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SUMMARY:Summer and Similes with Four Bay Area Poets
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nSummer and Similes with Four Bay Area 
 Poets\n\n\n\nWhen: 4:30 pm\, Friday\, June 2\, 2023\n\n\n\nWhere: Los Gatos 
 Library\, 100 Villa Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA 95030\n\n \n\nIt’s been a long 
 winter\, and now it’s time for a special summer celebration of four Bay 
 Area poets presenting their new or upcoming collections. Join us for a 
 special poetry reading curated and hosted by Town Poet Laureate Jen 
 Siraganian. Featuring Sally Ashton\, Kelly Cressio-Moeller\, Nathalie 
 Khankan\, and Jennifer Tseng.\n\n\n\nAbout the Poets:\n\n\nSally Ashton is 
 the author of Some Odd Afternoon\, Her Name Is Juanita\, These Metallic 
 Days\, and most recently\, The Behaviour of Clocks\, WordFarm 2019. 
 Listening to Mars is forthcoming in 2024 from Cornerstone Press. A former 
 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\, Sally publishes in three genres and 
 specializes in short forms. She taught creative writing at SJSU for over 
 ten years and continues to teach workshops\, both Zoom and in person. She 
 is editor-in-chief of DMQ Review\, an online journal of poetry and 
 art.\n\n\n\nKelly Cressio-Moeller is a poet and visual artist. Her poems 
 have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes\, Best New Poets\, and Best of the 
 Net\, appearing widely in journals including North American Review\, 
 Salamander\, THRUSH Poetry Journal\, Water~Stone Review\, and ZYZZYVA. She 
 is an Associate Editor at Glass Lyre Press and lives in the Bay Area. Shade 
 of Blue Trees (Two Sylvias Press\, Finalist for the Wilder Prize) is her 
 first poetry collection.\n\n\n\nNathalie Khankan is the author of Quiet 
 Orient Riot (Omnidawn)\, recipient of the 2021 California Book Award in 
 Poetry. She was the founding director of The Danish House in Palestine and 
 teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Middle Eastern 
 Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley.\n\n\n\nJennifer Tseng is the author 
 of The Man with My Face (AAWW 2005) recipient of a PEN American Open Book 
 Award\, Red Flower\, White Flower which won the Marick Press Prize\, Mayumi 
 and the Sea of Happiness (Europa Editions 2015) which was a finalist for 
 the New England Book Award\, and The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal 
 Press 2017) which won an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her work has been featured 
 on Poem-a-Day\, POETRY\, American Short Fiction\, Paris Review Daily. H Not 
 so dear Jenny which won the Juniper Prize will be published by University 
 of Massachusetts Press in 2024. She teaches literature and creative writing 
 at UC Santa Cruz.\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Fireplace Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Breanna Homrighausen":MAILTO:bhomrighausen@losgatosca.gov
CATEGORIES:Adult, All Ages
CONTACT;CN="Breanna Homrighausen":MAILTO:bhomrighausen@losgatosca.gov
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