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Joseph Millar

Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar

16 MARCH 2025 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth, and Joseph Millar, Shine, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Dorianne Laux's recent book of poems is Life on Earth. Kwame Dawes says, "A prodigious imagination that somehow manages to sift through the ordinary, quotidian, and squalid realities of our world, to produce moments of grace and shimmering beauty, and empathetic illumination. Dorianne Laux is a national treasure, a poet of immense insight and masterful craft." Her previous collections include Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award; Smoke; Facts About the Moon; The Book of Men, which received The Paterson Poetry Prize; and Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She's co-author of the celebrated book The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, and she's authored a new book in that vein, Finger Exercises for Poets. She is a founding faculty member of Pacific University's low-residency MFA program.

Joseph Millar's new poetry collection is Shine. David St. John says, "The difficult grace of dailiness and the defiant resilience of the spirit have always been at the heart of Millar's poetry. Book by book, line by carefully carved line, Millar has been writing the finest poetry about work and material presence in our world since those of his exemplar, Philip Levine." His previous poetry collections include Overtime, finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Fortune; Blue Rust; Kingdom; and Dark Harvest, New and Selected Poems. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His work has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in Pacific University's low residency program and lives in Richmond, California.




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16 MARCH 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth, and Joseph Millar, Shine, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

17 MARCH 2025 — monday

18 MARCH 2025 — tuesday

  • The workshop Queer Genre Fiction with fiction writer Johnny Alvarez will be held for five Tuesdays (March 18 to May 6, 2025) and cover short story craft such as sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, and more, the course will include reading assignments, writing exercises, and group discussions, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: medicinefornightmares.com/events/queer-genre-fiction-writing-with-johnny-alvarez)

19 MARCH 2025 — wednesday

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21 MARCH 2025 — friday

22 MARCH 2025 — saturday

23 MARCH 2025 — sunday

  • Nicholas Mirzoeff discusses his book, To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7, exploring how images, and especially video, viewed outside Palestine enabled a dramatic switch in public opinion, in conversation with poet and scholar-activist Omar Zahzah, Terms of Servitude Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, and individuals from the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: medicinefornightmares.com/events/nicholas-mirzoeff-to-see-in-the-dark-a-conversation-with-omar-zahzah-and-the-center-for-convivial-research-and-autonomy)
  • House concert poetry reading by Los Angeles poets Paul Vangelisti, Nemo, also a noted translator of experimental Italian poetry, and poet and novelist Dennis Phillips, Measures, known for many previous literary projects, such as former literary book review editor of Sulfur, poetry editor of the L.A. Weekly, former director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center, and founding editor, along with Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, of Littoral Books, $10 donation to attend the reading, payable via PayPal (harry@fullplatemedia.com) or Venmo (@harry-bernstein) All funds go to the poets, private Berkeley home address, 5:00 pm PDT (For more information email: harry@fullplatemedia.com)

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