Sun May 4, 2014
Poetry Unbound #12
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at The Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
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In May, Poetry Unbound ushers in Mother’s Day with our first all-women reading. Deborah Fruchey, veteran Bay Area writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction works on mental health, will be releasing her first full-length collection of poetry, Armadillo. Nadine Lockhart, founder of the Phoenix Poetry Series, stops in to grace us with a little of that good old Arizona air (and imagination). And Blanca Torres, SF fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, and founding member of Sunday Stories, a Bay Area writing group for writers of color, will add Latina perspective to this rich event. Moms and daughters especially encouraged to spice up the open mic!
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:
Deborah Fruchey
Blanca Torres
and Nadine Lockhart
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Deborah Fruchey has spent too much of her life in churches, psych wards, and 12-Step meetings (in that order). She then graduated to poetry readings. She has been included in 10 anthologies to date, including the infamous Poets from Hell volume saluting the San Francisco “Babarian Movement” of the 1980s. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a Best Book by the American Booksellers Association. Her nonfiction work on mental illness, entitled Is There Room for Me, Too?, has been called “the best book of its kind.” Deborah’s first formal book of poetry, Armadillo, is available in its final form for the first time today. She is rumored to be hiding out in suburbia, but since her friends are all writers and musicians, her reformation is probably insincere.
Nadine Lockhart is currently earning her PhD in Literature from Arizona State University. She founded and co-hosts the Phoenix Poetry Series, a monthly featured reading showcasing award-winning poets, which is in its eighth year. She has won various poetry contests, including this year’s first place at the Arizona Poetry Society in the category “Expressing Beliefs in All Ways.” Her most recent and current projects, respectively, include an imaginary poet biography and “translation” from Carpathian Russian, a chapbook of Kabir in translation from a dialect of Hindi into English, and her dissertation, Arizona Dreams: Poetry in the Public Sphere.
Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and now writes for the San Francisco Business Times. She is a founding member of Sunday Stories, a Bay Area writing group for writers of color. Blanca lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories and a memoir about her mother’s childhood in Mexico.
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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:
Deborah Fruchey
Blanca Torres
and Nadine Lockhart
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Deborah Fruchey has spent too much of her life in churches, psych wards, and 12-Step meetings (in that order). She then graduated to poetry readings. She has been included in 10 anthologies to date, including the infamous Poets from Hell volume saluting the San Francisco “Babarian Movement” of the 1980s. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a Best Book by the American Booksellers Association. Her nonfiction work on mental illness, entitled Is There Room for Me, Too?, has been called “the best book of its kind.” Deborah’s first formal book of poetry, Armadillo, is available in its final form for the first time today. She is rumored to be hiding out in suburbia, but since her friends are all writers and musicians, her reformation is probably insincere.
Nadine Lockhart is currently earning her PhD in Literature from Arizona State University. She founded and co-hosts the Phoenix Poetry Series, a monthly featured reading showcasing award-winning poets, which is in its eighth year. She has won various poetry contests, including this year’s first place at the Arizona Poetry Society in the category “Expressing Beliefs in All Ways.” Her most recent and current projects, respectively, include an imaginary poet biography and “translation” from Carpathian Russian, a chapbook of Kabir in translation from a dialect of Hindi into English, and her dissertation, Arizona Dreams: Poetry in the Public Sphere.
Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and now writes for the San Francisco Business Times. She is a founding member of Sunday Stories, a Bay Area writing group for writers of color. Blanca lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories and a memoir about her mother’s childhood in Mexico.
In May, Poetry Unbound ushers in Mother’s Day with our first all-women reading. Deborah Fruchey, veteran Bay Area writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction works on mental health, will be releasing her first full-length collection of poetry, Armadillo. Nadine Lockhart, founder of the Phoenix Poetry Series, stops in to grace us with a little of that good old Arizona air (and imagination). And Blanca Torres, SF fiction writer, memoirist, journalist, and founding member of Sunday Stories, a Bay Area writing group for writers of color, will add Latina perspective to this rich event. Moms and daughters especially encouraged to spice up the open mic!
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:
Deborah Fruchey
Blanca Torres
and Nadine Lockhart
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Deborah Fruchey has spent too much of her life in churches, psych wards, and 12-Step meetings (in that order). She then graduated to poetry readings. She has been included in 10 anthologies to date, including the infamous Poets from Hell volume saluting the San Francisco “Babarian Movement” of the 1980s. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a Best Book by the American Booksellers Association. Her nonfiction work on mental illness, entitled Is There Room for Me, Too?, has been called “the best book of its kind.” Deborah’s first formal book of poetry, Armadillo, is available in its final form for the first time today. She is rumored to be hiding out in suburbia, but since her friends are all writers and musicians, her reformation is probably insincere.
Nadine Lockhart is currently earning her PhD in Literature from Arizona State University. She founded and co-hosts the Phoenix Poetry Series, a monthly featured reading showcasing award-winning poets, which is in its eighth year. She has won various poetry contests, including this year’s first place at the Arizona Poetry Society in the category “Expressing Beliefs in All Ways.” Her most recent and current projects, respectively, include an imaginary poet biography and “translation” from Carpathian Russian, a chapbook of Kabir in translation from a dialect of Hindi into English, and her dissertation, Arizona Dreams: Poetry in the Public Sphere.
Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and now writes for the San Francisco Business Times. She is a founding member of Sunday Stories, a Bay Area writing group for writers of color. Blanca lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories and a memoir about her mother’s childhood in Mexico.
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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:
Deborah Fruchey
Blanca Torres
and Nadine Lockhart
with a brief open mic
hosted by Clive Matson and Richard Loranger
PERFORMER BIOS
Deborah Fruchey has spent too much of her life in churches, psych wards, and 12-Step meetings (in that order). She then graduated to poetry readings. She has been included in 10 anthologies to date, including the infamous Poets from Hell volume saluting the San Francisco “Babarian Movement” of the 1980s. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a Best Book by the American Booksellers Association. Her nonfiction work on mental illness, entitled Is There Room for Me, Too?, has been called “the best book of its kind.” Deborah’s first formal book of poetry, Armadillo, is available in its final form for the first time today. She is rumored to be hiding out in suburbia, but since her friends are all writers and musicians, her reformation is probably insincere.
Nadine Lockhart is currently earning her PhD in Literature from Arizona State University. She founded and co-hosts the Phoenix Poetry Series, a monthly featured reading showcasing award-winning poets, which is in its eighth year. She has won various poetry contests, including this year’s first place at the Arizona Poetry Society in the category “Expressing Beliefs in All Ways.” Her most recent and current projects, respectively, include an imaginary poet biography and “translation” from Carpathian Russian, a chapbook of Kabir in translation from a dialect of Hindi into English, and her dissertation, Arizona Dreams: Poetry in the Public Sphere.
Blanca Torres grew up on the dry, eastern side of Washington state. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from Mills College She has worked as a reporter for several major newspapers and now writes for the San Francisco Business Times. She is a founding member of Sunday Stories, a Bay Area writing group for writers of color. Blanca lives in San Francisco and is working on a collection of short stories and a memoir about her mother’s childhood in Mexico.
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