Poetry Unbound #18: A Special Event

Art House Gallery and great weather for MEDIA present a brilliant evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology, I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – who are also noted spoken performers. Come prepared for something that you won’t expect.

This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including great weather editor Jane Ormerod (NY/London), Daniel Yaryan (Santa Cruz), Lauren Marie Cappello (Upper Lake, CA), Kit Kennedy (SF), Clive Matson (Oakland), Julia Vinograd (Berkeley), and Mary Mackey (Berkeley) for a reading filled with next year’s thoughts. There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.

Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand to call your very own.

Poetry Unbound is a monthly reading series dedicated to presenting new work in a broad range of styles and genres, and to bringing together writers from different circles and communities, to strengthen and unite. We present passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted this month by Oakland writer Richard Loranger.



POETRY UNBOUND #18

RELEASE PARTY for I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand

a reading by
Jane Ormerod,
Daniel Yaryan,
Lauren Marie Cappello,
Kit Kennedy,
Julia Vinograd,
Clive Matson,
and Mary Mackey

with a brief open mic

hosted by Richard Loranger

Sunday, November 2, 2014
signup 5 pm
start 5:15

$5 donation, no one turned away

Art House Gallery
2905 Shattuck Ave.
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley


PERFORMER BIOS

Jane Ormerod is the author of Welcome to the Museum of Cattle (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Jane’s work also appears in numerous US and international anthologies and journals including Have a Nice NYC (Three Rooms Press, 2012), Maintenant, AND / OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Ambush Review, and Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor at great weather for MEDIA. Website

Daniel Yaryan is a devout disciple of the "Beat Friar" Brother Antoninus (William Everson) and producer of the popular poetry series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.

Lauren Marie Cappello has traded in the glitter of New Orleans for homesteading in Northern California. Her work has appeared in E•ratio 15 &16, gape-seed (Uphook Press), It's Animal but Merciful (great weather for MEDIA), among others.

Kit Kennedy lives in San Francisco and is Bay Times Poet in Residence and Poet in Residence at AWE Gallery. She has five published poetry collections and an equal number of boots, two of which are red.

Clive Matson (MFA Columbia University) was drafted as Chalcedony’s (kal-SAID-'n-ease) astonished scribe in 2004, and he's been performing her songs ever since. His early teachers were Beats in New York City, and, amazingly, his seventh book was placed in John Wieners' coffin. He became immersed in the stream of passionate intensity that runs through us all and has finally stopped trying to go anywhere else. He writes from the itch in his body, to the delight of his students, and that's old hat, according to Let the Crazy Child Write! (1998), the text he uses to make his living, teaching creative writing. He enjoys playing basketball, table tennis, and collecting minerals in the field.

Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published fifty-eight books of poetry and won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for her collection The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. A Pushcart Prize winner, she was one of four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco – Poets from Hell (Trafford Publishing, 2006).

Mary Mackey is the author of 13 novels and 7 collections of poetry including Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and Travelers With No Ticket Home, her new collection just published by Marsh Hawk Press. Her ground-breaking, poetic novel Immersion has also recently been reprinted by the Authors Guild. Mackey’s poems have been praised by Wendell Berry, Jane Hirshfield, Dennis Nurkse, Ron Hansen, Dennis Schmitz, and Marge Piercy for their beauty, precision, originality, and extraordinary range. Four times Garrison Keillor has featured her poetry on his program The Writer’s Almanac. Her novels, all of which have recently become available as e-books, have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists, been translated into twelve languages, and sold over a million and a half copies. Connect with her, sample her work, and read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen at https://www.marymackey.com and https://www.facebook.com/marymackeywriter


Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks, including Hello Poems and the recent 6 Questions (Exot Books). Recent work can be found in the online journals London Grip New Poetry (www.londongrip.co.uk) and The Marsh Hawk Review (www.marshhawkpress.org) and in the just released anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at https://www.richardloranger.com.