hillman is the author of 10 collections from Wesleyan University Press, most recently Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (2018), Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013), and Practical Water (2011). Hillman recently co-translated At Your Feet, the poems of Ana Cristina Cesar (Free Verse Editions, 2018). She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Robert Hass and is Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.

Rae Armantrout’s most recent books, Versed, Money Shot, Just Saying, Itself, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Entanglements, (a chapbook selection of poems in conversation with physics), and Wobble were published by Wesleyan University Press. Wobble was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award. In 2010 her book Versed won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals including Poetry, Lana Turner, The Nation, The New Yorker, Bomb, Harper’s,The Paris Review, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine, etc. She is recently retired from UC San Diego where she was professor of poetry and poetics. She lives in the Seattle area.

artist bios

Patrick Sumner has a BFA in printmaking from Colorado State University, where he also studied metal smithing, painting and design. His work has been shown in the Minot Print Competition, Edinburgh Print Invitational, World Print III, Bridle Gallery, Kala Artist's Annual, Berkeley Art's Passage, and the short-lived Chance Gallery in San Francisco. His design work includes posters, promotional material and C.D. cover-art for various Bay Area performing artists and composers, as well as selected audio artists produced by New American Radio in Brooklyn, New York. He designed and illustrated the graphic story magazine, "One of One", with short fiction by Sheila Davies, published in Oakland, California by Burning Books. In addition, he conceived of, curated and promoted the year-long telephone performance series "Thanks for Calling – Twelve pieces for the telephone". Currently, he is an Artist in Residence at the Kala Art Institute, in Berkeley California, where he is working on a series of traditional etchings, and digital college.

Peggy Videtta came to sculpture after a detour through Physics. Her work is inspired by the figure through ballet, modern dance and yoga. The current work began by sifting through the ashes of her cousin’s former home which burned down in the Sonoma fire in 2017. The sculpted forms emerged on their own.

Friday, November 2nd, feat. Raina J. León, Jacob Kahn, and Susan Kolodny! 18 Oct 2018 9:57 PM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, November 2nd at 7:30 pm for a reading featuring Raina J. León, Jacob Kahn,

and Susan Kolodny!

Event is FREE.

Lagunitas beer, wine, and snacks will be served.

Studio One Art Center | 365 45th Street | Oakland

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Raina J. León, PhD, CantoMundo graduate fellow, Cave Canem graduate fellow, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Ragdale, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is currently a teaching poet-in residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.

Jacob Kahn is a bookseller and editor and organizer and curator and lots of other things at E.M. Wolfman Books in Oakland, CA. He is a 2018 Frontier Fellow at Epicenter in Green River, Utah, a rural design studio and community-based artist residency, and his writing can be found in ‘A Circuit of Yields’ (Wolfman Books, 2014) and elsewhere.

Susan Kolodny is the author of two poetry collections: After the Firestorm (Mayapple Press, 2011) and Preserve (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poems appear in New England Review, Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and in other journals and several anthologies, and have been featured on American Life in Poetry and Poetry Daily. She is a psychoanalyst in practice in the East Bay, a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition (PsychoSocial Press, 2000).

Friday, October 5th, feat. Tongo Eisen-Martin, Daniel Tiffany, Andrew Joron, and Ciaran O'Driscoll 15 Sep 2018 6:16 PM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, October 5th from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin, Daniel Tiffany,
Ciaran O'Driscoll, and Andrew Joron!

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author bios & photos below.

All of our readings are free & open to the public.

Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.

365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, Someone's Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.

Daniel Tiffany is a poet and theorist who lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of Southern California. Stanzas from his current project, a book-length poem, have been published, or will be appearing, in BOMB, Iowa Review, FENCE, Colorado Review, The Tiny, Journal of Poetics Research (Australia), Flash Cove (Australia), VOLT, Horsethief, Lute & Drum, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, West Branch, Brooklyn Rail, and Bennington Review (along with an interview about the project in Tupelo Quarterly). Tiffany is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, from presses including Action Books, Tinfish, and Omnidawn (along with a chapbook from Noemi Press). Poems from The Work-Shy (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)—his most recent collection, produced in collaboration with BLUNT RESEARCH GROUP—have appeared in museum exhibitions in the US and been adapted for theater. His poetry has also appeared in journals such as Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, jubilat, Lana Turner, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Gulf Coast, Chicago Review, and many others. In addition, he is the author five volumes of literary criticism and has published translations from French, Greek, and Italian. He is a recipient of the Chicago Review Poetry Prize and the Berlin Prize (awarded by the American Academy in Berlin).

