Join us on Friday, April 21 at 7pm PT when Louise Nayer celebrates her new memoir, Narrow Escapes, with Frances Phillips at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/ Livestream link available soon
Praise for Narrow Escapes
"Narrow Escapes is a riveting, beautifully told story of Nayer's journey across continents, but also through layers of grief from a childhood trauma, as she learns to find her way home. I will not forget this book." --Katherine Seligman, journalist and winner of the Pen/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction for the novel At The Edge of the Haight
"Louise Nayer plumbs the depth of her extraordinary life--traveling the world, facing love, death and destruction--to remind us of a simple truth: the intrepid heart is and will remain our greatest ally at a time that threatens to make calamity ordinary. Nayer shines forth with the light of her luminous and poetic past to bring us urgently needed perspective." --Roberto Lovato, Journalist and author of the memoir Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas
"A haunting memoir tracing the path to artistic maturity, Louise Nayer walks readers through a journey fraught with danger and romance. Here, the act of writing poetry transforms grief into something transcendent. Suspenseful and beautifully written."--Lee Kravetz, therapist and author of many books including the novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia Plath
About Narrow Escapes
Haunted by a terrible accident and adrift in love, Louise Nayer takes us on a captivating journey filled with danger and romance, through Morocco, New York City and finally on a solo journey to California, thousands of miles from her home. Set in the early 70's at a time of cataclysmic change in America, Narrow Escapes will resonate with all who need to release themselves from a difficult past as they search for joy and home.
About Louise Nayer
Louise Nayer is a long-time educator and author of six books. Burned: A Memoir was an Oprah Great Read and won the Wisconsin Library Association Award. She received six California Arts Council grants as a poet and has taught for years in community colleges, senior centers and nursing homes. She now teaches at OLLI UC Berkeley and at the Writer's Grotto where she is a member. She has given readings of her work across the country at bookstores, colleges, and universities as well as on over 60 radio stations including NPR. She is the mother of two grown daughters and a step-daughter and lives with her husband and dog in Glen Park, San Francisco.
About Frances Phillips
Frances Phillips recently retired after 27 years as program director for arts and the Creative Work Fundat the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco. Prior to her work at the Fund, she was executive director of Intersection for the Arts (1988-94) and director and assistant director of The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University (1982-88). For many years, she also taught creative writing and grantwriting at SF State, where she met Toni Mirosevich.
Frances is the author of three small press books of poetry from Hanging Loose Press and Kelsey Street Press and of reviews in The Hungry Mind Review, Poetry Flash, San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. With her husband Stan Hutton she co-authored five editions of The Nonprofit Kit for Dummies. On stage, she has interviewed Jamaica Kincaid, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, and other writers for City Arts & Lectures.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/ Livestream link available soon
Praise for Narrow Escapes
"Narrow Escapes is a riveting, beautifully told story of Nayer's journey across continents, but also through layers of grief from a childhood trauma, as she learns to find her way home. I will not forget this book." --Katherine Seligman, journalist and winner of the Pen/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction for the novel At The Edge of the Haight
"Louise Nayer plumbs the depth of her extraordinary life--traveling the world, facing love, death and destruction--to remind us of a simple truth: the intrepid heart is and will remain our greatest ally at a time that threatens to make calamity ordinary. Nayer shines forth with the light of her luminous and poetic past to bring us urgently needed perspective." --Roberto Lovato, Journalist and author of the memoir Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas
"A haunting memoir tracing the path to artistic maturity, Louise Nayer walks readers through a journey fraught with danger and romance. Here, the act of writing poetry transforms grief into something transcendent. Suspenseful and beautifully written."--Lee Kravetz, therapist and author of many books including the novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia Plath
About Narrow Escapes
Haunted by a terrible accident and adrift in love, Louise Nayer takes us on a captivating journey filled with danger and romance, through Morocco, New York City and finally on a solo journey to California, thousands of miles from her home. Set in the early 70's at a time of cataclysmic change in America, Narrow Escapes will resonate with all who need to release themselves from a difficult past as they search for joy and home.
About Louise Nayer
Louise Nayer is a long-time educator and author of six books. Burned: A Memoir was an Oprah Great Read and won the Wisconsin Library Association Award. She received six California Arts Council grants as a poet and has taught for years in community colleges, senior centers and nursing homes. She now teaches at OLLI UC Berkeley and at the Writer's Grotto where she is a member. She has given readings of her work across the country at bookstores, colleges, and universities as well as on over 60 radio stations including NPR. She is the mother of two grown daughters and a step-daughter and lives with her husband and dog in Glen Park, San Francisco.
About Frances Phillips
Frances Phillips recently retired after 27 years as program director for arts and the Creative Work Fundat the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco. Prior to her work at the Fund, she was executive director of Intersection for the Arts (1988-94) and director and assistant director of The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University (1982-88). For many years, she also taught creative writing and grantwriting at SF State, where she met Toni Mirosevich.
Frances is the author of three small press books of poetry from Hanging Loose Press and Kelsey Street Press and of reviews in The Hungry Mind Review, Poetry Flash, San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. With her husband Stan Hutton she co-authored five editions of The Nonprofit Kit for Dummies. On stage, she has interviewed Jamaica Kincaid, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, and other writers for City Arts & Lectures.
