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SUMMARY:FRESH AND BEST: Poirier\, Ventura + Labrador y Manzano
DESCRIPTION:Diesel; A Bookstore welcomes Julien Poirier to the store for the release of Out of Print (City Lights\, 2016) as part of the FRESH AND BEST reading series featuring scene-fixtures alongside new and often unpublished poets. Reading with Julien will be Sean Labrador y Manzano and Sierra Ventura. We hope you can join us for an evening of poetry\, community\, and beverages! \nJulien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling\, 2010)\, Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling\, 2012)\, Way Too West (Bootstrap\, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights). In 2005\, he published an experimental newspaper novel\, Living! Go and Dream (Ugly Duckling). He is also the editor of an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline\, One of a Kind  (Ugly Duckling\, 2008)\, and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson\, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling\, 2015). A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the newspaper New York Nights from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters. \nSierra Ventura was born and raised in the East Bay. She is a poet\, an amateur funny person\, and an eldritch abomination. She is currently studying creative writing at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. Her work has been published in City College of San Francisco’s literary journal\, The Forum\, The Walrus\, and Odd Compulsion. Her poems have been compiled in the following chapbooks: Subhuman Sprawl\, STYLE IS A FRAUD\, Who’s Fucking Shoe is That?\, Winter Vomiting Disease\, Take Me to Suplex City\, and Daria Reruns. \nSean Labrador y Manzano edited the print journal Conversations at the Wartime Café: a Decade of War 2001-2011; is founder of the series “Mixer 2.0\, a San Francisco Bay Area M.F.A/PhD reading series;” curated the symposium “From Trauma to Catharsis: Performing the Asian Avant-Garde;” and with Dillon Westbrook and Robert Woodcock\, he performs as José Rizal in the ninety-minute jazz choreo-poem\, “Das Kapital\, Volume 4: Elimination of the Industrial Phase and the Accumulation of Debt\,” which was excerpted at the SF Jazz Poetry Festival\, 2014. This year he did a whirlwind tour of conferences (ALA Boston\, North American Review bicentennial\, and Berkeley Poetry Conference) discussing a range of topics from Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialist Writings to the Asian Avant Garde. He was selected for the Best American Poetry in 2004. In response to the Best American Poetry 2015 controversy\, on behalf of the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies\, he will be moderating a roundtable on “Yellowface” at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco in 2016
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LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Noah Warren reads from his first collection\, The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the 110th Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. \n\nPraise for The Destroyer in the Glass: \n“The Destroyer in the Glass impresses at once with its wedding of intellect\, heart\, sly humor\, and formal dexterity\, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self. The poems both examine and embody the nexus of joy and sorrow\, of certainty and confusion\, without which there’d be none of the restlessness that makes us uniquely human. Warren’s vision is a generous one indeed —and itself a gift.” –Carl Phillips\, Judge’s Citation \n\nAbout The Destroyer in the Glass: \nNoah Warren’s brilliant collection of poetry\, The Destroyer in the Glass\, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize\, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done—to ourselves and to others—in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form\, rhyme\, and allusion with a freer\, expressive style\, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through\, by\, and in language.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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