Ciaran O’Driscoll, a member of Aosdána, has published six collections of poetry, including Gog and Magog (Salmon, 1987), his New and Selected Poems, Moving On, Still There (Dedalus, 2001), and Life Monitor (Three Spires Press, 2009, due for re-publication by Red Hen of California in 2018). His work has been translated into many languages. The Old Women of Magione, his fourth collection was published in a dual language edition as Vecchie Donne di Magione by Volumnia Editrice in 2006 and a Selected Poems in Slovene translation, was published in 2013 by Kud France Preseren. In addition he has been represented in many foreign anthologies of Irish poetry. Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves, in 2001. His novel, A Year’s Midnight, was published by Pighog Press in 2012. He has won a number of awards for his work, including the James Joyce Prize and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.

Andrew Joron is the author of The Absolute Letter, a collection of poems published by Flood Editions (2017). Joron’s previous poetry collections include Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010), The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. From the German, he has translated the Literary Essays of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch (Stanford University Press, 1998) and The Perpetual Motion Machine by the proto-Dada fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). As a musician, Joron plays the theremin in various experimental and free-jazz ensembles. Joron teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Friday, Sept. 7th feat. Vi Khi Nao, Steven Seidenberg, Vernon Keeve III, and Caroline Kessler 19 Aug 2018 3:33 PM (6 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, September 7th from 7:30-9:30 pm

for our 2018-2019 kick-off reading, featuring

Vi Khi Nao, Steven Seidenberg,

Vernon Keeve III, and Caroline Kessler!

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author bios & photos below.

All of our readings are free & open to the public.

Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.

365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609

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Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khánh, Vietnam. She is the author of Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (1913 Press, 2017), the story collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016, the novel Fish In Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016), and The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in Fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in Poetry.

Vernon Keeve III is a Virginia born writer that California molded into an educator. He lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives, sharing their experiences, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from California College of the Arts, and a Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College.

Writer and artist Steven Seidenberg is the author of Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Itch (RAW ArT Press, 2014), Null Set (Spooky Actions Books, 2015), and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism, including Duration Knows No Law (ypolita press, 2016). He is co-editor of the three issues of pallaksch.pallaksch. (Instance Press, 2014-2018), is a member of the Right Window artists collective, and has most recently shown his visual work at the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altruve Metropoliz, in Rome. His collections of photographs include Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press, 2017) and Choshi (Littlefield's, 2017).

Caroline Kessler is a poet, editor, and author of Ritual in Blue (Sutra Press, 2018). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and was a 2017-18 Dorot Fellow in Israel. One of the co-creators of Index/Fist, a collective that makes handmade magazines, she lives in Oakland.

Friday, May 4th @ 7:30 pm, featuring Jason Bayani, Michelle Lin and Tamer Sa'id Mostafa 28 Apr 2018 2:35 PM (7 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, May 4th at 7:30 pm for a

reading featuring Jason Bayani, Michelle Lin
and Tamer Sa'id Mostafa

Event is FREE.

Lagunitas beer, wine and snacks will be provided.

Studio One Art Center

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609

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As always, a huge thank you to our sponsors!

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Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet (2013 Write Bloody Publishing). He's an MFA graduate from Saint Mary's College, a Kundiman fellow, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo theater show, "Locus of Control" in 2016. His second book, "Locus", is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in 2019.

Michelle Lin is a poet, community arts organizer, and author of A House Made of Water (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017), an examination of sisterhood, trauma, and survival. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s MFA program and of the University of California Riverside’s Creative Writing program. She is a Kundiman fellow, and a lead organizer for Kearny Street Workshop’s reading series, KSW Presents. Her most recent work can be found in Underblong, The Margins, and HEArt.

Tamer Sa’id Mostafa is an-always proud Stockton, California native whose work has appeared in over twenty various journals and magazines such as Confrontation, Monday Night Lit, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change among others. As an Arab-American Muslim, he reflects on life through spirituality, an evolving commitment to social justice, and the music of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

Friday, April 13th: An evening with Black Radish Books, feat. Carrie Hunter, Barbara Tomash, Jean Vengua, Mg Roberts, Dana Teen Lomax & James Maughn! 5 Apr 2018 11:45 AM (7 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, April 13th at 7:30 pm for a

special collaboration with Black Radish Books, featuring Carrie Hunter, Barbara Tomash, Jean Vengua,

Mg Roberts, Dana Teen Lomax and James Maughn!

