Three excellent Bay Area poets with new poetry collections read Monday, July 1, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. The poems in Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory by James Cagney explore "identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity." "Through pigment and ink" in Turn and Face the Strange, author Natasha Dennerstein and illustrator Kaye Freeman "map femininity around the world." David Hathwell, Author's new collection The Power of Telling includes the illuminating commentaries he is well-known for in his public readings. Free. A book signing follows the readings.
More about the authors:
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Vancouver, and Mumbai. He was recently profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle and KALW.org. His first book, BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY, is available now from NomadicPress.org More of James' writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog.
Natasha Dennerstein is a Bay Area poet born in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Her full collections and chapbooks have been published by Norfolk Press and Nomadic Press. Her current book, TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE, is a collaboration with LA painter Kaye Freeman. Forthcoming are a novel, ABOMINATION, and a chapbook , BROKEN.
David Hathwell published BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF in 2017 and MUSES, his debut collection, in 2016. His new collection is THE POWER OF THE TELLING. His work has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines and has won praise from Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Edmund White. A former English teacher at Lowell High, he lives in San Francisco and sings baritone in local choruses.
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More about the authors:
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Vancouver, and Mumbai. He was recently profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle and KALW.org. His first book, BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY, is available now from NomadicPress.org More of James' writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog.
Natasha Dennerstein is a Bay Area poet born in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Her full collections and chapbooks have been published by Norfolk Press and Nomadic Press. Her current book, TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE, is a collaboration with LA painter Kaye Freeman. Forthcoming are a novel, ABOMINATION, and a chapbook , BROKEN.
David Hathwell published BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF in 2017 and MUSES, his debut collection, in 2016. His new collection is THE POWER OF THE TELLING. His work has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines and has won praise from Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Edmund White. A former English teacher at Lowell High, he lives in San Francisco and sings baritone in local choruses.
Three excellent Bay Area poets with new poetry collections read Monday, July 1, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. The poems in Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory by James Cagney explore "identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity." "Through pigment and ink" in Turn and Face the Strange, author Natasha Dennerstein and illustrator Kaye Freeman "map femininity around the world." David Hathwell, Author's new collection The Power of Telling includes the illuminating commentaries he is well-known for in his public readings. Free. A book signing follows the readings.
More about the authors:
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Vancouver, and Mumbai. He was recently profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle and KALW.org. His first book, BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY, is available now from NomadicPress.org More of James' writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog.
Natasha Dennerstein is a Bay Area poet born in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Her full collections and chapbooks have been published by Norfolk Press and Nomadic Press. Her current book, TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE, is a collaboration with LA painter Kaye Freeman. Forthcoming are a novel, ABOMINATION, and a chapbook , BROKEN.
David Hathwell published BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF in 2017 and MUSES, his debut collection, in 2016. His new collection is THE POWER OF THE TELLING. His work has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines and has won praise from Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Edmund White. A former English teacher at Lowell High, he lives in San Francisco and sings baritone in local choruses.
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More about the authors:
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Vancouver, and Mumbai. He was recently profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle and KALW.org. His first book, BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY, is available now from NomadicPress.org More of James' writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog.
Natasha Dennerstein is a Bay Area poet born in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Her full collections and chapbooks have been published by Norfolk Press and Nomadic Press. Her current book, TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE, is a collaboration with LA painter Kaye Freeman. Forthcoming are a novel, ABOMINATION, and a chapbook , BROKEN.
David Hathwell published BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF in 2017 and MUSES, his debut collection, in 2016. His new collection is THE POWER OF THE TELLING. His work has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines and has won praise from Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Edmund White. A former English teacher at Lowell High, he lives in San Francisco and sings baritone in local choruses.
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