by Frances Phillips | Dec 12, 2014 | 2008, Literary Arts, News
Congratulations to writer Summer Brenner whose Richmond Tales: Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle was selected by the California Teachers Association (CTA) for the California Reads program–part of CTA’s Read Across America initiative. Brenner’s book...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 19, 2014 | 2011, Literary Arts, News
Through extensive interviews and exchanges with undocumented youth and collaboration with the creative team at Marsh Youth Theater, poet Gary Soto developed In and Out of Shadows, a musical play. Marsh Youth Theater presented the play last year–drawing...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
The University of California Botanical Gardens covers 34 acres above the Berkeley campus. Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White are collaborating with the gardeners and garden administrators to create a poetry installation and transmedia project designed to deepen...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 20, 2013 | 1998, Literary Arts, News
Heather Stallings (then Heather Drohan) collaborated with Zyzzyva in 1998 to develop and publish her first novel, False Alarm, as part of a “Zyzzyva Discovery” book publication series featuring new writers. Now installments of her fictional “Click...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 12, 2013 | 2011, Literary Arts, News
On November 7, Theater of Yugen is premiering Emmett Till A River, developed by poet and composer Kevin Simmonds and poet and Yugen Artistic Associate Judy Halebsky, in collaboration with the Yugen Ensemble and Artistic Director Jubilith Moore. Performances will take...