Barbara Claire Freeman & Brenda Hillman

will be reading on

Tuesday, February 16th at 7:30 pm

Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), and Practical Water (2009), all from Wesleyan University Press, and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982); Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995); and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, where she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She is also a member of the permanent faculties of Napa Valley Writers' Conference and of Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Hillman is also involved in non-violent activism as a member of the Code Pink Working Group in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is married to poet Robert Hass.

Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press, 1998, pbk. 2000), among many other works of criticism and theory. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing for the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Modern Review, New American Writing, Sycamore Review and Parthenon West Review. She is a recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Award, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College, 2007) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Incivilities, her first book of poems has just been published Counterpath Press (November, 2009). A chapbook, St. Ursula's Silence, is forthcoming from Instance Press.

Kelsey Street Press Reading & Party

on Thursday, January 28th at 7:30 pm

Kelsey Street Press will have an anniversary extravaganza reading & party!

In addition to snacks and bargain KSP books, the following KSP friends will each read from new or previous works for a few minutes:

Dale Going

Laurie Reid

Laura Moriarty

Elizabeth Robinson

Thaisa Frank

Jocelyn Saldenberg

Norma Cole

Nellie Wong

Rena Rosenwasser

Hazel White

Pat Dienstfrey

Tiff Dressen

Ramsay Breslin

Amber DiPietra

Valerie Witte

Michelle Puckett

Lauren Levin

We look forward to meeting new friends while reconnecting and recollecting!

Brent Armendinger & Genine Lentine

will be reading on

Tuesday, January 4th at 7:30 pm

Genine Lentine is the author of Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes from Diagram/New Michigan Press. Her poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, American Speech, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Tricycle. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, her collaboration with Stanley Kunitz and photographer, Marnie Crawford Samuelson was published by W.W. Norton in 2005. Ongoing projects include Listening Booth, Spacewalks and The Heinous Task Table, all of which took shape in a 2009 Project Space residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the Artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Zen Center for 2009-10.

Brent Armendinger was born in Warsaw, New York, and educated at Bard College, the University of Michigan, and the city of San Francisco. He is the author of two chapbooks, Undetectable (Diagram/New Michigan Press) and Archipelago (Noemi Press). He teaches creative writing at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the founder of the Poem-Booth Project; for more information, call 1-877-EAT-POEM from the nearest pay phone.

Geoff Bouvier & Janet Holmes

will be reading on

Tuesday, December 8th at 7:30 pm

Janet Holmes is the author of five books, most recently THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman) and F2F (U Notre Dame). She is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she edits Ahsahta Press.

Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, won the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His second book, Glass Harmonica, is scheduled to appear in 2011 from Quale Press. He is currently the visiting poet at the University of California-Berkeley.

Laura Moriarty & Standard Schaefer

will be reading on

Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm

Laura Moriarty and Standard Schaefer will read from a collaborative work-in-progress, The Jejune Project, a poetic and narrative investigation of the Jejune Institute.

Schaefer's Water and Power appeared in 2005. His Desert Notebook just came out but was destroyed by rain during shipping and so is again forthcoming. He teaches at California College of the Arts and is about to move to Portland, OR.

Moriarty's most recent book is A Semblance: Selected and New Poetry 1974-2007. Her A Tonalist is due in the spring. She is the Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution.