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Poetry Flash Reading Series


Susan Browne

Susan Browne and Jeanne Wagner

12 JUNE 2025 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a reading by Susan Browne, Monster Mash, and Jeanne Wagner, One Needful Song, the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize-winner, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PDT (poetryflash.org).


Featured books for this reading will be available for signing at the event, and Susan Browne's will also be available at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA. Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS

Susan Browne's new poetry book is Monster Mash. Diane Seuss says, "There it is—the timing of a great comedian, and the devastation at the center of every magnificent joke. The result is a book of poems that captures, for me, what it feels like to exist in a culture and a world falling apart at the seams….It tracks the span of a life, the early loss of a mother, and exposes the wisdom that comes to those who endure long enough to earn it, that 'the intelligent thing is to offer everything / to infinite love.'" Her previous poetry collections include Buddha's Dogs, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize; Zephyr, winner of the Steel Toe Books Editor's Choice award; and Just Living, winner of the Catamaran Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, The Sun, The Southern Review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the James Dickey Poetry Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival Prize, River Styx International Poetry Contest, Fischer Poetry Prize, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. She lives in Northern California.
Jeanne Wagner's new poetry book is One Needful Song, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize. John Sibley Williams says, "This is a rare creation of song and scar, of vulnerability and both emotional and structural complexity. In One Needful Song, the outer and inner, conceptual and human worlds mingle in accessible yet complex ways. Brimming with meditations on history and myth, family and nostalgia, landscape and personal identity, these vibrant poems remain grounded in a universal familiarity that opens us up to something greater. If one of the aims of poetry is to condense our vast, contradictory, and beautifully human world into the briefest of songs, One Needful Song, being both intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging, stands as a testament to its possibility." Her previous poetry collections include four chapbooks and four previous full-length collections: Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Book Prize; In the Body of Our Lives, Sixteen Rivers Press; and , NFSPS Poetry Prize-winner. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her honors include the Joy Harjo Award, Naugatuck Prize, and the Cloudbank Prize. She lives in Kensington, California.




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  • Indigenous Voices Literary Series presents Elise Paschen, Osage author of Blood Wolf Moon, poems, in conversation with Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate Emerita and the event curator; Paschen will read her poems and share stories about her famous mother, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, travels in Europe, and Osage culture; the film Killers of the Flower Moon takes its title from Paschen's poem "Wi'-gi-e," which references late springtime frosts in the Osage lunar cycle; Paschen is the former Director of The Poetry Society of America, raised in Chicago, she returns to Oklahoma's Osage reservation for annual dances; The 222 Series in the Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, $20, 7:00 pm (For more information, contact Erin Partridge, 707-473-9150, the222.org/product/indigenous-voices-series-elise-paschen)
  • Skylight Books welcomes UC Riverside MFA Program presenting a night of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction celebrating graduating Creative Writing students, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 6:30 pm (RSVP recommended: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-uc-riverside-mfa-reading-0)

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  • Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)

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