Jennifer S. Cheng
Jennifer S. Cheng and Barbara Tomash
5 APRIL 2018 — thursday
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Barbara Tomash, PRE-, and Jennifer S. Cheng, House A, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Jennifer S. Cheng's forthcoming book of poems is MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems, winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Jennifer Tseng says, "Each of the voices in Jennifer S. Cheng's MOON speaks as if she's the 'the last girl on earth.' Alone in a vast, constantly changing Universe, she asks urgent questions…With curiosity and attention, MOON shines its light on inquiry as art, asking as making. In the tradition of Fanny Howe's poetics of bewilderment, Cheng gives us a poetics of possibility." Her previous full-length collection is House A; she has also published an image-text chapbook, Invocation: An Essay. Having grown up in Texas, Hong Kong, and Connecticut, she now lives in San Francisco.
Barbara Tomash's brand new book of poems is PRE-. Gillian Conoley says, "Barbara Tomash's terrific new book PRE- reminds us of Emerson's great notion that every word was once a poem…Barbara Tomash opens up the word and the world in these poems." She is the author of three previous collections, Arboreal, The Secret of White, and Flying in Water, which won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award. Earlier versions of PRE- were finalists for both the 2016 Colorado Poetry Prize and the Rescue Black Box Poetry Prize.
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Northern California
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18 SEPTEMBER 2018 — tuesday
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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