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Pegasus Books Downtown

Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16, 7pm 
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Poetry Flash presents readings by David Baker, Whale Fall & Rebecca Foust, Only. Free to attend!

About the readers:

Acclaimed poet, educator, editor, and literary critic David Baker’s new book of poetry is Whale Fall. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, and was poetry editor of The Kenyon Review for more than twenty-five years; he now curates the “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine.

Derrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water (BOA Editions 2016), selected by Mary Szybist for the 2015 A. Poulin Jr Prize. A Cave Canem fellow, Pushcart Prize and four-time Best New Poets nominee, he earned his MFA at the University of Michigan where he also earned Hopwood Awards in poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2015, New England Review, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, Gulf Coast, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Callaloo, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals and anthologies.

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"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." -- Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Wednesday, January 29, 7:30pm
Pegasus Books Downtown

Editors Ejeris Dixon and Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha and contributors Elizabeth Long and Elena Rose present Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement.

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Wednesday, May 6, 7:30pm

New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel, Death In Her Hands.
 

Wednesday, June 17, 7:30pm
Pegasus Books Downtown

Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez.

Every third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.