Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Ales Debeljak and Rusty Morrison
7:30PM
Pegasus Books, Berkeley
Free
Please join Parthenon West Review in welcoming featured poets Ales Debeljak and Rusty Morrison at Pegasus Books, Berkeley, on Tuesday June 26, 7:30PM.
Ales Debeljak has published ten books of essays and seven books of poems in his native Slovenian. His books of poems in English translation include Anxious Moments (White Pine, 1994), The City and the Child (White Pine, 1999) and Dictionary of Silence (1999). His non-fiction books include Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia (White Pine, 1994), Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) and a comprehensive anthology The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in Postcommunist WorldThe Imagination of Terra Incognita: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine, 1997) which he edited. Debeljak teaches at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana and directs Center for Religious and Cultural Studies. Debeljak recently served as a visiting scholar at Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University in Illinois. He and his American wife, Erica Johnson, live in Ljubljana and have three children.
Rusty Morrison's manuscript the true keeps calm biding its story won The Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by Peter Gizzi, and will be published by Ahsahta in January 2008. This manuscript also won this year's Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, selected by Susan Howe. Rusty Morrison's first poetry collection, Whethering, won the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing 2004), selected by Forrest Gander. She has been a recipient of the Cecil Hemley (2006), and Robert H. Winner (2003) Memorial Awards from The Poetry Society of America. She has also been a co-winner of the Five Fingers Review Poetry Contest (2003). Her poems, essays, or reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Columbia, Chicago Review, New American Writing, The Modern Review, Pleiades, Parthenon West, Verse, VOLT, and elsewhere. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley
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Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29, 2007
Spring Poetry Festival
7PM (both evenings)
Pegasus Books, Berkeley (April 28) and Intersection for the Arts (April 29)
Free
14 Hills, Poetry International, and Parthenon West Review will celebrate their recent issues with readings by contributors and editors! Please, help us welcome Poetry International on tour from San Diego!
At 7PM on April 28 at Pegasus Books in Berkeley, join Poetry International and Parthenon West Review with readings and celebration. Contributors include Ilya Kaminsky, Denise Newman, Barbara Tomash, Brian Strang, and Patrick Duggan will read with Editors Bruce Boston, Martin Woodside, Chad Sweeney and David Holler.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley
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At 7PM on April 29 at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, celebrate
14 Hills' new issue release with Poetry International
and Parthenon West Review.
Contributors and editors include Maxine Chernoff,
Paul Hoover, John Felstiner, Ilya Kaminsky, Bruce
Boston, Martin Woodside, Chad Sweeney, David Holler.
More names to be announced as dates approach.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street (at 16th Street)
San Francisco
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Saturday, April 1, 2006
7PM, Valencia Street Books, San Francisco
Free
Coffee House Press and Parthenon West Review presents a reading with Greg Hewett, Ted Mathys, Truong Tran, and Roxane Beth Johnson. Hosted by the editors of Parthenon West Review.
Valencia Street Books
569 Valencia Street (between 16th St. and 17th St.)
415-552-7200
San Francisco
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Friday & Saturday, March 17 & 18, 2006
7PM (both nights), Peacock Lounge, San Francisco & Cody's Books, Berkeley
Donations appreciated
Two-night press festival spotlights Verse Magazine, New American Writing, Volt, and Parthenon West Review.
Please join us March 17 and 18 for Press Fest 2006, a literary festival celebrating the work and community of these four exciting literary journals.
The festival will feature readings from editors and contributing poets, including Brian Henry, Andrew Zawacki, Tessa Rumsey, Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff, Laynie Browne, Graham Foust, George Albon, Larry Kearney, Chad Sweeney, Rusty Morrison, Andrew Joron, and David Holler.
Event hosted by Parthenon West Review editors Chad Sweeney and David Holler.
For more information, please contact Chad Sweeney and David Holler at editors@parthenonwestreview.com or call 415-261-3498.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Peacock Lounge
552 Haight Street
San Francisco
$5 suggested donation
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Cody's Books
2454 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley
$2 suggested donation
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
7PM, Mama Buzz Cafe, Oakland
Free
Remember the days when sharp reckless writers and their friends would get together in the back room of some local establishment and discuss the highs and lows of the literary lifestyle? Finally, with the allegiance of Watchword Press and Parthenon West Review, a breeding ground for crooked members of the literate underground has been revived! Come see for yourself ... Locally infamous writers Susanna Kittredge, Jason Morris, Evan Rehill and Sarah Rosenthal will present new work, with live music by Aaron Novik's Floating World, and a new film by Dafna Kory.
Mama Buzz Cafe
2318 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd Street, around the corner from 19th Street BART)
Oakland
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
5PM - 7PM, San Francisco State University's Poetry Center, San Francisco
Free
Featuring SFSU faculty and student contributors, including Jason Morris, Susanna Kittredge, Zaid Shlah, Barbara Tomash, Paul Hoover, and Daniel J. Langton.
Poetry Center
San Francisco State University
Humanities Building, Room 512
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco
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Hear streaming audio of the poets from this event.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
7PM, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco
Free
Featuring readings from Paul Hoover, John Felstiner, Thomas Centolella, Kim Shuck, Barbara Tomash, and the art of Kate Eric.
Frey Norris Gallery
456 Geary Street
San Francisco
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
7:30PM, Pegasus Books, Berkeley
Free
Issue Three Release Celebration! Come join us celebrate the third issue of Parthenon West Review and hear poets Joyce Jenkins, Richard Silberg, Claudia MonPere, and Donna de la Perrière.
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005
7:30 PM, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
$5 - $15 (sliding scale)
Two poets will read for both Parthenon West Review and Five Fingers Review and actors will perform the poetry from several issues of each literary journal. Also, Parthenon West Review is celebrating the release of its third issue.
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia (near 16th Street)
San Francisco
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Featured poets: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Joseph Lease, Brian Teare and Tehea Robie.