Thursday, January 7th *Virtual Reading* feat. Gillian Conoley, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, and Robin Myers

Graphics by François Luong

Please RSVP for the reading here to have the Zoom link emailed to you. 

 *We hope you and your loved ones are safe & well, and we look forward to sharing this experience with you!*

Gillian Conoley’s A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems, with Nightboat Books, won the 39th annual Northern California Book Award in 2020. She received the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America, and was also awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. She is the author of seven previous books, including PEACE, an Academy of American Poets Standout Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Conoley’s translations of three books by Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken, appeared in 2014 with City Lights. Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University where she edits VOLT.

Ezequiel Zaidenwerg is a poet, translator and essayist, not necessarily in that order. His most recent book is 50 estados: 13 poetas contemporáneos de Estados Unidos, a novelized anthology of recent American poetry. He translates a poem a day at zaidenwerg.com, produces the podcast series Orden de traslado, and writes on poetry, translation and politics for El Malpensante.

Robin Myers lives in Mexico City and works as a translator. Her poems have recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, PANK Magazine, 32 Poems, and the Massachusetts Review, among other publications. Her book-length collections have been translated into Spanish (mostly by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, also featured in this reading) and published in Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. She writes a monthly column on translation for Palette Poetry. You can find her at robinepmyers.com.

Friday, October 2 @ 7:30 pm featuring Gillian Conoley, Brian Teare and Richard Meier

Please join us for our 2015-16 season kick-off reading 

on Friday, October 2 @ 7:30 pm

featuring Gillian Conoley, Brian Teare and Richard Meier!

Admission is FREE.

Wine, Lagunitas beer and snacks will be served. 

Studio One Art Center 

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609

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+ Many, many thanks to our sponsors! +

• Lagunitas Brewing Co.
• Clorox Company Foundation 
• Friends of Oakland Parks and Rec.

Gillian Conoley’s sixth collection, Peace, out this year with Omnidawn, was named one of the Academy of American Poets Standout Books for 2014 and was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Northern California Independent Bookstores Award. Her translations of Henri Michaux, Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux with City Lights, was included in Publisher’s Weekly’s top 10 poetry books Fall 2014. Conoley was born in Austin Texas, where, on its rural outskirts, her father and mother owned and operated a radio station. She is also the author of The Plot Genie (Omnidawn), Profane Halo (Verse Press), Lovers in the Used World (Carnegie Mellon), and Tall Stranger (Cornell University Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Editor and founder of Volt magazine, she is Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University.

A 2015 Pew Fellow in the Arts, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books—The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map (New California Poetry), the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure (Ahsahta), and Companion Grasses (Omnidawn), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. His fifth book is The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (Ahsahta, 2015). An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in South Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Richard Meier is the author of three books of poetry, Terrain Vague (Verse Press), Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar (Wave Books) and, most recently, In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary (Omnidawn). He is writer-in-residence at Carthage College and lives in Madison and Chicago.

 

Friday, April 5th @ 7:30 PM with Matthew Zapruder, Gillian Conoley, Jason Bayani, and music by Michael Zapruder

Join us on Friday, April 5th for a reading with Matthew Zapruder, Gillian Conoley, and Jason Bayani. Plus music by Michael Zapruder from his album

 of poems turned to song, Pink Thunder!

Event begins at 7:30 PM.

Beverages and snacks will be served.

We hope to see you there!

Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon 2010), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Tin House, Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Bomb, Slate, Poetry, and The Believer. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He works as an editor for Wave Books, and as of fall 2013 will be a member of the Faculty of the St. Mary's College of California MFA in Creative Writing. His new book of poems, Sun Bear, is forthcoming in 2014. He and his wife, an urban planner, live in Oakland.

Gillian Conoley was born in Austin Texas, where, on its rural outskirts, her father and mother owned and operated a radio station. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including THE PLOT GENIE, PROFANE HALO, LOVERS IN THE USED WORLD, and TALL STRANGER, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award, and is widely anthologized, most recently in W.W. Norton’s new Postmodern American Poetry.  A new collection, PEACE, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in spring 2014. Her translations of three Henri Michaux texts, never brought into English before, will also appear next year, with City Lights. Editor and founder of Volt magazine, she is Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University. 

Jason Bayani is a graduate of Saint Mary’s MFA program in Creative Writing. He is a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene. His work has been published in Fourteen Hills, Muzzle Magazine, Mascara Review, the National Poetry Slam anthology, Rattapallax, Write Bloody’s classroom anthology, Learn Then Burn, and other publications. He has been on 7 National Poetry Slam teams, he is a National Poetry Slam finalist, and was the 2010 International World Poetry Slam representative for Oakland, California. He is also one of the founding members of the Filipino American Spoken Word troupe, Proletariat Bronze, and has been an organizer for the Asian and Pacific Islander Poetry and Spoken Word Summit. He currently lives in Austin, Texas. His first book "Amulet" is being released by Write Bloody Press in April, 2013.

Michael Zapruder is an award-winning songwriter and recording artist, and a co-founder of San Francisco's Howells Transmitter arts collective and record label. His albums include 52 Songs, This is a Beautiful Town, New Ways of Letting Go, and Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, which won a 2009 Independent Music Award for Best Folk / Singer Song-Writer Album. His most recent work is Pink Thunder, a collection of free verse pop art-songs made from the poems of more than twenty contemporary American poets. Contributors include Noelle Kocot, James Tate, Bob Hicok, David Berman, D. A. Powell, and Valzhyna Mort. michaelzapruder.com

November 6th!

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Shannon Tharp is the author of Each Real Bird (The Elliott Press, 2006) and Determined by Aperture (Fewer & Further Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in The Cultural Society, Effing Magazine, The New Ohio Review, and The New Yinzer, among others. She is from Wyoming and lives in Seattle, where she is a teacher and librarian.



Widely known as the ‘drummer dude’ in Comets on Fire, Utrillo Kushner’s musical talents range far beyond the drunken-master-style wailing he unleashes on any given night with the Comets. Having tickled the ivories for close to a decade, Kushner assumes command of the keys in Colossal Yes and steps it up as a full-fledged piano man. Two elements that should damn Colossal Yes to lite-rock purgatory - unabashed sincerity and piano-playing - miraculously works to the band's advantage. Somehow, when untainted musicianship meets earnest presentation something happens, and the results are damn good. Maybe it’s just the joy of creation. The true essence of rock, stripped to its essentials by virtue of its vainglorious indulgences, existing forever as the absolute articulation of the form. Think simple melodies and basic structures with lyrical territories such as expired youth, grand betrayals, overdrawn faculties, and dissolving empires. In this regard, Kushner pays respect to songwriters like Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Bejar of Destroyer, and Alex Chilton while also incorporating the honesty of Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners, the romanticism of Nikki Sudden's Waiting on Egypt, and the sonic merriment of Thunderclap Newman's Hollywood Dream. Colossal Yes is the greatest affirmation of them all, bigger than big, and there’s no joke behind the smiling.

Gillian Conoley’s most recent collection is THE PLOT GENIE with Omnidawn Publishing (fall 2009). The author of six collections of poetry, her work has appeared in over 20 national and international anthologies, including W.W. Norton’s American Hybrid, Counterpath’s Postmodern Lyricisms, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Nuova Poesia Americana, and Best American Poetry. She has received the Jerome J. Shestack Award from The American Poetry Review, several Pushcart Prizes, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Editor and founder of Volt magazine, she teaches in the Program for Writers and Poets at Sonoma State University.



doors at 7
readings at 730, sharps

365 45th st
oakland

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