Join us on Friday, June 7th for readings by
Sara Wintz, Megan Breiseth and Grace Marie Grafton!
Event begins at 7:30pm
Beverages and snacks will be served
With host Bryn Lee Garrehy
We hope to see you there!
+ Come early for Bites Off Broadway: amazing food outside on the Studio One Lawn, 5:30-8:30pm
Sara Wintz’s
work brings together text and theater in a practice that encompasses research,
poetry, and performance. Ugly Duckling Presse published her book about the
twentieth century, WALKING ACROSS A
FIELD WE ARE FOCUSED ON AT THIS TIME NOW, in December 2012.
Sara Wintz is a
contributing editor of Ugly Duckling Presse’s annual performance art
sourcebook, EMERGENCY INDEX, and a member of the Board of Directors for Small
Press Traffic, a literary arts non-profit based in San Francisco. She is a
recipient of a grant from the Fund for Poetry, and a graduate of Mills College
and the Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies at Bard College.
Her writing is published in Jacket, The Poetry Project Newsletter, 6x6, Big Bell, Openned, Try!, HTML
Giant, and in the anthology The
Sonnets: Re-Writing Shakespeare (recently published by
Telephone/Nightboat Books). She lives in Oakland.
Megan Breiseth
comes from Illinois and has lived in the Bay Area for 13 years. She’s the
author of the chapbook Zia and the
manuscript Fur. In addition to
writing poetry, she also teaches, coaches, and reads tarot cards.
Grace Marie
Grafton’s newest book, Whimsy, Reticence
and Laud/unruly sonnets, came out in Spring 2012 from Poetic Matrix Press (www.poeticmatrix.com).
Her book of prose poems, Other Clues, 2010,
was published by Latitude Press (rawartpress.com). A chapbook of wordplay
poems, Chrysanthemum Oratorio, 2010,
is available from Dancing Girl Press.
She has worked
for many years with CA Poets In The Schools, teaching children to write poetry.
For her teaching work, she received numerous CA Arts Council grants, as well as
being named Teacher of the Year by the River Of Words youth poetry and art
annual contest, co-sponsored by Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate.
Her poetry won
first prize in the Soul Making contest (PEN women, San Francisco), in the
annual Bellingham Review contest, and Honorable Mention from Anderbo and
Sycamore Review. Poems recently appear in Anderbo, Ambush Review, Talking Writing, Theodate and The Offending Adam.
