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Steffi Drewes + nick johnson
November 4, 2016 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm UTC+0
Steffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Magnetic Forest, Cartography Askew, and History of Drawing Circles.
Her poems have appeared in 6×6, Aufgabe, Eleven Eleven, Monday Night, New American Writing, No Tell Motel, Zen Monster, and in the anthology IT’S NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT IT’S SUNNY IN OAKLAND (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014).
She works as a freelance writer and organizes Featherboard Writing Series at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland.
nick johnson was born near the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay and raised by his single mother in Baltimore. His mother, who died when he was in his early teens, has become a consistent presence and voice in his work, along with themes of otherness and alienation.
His poems have been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Brilliant Corners, Red Light Lit, Metazen, Samizdat, and the anthology Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War.
His first collection of poems, music for mussolini, was published by Nomadic Press in March of 2016.
When he’s not writing poems, he enjoys telling long-winded stories, Instagraming, making spicy curries, and drinking whiskey — typically in that order, but not always.
Johnson earned his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts.
He lives and works in the Bay Area.