September 2, 2017
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Milvia Street/Poetry Flash 
Fantabulous Reading
Leg One | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 31. Awaken Cafe

Event Description

Two longtime East Bay literary institutions join forces to present six sizzling poets.  Milvia Street, Berkeley City College’s literary journal has been cultivating new writers for 25 years.  Poetry Flash has 45 years of promoting poetry and literary events, making the Bar Area the literary hub it is today.

Co-Curators: Sharon Coleman & Joyce Jenkins

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Sharon Coleman teaches poetry at Berkeley City College, coordinates the Milvia Street art and literary journal, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival.

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Joyce Jenkins is editor and publisher of Poetry Flash, a literary review and reading series. Poetry Flash sponsors the annual Watershed Poetry and Ecology Festival and Northern California Book Awards.


Milvia Street Readers

Poetry Flash Readers

Blake C. Aarens

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Blake C. Aarens is an award-winning erotic fiction writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and Black Girl Nerd.  She’s also a literary midwife with more than two decades of teaching writing.

Mk Chavez

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MK Chavez is an Oakland writer and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s the author of Virgin Eyes, her recent publications can be found in Eleven Eleven and Rivet.

GS Scott

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GS Scott moved from the east coast to California in l963. Her writing orbits attachment to place and saying goodbye. Her poems approach war, love, and time jumps of daily life.

Bruce Isaacson

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Bruce Isaacson rocked the 80s Café Babar scene in San Francisco.  He’s publisher of Zeitgeist Press and author of Ghosts Among Neon, Dumbstruck at the Lights in the Sky, and Frayed.

Wilfred Galila

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Wilfred Galila is in pursuit of deciphering the ramifications of cultural hybridity in his postcolonial mind through the exploration and exploitation of various media for making art and telling stories.


Eliot Schain

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Eliot Schain has run poetry series at the Beat 'N Path Cafe in Hoboken, NJ and Arts Benicia in Benicia, CA.  His publications include American Romance and Westering Angels.

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