Fourth Saturdays: Elena Karina Byrne & Daniel Romo
Schedule
Sat May 28 2022 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm
Location
Claremont Helen Renwick Library | Claremont, CA
Join us for our May poetry reading, featuring Elena Karina Byrne & Daniel Romo. In person!2pm Saturday, May 28 at the Claremont Helen Renwick Library.
Yes, you read that right -- we're moving the reading series to Fourth Saturdays beginning in May 2022.
A little about our May poets:
Former 12-year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America, Elena Karina Byrne works as a private editor, a freelance lecturer, Programming Consultant & Poetry Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Literary Programs Director for the historic Ruskin Art Club. A Pushcart Prize and Best American recipient, her books include If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn, 2021), No Don’t (What Books Press, 2020), Squander (Omnidawn, 2016), MASQUE (Tupelo Press, 2008), and The Flammable Bird, (Zoo Press, 2002). Her poems, reviews, essays, and interviews can be found in Poetry, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Plume, LARB, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies, BOMB, and elsewhere. She’s writing screenplays while completing her collection of “interrupted” essays entitled Voyeur Hour.
Daniel Romo is the author of Moonlighting as an Avalanche (Tebot Bach, 2021), Apologies in Reverse (FutureCycle Press, 2019), When Kerosene’s Involved (Mojave River Press, 2014), and Romancing Gravity (Silver Birch Press, 2013). His writing and photography can be found in The Los Angeles Review, PANK, The Good Men Project, Yemassee, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and he lives and teaches in Long Beach, CA. More at danieljromo.com.
Please note that we'll be following local covid protocols for our 5/28 reading -- stay tuned for details.
Where is it happening?
Claremont Helen Renwick Library, ,Claremont,CA,United States
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