Rebecca Foust
Photo: William Harvey
Rebecca Foust and Janée J. Baugher
7 APRIL 2024 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a reading by Janée J. Baugher, Seattle poet and author of The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction, and Rebecca Foust, Only, Marin County Poet Laureate emerita, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).
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MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Poet Janée J. Baugher is the author of the only book of its kind, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction. WomensVoicesforChange.org calls it, "a guidebook that comprehensively treats the subject of ekphrasis at the same time it provides an inspiriting and practical guide to those who aspire to practice it." She's published two books of poetry, The Coordinates of Yes and The Body's Physics, which David Roderick says "demonstrates extraordinary poetic vision, and her lyric style is both tender and resolutely connected to the body." A featured poet both at the Library of Congress and on Seattle TV, Janée Baugher was a judge for the 2023 "Frame to Frames" ekphrastic film prize (Fotogenia Festival in Mexico City). As a collaborator she's had poems adapted for the stage and set to music at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), University of Cincinnati, Contemporary Dance Theatre (Ohio), Dance Now! Ensemble (Florida), Otterbein University, and University of North Carolina-Pembroke. Baugher is an assistant editor at Boulevard magazine and recipient of a 2024 CityArtist grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Rebecca Foust's seventh poetry collection is Only. Ellen Bass says, "In Only, her luminous new collection of poems, Rebecca Foust's gifts are in full flower. Richly imagistic and achingly lyrical, these poems wrestle with the big questions—religion, immigration, climate change, politics, parenting, autism, and death—all on a deeply intimate level. Like an impressionist painter, she uses light to capture the immediacy of the present, the passage of time." Her previous collections include Paradise Drive; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song; in collaboration with Lorna Stevens, God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World; and three chapbooks, including The Unexpected Ordnance Bin. Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2023 New Ohio Review prize, 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. As Marin County Poet Laureate 2017-2019, her program, "Poetry as Sanctuary," featured readings by local immigrant poets.
Daily Listings
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21 NOVEMBER 2024 — thursday
- Poetry reading with Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth, Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera, and Joseph Millar, Shine, all reading from their new poetry collections, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.pegasusbookstore.com/laux-addonizio-millar)
- The Poetry in Davis Reading Series is an ongoing series, every first and third Thursday, tonight featuring poet/translator/editor Francisco Aragon, Glow of Our Sweat, Gerald Fleming, The Bastard and the Bishop, and bilingual poet Florencia Milito, Ituzaingó: Exiles and Reveries/exilios y ensueños, an open mic follows, limited to four minutes or two pieces, whichever is shorter, open mic sign up list usually fills by 6:45, hosted by Dr. Andy Jones, Davis Poet Laureate emeritus, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/groups/2290130152/events)
- The Break Room is a monthly poetry open mic hosted by poet Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here, Jason Bayani, Locus, and poet/novelist Sam Sax, Pig, there is an occasional poetry workshop before sign-up, Gilman Brewing, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, free, sign-up for the open at 6:30 pm, show at 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: gilmanbrew.com/event/copy-the-break-room-poetry-open-mic-2024-11-21)
- CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER - Writers Read Ukiah presents Mendocino County Poet Laureate Devreaux Baker, Hungry Ghosts, an hour-long open mic session follows the featured poet, six minutes maximum time for each reader, this monthly poetry reading series usually takes place on the last Thursday of each month, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/new-events)
- The Brown Bag Poetry Reading Series features San Diego Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez with special guest poets Ron Salisbury, Miss Desert Inn, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Ghazal Cosmopolitan, and Sonia Gutierrez, Paper Birds: Feather by Feather, San Diego Civic Center Concourse, 202 C Street, San Diego, free, Noon PST (For more information, visit: www.jasonmagaboperez.com/event/sdpf24-brown-bag-poetry-series-at-civic-center-plaza)
- City Lights welcomes poet Maw Shein Win to launch her new poetry collection, Percussing the Thinking Jar, with poet and educator MK Chavez, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, also online via Zoom, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information and the full schedule of events, visit: citylights.com/events/maw-shein-win-launch-party-for-percussing-the-thinking-jar)
22 NOVEMBER 2024 — friday
- Beyond Baroque welcomes poet Cynthia Good for the LA book launch of her new poetry collection, In the Thaw of Day, with poets Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, and Michelle Bitting, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-launch-in-the-thaw-of-day-by-cynthia-good-tickets-1018542276367?aff=oddtdtcreator)
23 NOVEMBER 2024 — saturday
24 NOVEMBER 2024 — sunday
25 NOVEMBER 2024 — monday
26 NOVEMBER 2024 — tuesday
- This pop-up poetry making lab will occur over three dates (November 12, 19, and 26) with San Diego Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez, the exhibit takes visitors through the creative process of writing poetry and explores poetry-making techniques like ekphrasis, cut-up, documentary, and collage, Museum of Us, 1350 El Prado, San Diego, included with museum admission, 1:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.jasonmagaboperez.com/event/sdpf24-poetry-making-labs-at-museum-of-us)
27 NOVEMBER 2024 — wednesday
28 NOVEMBER 2024 — thursday
29 NOVEMBER 2024 — friday
30 NOVEMBER 2024 — saturday
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