Fourth Saturdays Poetry: Tamara Madison + Naoko Fujimoto
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Join us for our July poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library.
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Naoko Fujimoto & Tamara Madison
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, July 25, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
A little about our featured readers:
Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She is a poet and translator. Her poetry collections are We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan (C&R Press, 2022), Where I Was Born (Willow Books, 2019), Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory (Tupelo Press, 2021), and Mother Said, I Want Your Pain (Bull City Press, 2026). Her first translation chapbook, 09/09, is available from Toad Press. Her full-length translation collection, of Women, is available from Tupelo Press. She is a RHINO senior editor.
Tamara Madison is the author of the chapbooks The Belly Remembers (Pearl Editions) and Along the Fault Line (Picture Show Press), and three full-length volumes of poetry, Wild Domestic and Moraine (Pearl Editions) and Morpheus Dips His Oar (Sheila-Na-Gig). Her fourth collection, Russian Honeymoon, is expected from Fernwood Press in 2026. Her work has appeared in Chiron Review, the Worcester Review, A Year of Being Here, One Art, the Writer’s
Almanac, and many other publications. A native of the California desert, she is retired from teaching English and French in a Los Angeles high school. Read more about her at tamaramadisonpoetry.com
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
Learn more about the Claremont Helen Renwick Library at https://www.claremontlibrary.org/
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Naoko Fujimoto & Tamara Madison
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, July 25, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
A little about our featured readers:
Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She is a poet and translator. Her poetry collections are We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan (C&R Press, 2022), Where I Was Born (Willow Books, 2019), Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory (Tupelo Press, 2021), and Mother Said, I Want Your Pain (Bull City Press, 2026). Her first translation chapbook, 09/09, is available from Toad Press. Her full-length translation collection, of Women, is available from Tupelo Press. She is a RHINO senior editor.
Tamara Madison is the author of the chapbooks The Belly Remembers (Pearl Editions) and Along the Fault Line (Picture Show Press), and three full-length volumes of poetry, Wild Domestic and Moraine (Pearl Editions) and Morpheus Dips His Oar (Sheila-Na-Gig). Her fourth collection, Russian Honeymoon, is expected from Fernwood Press in 2026. Her work has appeared in Chiron Review, the Worcester Review, A Year of Being Here, One Art, the Writer’s
Almanac, and many other publications. A native of the California desert, she is retired from teaching English and French in a Los Angeles high school. Read more about her at tamaramadisonpoetry.com
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
Learn more about the Claremont Helen Renwick Library at https://www.claremontlibrary.org/
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