Event is FREE.

Lagunitas beer, wine and snacks will be provided.

Studio One Art Center

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609

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As always, a huge thank you to our sponsors!

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author bios follow below.

Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edits the chapbook press, ypolita press, and is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books. Her chapbook <series out of sequence> recently came out with above/ground press, her first full-length collection, The Incompossible, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books, and her second, Orphan Machines, came out in 2015. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.

Barbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry, PRE- (Black Radish Books 2018), Arboreal (Apogee 2014), Flying in Water, which won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award, and The Secret of White (Spuyten Duyvil 2009). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Web Conjunctions, New American Writing, Verse, VOLT, OmniVerse, Witness, and numerous other journals. She lives in Berkeley, California, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Jean Vengua is a poet and artist, author of Prau (Meritage Press), and a chapbook, The Aching Vicinities (Otoliths Press). Her second poetry collection, Corporeal, will be published by Black Radish Books in summer 2018. With Mark Young, Vengua co-edited the First Hay(na)ku Anthology, and The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II. She edits Local-Nomad.net, an online journal of writing and art. You can view her visual art at https://jeanvengua.wordpress.com.

Mg Roberts is a teacher, poet, and multimedia artist. She is the author of Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish) and not so, sea (Durga Press). Currently she is co-editing Responses, New Writing, Flesh, an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing for and by writers of color with Ronaldo V. Wilson forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters and geologist husband.

Dana Teen Lomax is a poet, filmmaker, and educator. She is the 2017 recipient of the Tiburon Arts Educator Award and the author of several books including _______ Is Not Goodbye (dusie kollektiv), Disclosure (Black Radish Books), Unpublishable Manuscript #43 (UbuWeb Editions), and Curren¢y (Palm Press); together with Jennifer Firestone, she edited Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia) which Cornel West called a “courageous and visionary book.” Her most recent editorial project, Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, won the 2014 John Hopkins University Press Prize for Excellence in Northern American Poetry. Her writing has been recognized by the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Foundation, Intersection for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets, among other organizations. She is the former Director of Small Press Traffic in San Francisco and currently teaches writing at San Francisco State University and Del Mar Middle School. Dana lives in San Quentin, California.

James Maughn lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where he coordinates A New Cadence Poetry Series out of the Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. His most recent collection, These Peripheries was published with Otoliths in 2012; The Arakaki Permutations was published with Black Radish Books in 2011; Kata, was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2008. Black Radish Books published Maughn’s new collection, Playing the Form, in March 2017.

Friday, March 2nd, featuring Arisa White, Aja Couchois Duncan, Adam Giannelli, and Catherine Theis! 16 Feb 2018 10:09 AM (7 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, March 2nd for a reading featuring Arisa White, Aja Couchois Duncan, Adam Giannelli & Catherine Theis!

Event is FREE.

Laguintas beer, wine and snacks will be served.

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365 45th Street | Oakland, CA, 94609

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Special thanks to our generous sponsors!

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author bios and photos follow.

Cave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass, Amherst, and is the author of Black Pearl, Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award and the chapbook “Fishing Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is a faculty advisor at Goddard College. Arisawhite.com

Aja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area capacity builder and writer of Ojibwe, French and Scottish descent. Her debut collection, Restless Continent (Litmus Press) was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and won the California Book Award in 2017. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human; Great Spirit knew it all along.

Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.

Catherine Theis’ latest book, MEDEA (Plays Inverse, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets, 2011), followed by her chapbook, The June Cuckold, a tragedy in verse (Convulsive, 2012). Theis has received various fellowships and awards, most notably from the Illinois Arts Council and the Del Amo Foundation. She is a Provost's Fellow and PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, where she also translates contemporary Italian poetry into English. Theis’ scholarly interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation, poetics, and performance studies.

Friday, February 2nd, featuring D.A. Powell and Jesse Nathan! 16 Jan 2018 9:44 PM (7 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, February 2nd @ 7:30 pm

for a reading featuring D.A. Powell and Jesse Nathan!

Event is FREE.

Lagunitas beer, wine and snacks will be served.

Studio One Art Center

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA, 94609

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author bios and photos follow.

Photo credit: Matt Valentine

D. A. Powell's books include Repast (Graywolf, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012). He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, Powell teaches full-time at the University of San Francisco.

Jesse Nathan's poems have appeared in jubilat, the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He's working on a PhD in Poetry & Poetics at Stanford. Nathan grew up in Berkeley, and then in Kansas, and lives now in San Francisco.

