Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion

Free and open to the public

Enjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman, Santa Barbara translator, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing, sharing stories about their own struggles, pet peeves, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome.

John Altman lives in Santa Barbara. He writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish. His translation of Section III — Los Conquistadores from Pablo Neruda’s Canto General will be published in 2018 by Modoc Books.

Alan Bern is a poet, short story writer, and performer. He has two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). His third book, greater distance and other poems, with design and illustrations by Robert Woods, was released by Lines & Faces in 2015. Alan worked for over 15 years in the commercial printing industry. He became a librarian in 1992 and is now a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public Library.

Rebecca Radner is a writer and editor who has lived in the Bay Area most of her life. She now lives in Berkeley.  A volume of her poetry, What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011, was published in 2011 by Class Action Ink.  Her work has also appeared in Harvard Magazine, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The Iowa Review, The New England Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, ArtWeek, Inquiring Mind, What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop, and other publications. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals.  She has given poetry readings in a number of Bay Area venues.

Glenn Ingersoll has been writing poetry seriously since turned on to it by a California Poets-in-the-Schools class at his high school in 1982. In the years since he’s had work in magazines (Seventeen, Exquisite Corpse, Poetry East) and ezines (Cortland Review, The Opiate), and has published two chapbooks, City Walks (1999) and Fact (2013). He currently hosts the reading and interview series Clearly Meant at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. Glenn keeps two blogs, one on his reading http://dareiread. blogspot.com/ and one on his writing http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/.