PEN Oakland Literary Awards 2014
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
Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from ‘The Blue Collar’ PEN, ed. by Judith Cody, Kim McMillon and Claire Ortalda, jointly published by Heyday Books and PEN Oakland Public...
Stay Amazed
In 2013, one year after the death of her husband, poet Morton Felix, acclaimed ceramic artist Susan Felix, Berkeley’s Arts Ambassador, asked friends in her far-flung art and literary circles to writ...
Mystic Boxing Poetry Event Santa Cruz
Floyd Salas, Tony C. Rodriguez, Kirk Lumpkin, other poets and I will be among the readers at a Mystic Boxing/Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts event at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Downtown Santa C...
Radio Show on Dreams
http://awakeningzone.com/Episode.aspx?EpisodeID=3237 Please tune in on Monday, July 21st, 2014, (using the link above) for an interview of me by Joan Gelfand (pictured here) on Awakeni...
Blog Crawl. . .
As promised, here are the three bloggers to follow me in what is kind of a literary pub crawl. The idea is to introduce writers and readers to one another in the writer’s own setting, their ow...
International Blog Tour
My friend, Andrew Hill (author of the outstanding, exciting, beautifully crafted and necessary Crowed series on Kindle, a multi-generational story of a black family in the South and their struggles fo...
Brandishing the PEN Reading
Brandishing the PEN PEN Oakland at Bird & Beckett Books Sunday, April 13th, 2pm 653 Chenery Street, in San Francisco Free A reading by six PEN Oakland writers– the “working class”...
Environmental Poetry Reading
Here is one of the poems I read Saturday at the reading: In This Syntax of Water A swell of green I slip below into the dreamworld of history the anthropology of my being I am the...