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Terese Svoboda and Kristin George Bagdanov
Katie Peterson and Phyllis Stowell
Indigo Moor
Maxima Kahn and Indigo Moor
21 MARCH 2021 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Maxima Kahn, Fierce Aria, and Indigo Moor, Everybody's Jonesin' for Something , online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Sunday, March 21 at 3:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Maxima Kahn and Indigo Moor via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After you register, you will receive an email invitation with a link to join the reading. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times.
This reading is co-sponsored by Moe's Books in Berkeley; the featured books are available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings.
Maxima Kahn's first full-length collection of poems is Fierce Aria. Annie Finch says, "I have learned to walk into the valley of my fears and losses," writes Maxima Kahn, and the evidence of what she has learned is all over these amazing poems. Fierce Aria is a book with a post-Wallace Stevens mission: to coax the still perfection of ideas out of the abstract realm, so they can take shape in the messy wilderness of reality. Distinctive, honed, vulnerable, musical, courageous, honest, Maxima Kahn's poems are fully ripened, fully considered—each one ready to drop richly into the hand like a subtly contoured fruit." Kahn also writes poetry, essays and fiction. Her work has been featured in numerous literary journals, and on blogs such as The Creative Penn, Tiny Buddha, Positively Positive and The Startup; her own blog is Creative Sparks at BrilliantPlayground.com. She is also an improvisational violinist, a composer, and a dancer. She lives in the Sierra Nevada in California.
Indigo Moor's new book is Everybody's Jonesin' for Something, recipient of The Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Honorable Mention, University of Nebraska Press. Cornelius Eady says, "I strongly suggest you carry Moor's brilliant book, Everybody's Jonesin' for Something, home.…In this dazzling book, you will read just how closely this poet has been paying attention, to us, to his histories, foreign and domestic, to our mighty (and sometimes mighty confusing) nation. Jonesin' is a verse flashlight to all the corners you thought no one was supposed to pay attention to, line by beautifully crafted line, truth by earned truth. You'll reach the last line of the last poem, and trust me, that's when the hunger for more will begin." Also a scriptwriter, Moor is Poet Laureate emeritus of Sacramento. His other works include Tap-Root, Through the Stonecutter's Window (winner of the Northwestern University's Cave Canem Prize), and In the Room of Thirsts and Hungers: The Mirrored Tragedies of Paul Robeson and Othello.
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20 APRIL 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Julianna McCarthy, open mic to follow, free, online via Zoom, 7:30 pm PDT (Zoom link here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
- San Jose State University Legacy of Poetry Festival presents a tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with a screening of the documentary film Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder, and a panel discussion featuring photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver, Ferlinghetti biographer and poet Neeli Cherkovski, artist Patrick Surgalski, and Garret Caples, poet and editor for City Lights Books, with Joyce Jenkins, poet and editor-director of Poetry Flash, free, online, 5:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.sjsu.edu/legacyofpoetry/LoP2021/index.php)
21 APRIL 2021 — wednesday
- San Jose State University Legacy of Poetry Festival presents "Spoken Word and Video Poem Workshop," led by Santa Clara Poet Laureate emeritus Mighty Mike McGee (In Search of Midnight) and poet Tshaka Campbell (Tunnel Vision), hosted by the San Jose Poetry Center, limited to fifteen participants, $15 for students and PCSJ members, $25 nonmembers, online, 5:00-7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.sjsu.edu/legacyofpoetry/LoP2021/index.php)
22 APRIL 2021 — thursday
- San Jose State University Legacy of Poetry Festival presents the Reed Magazine Sponsored Reading, featuring poet and labor activist Rodrigo Toscano (In Range) and poet Danusha Laméris (Bonfire Opera: Poems), with current and former student contributors and editors of Reed Magazine, including Ume Ali, Vinnie D. Lopez, and Megan R. F. Alfaro, free, online, 5:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.sjsu.edu/legacyofpoetry/LoP2021/index.php)
23 APRIL 2021 — friday
- San Jose State University Legacy of Poetry Festival presents a premiere of the poetry performance videos entered for the performance video contest co-sponsored by the Poets and Writers Coalition and Poetry Center San Jose, entries accepted until May 3, winners will be announced on May 14, free, online, 5:00 pm PDT (RSVP to attend: www.sjsu.edu/legacyofpoetry/LoP2021/index.php)
24 APRIL 2021 — saturday
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25 APRIL 2021 — sunday
- Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Kristin George Bagdanov, Diurne, and Terese Svoboda, Theatrix: Poetry Plays, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
- VCP SoCal Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Gail Wronsky, Ramón Garcia, and Dig Wayne, part of their reading series held on the last Sunday of every month, free, online via Zoom, 3:00-4:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.vcpsocal.org/schedule.html)
26 APRIL 2021 — monday
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27 APRIL 2021 — tuesday
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28 APRIL 2021 — wednesday
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29 APRIL 2021 — thursday
- Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Katie Peterson, Life in a Field, and Phyllis Stowell, Transformations: Nearing the End of Life: Dreams and Visions, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
30 APRIL 2021 — friday
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