Sun January 3, 2016
Poetry Unbound #28 – Reading Series at Art House Gallery in Berkeley – January 3, 2016
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Event Date: Sunday, January 3, 2016
Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
POETRY UNBOUND #28 – The Poetry of Place
5 – 8 pm January 3, 2016
Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
$5 -10 donation
In the dark of the year we welcome the magic of poetry, magic that can take us travelling through landscapes of our past, of our psyches, of the natural world. Three poets guide us, Connie Post, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, and Lucy Lang Day in “The Poetry of Place.” All three are prizewinners, one with a Lyrebird Award and two with the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize.
Place is a powerful Muse who can remember our childhood meadows and woods and all the homes we’ve loved and lost. The Muse of Place inspires poems of yearning, exile, diaspora, and poems about landscape and environmental desecration as well—all the harm we humans have done to our Earth. This Muse loves journeys, the sounds, tastes, smells, and sights of foreign lands and even shows up in dreams, revealing to us mysterious realms. Come to the old church at the end of a dirt road, ancestral homes and a house on stilts, the horned lark singing beside a field of silver hairgrass.
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 writer Clive Matson.
featuring:
Lucille Lang Day
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Connie Post
open mic signup 5 pm
PERFORMER BIOS
Lucille Lang Day (www.lucillelangday.com) is the author of ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including most recently Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize, and Becoming an Ancestor, a full-length collection from Červená Barva Press. She is also the author of a children’s book, Chain Letter, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which received a 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her poems, stories, and essays have received nine Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s poetry is widely published. Her chapbook The Little House On Stilts Remembers was co-winner the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her fourth full-length poetry collection, The Faust Woman Poems, follows one woman’s Faustian adventures during the 1960s and ’70s, through Women’s Liberation and the return of the Goddess. Her memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her pushy muse. Lowinsky is a Jungian Analyst, a member of the San Francisco Jung Institute where she has taught a poetry workshop, Deep River, for many years. She blogs about poetry and life at https://www.sisterfrombelow.com.
Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, from 2005 to 2009. Her work has appeared in The Big Muddy, Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Comstock Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize and the Caesura Poetry Award, and she has been short listed for many more prizes. Her first full-length book, Floodwater, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She serves as an interviewer of editors for The Review Review and curates the popular Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series in Crockett.
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Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
POETRY UNBOUND #28 – The Poetry of Place
5 – 8 pm January 3, 2016
Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
$5 -10 donation
In the dark of the year we welcome the magic of poetry, magic that can take us travelling through landscapes of our past, of our psyches, of the natural world. Three poets guide us, Connie Post, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, and Lucy Lang Day in “The Poetry of Place.” All three are prizewinners, one with a Lyrebird Award and two with the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize.
Place is a powerful Muse who can remember our childhood meadows and woods and all the homes we’ve loved and lost. The Muse of Place inspires poems of yearning, exile, diaspora, and poems about landscape and environmental desecration as well—all the harm we humans have done to our Earth. This Muse loves journeys, the sounds, tastes, smells, and sights of foreign lands and even shows up in dreams, revealing to us mysterious realms. Come to the old church at the end of a dirt road, ancestral homes and a house on stilts, the horned lark singing beside a field of silver hairgrass.
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 writer Clive Matson.
featuring:
Lucille Lang Day
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Connie Post
open mic signup 5 pm
PERFORMER BIOS
Lucille Lang Day (www.lucillelangday.com) is the author of ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including most recently Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize, and Becoming an Ancestor, a full-length collection from Červená Barva Press. She is also the author of a children’s book, Chain Letter, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which received a 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her poems, stories, and essays have received nine Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s poetry is widely published. Her chapbook The Little House On Stilts Remembers was co-winner the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her fourth full-length poetry collection, The Faust Woman Poems, follows one woman’s Faustian adventures during the 1960s and ’70s, through Women’s Liberation and the return of the Goddess. Her memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her pushy muse. Lowinsky is a Jungian Analyst, a member of the San Francisco Jung Institute where she has taught a poetry workshop, Deep River, for many years. She blogs about poetry and life at https://www.sisterfrombelow.com.
Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, from 2005 to 2009. Her work has appeared in The Big Muddy, Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Comstock Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize and the Caesura Poetry Award, and she has been short listed for many more prizes. Her first full-length book, Floodwater, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She serves as an interviewer of editors for The Review Review and curates the popular Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series in Crockett.
