I have an upcoming reading in San Francisco (Berkeley to be exact) at Moe's Books in the Poetry Flash reading series. Details below:
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 7:30
Poetry Flash at Moe's Books
JORN AKE & PETER DALE SCOTT
MOE'S BOOKS, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 849-2087, moesbooks.com.
Parking at the Durant/Channing Garage, close to Telegraph. Channing is one block north.
Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476, www.poetryflash.org.
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Jorn Ake's new book of poems is Boys Whistling Like Canaries, winner of the 2008 Blue Lynx Prize. David Wojahn, who selected the book, says it's a "collection haunted by the grim history of the twentieth century and by how its legacy continues so troublesomely to endure. . .Ake recalls the work of two of our finest poets of social conscience, George Oppen and Thomas McGrath. . ." Beginning as a painter, Ake won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize for his first book of poems, Asleep in the Lightning Fields; his second is The Circle Line.
Peter Dale Scott's new book of poems is Mosaic Orpheus. A former Canadian diplomat, both a writer and a poet, Scott has received enormous acclaim for his poetic trilogy Coming to Jakarta, which Robert Hass has called "the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time." James Laughlin said of it, "Not since Robert Duncan's Groundwork and before that William Carlos Williams' Paterson, has New Directions published a long poem as important as Peter Dale Scott's." A professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Canadian diplomat, he has also published a number of important nonfiction books, including The Iran-Contra Connection andCocaine Politics.
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Also, I will be reading on FRIDAY MAY 14th at PETE'S CANDY STORE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC at 7PM in Sommer Browning's Multifarious Array Reading Series with Jen Chang, Ed Skoog & Jason Bredle.
Pete's Candy Store is at 709 Lorimer St., near McCarren Park and seemingly equidistant between the Lorimer - Metropolitan Ave station for the L train and the Nassau Ave. station for the G train (if the G has yet to be murderized by the MTA.) I'd suggest using the L.
Maybe I'll see some of you guys out there or back here. After the 14th, I am taking a nap.
