Join us on Sunday May 25th at 6:30 pm for a garden book launch of Joseph Lease’s newest collection, FIRE SEASON. Lease will read this important new book alongside featured poets Donna de la Perrière and Eric Dolan. Poet Hank Lazer deems Lease’s collection “a musical composition . . . of sorrow, shame, guilt, remembrance, and vision . . . FIRE SEASON is an intense song or symphonic composition that gives voice to the pain and shame of this present moment.” There will be music, talk, books, wine, and wildflowers.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
ERIC DOLAN is a poet & SF public educator since graduating from CCA in 2019. He has appeared Off-Broadway at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater & New York Musical Theatre Festival. Read his first book TELOSFRANKELDERACK by emailing the title @ gmail for a free print. He now lives & works in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
JOSEPH LEASE’S critically acclaimed books of poetry include Fire Season (Chax Press, 2023), The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease’s seventh book of poems, Now What, winner of the Philip Whalen Award, will be published by Chax Press in 2026. Lease’s poems "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" and "Send My Roots Rain" were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Lease’s poem "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2002 (Robert Creeley, Guest Editor). His poem “Free Again (Why don’t people)” was published in The New York Times. Lease is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts.
DONNA DE LA PERRIÈRE is the author of five poetry collections: three books -- Works of Love & Terror (2019), Saint Erasure (2010), and True Crime (2009), all from Talisman House, and two chapbooks. She co-founded the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series in 2004 and curated it until 2019, and taught creative writing for twenty years at San Francisco State.
LOCATION
The back garden at 1409 Derby Street, Berkeley: find the open fence door on the right side of the house (please don’t use the front door). PLEASE BRING A FRIEND, and maybe a blanket or chair! Lone Glen will provide a nonalcoholic array of drinks, and also, plenty of wine. $10-15 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. ADA accessible to the yard; there is no ADA accessible restroom.
LONE GLEN is a reading and performance series dedicated to cultivating a down-to-earth, inclusive creative community among makers of all forms. In December 2021, Lone Glen celebrated its decade birthday! Lone Glen hosts most events in the spring, summer, and fall months and usually goes on hiatus each winter.
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