Brynn Saito
Brynn Saito and Jacqueline Derner Tchakalian
10 JULY 2016 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a Red Hen Press reading by poets Brynn Saito and Jacqueline Derner Tchakalian, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Brynn Saito's new book of poems is Power Made Us Swoon. Kazim Ali says, "The questions this book asks of its mythological and actual heroes are questions I want to know the answers to. Her own are brave…but they are also beautiful. As the poet reassures herself, 'Your spirit is a songstress/ occupying the sea.'" Her first collection is The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award; she also co-authored the chapbook Bright Power, Dark Peace with Traci Brimhall. Anthologized by both Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed, she's received a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and the Poets 11 Award from the San Francisco Public Library.
Jacqueline Derner Tchakalian's debut book of poems is The Size of Our Bed. Charles Harper Webb says it "is powered by the pain of loss, but leavened by careful craft and a heart that, in being true to itself, cannot be permanently cast down. I celebrate how these poems rise from the ashes of grief, triumphant and full of life." Trained as a visual artist, she's come to poetry late in her life. That discovery caused a ten-year hiatus in her painting, but it also resulted in this powerful book.
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19 SEPTEMBER 2018 — wednesday
20 SEPTEMBER 2018 — thursday
CENTRAL:- The Holloway Series and the English Department present a poetry reading by Roberto Harrison, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)event page
21 SEPTEMBER 2018 — friday
22 SEPTEMBER 2018 — saturday
23 SEPTEMBER 2018 — sunday
24 SEPTEMBER 2018 — monday
CENTRAL:- Poetry Express presents a reading by Missy Church, open mic, hosted by Gary Turchin, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)event page
25 SEPTEMBER 2018 — tuesday
26 SEPTEMBER 2018 — wednesday
CENTRAL:- The Holloway Series and the English Department present a poetry reading by Sara Nicholson, the 2018-19 UC Berkeley Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)event page
27 SEPTEMBER 2018 — thursday
SOUTH:- Poet, writer, and cultural theorist Judy Grahn, A Simple Revolution: the Making of an Activist Poet, The Common Woman Poems, and other titles, reads from her work, reception follows, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, 7:30 (English Department, Jackie Berger: jberger@ndnu.edu)event page
28 SEPTEMBER 2018 — friday
29 SEPTEMBER 2018 — saturday
30 SEPTEMBER 2018 — sunday
CENTRAL:- Poetry Flash presents a book launch reading by Mary Mackey, The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974-2018, with Maurya Simon, The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems 1980-2016, wheelchair accessible, East Bay Booksellers (formerly Diesel), 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)event page
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