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Rebecca Foust
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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.




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  • In celebration of the anthology, Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to the 2024 Election, contributing poets Dane Cervine, Julia Chiapella, Robert Lashley, Dion O'Reilly, Paul E. Nelson, Roxi Power, and Matt Trease read poetry that explores democracy, resilience, and the road ahead, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: bookshopsantacruz.com/winter-in-america)

2 APRIL 2025 — wednesday

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  • Lunch Poems, a monthly poetry reading, presents Geffrey Davis, One Wild Word Away, University of California Berkeley, Morrison Library, 101 Library Court, Berkeley, free, Noon PST (For more information, visit: www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems)

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  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading to celebrate the Sixteen Rivers Press featured titles for 2025, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, the department of peace, Patrick Cahill, If we are the forest the animals dream, Moira Magneson, In the Eye of the Elephant, and Terry Ehret and Nancy J. Morales, award-winning co-translators of Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III, poems by Ulalume González de León, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

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  • Former Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Farnaz Fatemi and Santa Cruz County's new Poet Laureate Nancy Miller Gomez celebrate Gomez's 2025-26 appointment with wine, food, lively conversation, and poetry, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: bookshopsantacruz.com/poet-laureate-2025)

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