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Annie Stenzel

Annie Stenzel and Patricia Caspers

13 OCTOBER 2024 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading featuring Patricia Caspers, The Most Kissed Woman in the World, and Annie Stenzel, Don't misplace the moon, 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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MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Patricia Caspers's new book of poems is The Most Kissed Woman in the World. Chloe Martinez says, "In each 'Portrait of God,' Caspers finds the sacred somewhere unexpected: a ginkgo tree; an assisted living facility; a dysfunctional family; the self in all its gorgeous imperfections. These lyrical, surprising poems look at the world with a hard-won clarity and tenderness, embracing joy without turning away from suffering." Her two previous collections are In the Belly of the Albatross and Some Flawed Magic. The founding Editor-in Chief of West Trestle Review, she won the Nimrod-Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, was the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency, and was named the best columnist and education reporter in the state by the California Newspapers Association. Caspers is a librarian and a Unitarian Universalist.

Annie Stenzel's new book of poems is Don't misplace the moon. Francesca Bell says, "Though 'being alive is a wound that won't heal,' the poems in Don't misplace the moon nudge us toward joy and wonder, and linger long after we finish reading, like 'a whisper / as if bliss were stirring.'" Annie Stenzel's first collection is The First Air After Absence. Widely published in such journals as Chestnut Review and One Art, she has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. A poetry editor/reader for the online journals Right Hand Pointing and West Trestle Review, she lives on unceded Ohlone land in walking distance of the San Francisco Bay and pays a voluntary tax to help restore indigenous life.




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18 SEPTEMBER 2024 — wednesday

19 SEPTEMBER 2024 — thursday

  • Marin Poetry Center welcomes Joan Baranow, Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, and Matthew Gellman, Beforelight, for a poetry reading and discussion, Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 6:15 pm PDT (For more information, visit: marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events/joan-baranow-matthew-gellman-poetry-reading)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Yiskah Rosenfeld, reading from her two new collections, Tasting Flight and Naked Beside Fish, and LA poet and performance poet Linda Ravenswood, A poem is a house, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).

20 SEPTEMBER 2024 — friday

21 SEPTEMBER 2024 — saturday

22 SEPTEMBER 2024 — sunday

  • Marcus Books welcomes Code Tenderloin founder Del Seymour and author Alison Owings, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich, for a discussion and reading from their book, The Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco, followed by a book signing, Marcus Books, 3900 Martin L King Jr Way, Oakland, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.instagram.com/marcus.books/?hl=en)

23 SEPTEMBER 2024 — monday

24 SEPTEMBER 2024 — tuesday

25 SEPTEMBER 2024 — wednesday

26 SEPTEMBER 2024 — thursday

27 SEPTEMBER 2024 — friday

28 SEPTEMBER 2024 — saturday

  • Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library monthly poetry reading presents featured poets Tiffany K. Elliott, Bones Awaiting the Blaze, and Scott Noon Creley, Digging a Hole to the Moon, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/events/1797746840635833/?ref=newsfeed)
  • Left Margin Lit welcomes writers of all experience levels for their workshop, "Speaking from Experience: Writing Personal Narrative," runs over four Saturdays (September 28 to October 19, 2024), the workshop explores elements of craft pertinent to personal writing: voice, narrative distance, detail, characterization, using writers's personal lives and experiences to generate new writing, work toward a draft of one personal essay by the end of the month, hosted by Jaclyn Moyer, On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family from Punjab to California, virtual on Zoom, $275, 10:00 am PDT (For more information, visit: www.leftmarginlit.org/speaking-from-experience-moyer)

29 SEPTEMBER 2024 — sunday

  • In this "line break" poetry workshop, "Poetry of the Sixth Sense," participants will use dreams, tarot, the powers of sensory and textual associations, and several generative prompts to help them unblock and access new images and narrative, hosted by poet Alex Mattraw, Raw Anyone, private garden location, South Berkeley, $90-$180, 1:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.alexmattraw.com/linebreakworkshops)

30 SEPTEMBER 2024 — monday


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