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  • Poetry Center presents: Eric Sneathen, Noah Ross, and Violet Spurlock

    The Poetry Center presents a reading and book party featuring new work by three Bay Area poets and poetry organizers, generative presences on the local scene and beyond.

    Eric Sneathen, Noah Ross, and Violet Spurlock. This event marks the first public readings from anticipated new books by Sneathen (Don’t Leave Me This Way, Nightboat Books) and Spurlock (In Lieu of Solutions, Futurepoem).

    This event is free and open to the public.

    VIDEO for this program will be posted after editing at Poetry Center Digital Archive.

    Eric Sneathen is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. He is the author of Snail Poems (2016) and Don’t Leave Me This Way (2023). With Lauren Levin, he edited Honey Mine (2021), the selected fictions of Camille Roy.

    Noah Ross is a poet in the East Bay, the author of The Dogs (Krupskaya, 2024), Active Reception (Nightboat Books, 2021), and Types (Nion Editions, 2021). Noah edits Baest: a journal of queer forms & affects.

    Violet Spurlock is a writer living in the Bay Area. Her first full-length collection, In Lieu of Solutions, received the Other Futures Award and is forthcoming from Futurepoem. She is also the author of Alloyed Bliss (Eyelet, 2021) and VS VS VS (GaussPDF, 2021).

  • OC: LOST HIGHWAYS TRAVELOGS/BOOK LAUNCH

    It is rare enough that we have the opportunity to watch experimental road movies, but that such a program would be framed by an introduction and book launch by thee international expert, in our first Psycho-Geo go-round of the Fall season, is cause for celebration indeed! Oft-times researching in the Bay Area during the writing of Lost Highways, Embodied Travels, Kornelia Boczkowska is of course especially interested in having her personal selection of artists’ films–all discussed at length in her extraordinary edition–shared with our kino-community. Her exquisite curation includes works by Bill Morrison, Ken Kobland, Sky Hopinka, Peter Rose, Jessica Bardsley, Bill Brown, Cathy Lee Crane, Paige Taul, and Jon Behrens (RIP). And even more rarities are packed into this diverse review of hand-made, animated, found footage, structuralist, diaristic, and narrative pieces–all on TRAVEL–in a 2-part program that will proudly serve as Kornelia‘s principal West Coast tour stop. Free postcards! $10