Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Friday, September 6th featuring Lyn Hejinian, Margaret Ronda, and Kristin George Bagdanov

Please join us on Friday, September 6th from 7:30-9:30 pm
for a reading featuring Lyn Hejinian, Margaret Ronda,
& Kristin George Bagdanov!


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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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Lyn Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun (Belladonna, 2019) and Tribunal (Omnidawn, 2019).




Margaret Ronda is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California-Davis, where she teaches American poetry and environmental theory and literature. She is the author of two books of poems, Personification (Saturnalia Books, 2010) and For Hunger (2018), and a critical study, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End (Stanford University Press, 2018).

Kristin George Bagdanov received her MFA from Colorado State University and is currently a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of California Davis. Her first full-length poetry collection, Fossils in the Making, was published by Black Ocean in April. Her chapbook, Diurne, which won the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press this September. She is the recipient of fellowships from Phi Kappa Phi, Lilly Graduate Fellows, and the Vermont Studio Center and is the senior poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine.  

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