Barbara Jane Reyes
Randall Mann and Barbara Jane Reyes
16 NOVEMBER 2017 — thursday
Poetry Flash presents a reading by Randall Mann, Proprietary, and Barbara Jane Reyes, Invocation to Daughters, wheelchair accessible, East Bay Booksellers (formerly Diesel), 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 7:30 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Randall Mann's new book of poems is Proprietary. Lambda Literary says, "Sonically, Mann is a master of formalistic design with a witty sense for line-breaks…He represents perhaps the best in gay male poetry today, with a message of protest against corporate American life…Mann's work should be admired for its ferocity, its craft, and its unabashedly gay point of view." Author of three previous collections, Straight Razor, Breakfast with Thom Gunn, and Complaint in the Garden, he has been published widely in literary journals, including Poetry, which awarded him the 2013 Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize.
Barbara Jane Reyes's new book of poems is Invocation to Daughters. Sesshu Foster says, "Invocation to Daughters recombines registers—prayers, pleas and elegy—braiding a trilingual triple-threat, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street, utterance with erasure, the prose sentence with the liminal…Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area's incendiary voices." Born in the Philippines, in Manila, se was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's published four previous collections, including Poeta en San Francisco, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Diwata, which won the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Philippine American Writers and Artists.
< previous month | show all FEBRUARY | next month >
4 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
5 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
6 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
7 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday
8 FEBRUARY 2023 — wednesday
9 FEBRUARY 2023 — thursday
10 FEBRUARY 2023 — friday
11 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
12 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
13 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
14 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday
15 FEBRUARY 2023 — wednesday
16 FEBRUARY 2023 — thursday
17 FEBRUARY 2023 — friday
18 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
19 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
20 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
21 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday
22 FEBRUARY 2023 — wednesday
23 FEBRUARY 2023 — thursday
24 FEBRUARY 2023 — friday
25 FEBRUARY 2023 — saturday
26 FEBRUARY 2023 — sunday
27 FEBRUARY 2023 — monday
28 FEBRUARY 2023 — tuesday