Events

Poets Camile T. Dungy, Chad Sweeney, and Russell Dillon will read their work from the latest Parthenon West Review.  Join us for a night of distinguished poets.

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006) and Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, due January 2010). She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, due December 2009) and co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound,Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, April 2009).
Dungy is associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (BlazeVox, 2007); and four chapbooks, most recently A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006). Sweeney's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008 and Verse Daily, and in numerous journals and magazines.  Sweeney co-edits Parthenon West Review.

Russell Dillon is the author of Secret Damage (Forklift Ink, 2009); he received degrees from Emerson College and the Bennington Writing Seminars and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alligator Juniper, Big Bell, Forklift, Ohio, Tight, and Parthenon West Review, among others.

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Peter Beren will read and discuss California the Beautiful, along with Dan Jacobson, Legislative Director of Environment California.

Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine Morbid Curiosity, has compiled some of her favorite stories from all ten issues into a sometimes shocking, occasionally gruesome, always fascinating anthology. For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Join us.

Pegasus Downtown and Brit Tzedek present Joel Schalit, editor of Zeek Online, reading from his new book Israel vs. Utopia

In Israel vs. Utopia (Akashic Books, 2009) Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows, and the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans.  Schalit will discuss his new book as well as European perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Kim Hermanson will read and discuss Getting Messy, an invitation to a radically different way of teaching that emphasizes the human over the mechanical and the ethical over the material.  The evening includes exercises from Getting Messy that will inspire us to turn the messy business of being human into the stuff that makes us grow. All are welcome.

In The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith argues that a vegetarian diet isn’t the way to save the planet.  Part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability challenges everything we know about food politics. Join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion.