Friday, June 12th *Virtual* Reading feat. Jeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet, Jr.

Please join us on Friday, June 12th from 6:30-7:10 pm PDT

for a virtual reading featuring

Jeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet, Jr.! 

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author bios & photos below.

Zoom link to be emailed to participants & posted on social media 

on the day of the event.

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

If you're in a position to give, we will be asking for contributions to Community Ready Corps' Black Solidarity Fund. #BlackLivesMatter. Dismantle white supremacy! 

or contribute today: https://blacksolidarity.org/donate

we look forward to sharing this experience with you!

Jeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the poetry collection Fur Not Light (Burnside Review Press, 2019). Forthcoming is a chapbook on the literary work of the deceased writer and environmental activist Mark Baumer and a full-length book centered around masculinity and shyness. In addition to his own writing, Alessandrelli also runs the literary record label/press Fonograf Editions. He’s at https://jeffalessandrelli.net/.

Alix Coupet, Jr. is both poet and educator who teaches writing and tricksterdom to public school youth. His aim is to land the plane somewhere between playful pain and peace. Born in Chicago, Alix jokes that many people say subjective things about his city, but that, objectively, Chicago is the greatest city in the world. Since the time of this writing, he has been rejected from six more publications.

Friday, December 6th, featuring sam sax, Thea Matthews, and Alix Coupet, Jr.!

Please join us on Friday, December 6th
from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring
sam sax, Thea Matthews, & Alix Coupet, Jr.!

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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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sam sax is a queer, jewish, writer & educator. He is the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series, and bury it, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He's the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, & Buzzfeed. He’s a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Fellow from The Poetry Foundation & currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Thea Matthews is a Black feminist, poet, scholar who earned her BA in Sociology at UC Berkeley where she studied and taught June Jordan's program Poetry for the People. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Acentos Review, The Rumpus, For Women Who Roar magazine, and others. Her first collection of poems Unearth [The Flowers] (Red Light Lit Press) will be available in spring 2020. More information can be found at www.theamatthews.com

Alix Coupet, Jr. is both poet and educator who teaches writing and tricksterdom to public school youth. His aim is to land the plane somewhere between playful pain and peace. Born in Chicago, Alix jokes that many people say subjective things about his city, but that, objectively, Chicago is the greatest city in the world.