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Elena Karina Byrne and Gail Wronsky
Stella Beratlis
Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine
23 MAY 2021 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a Sixteen Rivers Press poetry reading by Stella Beratlis, Dust Bowl Venus, and Dane Cervine, The World is God's Language, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
Please join us for a Poetry Flash virtual reading on Sunday, May 23 at 3:00 pm PDT! We are excited to bring you Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine via Zoom. To register for this reading, please click on the link in the calendar listing above. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series during these unprecedented times.
This reading is co-sponsored by Moe's Books in Berkeley; the featured books are available at bookshop.org/lists/poetry-flash-readings and at Small Press Distribution: www.spdbooks.org.
MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Join us for this celebration for Sixteen Rivers Press's two new collections!
Stella Beratlis's new book of poems is Dust Bowl Venus. Rosa Lane says, "Stella Beratlis's Dust Bowl Venus animates California's Central Valley as a postmodern Prometheus, an eco-sapient Frankenstein with whom we wrangle, wrestle, and fall madly in love." Her first book, Alkali Sink, was nominated for a Northern California Book Reviewers Award in 2016. Widely published in literary journals, her work has also been anthologized in The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. Poet Laureate of Modesto 2016-2020, she is co-editor of More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets.
Dane Cervine's new book of poems is The World Is God's Language, prose poems. Gary Young says, "Cervine reveals a sanctified world built of memory, history, and grace, where God is evanescent, transient but eternal, and where, Cervine makes clear, we are 'just visiting'" He's published six previous collections, most recently Earth Is a Fickle Dancer. His work has appeared in many journals and been anthologized in Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetics of California. He lives in Santa Cruz and works there as a therapist, where he's a former head of Children's Mental Health for Santa Cruz County.
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7 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a reading featuring poet and performing artist Karla Cordero, Grasshoppers Before God, How to Pull Apart the Earth, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
8 DECEMBER 2021 — wednesday
- City Lights Books presents writer Nancy Perloff, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, celebrating the launch of her new books, Concrete Poetry: A 21st Anthology, a wide-ranging collection of poetry that reflects and re-evaluates the concrete poetry movement, in conversation with editor and writer Antonio Sergio Bessa, Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
9 DECEMBER 2021 — thursday
- Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous, and Gail Wronsky, Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems, online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PST (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
10 DECEMBER 2021 — friday
- The Poetry Center presents a reading and conversation with poets Chris Nealon (The Shore, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall) and Stephanie Young (It's No Good Everything's Bad, Ursula or University), in person at East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29207-chris-nealon-and-stephanie-young-reading-and-conversation)
11 DECEMBER 2021 — saturday
- The Poetry Center presents the 36th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, this year given by poet and scholar Chris Nealon, The Shore, his subject will be "George Oppen and the Future," introduced by Brandon Brown, in person at East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information: poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29208-chris-nealon-george-oppen-memorial-lecture)
12 DECEMBER 2021 — sunday
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13 DECEMBER 2021 — monday
- City Lights Books presents journalist and writer Eduardo Berti, Agua, La mujer de Wakefield, reading from his new novel, An Ideal Presence, in conversation with Daniel Levin Becker, translator of the book, online via Zoom, free, 2:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
14 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Sean Mahoney, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free. 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
15 DECEMBER 2021 — wednesday
- City Lights Books presents poet and translator Gloria Gervitz, reading and discussing her new book, Migrations, a collection of poems forty-four years in the making, in conversation with Mark Schafer, visual artist and translator of the book, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
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21 DECEMBER 2021 — tuesday
- Cobalt Poets presents a poetry reading featuring Deborah P. Kolodji, Highway of Sleeping Towns, with open mic to follow, online via Zoom, free, 7:30 pm PST (Register to attend: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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