PEN Oakland Literary Awards 2014
Posted November 30, 2014 in Upcoming Events
The 24th annual PEN Oakland Book Awards presentation will be held Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the Rockridge Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618 from 1 to 5 p.m. The program will con...
Fightin’ Words
Posted November 15, 2014 in Upcoming Events Recent Publication
Come to the launch of Fightin' Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from "The Blue-Collar PEN," published jointly by PEN Oakland Publications and Heyday Books. I am President of ...
Mystic Boxing Santa Cruz Reading
Posted September 1, 2014 in Upcoming Events
Claire Ortalda, Tony C. Rodriguez, Kirk Lumpkin, other poets and I will be reading at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, downtown Santa Cruz, Friday, September 5th, 2014, beginning at 5 p.m. It shou...
Reading at Green Apple
Posted July 18, 2014 in Upcoming Events
Long-time friend Gerry Haslam and I read at Green Apple Bookstore in San Francisco on Tuesday evening in honor of Marek Breiger's great new book, The City and the Fields: Multicultural Themes in Moder...
Brandishing the PEN Reading
Posted April 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events
Environmental Poetry Reading
Posted April 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events
Here is a sample poem from those I read at this reading last Saturday: Specters of The Ghosts We Once Were Picture a family of friends in a tree We spr...
BAWP Reading
Posted February 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events
I was featured reader with Tobey Kaplan on January 8, 2014 at a BAWP (Bay Area Writing Project) reading at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley. Several of my former students read, too: Claire Ortalda, Car...
UC Merced Presentation
Posted February 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events
I spoke at University of California, Merced, on December 3, 2013, in the classroom of Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez as part of the Chicano Literature Series at the university....