PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards

2 DECEMBER 2023 — saturday

PEN Oakland presents the 34th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards, featuring winners of the Josephine Miles Award, Javier Zamora, Solito: A Memoir; Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind; Perennial Earth: Poetry by Wallace Stevens and Paintings by Alexis Serio, edited by John N. Serio; T.J. English, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld; Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling: A Novel; Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense; Kobena Mercer, Alain Locke & The Visual Arts; D.S. Marriott, Before Whiteness; Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez, Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection; the winners of the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award, Louise Meriwether and the late Sara Webster Fabio, Boss Soul, Soul Ain't Soul Is, Together to the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox, JuJus Alchemy of the Blues; the winners of the Adelle Foley Award, The Daily KOS and the late Joyce Wong; and the winner of the Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism, Tressie McMillan Cottom; Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 2:00-5:00 pm PST (More information here: oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6553cf82b6d98938007f62d0)