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SUMMARY:phren-Z Online Literary Magazine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will include Wallace Baine\, John Chandler\, Elizabeth McKenzie\, Richard Lange\, Dan White\, Vito Victor\, and more. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:This month’s line up: \nAlexandra Mattraw is a fifth generation native of Northern California. Her three chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press\, Beard of Bees\, and Achiote Press. Alexandra’s poems and reviews have appeared in journals including 1913 Journal of Forms\, American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Thethepoetry\, alice blue\, Seneca Review\, Word For/Word\, Cultural Society\, RealPoetik\, Shampoo\, Diagram\, VOLT\, and Verse. Her work has also been featured in several art shows and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first manuscript\, honest as any treeless place\, has been named a finalist in three separate competitions through Nightboat Books\, 1913 Press\, and the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her second book\, Inside the Mind’s Hotel\, was a finalist for the 2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry. A former Vermont Studio Center resident\, Alexandra lives in Oakland\, where she and her partner curate an eclectic writing\, reading\, and art series called Lone Glen. \nKelly lives in Oakland\, supposedly East\, though she is never oriented enough to know for sure. If she had a spouse\, she surely wouldn’t mention that here. She is inclined to mention the things people like least to talk about openly. She is an atheist who treasures Christmas. She has a love/hate relationship with some ants who\, with the rain\, have begun to invade her home. She is considering letting them stay\, so long as they live in the succulents and leave her kitchen be. She studied with amazing poets at Saint Mary’s College of CA. If she had been published in any journals\, or had any books\, she would mention that here. But she has not. \nAndrea Murphy is a fifteen year educator\, who is currently on hiatus. She has taught English at both high school and community college. During this hiatus\, she has decided to focus on her passion for creative writing and is developing as an emerging poet in the St. Mary’s MFA program. If asked what she plans to do with her degree\, she would tell you that she intends to enjoy it. She loves the lyrical expression of language and has made it her primary intention of study as she writes about family\, legacy\, illness\, and blackness from a “womanist” perspective. \nKathryn Gresham Lancaster is a writer living in Oakland. She has published in Recursive Angel\, Slow Trains and several other journals. She has also written and performed in: plays\, puppet shows and performance art pieces. This excerpt is from her novel in progress: Voices Underwater.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Bitting\, Laux\, + Millar
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Bitting’s new book of poems is The Couple Who Fell to Earth. Juan Felipe Herrera says\, “In a multi-directional ‘one shape’ of voices\, time\, people\, spaces Bitting takes us in and out of her all seeing third eye poetics. We go into an orb of family\, love\, then we swoop out into the delight of humanity.…A unique treasure of visions and voice.” Her first collection\, Good Friday Kiss\, was chosen by Thomas Lux for the DeNovo First Book Award\, and her second\, Notes To The Beloved\, won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award and got a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. \nDorianne Laux’s fifth book of poems is The Book of Men\, winner of the Paterson Prize. Alan Shapiro says\, “The Book of Men…could just as easily have been called The Book of Empathy\, or The Book of Negative Capability\, or The Book of Intimate Awareness of Who We Are and How We Got To Be This Way. Whether she is writing about men or women\, the powerful or the powerless\, the present day or the past\, Laux observes\, evokes and meditates with profound compassion and understanding for the delicate complexities of the human heart.” Her previous collections are Awake\, What We Carry\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, Smoke\, and Facts About the Moon\, which won the Oregon Book Award. Among her other honors are a Pushcart Prize\, two appearances in Best American Poetry\, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nJoseph Millar’s new book of poems is Blue Rust. Tony Hoagland observes of it\, “…long spiraling sentences full of used cars and kung pao chicken\, umbilical blood and rent money\, lentils and sausage and death.…Blue Rust is a big\, beautiful book of poems—moving\, sensuous\, artful\, full of courage and blessings.” His previous collections areOvertime and Fortune. His honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-bitting-laux-millar/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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