March 8: Molly Fisk
"Processing Fire and Climate Disasters Through Poetry"
See recording of event.
Additional co-sponsors: Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Grass Roots Books & Music, and OSU's School of Writing, Literature, and Film
Molly Fisk is a poet, radio commentator, life coach, writing teacher, painter, mentor, and speaker. She is the author of four collections of poems and three compilations of essays/commentary. She served as Poet Laureate of Nevada County, California, from 2017 to 2019. She is the editor of California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, a project funded by a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Fisk created this project to teach kids across California to write poems about the climate crisis as a way to process their feelings about it. The anthology brings together selections from these youth poets, as well as poems by writers including Kim Shuck, Aileen Cassinetto, Rafael Jesús González, Ruth Bavetta, and Indigo Moor, all of whom will be reading with Molly.
Hella/A Mexican poetry reading in Berkeley
March 10, 2022 - 6:30pm-7:30pm
Join poet and food justice advocate, Kevin Madrigal Galindo, to celebrate the release of his first book of poetry: Hell/a Mexican. This poetry reading will include readings from local poets who all have ties to the East Bay, including Caleb Luna, a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, whose first book of poetry Revenge Body is also out now!
Special appearances:
Rafael Jesús González (Berkeley Poet Laureate)
A.A. Vincent (Oakland based poet)
This is an online event that will be happening via Zoom.
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ImnQsWvPTNSsiEu0Fp3SIw
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