Sun November 6, 2016
Poetry Unbound #34 - Nov 6 2016 - Reading Series at Art House Gallery in Berkeley
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Event Date: Sunday, November 6, 2016
Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound presents passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted by Clive Matson.
Poetry Unbound #34
Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Avenue at Ashby (close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley CA 94705, (510) 472-3170
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 5pm to 8pm, $5 to $10 or any donation
Open reading sign-up at 5pm
Sixties Retrospective Poetry Reading
Sharon Doubiago
Eliot Schain
Julia Vinograd
We resume Poetry Unbound in the perfect venue for a Sixties Retrospective, the iconic Art House Gallery. Photos of sixties events and celebrities line the walls, many taken by owner Harold Adler, former Berkeley Barb staff photographer. Our three features have taken something of the openness and the wild, truthful spirit of those times into their poetry, and bring it forward. Doubiago writes that she “was profoundly influenced by the 60s; her sanity and health and that of her children, plus her poetry were saved by its ethics;” Vinograd was there on the streets of Berkeley every day; and kindred spirit Schain came later and imbibed the essence. They’ll read with an extravagant painting of Grace Slick and Jimi Hendricks in the background. We’ll expect to hear poems that embody the spirit of that radical decade and focus beyond the essence into its lasting influence. What can we take from the sixties as “container of the ideal”?
Bios:
Sharon Doubiago's first book was the book length poem Hard Country (West End Press 1982, reprint 1999) and hailed as an epic poem by major scholars. She has published more than 20 books since -- three of which are also book length, South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh), The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O (Gorda Press), and last year, The Visit (Wild Ocean Press), among many other publications. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the Coast, and a California Arts Council Award. She has published over a hundred essays—from the personal and creative to the scholarly. She’s a board member of PEN Oakland. For the past 17 years she has lived mainly in San Francisco.
Eliot Schain’s poetry has been published in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics From California. His most recent book is Westering Angels (Zeitgeist Press), and additional poems can be found at eliotschain.com. He has served as Program Director for The Poetry Society of America and now lives in Berkeley, CA, where he makes his living as a psychotherapist and high school teacher.
Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 60 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones, Eye of the Hand, and 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. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Barbarians of San Francisco—Poets from Hell.
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Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound presents passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted by Clive Matson.
Poetry Unbound #34
Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Avenue at Ashby (close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley CA 94705, (510) 472-3170
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 5pm to 8pm, $5 to $10 or any donation
Open reading sign-up at 5pm
Sixties Retrospective Poetry Reading
Sharon Doubiago
Eliot Schain
Julia Vinograd
We resume Poetry Unbound in the perfect venue for a Sixties Retrospective, the iconic Art House Gallery. Photos of sixties events and celebrities line the walls, many taken by owner Harold Adler, former Berkeley Barb staff photographer. Our three features have taken something of the openness and the wild, truthful spirit of those times into their poetry, and bring it forward. Doubiago writes that she “was profoundly influenced by the 60s; her sanity and health and that of her children, plus her poetry were saved by its ethics;” Vinograd was there on the streets of Berkeley every day; and kindred spirit Schain came later and imbibed the essence. They’ll read with an extravagant painting of Grace Slick and Jimi Hendricks in the background. We’ll expect to hear poems that embody the spirit of that radical decade and focus beyond the essence into its lasting influence. What can we take from the sixties as “container of the ideal”?
Bios:
Sharon Doubiago's first book was the book length poem Hard Country (West End Press 1982, reprint 1999) and hailed as an epic poem by major scholars. She has published more than 20 books since -- three of which are also book length, South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh), The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O (Gorda Press), and last year, The Visit (Wild Ocean Press), among many other publications. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the Coast, and a California Arts Council Award. She has published over a hundred essays—from the personal and creative to the scholarly. She’s a board member of PEN Oakland. For the past 17 years she has lived mainly in San Francisco.
Eliot Schain’s poetry has been published in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics From California. His most recent book is Westering Angels (Zeitgeist Press), and additional poems can be found at eliotschain.com. He has served as Program Director for The Poetry Society of America and now lives in Berkeley, CA, where he makes his living as a psychotherapist and high school teacher.
Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 60 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones, Eye of the Hand, and 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. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Barbarians of San Francisco—Poets from Hell.
Event Date: Sunday, November 6, 2016
Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound presents passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted by Clive Matson.
Poetry Unbound #34
Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Avenue at Ashby (close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley CA 94705, (510) 472-3170
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 5pm to 8pm, $5 to $10 or any donation
Open reading sign-up at 5pm
Sixties Retrospective Poetry Reading
Sharon Doubiago
Eliot Schain
Julia Vinograd
We resume Poetry Unbound in the perfect venue for a Sixties Retrospective, the iconic Art House Gallery. Photos of sixties events and celebrities line the walls, many taken by owner Harold Adler, former Berkeley Barb staff photographer. Our three features have taken something of the openness and the wild, truthful spirit of those times into their poetry, and bring it forward. Doubiago writes that she “was profoundly influenced by the 60s; her sanity and health and that of her children, plus her poetry were saved by its ethics;” Vinograd was there on the streets of Berkeley every day; and kindred spirit Schain came later and imbibed the essence. They’ll read with an extravagant painting of Grace Slick and Jimi Hendricks in the background. We’ll expect to hear poems that embody the spirit of that radical decade and focus beyond the essence into its lasting influence. What can we take from the sixties as “container of the ideal”?
Bios:
Sharon Doubiago's first book was the book length poem Hard Country (West End Press 1982, reprint 1999) and hailed as an epic poem by major scholars. She has published more than 20 books since -- three of which are also book length, South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh), The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O (Gorda Press), and last year, The Visit (Wild Ocean Press), among many other publications. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the Coast, and a California Arts Council Award. She has published over a hundred essays—from the personal and creative to the scholarly. She’s a board member of PEN Oakland. For the past 17 years she has lived mainly in San Francisco.
Eliot Schain’s poetry has been published in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics From California. His most recent book is Westering Angels (Zeitgeist Press), and additional poems can be found at eliotschain.com. He has served as Program Director for The Poetry Society of America and now lives in Berkeley, CA, where he makes his living as a psychotherapist and high school teacher.
Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 60 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones, Eye of the Hand, and 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. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Barbarians of San Francisco—Poets from Hell.
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Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
Poetry Unbound presents passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted by Clive Matson.
Poetry Unbound #34
Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Avenue at Ashby (close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley CA 94705, (510) 472-3170
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 5pm to 8pm, $5 to $10 or any donation
Open reading sign-up at 5pm
Sixties Retrospective Poetry Reading
Sharon Doubiago
Eliot Schain
Julia Vinograd
We resume Poetry Unbound in the perfect venue for a Sixties Retrospective, the iconic Art House Gallery. Photos of sixties events and celebrities line the walls, many taken by owner Harold Adler, former Berkeley Barb staff photographer. Our three features have taken something of the openness and the wild, truthful spirit of those times into their poetry, and bring it forward. Doubiago writes that she “was profoundly influenced by the 60s; her sanity and health and that of her children, plus her poetry were saved by its ethics;” Vinograd was there on the streets of Berkeley every day; and kindred spirit Schain came later and imbibed the essence. They’ll read with an extravagant painting of Grace Slick and Jimi Hendricks in the background. We’ll expect to hear poems that embody the spirit of that radical decade and focus beyond the essence into its lasting influence. What can we take from the sixties as “container of the ideal”?
Bios:
Sharon Doubiago's first book was the book length poem Hard Country (West End Press 1982, reprint 1999) and hailed as an epic poem by major scholars. She has published more than 20 books since -- three of which are also book length, South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh), The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O (Gorda Press), and last year, The Visit (Wild Ocean Press), among many other publications. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the Coast, and a California Arts Council Award. She has published over a hundred essays—from the personal and creative to the scholarly. She’s a board member of PEN Oakland. For the past 17 years she has lived mainly in San Francisco.
Eliot Schain’s poetry has been published in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics From California. His most recent book is Westering Angels (Zeitgeist Press), and additional poems can be found at eliotschain.com. He has served as Program Director for The Poetry Society of America and now lives in Berkeley, CA, where he makes his living as a psychotherapist and high school teacher.
Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 60 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones, Eye of the Hand, and 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. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Barbarians of San Francisco—Poets from Hell.
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