Colossus Press at Beast Crawl!
Schedule
Sat Jul 27 2024 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm
Location
Summer Bar&Lounge | Oakland, CA
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Colossus Press presents an amazing line up of powerful poetry for Beast Crawl, Leg 2. Join us!Elaine Cynthia Brown aka Poet E Spoken... is the author of Cried Out Laughing and soon to be released Phonemic Awareness. is the 2nd Great Granddaughter of Joshua Halsey, History Teacher, and Free Style Artist. “I did not come to Kumbayah with you”
Oakland born poet James Cagney is the author of two books of poetry, including MARTIAN: The Saint of Loneliness, winner of 2021 James Laughlin Award from Academy of American Poets. His work has appeared in Alta and Zyzzyva. Please Visit JamesCagneyPoet.com!
Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco, a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. She has a Master's in linguistics from SFSU, with training abroad in Mexico and Chile, and is currently an MFA student in Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her debut full-length collection, Thawing: A Poetic Memoir, was released in 2024 from Collapse Press. More of her work in English and Spanish can be found at www.TaneeshCantos.com.
Susana Praver-Pérez is a Pushcart-nominated poet, editor, and visual artist. A former Physician Assistant and Associate Medical Director at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland, Susana left medicine in 2021 after four decades of community service, to pursue her passion for poetry and art on a full-time basis. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Poets Reading the News. Susana's first full-length book of poetry Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (2022). Her second full-length collection Return Against the Flow, (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), was chosen by both Ms. Magazine and NYU’s Latinx Project as one of their top 30+ poetry picks for the year. Susana divides her time between Oakland, California and San Juan, Puerto Rico and writes through the lens formed in the liminal space between languages, cultures, and geographies. Website: susanapraverperez.com.
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Summer Bar&Lounge, 517 8th St, Oakland, CA 94607-3903, United States,Oakland, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: