by Frances Phillips | Mar 25, 2016 | 2013, Literary Arts, News
Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White have been collaborating with the University of California at Berkeley’s Botanical Garden to create “Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek: Language Experiments 1,” along with interactive events at the poets’...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 17, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Writer and artist Linda Norton will read from her book The Public Gardens: Poems and History, and from new work she’s developed through Home and Away: Oakland, California Prisons, and the Geography of the Heart — her collaborative project with Peralta...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 18, 2015 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
On Saturday, November 21, at 1:30 p.m., Peralta Hacienda Historical Park is hosting Oakland actor and dramatist Norman Gee, who is holding a talk-back about his use of drama with youth in juvenile detention. Also speaking are community member Gwen Jackson and Creative...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 25, 2015 | 2012, Literary Arts, News
Developed through a collaboration between poet Gary Soto and Marsh Youth Theater, In and Out of Shadows is based on the lives and experiences of a group of undocumented teenagers. Soto developed this musical play through interviews with San Francisco Bay Area...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 4, 2015 | 2008, Literary Arts, News
Poet and scholar Eleni Stecopoulos, who collaborated with the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University on a series of events and writings about poetics and healing in 2009-10, has published Visceral Poetics, which features a forward by philosopher Alphonso...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 4, 2015 | 2008, Literary Arts, News
Acclaimed poet David Meltzer, who collaborated with Big Bridge on Rockpile on the Road–an expansive writing and performance collaboration in 2008-09–will read from his poetry notebook, Two Way Mirror at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center on...
