Susan Suntree
Doren Robbins and Susan Suntree
18 NOVEMBER 2021 — thursday
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Doren Robbins, Sympathetic Manifesto: Selected Poems 1975-2015, and Susan Suntree, Dear Traveler, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PST (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Thursday, November 18 at 7:00 pm PST! We are excited to bring you this reading by two compelling poets via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. 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.
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Doren Robbins's new book of poems is Sympathetic Manifesto: Selected Poems 1975-2015. Dorianne Laux says, "What of the tired, the lost, the cast aside? We behold them all, revealed in their human complexity with tenderness, wit and rage throughout Robbins's work. His vision is necessary and vital…." A poet, mixed media artist, and essayist, he's published fifteen books. His monograph, Apocalypse Contemporary on Sharon Doubiago's book Naked to the Earth was published in 2020 as was Not Fade Away: Poetic Prose Monologues, Three Sequences. His honors include the Blue Lynx Poetry Award, 2001 and the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award. He's widely published in literary journals and is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing and English at Foothill College in California.
Susan Suntree's brand new book of poetry is Dear Traveler. Marsha de la O said of it, Dear Traveler is a gorgeous poem-cycle as well as journey we all must make." Suntree's previous book, a non-fiction poem, Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California, won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetic Narrative, and a Mellon Foundation Elemental Arts Award. Her books and chapbooks include Eye of the Womb, also published in Madrid as a bilingual edition, El Ojo de la Matriz; Tulips, a bilingual chapbook of translations of poetry by Spanish poet Ana Rossetti; Rita Moreno; and Wisdom of the East: Stories of Compassion, Inspiration and Love, that she edited, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Suntree adapted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a poem set as a frequently performed choral work by award-winning composer Adrienne Albert (A Choral Quilt of Hope: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published essays and book chapters about activist theatre. Poetry Flash and Theatre Journal have published her reviews.
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17 JANUARY 2025 — friday
18 JANUARY 2025 — saturday
- Craft ekphrastic poetry based on art in the ACCI Gallery and then participate in workshop, led by Aiden Baker, ACCI Gallery, 652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, by donation, 1:00 pm PST (To rsvp, visit: www.accigallery.com/rsvp-poetry-writing-workshop.html)
- The four members of the Wild Orchid Collective, a Los Angeles interdisciplinary artist group, share their music, poetry, and visual art in a one-hour program titled "Gathered Dreams," interweaving readings of poems with the dream-like photographic imagery of Holaday Mason, paintings by James Cushing and Celeste Goyer, and music by composer/musician Adrian Baer, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/gathered-dreams-poetry-art-music-from-the-wild-orchid-collective-tickets-1114289392569?aff=oddtdtcreator%C2%A0)
19 JANUARY 2025 — sunday
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22 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday
23 JANUARY 2025 — thursday
24 JANUARY 2025 — friday
- Fiction author Nancy Miller Gomez, Inconsolable Objects, poet Lynne V.E. Crawford, Washing Water, and 2021-2022 Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, Blue on a Blue Palette, read from and celebrate their latest books, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/nancy-miller-gomez-lynda-ve-crawford-lynne-thompson-tickets-1118331051279?aff=oddtdtcreator)
25 JANUARY 2025 — saturday
- Mobile Data Mag, a literary journal released exclusively on Substack, will feature five Los Angeles-based poets for an in-person reading: Pam Concepcion, Daryl Gussin, Jennifer "Miss B' Baptiste, Mauricio "Soul on Fire" Moreno, and Laura Sermeño, hosted by lead editor and author, Jesse Tovar, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-data-mag-a-reading-with-la-authors-tickets-1104979145369?aff=oddtdtcreator)
26 JANUARY 2025 — sunday
- The Laminations: An Experimental Fiction Workshop, will occur over four Sundays (January 26, February 9, 23, March 9), exploring how to manage layers of formal complexity with plot complexity, and when these laminations overload and opacify the truth, led by Angie Sijun Lou, fiction editor at FENCE, Virtual on Zoom, sliding scale $60-200, 1:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/laminations-experimental-fiction-workshop)
27 JANUARY 2025 — monday
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29 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday
30 JANUARY 2025 — thursday
- Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower will read from and discuss her latest poetry collection, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria, with poet Blas Falconer, Rara Avis, Warwick's, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/dower-2025)
- Writers Read Ukiah presents a reading by Chris Olander, Nevada County Poet Laureate emeritus, Open Mic follows the featured poet with six-minute slots for each participant, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/new-events)
31 JANUARY 2025 — friday
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