Kasey Jueds

Kasey Jueds and Keetje Kuipers

1 MAY 2014 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Keetje Kuipers and Kasey Jueds, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Kasey Jueds's first book of poems, Keeper, is the winner of the 2012 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Jean Valentine says, "This perceptive, sensual history of a soul grows more bold and mysterious as it unfolds: to show a life pondering what to keep, what to lose, what to leave, and what to find: and discovering that, as an old gravestone says, what we had, we have." Widely published in literary magazines, she's been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, and the Ucross Foundation.
Keetje Kuipers's new book of poems is The Keys to the Jail. Elyse Fenton says, "Quietly ferocious, The Keys to the Jail is full of love and after-love poems that come clad with 'bell[ies] of rusted steel.' These poems are not afraid to feel, not afraid of desire or beauty or the inevitability of their respective undoings…" Her first book of poems is Beautiful in the Mouth.