NAME, M/DD NAME, M/DD NAME, M/DD NAME, M/DD Express %26 Inspire Development %26 Publication
join our mailing list

Get selected timely event updates and news about Poetry Flash in your email inbox.

Chana Bloch

Chana Bloch Tribute: Jeanne Foster, Sandra Gilbert, Peter Dale Scott, more

28 JANUARY 2018 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a Tribute Reading for Chana Bloch, Invocation to Daughters, by her Writing Group: Dan Bellm, Jeanne Foster, Sandra Gilbert, Peter Dale Scott, Phyllis Stowell, and Alan Williamson, wheelchair accessible, East Bay Booksellers (formerly Diesel), 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
This tribute to the late poet Chana Bloch is a reading by six members of her close knit Writing Group. It is also a celebration of her posthumous book of poems, The Moon Is Almost Full; copies will be available at the event. Chana Bloch was a poet, translator, and teacher for many years at Mills College; she was much beloved in the Bay Area and beyond. Jane Hirshfield says of her new collection, "Each page verifies the beauty and scope and surge of a life both extraordinary and daily, embraced not in spite of our mortality, but because of it." The book will be available that this event. The readers from her Writing Group will be:
Poet and translator Dan Bellm, whose most recent book of poems is Deep Well.
Poet and translator Jeanne Foster's most recent book of poems is Goodbye, Silver Sister. She is professor of English and Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College in Moraga.
Poet, memoirist, critic, and teacher Sandra Gilbert, among whose recent books of poems is Belongings.
Former Canadian diplomat, poet, political thinker, and memoirist Peter Dale Scott, among whose books of poems is Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror.
Poet, teacher, editor, and founding member of Saint Mary's College of California MFA program Phyllis Stowell, among whose books of poems is Sundered.
Poet, critic, and teacher Alan Williamson's most recent poetry collection is A Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems.




Daily Listings

Northern California

< previous month  |  show all MAY  |  next month >


9 MAY 2025 — friday

10 MAY 2025 — saturday

11 MAY 2025 — sunday

12 MAY 2025 — monday

13 MAY 2025 — tuesday

14 MAY 2025 — wednesday

15 MAY 2025 — thursday

16 MAY 2025 — friday

17 MAY 2025 — saturday

18 MAY 2025 — sunday

19 MAY 2025 — monday

20 MAY 2025 — tuesday

21 MAY 2025 — wednesday

22 MAY 2025 — thursday

23 MAY 2025 — friday

24 MAY 2025 — saturday

25 MAY 2025 — sunday

26 MAY 2025 — monday

27 MAY 2025 — tuesday

28 MAY 2025 — wednesday

29 MAY 2025 — thursday

30 MAY 2025 — friday

31 MAY 2025 — saturday


< previous month  |  show all MAY  |  next month >

© 1972-2021 Poetry Flash. All rights reserved.  |