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Poetry Flash Reading Series
Denise Low and Lucille Lang Day
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Jose Antonio Villarán

Jose Antonio Villarán and Sesshu Foster

20 NOVEMBER 2022 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by Jose Antonio Villarán, Open Pit, and Sesshu Foster, City of the Future, 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 virtual reading on Sunday, November 20 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.

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MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Jose Antonio Villarán's new collection is Open Pit. He is author of two previous collections, including la distancia es siempre la misma and el cerrajero. He is also author of one book of translation, Album of Fences, by Omar Pimienta. Sandra and Ben Doller say, "Jose Antonio Villarán's Open Pit affectively pits global addictions against personal extractions, calculating the enormous human and environmental weight of techno-privilege. Hurtling down the superhighway of forms—the ocean on one side, the desert on the other—the poems in this book accumulate into a desperate investigation of complicity, commodity, and heredity, as they swerve from Sacramento to San Diego to Lima to China to dust. The open pit of the title—of the exploited town of Morococha, of the raided earth itself—echoes and plumbs as it is stripped bare, as it is offered to the poet's young son Miqel, the future. This text is a necessary addition to the canon of disembordered political poetry which, here, honestly acknowledging its own limits, dilates the aperture." He holds an MFA in Writing from UC San Diego and is a PhD candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Sesshu Foster is a poet, novelist, and veteran public school teacher. Foster's most recent poetry collection, City of the Future, is "the poetic soundtrack of a people and a place, of their history and their dreams." He is co-author, with artist Arturo Romo, of the surrealist, multigenre novel ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines. Ben Ehrenreich says "ELADATL is strong medicine against the erasures of history, a mega-vitamin for struggles yet to come." Foster has taught writing in East Los Angeles, at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. Foster earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Alhambra, California.




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23 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

  • Graywolf Press presents a literary salon featuring an introduction by poet Dana Gioia, Interrogations at noon, followed by a reading and conversation with Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations, Solmaz Sharif, Customs, Graywolf director and publisher Carmen Giménez, and Graywolf editorial director Ethan Nosowsky; All attendees will receive a custom tote bag; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, The Store House, 2 Marina Blvd, Landmark Building C, San Francisco, starting at $50, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/50thanniversarysalonsanfrancisco/index.html)
  • Linden Tree Books welcomes Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin to discuss their new Middle Grade historical adventure, The Bletchley Riddle, presented off site at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.lindentreebooks.com/events-calendar)
  • City Arts and Lectures presents Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World & Me, to discuss his new essay collection, The Message, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, tickets start at $54, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.cityarts.net/event/ta-nehisi-coates-4)

24 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday

25 OCTOBER 2024 — friday

  • Point Reyes Books welcomes Obi Kaufmann to discuss his newest book, The State of Fire: Why California Burns, with watercolor maps and paintings, Red Barn Classroom, 75 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.ptreyesbooks.com/state-of-fire-kaufmann)

26 OCTOBER 2024 — saturday

27 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

  • Village Poets welcomes Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body, and Mary E. Torregrossa, My Zocalo Heart, for a poetry reading followed by an open mic, refreshments, The Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, free, 4:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: villagepoets.blogspot.com/2024/09/village-poets-presents-lory-bedikian.html)
  • Small Press Traffic and the Belladonna* School for Feminist Practice and Poetics presents "Reading and Writing through Hoa Nguyen", a four session (October 27, November 10, November 24, and December 8) workshop centered around discussion of Nguyen's work and generative writing exercises, Hosted by author Zoe Tuck, Bedroom Vowel, Virtual on Zoom, $80-200, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/reading-and-writing-through-hoa-nguyen)
  • This house concert will feature the Ursonate, an experimental sound poem composed by the German Dada artist and poet Kurt Schwitters in 1924, and phonetic poetry by Antonin Artaud, Hugo Ball, Raoul Hausmann, and Theo van Dousburg, as well as works composed by Jaap Blonk, held at a private residence in Berkeley, admission $40 via Venmo @harry-bernstein, 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/ontour.html, or email, harry@fullplatemedia.com)
  • "Writing Toward the Light" online workshop will be led by author Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poet Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, four Sundays in October (October 6, 13, 20, and 27); Workshop sessions will include a craft discussion, a Q&A period, and an in-class writing session, Virtual on Zoom, $250, 4:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.danushalameris.com/offers/xFozUZVF/checkout)
  • Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents the Dos Rios State Park Nature Poetry Walk, a two-and-a-half mile poetry walk featuring special guest poet Salvatore Salerno, Dos Rios State Park, 3559 Shiloh Road, Modesto, 9:00 am PDT (For more information, visit: www.mostpoetry.org/event/dos-rios-state-park-nature-poetry-walk)

28 OCTOBER 2024 — monday

29 OCTOBER 2024 — tuesday

  • City Lights Bookstore presents "The Dopamine Variety Show," a celebration of the queer literary organization, DOPAMINE, Books and Printed Matter, and the publication of The Sluts Anthology, edited by Michelle Tea, and fiction writer Clement Goldberg's new book, New Mistakes, featuring reading and discussion from Vera Blossom, Clement Goldberg, Brooke Palmieri, Naz Riahi, Shawn Stewart Ruff, and L Scully, hosted by Michelle Tea, Virtual on Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/the-dopamine-variety-show)
  • Hammer Museum welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander for a reading from his anticipated collection, Mojave Ghost, Hammer Museum; 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/poetry-forrest-gander)

30 OCTOBER 2024 — wednesday

  • Poetry at the Claremont Library presents 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Paisley Rekdal, Nightingale, for a special Wednesday evening poetry reading, Claremont Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry)
  • City Lights Bookstore welcomes Eleni Stecopoulos to discuss her new book of essays, Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing, in conversation with Miranda Mellis, Demystifications, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, and online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/eleni-stecopoulos)

31 OCTOBER 2024 — thursday


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