Friday, November 2nd, feat. Raina J. León, Jacob Kahn, and Susan Kolodny!

Please join us on Friday, November 2nd at 7:30 pm for a reading featuring Raina J. León, Jacob Kahn, 

and Susan Kolodny!

Event is FREE.

Lagunitas beer, wine, and snacks will be served.

Studio One Art Center | 365 45th Street | Oakland

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As always, a generous thank you to our sponsors:

Lagunitas Brewing Company

Clorox Company Foundation

Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation

Raina J. León, PhD, CantoMundo graduate fellow, Cave Canem graduate fellow, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Ragdale, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is currently a teaching poet-in residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.

Jacob Kahn is a bookseller and editor and organizer and curator and lots of other things at E.M. Wolfman Books in Oakland, CA. He is a 2018 Frontier Fellow at Epicenter in Green River, Utah, a rural design studio and community-based artist residency, and his writing can be found in ‘A Circuit of Yields’ (Wolfman Books, 2014) and elsewhere.

Susan Kolodny is the author of two poetry collections: After the Firestorm (Mayapple Press, 2011) and Preserve (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poems appear in New England Review, Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and in other journals and several anthologies, and have been featured on American Life in Poetry and Poetry Daily. She is a psychoanalyst in practice in the East Bay, a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition (PsychoSocial Press, 2000).

Friday, February 7 @ 7:30, featuring Jane Gregory, Raina J. León and Joseph Bradshaw

Please join us on Friday, February 7 

@ 7:30 p.m. for a reading with 

Jane Gregory, Raina J. León and Joseph Bradshaw

Admission is FREE

Snacks and beverages will be served.

Jane Gregory is from Tucson, Arizona.  Her book, My Enemies, was published by The Song Cave in 2013.  She lives in Berkeley, California.

Raina J. León, CantoMundo fellow, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction.  She is the author of two collections of poetry, Canticle of Idols and Boogeyman Dawn.  She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including the Macdowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale.  She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts.  She is an assistant professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.  

Starting in Caldwell, Idaho, Joseph Bradshaw has lived in 33 houses, apartments, duplexes, hostels, cars, and/or trailers in various places around the country. He now lives in Brooklyn. Joseph began writing poetry about a decade ago when a friend lent him Leslie Scalapino's THE FRONT MATTER, DEAD SOULS. In 2011 Shearsman published his book IN THE COMMON DREAM OF GEORGEOPPEN. His new work is in recent issues of Aufgabe, Elective Affinities, and Elderly.