Sun April 5, 2015
Poetry Unbound #23 – Reading Series at Art House Gallery in Berkeley – April 5, 2015
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at The Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
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Event Date: Sunday, April 5, 2015
Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound #23
We’re celebrating spring, seven weeks after the physical season changed! Central Valley native Joseph Rios says spring brings the positive, “Growing up, Spring meant buds everywhere -- on every fruit tree. Rows of tiny promises.” Laura Schulkind will lay out lyrics as pure as those of a child on the playground and at least a million miles from any denomination. Irma Herrera will bring us stand-up comedy blended with narrative poetry, being dis-invited to an Easter Egg Hunt by a friend whose values didn’t match. They’ll present a reality which could outdo what you’ll see when you step outside!
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 by Oakland writers Clive Matson and Richard Loranger.
Poetry Unbound Reading Series
featuring:
Irma Herrera
Joseph Rios
and Laura Schulkind
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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
Irma Herrera, a native of South Texas and a Bay Area resident for the past three decades, is a social justice activist who spent her career working in law and journalism. Her opinion pieces and reporting have appeared in diverse publications such as NYTimes, LA Lawyer, and Mexico City News. Last year she discovered the art of storytelling and is now taking her writing to the stage. She is developing an hour-long solo show, Tell Me Your Name, about identity, race, class and the “othering” all of us do.
Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. He studied literature at UC Berkeley. In 2011, he co-founded Quinto Sol Remembered to recover the history of the first Chicana/o press and its journal, El Grito. His poetry has been published in The Acentos Review, BorderSenses Literary Journal, and Poets Responding to SB1070. He is an alumnus of the VONA workshop and the Summer Creative Writing Program at Berkeley. Recently, he was a featured poet in the Lyrics and Dirges series at Pegasus Books and the Lunada series at the Galeria de la Raza. Since 2005, he has worked in landscaping, avionics, fruit packing, building maintenance, college recruitment and high school college-advising, and is an award-winning journalist.
Poet and writer Laura Schulkind is an attorney by day, where she is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry and fiction she tells her own. She and her husband divide their time between Berkeley and Big Sur, California, and her two grown sons continue to inspire her. Her chapbook, Lost in Tall Grass (Finishing Line Press) was released in May, 2014. Her poetry and short fiction have also appeared in Bluestem, Caveat Lector, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, Forge, The McGuffin, Minetta Review, OxMag, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Talking River, and Tiger’s Eye Press. Her published work and musings on why “lawyer/poet” is not an oxymoron can also be seen on her website: https://www.lauraschulkind.com.
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Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound #23
We’re celebrating spring, seven weeks after the physical season changed! Central Valley native Joseph Rios says spring brings the positive, “Growing up, Spring meant buds everywhere -- on every fruit tree. Rows of tiny promises.” Laura Schulkind will lay out lyrics as pure as those of a child on the playground and at least a million miles from any denomination. Irma Herrera will bring us stand-up comedy blended with narrative poetry, being dis-invited to an Easter Egg Hunt by a friend whose values didn’t match. They’ll present a reality which could outdo what you’ll see when you step outside!
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 by Oakland writers Clive Matson and Richard Loranger.
Poetry Unbound Reading Series
featuring:
Irma Herrera
Joseph Rios
and Laura Schulkind
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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
Irma Herrera, a native of South Texas and a Bay Area resident for the past three decades, is a social justice activist who spent her career working in law and journalism. Her opinion pieces and reporting have appeared in diverse publications such as NYTimes, LA Lawyer, and Mexico City News. Last year she discovered the art of storytelling and is now taking her writing to the stage. She is developing an hour-long solo show, Tell Me Your Name, about identity, race, class and the “othering” all of us do.
Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. He studied literature at UC Berkeley. In 2011, he co-founded Quinto Sol Remembered to recover the history of the first Chicana/o press and its journal, El Grito. His poetry has been published in The Acentos Review, BorderSenses Literary Journal, and Poets Responding to SB1070. He is an alumnus of the VONA workshop and the Summer Creative Writing Program at Berkeley. Recently, he was a featured poet in the Lyrics and Dirges series at Pegasus Books and the Lunada series at the Galeria de la Raza. Since 2005, he has worked in landscaping, avionics, fruit packing, building maintenance, college recruitment and high school college-advising, and is an award-winning journalist.
Poet and writer Laura Schulkind is an attorney by day, where she is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry and fiction she tells her own. She and her husband divide their time between Berkeley and Big Sur, California, and her two grown sons continue to inspire her. Her chapbook, Lost in Tall Grass (Finishing Line Press) was released in May, 2014. Her poetry and short fiction have also appeared in Bluestem, Caveat Lector, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, Forge, The McGuffin, Minetta Review, OxMag, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Talking River, and Tiger’s Eye Press. Her published work and musings on why “lawyer/poet” is not an oxymoron can also be seen on her website: https://www.lauraschulkind.com.