Join us on Friday, April 21 at 7pm PT when Louise Nayer celebrates her new memoir, Narrow Escapes, with Frances Phillips at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/ Livestream link available soon
Praise for Narrow Escapes
"Narrow Escapes is a riveting, beautifully told story of Nayer's journey across continents, but also through layers of grief from a childhood trauma, as she learns to find her way home. I will not forget this book." --Katherine Seligman, journalist and winner of the Pen/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction for the novel At The Edge of the Haight
"Louise Nayer plumbs the depth of her extraordinary life--traveling the world, facing love, death and destruction--to remind us of a simple truth: the intrepid heart is and will remain our greatest ally at a time that threatens to make calamity ordinary. Nayer shines forth with the light of her luminous and poetic past to bring us urgently needed perspective." --Roberto Lovato, Journalist and author of the memoir Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas
"A haunting memoir tracing the path to artistic maturity, Louise Nayer walks readers through a journey fraught with danger and romance. Here, the act of writing poetry transforms grief into something transcendent. Suspenseful and beautifully written."--Lee Kravetz, therapist and author of many books including the novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia Plath
About Narrow Escapes
Haunted by a terrible accident and adrift in love, Louise Nayer takes us on a captivating journey filled with danger and romance, through Morocco, New York City and finally on a solo journey to California, thousands of miles from her home. Set in the early 70's at a time of cataclysmic change in America, Narrow Escapes will resonate with all who need to release themselves from a difficult past as they search for joy and home.
About Louise Nayer
Louise Nayer is a long-time educator and author of six books. Burned: A Memoir was an Oprah Great Read and won the Wisconsin Library Association Award. She received six California Arts Council grants as a poet and has taught for years in community colleges, senior centers and nursing homes. She now teaches at OLLI UC Berkeley and at the Writer's Grotto where she is a member. She has given readings of her work across the country at bookstores, colleges, and universities as well as on over 60 radio stations including NPR. She is the mother of two grown daughters and a step-daughter and lives with her husband and dog in Glen Park, San Francisco.
About Frances Phillips
Frances Phillips recently retired after 27 years as program director for arts and the Creative Work Fundat the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco. Prior to her work at the Fund, she was executive director of Intersection for the Arts (1988-94) and director and assistant director of The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University (1982-88). For many years, she also taught creative writing and grantwriting at SF State, where she met Toni Mirosevich.
Frances is the author of three small press books of poetry from Hanging Loose Press and Kelsey Street Press and of reviews in The Hungry Mind Review, Poetry Flash, San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. With her husband Stan Hutton she co-authored five editions of The Nonprofit Kit for Dummies. On stage, she has interviewed Jamaica Kincaid, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, and other writers for City Arts & Lectures.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online/ Livestream link available soon
Praise for Narrow Escapes
"Narrow Escapes is a riveting, beautifully told story of Nayer's journey across continents, but also through layers of grief from a childhood trauma, as she learns to find her way home. I will not forget this book." --Katherine Seligman, journalist and winner of the Pen/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction for the novel At The Edge of the Haight
"Louise Nayer plumbs the depth of her extraordinary life--traveling the world, facing love, death and destruction--to remind us of a simple truth: the intrepid heart is and will remain our greatest ally at a time that threatens to make calamity ordinary. Nayer shines forth with the light of her luminous and poetic past to bring us urgently needed perspective." --Roberto Lovato, Journalist and author of the memoir Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas
"A haunting memoir tracing the path to artistic maturity, Louise Nayer walks readers through a journey fraught with danger and romance. Here, the act of writing poetry transforms grief into something transcendent. Suspenseful and beautifully written."--Lee Kravetz, therapist and author of many books including the novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia Plath
About Narrow Escapes
Haunted by a terrible accident and adrift in love, Louise Nayer takes us on a captivating journey filled with danger and romance, through Morocco, New York City and finally on a solo journey to California, thousands of miles from her home. Set in the early 70's at a time of cataclysmic change in America, Narrow Escapes will resonate with all who need to release themselves from a difficult past as they search for joy and home.
About Louise Nayer
Louise Nayer is a long-time educator and author of six books. Burned: A Memoir was an Oprah Great Read and won the Wisconsin Library Association Award. She received six California Arts Council grants as a poet and has taught for years in community colleges, senior centers and nursing homes. She now teaches at OLLI UC Berkeley and at the Writer's Grotto where she is a member. She has given readings of her work across the country at bookstores, colleges, and universities as well as on over 60 radio stations including NPR. She is the mother of two grown daughters and a step-daughter and lives with her husband and dog in Glen Park, San Francisco.
About Frances Phillips
Frances Phillips recently retired after 27 years as program director for arts and the Creative Work Fundat the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco. Prior to her work at the Fund, she was executive director of Intersection for the Arts (1988-94) and director and assistant director of The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University (1982-88). For many years, she also taught creative writing and grantwriting at SF State, where she met Toni Mirosevich.
Frances is the author of three small press books of poetry from Hanging Loose Press and Kelsey Street Press and of reviews in The Hungry Mind Review, Poetry Flash, San Jose Mercury News, and other publications. With her husband Stan Hutton she co-authored five editions of The Nonprofit Kit for Dummies. On stage, she has interviewed Jamaica Kincaid, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, and other writers for City Arts & Lectures.
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