PROGRAMS
Tim Kahl and Joshua McKinney
James Arthur, Natalie Diaz, and Tomás Q. Morin
Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Philip Memmer
15 JULY 2012 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a reading by Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Philip Memmer, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com; wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreters for the deaf and hearing impaired may be requested a week in advance by email, editor@poetryflash.org)
More about the readers
Alicia Suskin Ostriker's new book of poems is The Book of Life, Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011. Ilya Kaminsky calls it, "A Song of Songs, which is not Solomon's but Alicia Ostriker's. A great ages-old hymn to life, to flesh, to memory, is revised again on these pages, with gusto, with passion, with clarity, with eros, with grief." An incisive critic and a major American poet, she has published fourteen books of poems including The Book of Seventy, The Mother/ Child Papers, No Heaven, the volcano sequence, and The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. She has also published a number of prose books, on the Bible and on contemporary literature. Among her honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the National Jewish Book Award; she has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award.
Philip Memmer's new book of poems is The Storehouses of the Snow. Alicia Ostriker says, "Bitter and brilliant, ardent and persistent, The Storehouses of the Snow is a book to read-no fooling-alongside the Book of Job. Every poem here made me catch my breath in astonishment at Philip Memmer's bold imagination and the sacred relentlessness of his quest." His previous three books include Lucifer A Hagiography, winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry; Threat of Pleasure, winner of the Adirondack Literary Award for Poetry; and Sweetheart, Baby, Darling.
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25 MAY 2013 — saturday
- CENTRAL:
- Poetry reading by Dana Negev, CB Follett, Doreen Stock, Nitza Agam, Hannah Stein, and other contributors to the anthology Before There Is Nowhere To Stand: Palestine/Israel: Poets Respond To The Struggle, plus Middle Eastern musical performances, La Peña Cultural Center Lounge, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $5/$10, 3:00 (510/417-5743, lapena.org)event page
- Reading by Arturo Mantecón, from his translation of selected poems by Leopoldo María Panero, Like an Eye in the Hand of a Beggar, also reading is Northern California Book Award-winning translator Andrea Lingenfelter, from her bilingual translation, The Changing Room, by contemporary Chinese poet Zhai Yongming, Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (415/824-1761)event page
26 MAY 2013 — sunday
- CENTRAL:
- Poetry Flash presents a reading by Tim Kahl and Joshua McKinney, wheelchair accessible, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)event page
27 MAY 2013 — monday
- CENTRAL:
- Poetry Express presents an open mic devoted to the theme of "clotheslines," ten percent discount on dinner if you come for the reading, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2702 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 ( www.facebook.com/poetryexpressberkeley)event page
28 MAY 2013 — tuesday
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29 MAY 2013 — wednesday
- CENTRAL:
- David Reid hosts poet Jeremy Larner and artist Ariel Parkinson, plus the short film Inner Wilderness, refreshments, Mythos Fine Art & Artifacts, 930 Dwight Way #10, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (mythosfineart.com)event page
30 MAY 2013 — thursday
- CENTRAL:
- Josh Beemish hosts a weekly Thursday night open mic, Bazaar Café, 5927 California Street, come early to sign up, free, 7:00 (415/831-5620, www.bazaarcafe.com)event page
- A poetry reading by Hugh Martin, The Stick Soldiers, Brandon Shimoda, Portuguese, and Greg Wrenn, Centaur, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)event page
- Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series features readings by Garrett Murphy and Barbara Paschke, Readers Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, free, 6:30 (415/771-1011, www.friendssfpl.org)event page
31 MAY 2013 — friday
- CENTRAL:
- Benefit for Adobe Books, Ingrid Keir hosts a reading with poets and writers Marina Lazzara, Micah Ballard, Jennifer Barone, Rod Roland, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Adobe Bookshop, 3166 16th Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (richardloranger/events)event page
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