Please join us on Friday, November 6 @ 7:30 pm
for the release of Minus A Press' Four Poets, featuring
Brenda Hillman, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
and Andrew Zawacki, with emcee Barbara Claire Freeman
Admission is FREE.
Guests will receive a copy of Four Poets.
Beverages and snacks will be served.
Studio One Art Center
365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609
Here's a map.
As always, many thanks to our sponsors!
Brenda Hillman has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press,
and EmPress; she is the author of nine full-length collections
from Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are Practical Water (2009)
and Seasonal Works with Letters
on Fire (2013). With Patricia Dienstfrey, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan,
2003). Hillman teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California where
she is the Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry; she is an activist for social
and environmental justice and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry books Videotape (Counterpath), Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings
(Georgia). His poems have appeared in The
New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere, and he has
published three books in France: Georgia
and Carnet Bartleby, both translated
by Sika Fakambi, and Par Raison de
brisants, translated by Antoine Cazé and a finalist for the Prix Nelly
Sachs. Zawacki’s translation of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo (Burning Deck), received a French Voices Grant, while
his translation of Smirou’s See About,
forthcoming from La Presse, earned an NEA Translation Fellowship and a
fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. A former fellow of the Slovenian
Writers’ Association, Zawacki edited Afterwards:
Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and co-translated Aleš
Debeljak’s Without Anesthesia: New and
Selected Poems (Persea). He was recently awarded a poetry fellowship from
The Howard Foundation.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of Meadow Slasher (out next year from Black Ocean). He runs a small press called
Letter Machine Editions and a poetics journal called The Volta. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Barbara Claire Freeman
is a poet, scholar, and the publisher of Minus A Press, an occasional series
that publishes limited editions of books that are given away to anyone who
wants one for as long as the very small print run lasts. Four Poets is the third book in this series, all of which are
designed by Jeff Clark. She teaches creative writing and poetics in the
Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley.
Every Day But Tuesday, her
second collection of poems, is just out from Omnidawn Press (Fall, 2015). New
work is forthcoming in Fence, Lana Turner, the PEN poetry series, and Prelude.
