PROGRAMS
Alex Dimitrov and Genine Lentine
Tim Kahl and Joshua McKinney
James Arthur, Natalie Diaz, and Tomás Q. MorinLorna Dee Cervantes and Barbara Jane Reyes
15 MARCH 2012 — thursday
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems, and Barbara Jane Reyes, Diwata, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com; wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreters for the deaf and hearing impaired may be requested a week in advance by email, editor@poetryflash.org)
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Lorna Dee Cervantes new book of poems is Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems. Luis Alberto Urrea says, "In this delightful book, Lorna Dee Cervantes has undertaken a mad discipline: the 100 word format unleashes paradoxically vast effects. Full of playfulness, rage and her traditional fire, Ciento is a masterful performance." Through her writing, she played an important part in the Chicano literary movement, and through Mango, the literary journal she founded, as well as through her small press of the same name. Author of three previous books of poems, she has received numerous honors and awards, including an American Book Prize for her first collection, Emplumada, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship. Barbara Jane Reyes's latest book of poems is Diwata—which means, roughly, 'spirit' in Tagalog—a book which begins in a fusion of Genesis with a Philippine creation myth. Juan Felipe Herrera says of it, "Š[S]he instructs us, lures us, takes us deep into her sacred, jeweled river, then breathes into us our Creation Story—the one we thought we could no longer remember or write or speak or call our own." Born in Manila and then raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Reyes is the author of two previous books, the second of which, Poeta en San Francisco, won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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19 MAY 2013 — sunday
- CENTRAL:
- Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's most distinguished writers, reads from Children Of The Days: A Calendar of Human History, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)event page
- 32nd Annual Northern California Book Awards, Northern California authors are honored in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children's Literature with brief readings and remarks, reception and book signing follows; Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate 2008-2010; Poetry nominees are City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed, A Penance by CJ Evans, The Book of a Thousand Eyes, Lyn Hejinian, Plunge by Alice Jones, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, D.A. Powell, Citizen by Aaron Shurin; Fiction nominees are A River Closely Watched by Jon Boilard, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson; NCBR Recognition Award goes to Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5, 2007, Bombing of Baghdad's "Street of the Booksellers"; presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco Public Library/Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, Red Room (redroom.com), PEN West, and Mechanics' Institute, public reception with book signing follows, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin, enter at Grove, SF, next to Civic Center BART, free, 1:00 (510/525-5476, NCBR @poetryflash.org, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2013)event page
- The annual Leslie Scalapino Lecture in 21st Century Poetics presents sculptor and photographer Petah Coyne, Timken Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 8th Street, San Francisco, $6-$10, event begins 5:00, lecture 5:30 (smallpresstraffic.org)event page
- EAST:
- Poetry at Ravenswood presents a poetry reading by Barbara Swift Bauer, At Ease in the Borrowed World, and Susan Kelly-Dewitt, The Fortunate Islands, open mic follows, refreshments, Ravenswood Historic Site, 2657 Arroyo Road, Livermore, $5, 2:00-4:00 (925/824-4824; Cher Wollard, cherw @livermorelit.com)event page
20 MAY 2013 — monday
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21 MAY 2013 — tuesday
- CENTRAL:
- Digital media pioneer and musician Jaron Lanier discusses his book, Who Owns the Future? City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)event page
22 MAY 2013 — wednesday
- CENTRAL:
- Santa Clara Review presents a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate 1995-97, to celebrate the launch of their spring issue Volume 100, Issue 2, check out the digital e-reader format of the review, refreshments, Santa Clara University, Locatelli Activity Center, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, free, 4:00-6:00 (santaclarareview.com)event page
23 MAY 2013 — thursday
- CENTRAL:
- Poetry Flash presents a reading by Alex Dimitrov and Genine Lentine, wheelchair accessible, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor @poetryflash.org, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, moesbooks.com)event page
24 MAY 2013 — friday
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25 MAY 2013 — saturday
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26 MAY 2013 — sunday
- CENTRAL:
- Poetry Flash presents a reading by Tim Kahl and Joshua McKinney, wheelchair accessible, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)event page
27 MAY 2013 — monday
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28 MAY 2013 — tuesday
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29 MAY 2013 — wednesday
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30 MAY 2013 — thursday
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31 MAY 2013 — friday
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