BOOK OF LIGHT POETRY SERIES READING at Books Inc. Alameda

Lenore Myers will read from Afterimages

Carolyn Miller will read from her new book, Random Universe

Dane Cervine will read from his new book, Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human

Lenore Myers’ poems and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, LIT, Southern Indiana Review, One, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Her limited-edition chapbook, Regards to Balthus, was published in 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press. Her first full-length manuscript, Afterimages, will be published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2026. She tutors writing and teaches English as a Second Language in Northern California.

Carolyn Miller is a poet, freelance writer/editor, and painter living in San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, ROUTE 66 AND ITS SORROWS, was published by Terrapin Books in 2017. Two other collections, LIGHT, MOVING and AFTER COCTEAU, were published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009 and 2002 respectively. Four limited-edition letterpress books of her poems were published by Protean Press, and her work has appeared widely in journals, including The Gettysburg Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and The Georgia Review. Her poetry awards include the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah, and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. She is also the author of a number of cookbooks, including Savoring San Francisco.

Dane Cervine lives in Santa Cruz, California, a small university town along the Monterey Bay coast just south of San Francisco. In addition to being a poet, Dane is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice, and Emeritus Chief of Children’s Mental Health for the Santa Cruz County Mental Health & Substance Abuse Department. Dane is the father of two grown children–daughter Kelsey, who teaches AP History, and son Gabriel who is a spoken-word poet & activist. Dane’s wife Linda, directs an internal consulting firm at the University of California, San Francisco.

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