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Cathy Colman

Cathy Colman and Sam Sax

21 NOVEMBER 2021 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Cathy Colman, Time Crunch, and Sam Sax, Bury It, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PST (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, November 21 at 3:00 pm PST! We are excited to bring you this event 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.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Cathy Colman's new book of poems is Time Crunch. Patricia Smith says, "The textured and lyrically lush narratives in Time Crunch—deftly-honed poems that titillate and resound long after their last lines—firmly establish Cathy Colman as a fierce and formidable voice destined to be a stalwart presence in the contemporary canon." Her first collection, Borrowed Dress, won the 2001 Felix Pollak Prize for Poetry and immediately made it to The Los Angeles Times Bestseller List; her second is Beauty's Tattoo. Other honors include a Browning Award for Poetry and the Ascher Montandon Award for Poetry. She's also been a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.

Sam Sax's latest book of poems is Bury It. Tyehimba Jess says, "Bury It, Sam Sax's urgent, thriving excavation of desire, is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn.…A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously." Bury It received the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Their first collection, Madness, won the National Poetry Series. A queer Jewish writer and educator, they are a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam champion, and have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, The MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Michener Center for Writers.




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