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Poetry Flash Reading Series
Janée J. Baugher and Alice Jones
6/7, Berkeley
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Alice Jones

Janée J. Baugher and Alice Jones

7 JUNE 2026 — sunday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janée J. Baugher, The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, with poet and psychoanalyst Alice Jones, Cadence of Vanishing, a memoir, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm (poetryflash.org).


The featured books will be available at the reading. Janée J. Baugher's book is also 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

Janée J. Baugher's new book is The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles, winner of Tupelo Press's Dorset Prize. The judge, Shane McCrae says, "The first two poems…so excited me that I had to stop reading, stand up and leave the room, and cross a few items off my daily list of things to do before I could return to the manuscript—I knew I wouldn't be able to judge the manuscript fairly if I just rode that initial buzz to the end. But as I walked down the hall, and then down the stairs, I was thinking about those poems, and in particular about the form in which the poet had chosen to write them—each poem is a series of numbered notes, some lineated, some written like prose, each note implicitly guiding the reader to more information about a poem's titular painting. The notes brilliantly stitch the act of composition to the page while also holding the poems open—the best lyric poems, after all, are finally irresolvable; they cannot be finished, closed. Via the notes, one sees through the paintings to which they refer, and imagines oneself in the position of Andrew Wyeth himself, a step away from the painting he has just made, or is making, so that one traces the poet's ekphrastic experience from behind the painting, as it were, rather than in front of it. What a strange, impossible effect! But in The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles it is achieved again and again…." Janée Baugher's previous poetry books are The Body's Physics and Coördinates of Yes. She is the author of The Ephrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction. A judge for the Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow Ekphrastic Poetry Film Prize (Fotogenia Festival, Mexico City), she lives in Seattle, where she received a 2024-2025 CityArtist grant from the Office of Arts & Culture.

Alice Jones is a poet, physician, psychoanalyst, and swimmer. Her new hybrid memoir is Cadence of Vanishing. Bin Ramke says of it, "As it happens I began reading this memoir on Veterans Day, on the official Monday holiday that now obscures the memories themselves—painful events replaced by sales and ceremonies. What Alice Jones has to offer through this work is a searing, searching memorializing, informed by professional medical competence and further formed by her poet's ear and eye and nerve. This entire document is a faceted poem consisting of physical and emotional events adding up to a life lived fully consciously, fully aware of oblivion awaiting us but a living determination to hold onto the knowledge and even wisdom also lying in wait." Alice Jones is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Knot, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award; Isthmus, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award; Gorgeous Mourning; Plunge, finalist for the Northern California Book Award; and most recently Vault. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Poetry, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships and honors from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, National Endowment for the Arts, the First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Robert H. Winner and Lyric Poetry Awards from the Poetry Society of America.




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