Poetry Unbound #24 – Reading Series at Art House Gallery in Berkeley – May 3, 2015

Event Date: Sunday, May 3, 2015
Contact: Richard Loranger, 917-399-8743, [email protected]


Poetry Unbound #24

In May, Poetry Unbound steps out of National Poetry Month with a gaze to the future, previewing the next generation of poetry in America. Eliot Schain, acclaimed poet and teacher, has been leading students of Alhambra High School in Martinez for years into their own forms and voices. This month we feature Eliot himself along with a selection of his spirited and word-loving students. Do not miss this one, and grab yourself a glimpse into the future of poetry.

Poetry Unbound is a monthly reading series dedicated to presenting new work in a broad range of styles and genres, and to bringing together writers from different circles and communities, to strengthen and unite. We present passionate wordsmiths on the first Sunday of each month, with a brief open mic, at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley. Hosted by Oakland writers Clive Matson and Richard Loranger.


Poetry Unbound Reading Series

featuring:
Eliot Schain
and the students of Alhambra High School

with a brief open mic

hosted by Richard Loranger and Clive Matson

Sunday, May 3, 2015
signup 5 pm
start 5:15

$5 to $10 donation/$1 for students, with no one turned away
All ages. Wheelchair accessible. Please support the arts!

Art House Gallery
2905 Shattuck Ave.
(one block north of Ashby, and close to Ashby BART)
Berkeley


PERFORMER BIOS

Eliot Schain’s poetry has been published in Ploughshares and American Poetry Review, among others, and was included in two recent anthologies: The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics From California. His most recent book is Westering Angels, available from Zeitgeist Press, and additional poems can be found at his website: eliotschain.com. He has served as Program Director for The Poetry Society of America, and now lives in Berkeley, CA, where he makes a living as a psychotherapist and high school teacher.

The Students of Alhambra High School have this to say about their work:

Miya Johnson: “I'm an aspiring baker that comes from a Mexican background. I think poetry is a way for me to express how I feel in order to help better understand myself.”

Jonathan Serbellon: “What inspires me is the freedom you have to create who you want to be.”

Brady Rousseau: “[Poetry gives me] the opportunity to make sense of my perceptions, and the strange things going on in my head. Poetry as distillation.”

Ava Garshasbi: “Writing is a form of release for me, so when I feel like I am unable to say what I am thinking or feeling, I put it down to express what I feel needs to be said.”

Kyle Fitzpatrick: “Knowing that literature can create new and profound ideas about life, that’s what inspires me.”

Tyler Healy (quoting R. Lutece): “The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist..."