Event Date: Sunday, January 3, 2016
Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
POETRY UNBOUND #28 – The Poetry of Place
5 – 8 pm January 3, 2016
Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
$5 -10 donation
In the dark of the year we welcome the magic of poetry, magic that can take us travelling through landscapes of our past, of our psyches, of the natural world. Three poets guide us, Connie Post, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, and Lucy Lang Day in “The Poetry of Place.” All three are prizewinners, one with a Lyrebird Award and two with the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize.
Place is a powerful Muse who can remember our childhood meadows and woods and all the homes we’ve loved and lost. The Muse of Place inspires poems of yearning, exile, diaspora, and poems about landscape and environmental desecration as well—all the harm we humans have done to our Earth. This Muse loves journeys, the sounds, tastes, smells, and sights of foreign lands and even shows up in dreams, revealing to us mysterious realms. Come to the old church at the end of a dirt road, ancestral homes and a house on stilts, the horned lark singing beside a field of silver hairgrass.
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 writer Clive Matson.
featuring:
Lucille Lang Day
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Connie Post
open mic signup 5 pm
PERFORMER BIOS
Lucille Lang Day (www.lucillelangday.com) is the author of ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including most recently Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize, and Becoming an Ancestor, a full-length collection from Červená Barva Press. She is also the author of a children’s book, Chain Letter, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which received a 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her poems, stories, and essays have received nine Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s poetry is widely published. Her chapbook The Little House On Stilts Remembers was co-winner the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her fourth full-length poetry collection, The Faust Woman Poems, follows one woman’s Faustian adventures during the 1960s and ’70s, through Women’s Liberation and the return of the Goddess. Her memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her pushy muse. Lowinsky is a Jungian Analyst, a member of the San Francisco Jung Institute where she has taught a poetry workshop, Deep River, for many years. She blogs about poetry and life at https://www.sisterfrombelow.com.
Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, from 2005 to 2009. Her work has appeared in The Big Muddy, Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Comstock Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize and the Caesura Poetry Award, and she has been short listed for many more prizes. Her first full-length book, Floodwater, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She serves as an interviewer of editors for The Review Review and curates the popular Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series in Crockett.
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Contact: Clive Matson, 510-654-6495, [email protected]
POETRY UNBOUND #28 – The Poetry of Place
5 – 8 pm January 3, 2016
Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
$5 -10 donation
In the dark of the year we welcome the magic of poetry, magic that can take us travelling through landscapes of our past, of our psyches, of the natural world. Three poets guide us, Connie Post, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, and Lucy Lang Day in “The Poetry of Place.” All three are prizewinners, one with a Lyrebird Award and two with the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize.
Place is a powerful Muse who can remember our childhood meadows and woods and all the homes we’ve loved and lost. The Muse of Place inspires poems of yearning, exile, diaspora, and poems about landscape and environmental desecration as well—all the harm we humans have done to our Earth. This Muse loves journeys, the sounds, tastes, smells, and sights of foreign lands and even shows up in dreams, revealing to us mysterious realms. Come to the old church at the end of a dirt road, ancestral homes and a house on stilts, the horned lark singing beside a field of silver hairgrass.
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 writer Clive Matson.
featuring:
Lucille Lang Day
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Connie Post
open mic signup 5 pm
PERFORMER BIOS
Lucille Lang Day (www.lucillelangday.com) is the author of ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including most recently Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize, and Becoming an Ancestor, a full-length collection from Červená Barva Press. She is also the author of a children’s book, Chain Letter, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, which received a 2013 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her poems, stories, and essays have received nine Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s poetry is widely published. Her chapbook The Little House On Stilts Remembers was co-winner the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her fourth full-length poetry collection, The Faust Woman Poems, follows one woman’s Faustian adventures during the 1960s and ’70s, through Women’s Liberation and the return of the Goddess. Her memoir, The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way tells stories of her pushy muse. Lowinsky is a Jungian Analyst, a member of the San Francisco Jung Institute where she has taught a poetry workshop, Deep River, for many years. She blogs about poetry and life at https://www.sisterfrombelow.com.
Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, from 2005 to 2009. Her work has appeared in The Big Muddy, Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Comstock Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize and the Caesura Poetry Award, and she has been short listed for many more prizes. Her first full-length book, Floodwater, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She serves as an interviewer of editors for The Review Review and curates the popular Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series in Crockett.
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