Friday, November 1st, featuring Maxine Chernoff, Donna de la Perrière, Derrick Austin & Chris Stroffolino

Please join us on Friday, November 1st from 7:30-9:30 pm

for a reading featuring Maxine Chernoff, Donna de la Perrière, Derrick Austin, & Chris Stroffolino!

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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!

Lagunitas Brewing Company

Clorox Company Foundation

Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation 

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Maxine Chernoff has published 17 books of poetry and six of fiction. Her latest poetry collection is Under the Music: Collected Prose Poems (MadHat Press). She is the recipient  of a 2013 NEA and the 2009 PEN Translation Award for her co-translation of Friedrich Hoelderlin. Her fiction has won the Chicago Sun-Times Fiction Award, twice been a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and been named a NYT Notable Book of the Year. In 2016 she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She is a professor of Creative Writing at SFSU and the former editor of New American Writing. 

Donna de la Perrière is the author of three full-length books — Works of Love & Terror (Talisman House, 2019), Saint Erasure (Talisman House  2010), and True Crime (Talisman House 2009), as well as two chapbooks, Night Calendar (Omerta Publications 2017) and First Love (The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange 2013).  She teaches in San Francisco and lives in Oakland.

Derrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water (BOA Editions). A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, New England Review, The Nation, and Tin House. He was a finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Chris Stroffolino is the author of 5 books of poetry, a memoir, and two collections of essays. He is currently still residing in Oakland and teaching at Laney College.