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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Brandishing the PEN Reading

Posted April 8, 2014 in Upcoming Events

Brandishing the PEN
PEN Oakland
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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...

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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...

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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....

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