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Linda Ravenswood

Linda Ravenswood and Yiskah Rosenfeld

19 SEPTEMBER 2024 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Yiskah Rosenfeld, reading from her two new collections, Tasting Flight and Naked Beside Fish, and LA poet and performance poet Linda Ravenswood, A poem is a house, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Linda Ravenswood's new book of poems is A poem is a house. Lee Herrick says, "This book is a revelation. Ravenswood shows us that—a poem is a house—as well as a housefire, a history, a family, a stranger, a choir…This is a visionary urgency. I love this book." (See Lee Rossi's Poetry Flash review on the front page.) Recent collections include Cantadora—letters from California, The Stan Poems, Tlacuilx—Tongues in Quarantine, and Xla Poets. A poet and a performance poet from Los Angeles, she is the founding editor of The Los Angeles Press and the co-founder of the Poet Laureate program in Glendale, California. Her honors include an Oxford Prize in Poetry (2022) and the Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry (2023).

Yiskah Rosenfeld's first full-length book of poems is Tasting Flight. Joy Ladin says, "Rooted in the origin myths of Genesis when the Divine 'stepped out of itself onto the slick, dark lid of otherness,' Tasting Flight unflinchingly questions, complicates, and celebrates what it means to be a woman and to be deeply, imperfectly, human." A proud rabbinical school dropout, she is also the author of Naked Beside Fish, a recently released ekphrastic chapbook. Among her honors are the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize and the Reuben Rose Memorial Prize. Her work has been published in journals such as The Seattle Review, Rattle, Slippery Elm, and others, as well as in anthologies such as Wild Gods: An Anthology of Ecstatic Poetry and Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism. Born in Kansas, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and teaches workshops on feminism, spirituality, and creativity.




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  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janée J. Baugher, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, with poet and psychoanalyst Alice Jones, Cadence of Vanishing, a memoir, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).

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  • Skylight Books welcomes Mary H.K. Choi presenting Pool House, in conversation with writer and podcast host Yasi Salek, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm (RSVP recommended: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-mary-hk-choi-presents-pool-house-w-yasi-salek)
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