Event Date: Sunday, April 5, 2015
Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound #23
We’re celebrating spring, seven weeks after the physical season changed! Central Valley native Joseph Rios says spring brings the positive, “Growing up, Spring meant buds everywhere -- on every fruit tree. Rows of tiny promises.” Laura Schulkind will lay out lyrics as pure as those of a child on the playground and at least a million miles from any denomination. Irma Herrera will bring us stand-up comedy blended with narrative poetry, being dis-invited to an Easter Egg Hunt by a friend whose values didn’t match. They’ll present a reality which could outdo what you’ll see when you step outside!
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 by Oakland writers Clive Matson and Richard Loranger.
Poetry Unbound Reading Series
featuring:
Irma Herrera
Joseph Rios
and Laura Schulkind
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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
Irma Herrera, a native of South Texas and a Bay Area resident for the past three decades, is a social justice activist who spent her career working in law and journalism. Her opinion pieces and reporting have appeared in diverse publications such as NYTimes, LA Lawyer, and Mexico City News. Last year she discovered the art of storytelling and is now taking her writing to the stage. She is developing an hour-long solo show, Tell Me Your Name, about identity, race, class and the “othering” all of us do.
Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. He studied literature at UC Berkeley. In 2011, he co-founded Quinto Sol Remembered to recover the history of the first Chicana/o press and its journal, El Grito. His poetry has been published in The Acentos Review, BorderSenses Literary Journal, and Poets Responding to SB1070. He is an alumnus of the VONA workshop and the Summer Creative Writing Program at Berkeley. Recently, he was a featured poet in the Lyrics and Dirges series at Pegasus Books and the Lunada series at the Galeria de la Raza. Since 2005, he has worked in landscaping, avionics, fruit packing, building maintenance, college recruitment and high school college-advising, and is an award-winning journalist.
Poet and writer Laura Schulkind is an attorney by day, where she is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry and fiction she tells her own. She and her husband divide their time between Berkeley and Big Sur, California, and her two grown sons continue to inspire her. Her chapbook, Lost in Tall Grass (Finishing Line Press) was released in May, 2014. Her poetry and short fiction have also appeared in Bluestem, Caveat Lector, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, Forge, The McGuffin, Minetta Review, OxMag, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Talking River, and Tiger’s Eye Press. Her published work and musings on why “lawyer/poet” is not an oxymoron can also be seen on her website: https://www.lauraschulkind.com.
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Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound #23
We’re celebrating spring, seven weeks after the physical season changed! Central Valley native Joseph Rios says spring brings the positive, “Growing up, Spring meant buds everywhere -- on every fruit tree. Rows of tiny promises.” Laura Schulkind will lay out lyrics as pure as those of a child on the playground and at least a million miles from any denomination. Irma Herrera will bring us stand-up comedy blended with narrative poetry, being dis-invited to an Easter Egg Hunt by a friend whose values didn’t match. They’ll present a reality which could outdo what you’ll see when you step outside!
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 by Oakland writers Clive Matson and Richard Loranger.
Poetry Unbound Reading Series
featuring:
Irma Herrera
Joseph Rios
and Laura Schulkind
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
Sunday, April 5, 2015
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
Irma Herrera, a native of South Texas and a Bay Area resident for the past three decades, is a social justice activist who spent her career working in law and journalism. Her opinion pieces and reporting have appeared in diverse publications such as NYTimes, LA Lawyer, and Mexico City News. Last year she discovered the art of storytelling and is now taking her writing to the stage. She is developing an hour-long solo show, Tell Me Your Name, about identity, race, class and the “othering” all of us do.
Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. He studied literature at UC Berkeley. In 2011, he co-founded Quinto Sol Remembered to recover the history of the first Chicana/o press and its journal, El Grito. His poetry has been published in The Acentos Review, BorderSenses Literary Journal, and Poets Responding to SB1070. He is an alumnus of the VONA workshop and the Summer Creative Writing Program at Berkeley. Recently, he was a featured poet in the Lyrics and Dirges series at Pegasus Books and the Lunada series at the Galeria de la Raza. Since 2005, he has worked in landscaping, avionics, fruit packing, building maintenance, college recruitment and high school college-advising, and is an award-winning journalist.
Poet and writer Laura Schulkind is an attorney by day, where she is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry and fiction she tells her own. She and her husband divide their time between Berkeley and Big Sur, California, and her two grown sons continue to inspire her. Her chapbook, Lost in Tall Grass (Finishing Line Press) was released in May, 2014. Her poetry and short fiction have also appeared in Bluestem, Caveat Lector, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, Forge, The McGuffin, Minetta Review, OxMag, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Talking River, and Tiger’s Eye Press. Her published work and musings on why “lawyer/poet” is not an oxymoron can also be seen on her website: https://www.lauraschulkind.com.
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2905 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705
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