Carol Moldaw
Carol Moldaw and Alice Templeton
2 FEBRUARY 2025 — sunday
Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading with Carol Moldaw, Go Figure, and Alice Templeton, The Infinite Field, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).
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MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Carol Moldaw's new book of poems is Go Figure. Ange Mlinko says, "Carol Moldaw's poems are equally cerebral and sensuous, candid and inquisitive. She has perfected a warm tone that invites you to keep coming back just to be in her intelligent company." She's the author of six previous collections: Beauty Refracted (2018), So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems (2010), The Lightning Field (2002) winner of the Field Poetry Prize, Through the Window (2001), Chalkmarks on Stone (1998), and Taken from the River (1993). She's also published a novella, The Widening (2008). Her residencies include a Merwin Conservancy Artist Residency and Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship; she also has received a National Foundation of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews have been widely published, including in the anthologies Western Wind: an Introduction to Poetry and Contemporary Literary Criticism. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Alice Templeton's new book of poems is The Infinite Field. D.A. Powell says, "…Templeton's poems…possess a dreamlike beauty, haunted—or I should say inhabited—by memories of childhood, family, spiritual community, and the culverts, creeks, and rivers of Tennessee. I think of these poems as quilts, arrangements of the remnants of the past put into fresh and surprising combinations: No matter where they go, they carry the texture and warmth of home." Her poems and short stories have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, North American Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is also the author of a critical book on Adrienne Rich's poetics, and scholarly articles on contemporary poetics, cultural criticism, and literary theory. Originally from Tennessee, Alice Templeton lives in Point Richmond, California.
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17 JANUARY 2025 — friday
18 JANUARY 2025 — saturday
- Craft ekphrastic poetry based on art in the ACCI Gallery and then participate in workshop, led by Aiden Baker, ACCI Gallery, 652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, by donation, 1:00 pm PST (To rsvp, visit: www.accigallery.com/rsvp-poetry-writing-workshop.html)
- The four members of the Wild Orchid Collective, a Los Angeles interdisciplinary artist group, share their music, poetry, and visual art in a one-hour program titled "Gathered Dreams," interweaving readings of poems with the dream-like photographic imagery of Holaday Mason, paintings by James Cushing and Celeste Goyer, and music by composer/musician Adrian Baer, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, free, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/gathered-dreams-poetry-art-music-from-the-wild-orchid-collective-tickets-1114289392569?aff=oddtdtcreator%C2%A0)
19 JANUARY 2025 — sunday
20 JANUARY 2025 — monday
21 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday
22 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday
23 JANUARY 2025 — thursday
24 JANUARY 2025 — friday
- Fiction author Nancy Miller Gomez, Inconsolable Objects, poet Lynne V.E. Crawford, Washing Water, and 2021-2022 Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, Blue on a Blue Palette, read from and celebrate their latest books, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 8:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/nancy-miller-gomez-lynda-ve-crawford-lynne-thompson-tickets-1118331051279?aff=oddtdtcreator)
25 JANUARY 2025 — saturday
- Mobile Data Mag, a literary journal released exclusively on Substack, will feature five Los Angeles-based poets for an in-person reading: Pam Concepcion, Daryl Gussin, Jennifer "Miss B' Baptiste, Mauricio "Soul on Fire" Moreno, and Laura Sermeño, hosted by lead editor and author, Jesse Tovar, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-data-mag-a-reading-with-la-authors-tickets-1104979145369?aff=oddtdtcreator)
26 JANUARY 2025 — sunday
- The Laminations: An Experimental Fiction Workshop, will occur over four Sundays (January 26, February 9, 23, March 9), exploring how to manage layers of formal complexity with plot complexity, and when these laminations overload and opacify the truth, led by Angie Sijun Lou, fiction editor at FENCE, Virtual on Zoom, sliding scale $60-200, 1:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/laminations-experimental-fiction-workshop)
27 JANUARY 2025 — monday
28 JANUARY 2025 — tuesday
29 JANUARY 2025 — wednesday
30 JANUARY 2025 — thursday
- Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower will read from and discuss her latest poetry collection, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria, with poet Blas Falconer, Rara Avis, Warwick's, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/dower-2025)
- Writers Read Ukiah presents a reading by Chris Olander, Nevada County Poet Laureate emeritus, Open Mic follows the featured poet with six-minute slots for each participant, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/new-events)
31 JANUARY 2025 — friday
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