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Join us for our April poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library.Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Allison Hedge Coke & Patty Seyburn
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, April 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 information about our featured poets:
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s acknowledgements include the Thomas Wolfe Prize & Lecture, the AWP George Garrett Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Nikšić Montenegro, the inaugural First Jade Nurtured Sihui Female International Poetry Award for Excellent Foreign Poet, and a California Legacy Artist Award from CA Arts Council. The author/editor of 18 books, her most recent release is the ASLE, CLMP, and National Book Award Finalist and Emory Elliott Prize winning book-length poem, Look at This Blue (Coffee House Press, 2022). She teaches for UC Riverside.
Patty Seyburn has published six collections of poems: Jukebox (What Books Press, Glass Table Collective, 2025); Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Perfecta (What Books Press, Glass Table Collective, 2014); Hilarity, (New Issues Press, 2009), Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and was a 2024 Fulbright Scholar in Iasi, Romania.
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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208 Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA, United States, California 91711
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