Clearly Meant: Glenn Ingersoll Presents Jan Steckel
Schedule
Sat Jun 06 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705-2231, United States | Berkeley, CA
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Clearly Meant reading series at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library presents Jan Steckel. Jan will read her poetry, then sit for an interview with host Glenn Ingersoll. A free microchapbook of Jan's poetry is available at all Berkeley public library branches and at the reading.Jan Steckel is a Jewish, disabled and bisexual poet and writer and a retired pediatrician. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press, 2018) won two Rainbow Awards. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) also won awards. Her creative prose and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Assaracus and elsewhere. She has four Pushcart nominations. She lives in Oakland, California.
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