BAWP's Monthly Reading Series in Berkeley

A monthly literary reading series featuring Bay Area Writing Project Teacher Consultants and other local writers reading from their own work

Expressions Gallery
2035 Ashby Avenue at Adeline in Berkeley (very close to Ashby BART)
www.expressionsgallery.org

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 — 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Featuring:
Kaya Oakes & Michael Larkin

Kaya Oakes' nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, was published by Henry Holt in 2009 and was selected as a San Francisco Chronicle notable book. She’s also the author of a collection of poetry, Telegraph, which received the Transcontinental Poetry Prize from Pavement Saw Press. Her third book, a hybrid memoir/ethnography, is called Radical Reinvention, and is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in April of 2012. In 2002, Kaya co-founded Kitchen Sink Magazine, which received the Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Magazine in 2003. She’s taught writing at UC Berkeley since 1999 and has been a BAWP Teacher Consultant since 2002. Kaya has been the recipient of a teaching fellowship from the Mellon Faculty Institute as well as writing awards from the Academy of American Poets and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction.

Michael Larkin's short stories and essays have appeared in literary journals such as Writing on the Edge, The Cimarron Review, You Must Be This Tall to Ride, Kitchen Sink, and others. His work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Michael is a lecturer at UC Berkeley, where he teaches composition and creative writing, and has been a Teacher Consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project since 2002.

NOTE: an open mic will follow the featured readers as time permits.

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Expressions Gallery is located on Ashby Ave just above the large intersection where Ashby meets Adeline. You can park in the lot next to the gallery when the bank next door is closed (but don't park there when the bank is open).