Jewelle Gomez

Berkeley Poetry Festival: Jewelle Gomez, James Cagney, and Teya Scheffer

16 JULY 2023 — sunday

Berkeley Poetry Festival present their Lifetime Achievement Award to Jewelle Gomez, poet, novelist, and playwright, author of the first Black lesbian vampire novel, The Gilda Stories; Jewelle Gomez will be joined in a reading by poets James Cagney, Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award, and Teya Scheffer, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, free, 4:30-6:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/BerkeleyPoetryFestival)