Friday, November 6th, *Virtual* Reading feat. Brenda Hillman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, & Andrew Zawacki

Graphics by François Luong

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we hope you and your loved ones are safe & well,

and we look forward to sharing this experience with you!

Brenda Hillman’s most recent book is Extra Hidden Life among the Days (2018). Hillman has co-edited and co-translated numerous volumes, including Ana Cristina Cesar’s At Your Feet (Parlor Press, 2018), co-translated from Portuguese with her mother Helen Hillman. Her awards for poetry include the 2020 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for Innovation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  She teaches at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California and currently serves as a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets. https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/brenda-hillman/

Cynthia Parker-Ohene is a graduate of the MFA program at the Saint Mary’s College of California where she was the Chester Aaron Scholar for Excellence in Creative Writing. She is a Tin House Summer Writer’s Conference alum, awarded the Pittman Scholarship from Juniper at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an awardee at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Callaloo Fellow and Hurston/Wright Fellow, among others . Her poems have appeared or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Kweli, Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Yellow Medicine Review, and others. She is a Pushcart Nominee, and the winner of the 2017 chapbook prize for Drapetomania published in 2017 by Backbone Press.

Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry books Unsun : f/11 (Coach House), Videotape (Counterpath), Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia). His work has appeared in Poems for Political Disaster, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, Great American Prose Poems, The Eloquent Poem, and other anthologies, as well as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New Republic. His translation of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo (Burning Deck), received a French Voices Grant, and his translation of Smirou’s See About (La Presse) earned an NEA Translation Fellowship and a fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. He was a 2016 Howard Foundation Fellow.

Friday, November 6 @ 7:30 pm, Minus A Press' FOUR POETS Release!

 Please join us on Friday, November 6 @ 7:30 pm 

for the release of Minus A Press' Four Poets, featuring

Brenda Hillman, Joshua Marie Wilkinson 

and Andrew Zawacki, with emcee Barbara Claire Freeman

Admission is FREE.

Guests will receive a copy of Four Poets.

Beverages and snacks will be served.

Studio One Art Center 

365 45th Street | Oakland, CA | 94609

Here's a map.

As always, many thanks to our sponsors!

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

Brenda Hillman has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press, and EmPress; she is the author of nine full-length collections from Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are Practical Water (2009) and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013). With Patricia Dienstfrey, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan, 2003).  Hillman teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California where she is the Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry; she is an activist for social and environmental justice and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry books Videotape (Counterpath), Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere, and he has published three books in France: Georgia and Carnet Bartleby, both translated by Sika Fakambi, and Par Raison de brisants, translated by Antoine Cazé and a finalist for the Prix Nelly Sachs. Zawacki’s translation of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo (Burning Deck), received a French Voices Grant, while his translation of Smirou’s See About, forthcoming from La Presse, earned an NEA Translation Fellowship and a fellowship from the Centre National du Livre. A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, Zawacki edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems (Persea). He was recently awarded a poetry fellowship from The Howard Foundation.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of Meadow Slasher (out next year from Black Ocean). He runs a small press called Letter Machine Editions and a poetics journal called The Volta. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Barbara Claire Freeman is a poet, scholar, and the publisher of Minus A Press, an occasional series that publishes limited editions of books that are given away to anyone who wants one for as long as the very small print run lasts. Four Poets is the third book in this series, all of which are designed by Jeff Clark. She teaches creative writing and poetics in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley.  Every Day But Tuesday, her second collection of poems, is just out from Omnidawn Press (Fall, 2015). New work is forthcoming in Fence, Lana Turner, the PEN poetry series, and Prelude.