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Join Lone Glen for an evening with Roof Books at 6 pm on Thursday, October 24th at 1409 Derby Street in South Berkeley! This event is a book launch celebrating two new Roof Book collections from poets Norman Fischer and Deborah Meadows. We will also celebrate a new collection just out through Chax Press from Roof Books editor, James Sherry. Poet Rae Armantrout describes Sherry’s Comin’ Round as “a tour of [his] career as a poet, thinker, and influential member of the indie poetry world [. . .]. In its concern with how we live together in our various linguistic and literal ecosystems, this is a very timely book indeed.” Of the poems in Meadows’ Bumblebees, Jonathan Skinner praises “lines [that] stitch topographic contours through mountains of sound, hyphae reaching out to fellow artists, with mycelial kin drawing a map of California from a future carbon museum.” And Nada Gordon describes Fischer’s serial poem, Through a Window, as “a phenomenological exploration, in verse form, of the meanings and processes of looking.” Come out to the garden (or the living room and fireplace, weather tbd) to look and hear with these wonderful writers as they share this incredible and timely work. Warm clothing is encouraged!
ABOUT THE POETS
NORMAN FISCHER is a poet, essayist, and Soto Zen Buddhist priest. He has written and published steadily since the 1970’s. His recent poetry titles are Nature, There Was a Clattering As…, The Museum of Capitalism, and Men in Suits. Just out from Roof Books is his serial poem Through a Window. Chax Press brought out his Selected Poems 1980-2013 in 2022. His Experience: On Thinking, Writing, Language and Religion was published in the Poetics Series by University of Alabama Press in 2016. His latest Buddhist title is When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen. He lives in Muir Beach, CA with his wife Kathie, also a Zen priest. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (wwww.everydayzen.org). His books can be found at www.normanfischer.org.
DEBORAH MEADOWS graduated from SUNY, Buffalo in Philosophy and English, she moved to California where she taught for many years. She is an Emerita faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, lives with her husband in Los Angeles’ Arts District/Little Tokyo, and has published over a dozen books of poetry, most recently Neo-bedrooms, Lecture Notes, a duration poem in twelve parts, and The Demo-tion of Pluto: Poems and Plays.
JAMES SHERRY is the author of 15 books of poetry and prose. His selected works, Comin’ ‘Round, is just out from Chax Press. Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2022. His most recent poetry book, Entangled Bank, was published by Chax Press in 2016. Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine, publishing nearly 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation, Inc. in 1977, producing over 10,000 events of poetry and other arts in NYC. For more, see jamessherry.net.
LOCATION
The back garden at 1409 Derby Street, Berkeley: find the open fence door on the right side of the house (please don’t use the front door). PLEASE BRING A FRIEND, and maybe a blanket or chair! Lone Glen will provide a nonalcoholic array of drinks, and also, plenty of wine. $10-15 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. ADA accessible to the yard; there is no ADA accessible restroom.
LONE GLEN is a quarterly reading and performance series dedicated to cultivating a down-to-earth, inclusive creative community among makers of all forms. In December 2021, Lone Glen celebrated its decade birthday. Lone Glen has lived at various venues in Oakland and San Francisco, and now hosts live, in-person events at Medicine for Nightmares or in their South Berkeley backyard.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1409 Derby St, Berkeley, CA 94702-2310, United States
