Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss and Jennifer Franklin
16 JULY 2023 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a reading by Jennifer Franklin, If Some God Shakes our House, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets, online, via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register here),
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MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Jennifer Franklin’s new poetry book is If Some God Shakes Your House. Ed Hirsch says, “Jennifer Franklin throws her voice in these taut lyrics and prose poems that view her own experience through a dramatic lens, the voice of Antigone come back to face the rockiness of our moment and the inevitability of death." Franklin’s previous books include No Small Gift, and Looming. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, The Paris Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Franklin teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, where she runs the reading series and serves as the Program Director. She also teaches in Manhattanville’s MFA Program, in New York.
Diane Seuss’s most recent book is frank: sonnets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2022. The Pulitzer committee said, “A virtuosic collection that inventively expands the sonnet form to confront the messy contradictions of contemporary America, including the beauty and the difficulty of working-class life in the Rust Belt.” The Rumpus says, “Seuss understands the labor of a sonnet’s particular space—the intensity and the balance, the anaphora and the rhyme that can gallop wild inside the sonnets field.” Seuss’ previous books are Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, and It Blows You Hollow . Her new collection, Modern Poetry, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2024. Her writing has appeared in the Georgia Review, Brevity, The Best American Poetry 2014, Missouri Review, Able Muse, and elsewhere. Her honors also include the PEN/Voelcker Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in rural Michigan.
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16 JANUARY 2025 — thursday
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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
20 JANUARY 2025 — monday
21 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday
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
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26 JANUARY 2025 — sunday
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27 JANUARY 2025 — monday
28 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday
29 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday
30 JANUARY 2025 — thursday
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