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Please join us in San Francisco on Sunday, April 6th for an intimate evening of great writing at the next Bazaar Writers Salon, featuring Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, Jeremy Graves, Mark Irwin, and Weijia Pan.Bazaar Writers Salon
Sunday, April 6th, 6:00 p.m.
Readings by Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, Jeremy Graves, Mark Irwin, and Weijia Pan
Hosted by Peter Kline
Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St., San Francisco
Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hopkins Review, Oxford Poetry, and Poetry Northwest. She has two lesbian moms and is originally from New Jersey.
Jeremy Graves is a co-author of the bestselling meditation book The Mind Illuminated, which explores the intersection of Buddhist practice, mindfulness, and cognitive psychology (Simon & Schuster). His first collection of poems, Hallelujah Junction, is forthcoming. His work has appeared in αntiphony, Sundog Lit, MER, and elsewhere. He has received grants from the University of California and the Community of Writers and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Montaigne Medal, and the 2024 Saints & Sinners Poetry Prize. He is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology and lives in San Francisco. You can find him on Instagram: @jeremygraveswashere.
Mark Irwin is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, which include Once When Green (2025), Joyful Orphan (2023), Shimmer (2020), American Urn: Selected Poems (1987-2014), Large White House Speaking (2013), Tall If (2008), Bright Hunger (2004), White City (2000), Quick, Now, Always (1996), and Against the Meanwhile: Three Elegies (1988). He has also translated Philippe Denis’ Notebook of Shadows, Nichita Stănescu’s Ask the Circle to Forgive You: Selected Poems, and Zanzibar: Selected Poems and Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (forthcoming with Alain Borer). His collection of essays, Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry, was published in 2017. His poetry and essays have appeared in many literary magazines including The American Poetry Review, Agni Review, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Pleiades, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, New American Writing, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Southern Review, and Tin House. Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, four Pushcart Prizes, two Colorado Book Awards, the James Wright Poetry Award, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, The Juniper Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. A professor in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California, he lives in Los Angeles and the mountains outside Salida, Colorado. His poetry has been translated into several languages.
Weijia Pan is the author of Motherlands, selected by Louise Glück for the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. A poet and translator from Shanghai, China, his poems have appeared in AGNI, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Georgia Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston, where he was a winner of the Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry. He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Deviants (Stephen F. Austin State University Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, and James Merrill House. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure, and the Persea anthology of self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, and can be found online at www.peterklinepoetry.com.
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Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St,San Francisco, California, United States
