Please join us on Friday, October 4th from 7:30-9:30 pm
for a reading featuring Rusty Morrison, Jay Deshpande,
and Trisha Peck!
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author bios & photos below.
All of our readings are free & open to the public.
Snacks, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served.
365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609
Here's a map.
+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors!
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Rusty Morrison’s five books include Beyond the Chainlink, the true keeps calm biding its story. Recent poems at Poetry Foundation website & podcast Poetry Now, Fence, Iowa Review. She’s a recipient of Civitella Ranieri fellowship. She’s co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com). She offers private consultations. For more info, see her website: www.rustymorrison.com
Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the Scotti Merrill Award, has received fellowships from Kundiman and Civitella Ranieri, and is currently a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.
Trisha Peck is a writer and visual artist from a census-designated place just south of the Wisconsin-Illinois border. She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a late-in-life degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Trisha has exhibited her paintings and drawings in Chicago and Los Angeles, and her poems have appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review and Berkeley Art + Design. She works as a production editor at North Atlantic Books, and is a poetry editor and book designer at Omnidawn.