Friday, November 3rd, feat. Jesse Nathan, Ilya Kaminsky, Alissa Valles, and Dominic Luxford 26 Oct 2017 1:48 PM (7 years ago)

Please join us on Friday, November 3rd,

at 7:30 pm for a reading celebrating

In the Shape of a Human Body I am Visiting the Earth,

featuring Jesse Nathan, Ilya Kaminsky,

Alissa Valles & Dominic Luxford!

Event is FREE.

Lagunitas beer, wine and snacks will be served.

Studio One Art Center

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA, 94609

Jesse Nathan's poems have appeared in jubilat, the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He's co-founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series and is nearly finished with a PhD in Poetry & Poetics from Stanford. Nathan lives in San Francisco.

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press) and Deaf Republic (forthcoming from Graywolf Press), he is also the co-editor of Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins) and co-translator of Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). He lives in San Diego.

Alissa Valles is the author of the poetry books Orphan Fire (2008) and Anastylosis (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2014), and the editor and co-translator of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems (2007; NY Times Notable Book) and Collected Prose (2010). Our Life Grows: Poems of Ryszard Krynicki, edited and translated by Valles, is forthcoming from NYRB Poets in November 2017. Her writing has recently appeared in Bomb, BRICK, PEN America and elsewhere. She is on the Editorial Board of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics.

Dominic Luxford’s scholarship, journalism and reviews have appeared in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Economist, the Believer, and McSweeney’s. Luxford edited The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, is the founding poetry editor of the Believer magazine, and is a co-founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in San Francisco.

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Friday, May 3rd, featuring Terry Taplin, William "Endlesswill" Davis, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas! 16 Apr 2019 8:09 PM (6 years ago)

Friday, March 1st, featuring Morgan Parker, Maw Shein Win, Heather June Gibbons, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett 9 Feb 2019 5:41 PM (6 years ago)

Friday, February 1st, featuring Sara Mumolo and giovanni singleton for our 10-year anniversary reading! 24 Jan 2019 4:48 PM (6 years ago)

Friday, December 7th, feat. Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout! 11 Nov 2018 10:34 AM (6 years ago)

Friday, November 2nd, feat. Raina J. León, Jacob Kahn, and Susan Kolodny! 18 Oct 2018 9:57 PM (6 years ago)

Friday, October 5th, feat. Tongo Eisen-Martin, Daniel Tiffany, Andrew Joron, and Ciaran O'Driscoll 15 Sep 2018 6:16 PM (6 years ago)

Friday, Sept. 7th feat. Vi Khi Nao, Steven Seidenberg, Vernon Keeve III, and Caroline Kessler 19 Aug 2018 3:33 PM (6 years ago)

Friday, May 4th @ 7:30 pm, featuring Jason Bayani, Michelle Lin and Tamer Sa'id Mostafa 28 Apr 2018 2:35 PM (7 years ago)

Friday, April 13th: An evening with Black Radish Books, feat. Carrie Hunter, Barbara Tomash, Jean Vengua, Mg Roberts, Dana Teen Lomax & James Maughn! 5 Apr 2018 11:45 AM (7 years ago)

Friday, March 2nd, featuring Arisa White, Aja Couchois Duncan, Adam Giannelli, and Catherine Theis! 16 Feb 2018 10:09 AM (7 years ago)

Friday, February 2nd, featuring D.A. Powell and Jesse Nathan! 16 Jan 2018 9:44 PM (7 years ago)

Friday, November 3rd, feat. Jesse Nathan, Ilya Kaminsky, Alissa Valles, and Dominic Luxford 26 Oct 2017 1:48 PM (7 years ago)

Thursday, January 7th Virtual Reading feat. Gillian Conoley, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, and Robin Myers 31 Dec 2020 11:14 AM (4 years ago)

Friday, November 6th, Virtual Reading feat. Brenda Hillman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, & Andrew Zawacki 24 Oct 2020 9:48 AM (4 years ago)

Friday, September 11th Virtual Reading feat. Aricka Foreman and July Westhale 26 Aug 2020 8:22 PM (4 years ago)

Friday, June 12th Virtual Reading feat. Jeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet, Jr. 4 Jun 2020 2:56 PM (4 years ago)

Friday, May 8th Virtual Reading feat. Garrett Caples and Ava Koohbor 23 Apr 2020 4:12 PM (5 years ago)