Upcoming Events

  • August 21, 2014 Reading with Anthony McCann & Corina Copp, 7 pm
  • September 5, 2014 Two Heads: Mitch Highfill and Xtina Strong, 7 pm
  • September 6, 2014 Poets Respond to TV with Leah Umansky, Tracie Morris, Dan Magers and Leigh Stein, 7 pm
  • September 7, 2014 Reading with Johannes Heldén (Argos Books), 5 pm
  • September 11, 2014 Black Ocean Launch of PRIVACY POLICY: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, 7 pm
  • September 12, 2014 Reading with Jackson Meazle, John Coletti, Sam Truitt and others, 7 pm
  • September 13, 2014 Sommer Browning reads from BACKUP SINGERS with Noah Eli Gordon, 7 pm
  • September 14, 2014 Reading with Anne Carson and Robert Currie, Ishion Hutchinson, and RA Villanueva, 5 pm
  • September 17, 2014 Poetry Trivia Night at Berl's, 7 pm
  • September 19, 2014 Chapbook launch for BACKCHANNEL by Emily Skillings, also featuring Todd Colby and Sarah Gerard, 7 pm

Saturday, April 26, 2014

May 2 TWO HEADS: Kit Robinson & Rodrigo Toscano

TWO HEADS is a monthly reading series that captures, encourages, and foments collaboration. May readers will be Kit Robinson (in a rare East Coast visit) and Rodrigo Toscano.
May 2
7 pm

Kit Robinson is the author of Determination (Cuneiform, 2010), The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009), and 20 other books of poetry. He has written two books in collaboration with Ted Greenwald, A Mammal of Style (Roof, 2013) and Takeaway (c_L, 2013) and is a co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, 2006-2010). Robinson lives in the Bay Area, works as a freelance writer and plays tres guitar in the Afro-Cuban dance band Bahía Son.

Rodrigo Toscano is currently at work on an epic poem, titled, “Explosion Rocks Springfield.” His latest book is Deck of Deeds (Counterpath Press 2012). Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books) was a 2007 National Poetry Series Selection. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Against Expression, Diasporic Avant Gardes, and Poetic Voices Without Borders, and Best American Poetry. Toscano works for the Labor Institute in conjunction the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. He works out of a laptop, tethered to a Droid, residing in airports, occupying poetics in mid-flight.

Hosted by Nada Gordon.

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