Milvia Street & Poetry Flash: Beastly Reading
Leg One | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | E.M. Wolfman
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 publishes a legendary review/calendar, promoting literary events for 45 years; staff, contributors, and an editor read, all terrific poets.
Co-Curators: Sharon Coleman & Joyce Jenkins
Sharon Coleman is the author of Paris Blinks, microfictions, and Half Circle, poetry. She teaches poetry at Berkeley City College, directs the Milvia Street art and literary journal, and writes for Poetry Flash.
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Joyce Jenkins is Editor/Director of Poetry Flash, author of Portal and Joy Road, a chapbook. Poems: Parthenon West Review, Ambush Review, ZYZZYVA, Addison Street Anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us.
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Lisa Jacquline Graves
Lisa Jacquline Graves was born in Southern California and has lived in the Bay Area since 1980. Always involved in the visual arts, she now find art and expression in writing.
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Sharon Coleman
Sharon Coleman is the author of Paris Blinks, microfictions, and Half Circle, poetry. She teaches poetry at Berkeley City College, directs the Milvia Street art and literary journal, and writes for Poetry Flash.
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Nichelle Pete
Nichelle Pete graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a minor in Education. She loves writing poetry and short stories about the everyday life of chaos.
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Tiffany Higgins
Tiffany Higgins is author of The Apparition at Fort Bragg, e-chapbook, Iron Horse Literary Review contest-winner, selected by Camille Dungy; And Aeneas Stares into Her Helmet, Carolina Wren Poetry Prize.
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Anna-Marie Ross
Anne-Marie Ross is a substitute teacher living in Oakland. Not content being the East Bay's answer to Dorothy Zbornak, she takes writing classes at Berkeley City College and the Marsh.
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Richard Silberg
Richard Silberg, Associate Editor of Poetry Flash, is author of The Horses: New and Selected Poems, Deconstruction of the Blues, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry.
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