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DESCRIPTION:KPFA RADIO + POETRY FLASH + MOE’S BOOKS present\n\n*  DIANE di PRIMA\n* 
 MICHAEL McCLURE\n* CAROL MUSKE-DUKES, California Poet Laureate\n* KAY RYAN, 
 U. S. Poet Laureate\n* AL YOUNG, California Poet Laureate (2005-2008)\n     
 (performing with bassist Dan Robbins)\n\n* Hosted by Wes “Scoop” 
 Nisker, author, performance artist & Buddhist teacher \n\n(free parking + 
 wheelchair access)\n\nBenefit: KPFA Radio + Poetry Flash\nTickets: $15 on 
 line: www.kpfa.org/events, and at supportive bookstores. $20 door 
 \nInformation: 510.848.6767x612    www.kpfa.org/events   \n\nDIANE di PRIMA 
 \nwriter, poet, teacher\nwww.dianediprima.com\n\nDiane is the author of 43 
 books of poetry and prose, including Dinners and Nightmares, Loba, Memoirs 
 of a Beatnik, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, Revolutionary Letters, 
 Selected Poems, Pieces of a Song, and Recollections of My Life as a Woman. 
 She has also contributed to and edited various anthologies of poetry, as 
 well as translating medieval Latin into English. Her plays include: The 
 Discontent of the Russian Prince, Discovery of America, Like, Murder Cake, 
 and Whale Honey.\n\n"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s 
 Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous 
 bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, 
 informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and 
 mystical modes. A great woman poet in second half of American century, she 
 broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse 
 brilliant in its particularity." —Allen Ginsberg\n\n\nMichael 
 McClure\npoet, writer, playwright, 
 novelist\nwww.michael-mcclure.com\n\nMichael McClure at the age of 22 gave 
 his first poetry reading at the legendary Six \nGallery event in San 
 Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl.  Since then he has 
 \nproduced nearly 30 books of poems and essays plus a good number of films. 
 His work \nwith Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek and saxophonist David 
 Sanborn has furthered the dramatic fusion of poetry and music. His 
 journalism has been featured in The Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the L.A. 
 Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Among McClure’s most \npopular works 
 are: Hymns to St. Geryon and Other Poems, Meat Science Essays, The Beard, 
 Love Lion Book, The Mad Cub, Solstice Blossom, September Blackberries, 
 Simple Eyes and Other Poems, Rain Mirror and Touching the Edge, for which 
 he won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry.\n \n ‘Michael 
 McClure’s poetry and prose is one of the more remarkable achievements 
 \nin recent American literature.”  – The London Times Literary 
 Supplement\n\n“One of our best and wisest bard/scholars.  McClure’s 
 thinking is brave, obdurate, \npassionate complex.”  – Anne Waldman\n   
  \n“Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the 
 \nvisionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence…”  – Robert 
 Creeley \n\nCAROL MUSKE-DUKES \nCalifornia Poet Laureate\npoet, writer, 
 novelist, reviewer, teacher\nwww.carolmuskedukes.com\n\nEarly on, Carol 
 founded and taught in a creative writing program called "Free Space" at the 
 Women's House of Detention on Riker's Island in New York. She went on to 
 become the founding director of the PhD Program in Creative Writing and 
 Literature at the University of Southern California, where she currently 
 teaches. She writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review and the LA 
 Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, The New 
 Yorker, The Nation and The American Poetry Review. Among her many awards 
 are a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry 
 Fellowship.\nHer seven books include Sparrow, An Octave Above Thunder, 
 Channeling Mark Twain, and two collections of essays, Women & Poetry and 
 Married to the Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood.\n “Invokes 
 comparisons with the very best poetry now being written in the 
 English-speaking world (with its) vibrant intensity, authentic insight, and 
 uncanny power of describing what is at the border between the visual and 
 the visionary.” — Harold Bloom\n “Carol Muske-Dukes…surveys human 
 relations with an acid clairvoyance through which the reckless currents of 
 personal and cultural history course, ripping away all but the essential 
 tones of the human conversation."   —Jorie Graham\n\nKAY RYAN \nU.S. Poet 
 Laureate\nPoet, writer, teacher,  (www.poets.org/kryan)\nKay Ryan was born 
 in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin 
 Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor's and master's 
 degree from UCLA. Her awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a 
 Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the 
 National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous others. Her work has been 
 selected four times for The Best American Poetry. Her latest book, a lovely 
 collection  from Red Berry Editions, illustrated by artist Carl Dern, is 
 The Jam Jar Lifeboat and Other Novelties Exposed.\nHer books of poems 
 include: The Niagara River (2005), Say Uncle, Elephant Rocks Flamingo 
 Watching, Strangely Marked Metal and Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends. Her  poems 
 and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale 
 Review, Paris Review, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, 
 Parnassus, among other journals and anthologies. In 2008, Kay was appointed 
 the Library of Congress's sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. 
 \n\n"Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie 
 miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary 
 culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as 
 Frost." —J. D. McClatchy\n“Full-brained poems in a largely half-brained 
 world.” — Kirkus Reviews\nAL YOUNG \nPoet, novelist, essayist, 
 scriptwriter, teacher, former California Poet 
 Laureate\nwww.alyoung.org\n\nOriginally from Mississippi and long since a 
 world traveler, Al now makes his base in Berkeley. His work has appeared in 
 Paris Review, Ploughshares, Essence, the New York Times, Chicago Review, 
 Seattle Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature, Chelsea, 
 Rolling Stone, Gathering of the Tribes, the Norton Anthology of African 
 American Literature, and the Oxford Anthology of African American 
 Literature.\n\nHis honors include Stegner, Guggenheim, Fulbright and NEA 
 Fellowships, the PEN-Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction, the 
 PEN-USA Award for Non-Fiction, two American Book Awards, two Pushcart 
 Prizes, two New York Times Notable Book of the year citations, Radio 
 Pacifica’s KPFA Peace Prize, and the Richard Wright Award for Excellence 
 in Literature. Young’s many books include the novels Sitting Pretty, Who 
 Is Angelina?,and Seduction By Light; Heaven: Collected Poems 1958-1990, The 
 Sound of Dreams Remembered (Poems 1990-2000), Coastal Nights and Inland 
 Afternoons (Poems 2001-2006), Something About the Blues: An Unlikely 
 Collection of Poetry, and Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames (The 
 Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson). \n\n “Al Young is one of my 
 favorites. He writes movingly about people and the mysteries of the human 
 heart. He has a remarkable ear, a wise and musical ear to match his voice. 
 And when I open up any of his books, I listen.” —Bill Cosby\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Hearts Gathering: Poetry, Laureates & Music for Valentine’s Day
LOCATION:King Middle School\n1781 Rose St, Berkeley
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