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OUR BIRD PROBLEM: Robert Hass + Jonathan Franzen

March 27, 2014
Evan Karp
Event Review, REVIEWS

On March 6th, Former Poet Laureate and MacArthur Genius Robert Hass met for a conversation about “Nature and Birding” with best selling novelist Jonathan Franzen….

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UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS: 40th anniversary readings

December 21, 2013
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

University Press Books held a reading and celebration to mark its 40th Anniversary on Friday December 13th, 2013. Videos as follows: Introduction by Peter Burghardt…

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The Poet as Professor: robert hass, lyn hejinian, d.a. powell + w.s. di piero

The Poet as Professor: robert hass, lyn hejinian, d.a. powell + w.s. di piero

March 29, 2013
Steven Gray
Event Review, I WOULD SAY, REVIEWS, Reviews by Steven Gray

I took a futuristic train out of town and ended up on the steps of Wheeler Hall, built in 1917. Inside, I ran into a…

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WEEK IN PREVIEW: the quake hits

WEEK IN PREVIEW: the quake hits

October 3, 2011
Nicole McFeely
Week in Preview

(Nicole McFeely) “I’m a con artist in that I’m an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn’t,”…

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WEEK IN PREVIEW: feature schmeature; you decide

WEEK IN PREVIEW: feature schmeature; you decide

September 25, 2011
Nicole McFeely
Week in Preview

(Nicole McFeely) On Monday, September, 26th bring five dollars and your best five minute traveling story to Porchlight Open Door for a chance to win…

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DEAN YOUNG BENEFIT: if you reset your heart

DEAN YOUNG BENEFIT: if you reset your heart

June 28, 2011
Evan Karp
Event Review, Scene, Statement

On Thursday, Jun 23 ZYZZYVA and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers organized a Bay Area benefit to help Dean Young absorb the staggering costs of his recent heart transplant. An exceptional roster of poets each read one of Dean’s poems and one of their own.

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