Join us in welcoming three award-winning poets to kick-start our National Poetry Month reading series at Pegasus Downtown. All are welcome.
Jesse Nathan is the author of a chapbook of poems called Dinner. He’s an editor at McSweeney’s and the managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. His writing appears widely\, including in the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Believer\, Tin House\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. He was born in Berkeley\, but grew up on a farm in Kansas. Now he lives in San Francisco.
Matthew Zapruder's third book of poems Come On All You Ghosts is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. A collaborative book with painter Chris Uphues\, For You in Full Bloom\, was published by Pilot Press in Northampton\, MA\, in 2009. He has received a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences\, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. This spring he is a Writer in Residence at St. Mary's College\, and in fall 2010 he will be the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. An editor for Wave Books and a member of the permanent faculty in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert\, he lives in San Francisco.
Jessica Fisher’s first book of poems\, Frail-Craft\, won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, The Colorado Review\, McSweeney’s\, The New Yorker\, The Threepenny Review\, and TriQuarterly\, and her translations appear in The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review. She is also co-editor\, with Robert Hass\, of The Addison Street Anthology\, which serves as a guide to Berkeley’s Poetry Walk. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Poetry and Poetics at UC Berkeley\, where she earned her Ph.D. in English\, and lives in Oakland with her husband and children.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T015600Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100409T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100409T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-dw-lichtenberg-britta-austin-and-alisa-heinzman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-dw-lichtenberg-britta-austin-and-alisa-heinzman SUMMARY:An Evening of poetry with D.W. Lichtenberg\, Britta Austin and Alisa Heinzman DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming three renowned poets in celebration of National Poetry Month.
D.W. Lichtenberg is the author of THE ANCIENT BOOK OF HIP (Fourteen Hills Press\, November 2009)\, an exploration into the phenomenon of hip. He is a writer\, filmmaker\, caffeine addict\, and obsessive cleaner. He's a Literary Death Match champion\, a winner of the Michael Rubin Book Award\, and the Wilner Award in the Short Story. D.W.L. grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia and currently lives in San Francisco.
Britta Austin was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She moved to the San Francisco bay area in 2002 and received her BA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 2006. Her work has appeared in Transfer Magazine and Watchword. She has been a member of the More Cowgirl Writers’ Collective and an editor for Small Desk Press\, and has recently become a children’s docent at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. She lives\, works and writes in San Francisco.
Alisa Heinzman lives in Oakland and attends Saint Mary’s College of California’s MFA Program. She is co-editor of the journal Calaveras. Her poems have appeared in Laurus and Inknode and are forthcoming in The Benefactor Magazine and Shampoo.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T015600Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100416T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-brian-teare-and-laura-walker URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-brian-teare-and-laura-walker SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Brian Teare and Laura Walker DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with poets Brian Teare and Laura Walker.
The recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships\, Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning debut The Room Where I Was Born and the chapbooks Pilgrim and Transcendental Grammar Crown. His second book\, Sight Map\, is out from University of California Press\; his third\, Pleasure\, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. On the graduate faculty of Mills College and University of San Francisco\, he lives in San Francisco\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books.
Laura Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley. She is the author of rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press\, 2008) and swarm lure (Battery Press\, 2004)\, and her work has appeared in various journals\, including 26\, Five Fingers Review\, Xantippe\, and Bird Dog. She is the recipient of a Fund for Poetry grant and the Ann Fields Poetry Award\, and she teaches wonderful students at University of San Francisco and UC Berkeley Extension.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T015600Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100418T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100418T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poets-stephen-ratcliffe-erica-lewis-and-benjamin-perez URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poets-stephen-ratcliffe-erica-lewis-and-benjamin-perez SUMMARY:Poets Stephen Ratcliffe\, Erica Lewis\, and Benjamin Perez DESCRIPTION:Poets Stephen Ratcliffe\, Erica Lewis\, and Benjamin Perez will read. Join us in welcoming these three renowned poets and in celebrating National Poetry Month at Pegasus Downtown.
Stephen Ratcliffe’s Reading the Unseen\: (Offstage) Hamlet has just been published by Counterpath Press. REAL\, 474 pages written in 474 consecutive days\, was published by Avenue B in 2007. Previous books include Portraits &\; Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press\, 2002) and SOUND / (system) (Green Integer\, 2002). He lives in Bolinas and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.
Erica Lewis is a fine arts publicist in San Francisco\, where she curated the Canessa Gallery Reading Series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue\, New American Writing\, Little Red Leaves\, Parthenon West Review\, Ur Vox\, Shampoo\, Critiphoria\, Cricket Online Review\, alice blue\, BOOG CITY\, Word For/Word\, Work\, and Try\, among others. Her book\, Camera Obscura is published by BlazeVox Books.
Benjamin Perez teaches American Literature at Expression College for Digital Arts. He earned his BA in Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and went on to complete an advanced degree in Folklore at UCLA. His poems\, essays\, and book reviews have appeared in various publications\, including Watchword\, Sacramento News and Review (SN&\;R)\, Cricket Online Review (COR)\, and Ishmael Reed’s Konch. He is the author of The Evil Queen\: A Pornolexicology (Spuyten Duyvil) and CUNTIONARY/Repent at Your Leisure (BlazeVOX).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T015600Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100420T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100420T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-cheryl-dumsil-and-guests URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poetry-cheryl-dumsil-and-guests SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Cheryl Dumesnil\, Judy Halebsky and Tiffany Higgins DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming poet Cheryl Dumesnil\, author of In Praise of Falling\, Judy Halebsky\, author of the forthcoming Sky=Empty\, and Tiffany Higgins\, author of and Aeneas stares into her helmet\, as we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month. All are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T015600Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100423T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100423T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poet-jane-dows-and-guest-poets URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poet-jane-dows-and-guest-poets SUMMARY:Poets Jane Downs\, Kathleen Weaver\, Susan Elliot Jardin\, Cynthia Carmichael and Gretchen Stengel DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry with aclaimed poets Jane Downs\, Kathleen Weaver\, Susan Elliot Jardin\, Cynthia Carmichael and Gretchen Stengel. Join us in our month-long celebration of National Poetry Month.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T015600Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100427T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100427T020000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poets-omnidawn-publishing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/poets-omnidawn-publishing SUMMARY:Ten Poets from Omnidawn Publishing will read DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR