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At 5 pm on Saturday April 25th, Lone Glen is proud to present our first event of the 2026 spring season with a book launch for poet Preeti Vangani! Of Vangani’s new collection, poet Jane Wong writes, “Fifty Mothers asks what it means to mother and to daughter, as a verb dedicated to proximity, to getting closer and closer still. Vangani's imagery is lush and bodily, simultaneously precise and bewildering.” We’re so excited to celebrate Fifty Mothers in the company of illustrious Bay Area poets Gabriel Cortez, Cate Lycurgus, and Maw Shein Win. Join us in the garden! $10-15 suggested donation but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. ABOUT THE WRITERS
GABRIEL CORTEZ is a poet, educator, and organizer based in the Bay Area, California. His work has appeared in Poem-A-Day by The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Breakbeat Poets Anthology Volume 4, and elsewhere. A VONA, Poetry Incubator, and #BARS workshop alum, he has received awards from the Gerbode Foundation, Rainin Foundation, the National Performance Network, the University of California, Palette Poetry, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Gabriel's debut one-person show, "Between Two Rising Seas," debuts at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) Fall 2027.
CATE LYCURGUS is the author of Seacliff (Bull City Press, 2025). Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2025, Ploughshares, Orion, and elsewhere. Cate lives in San Jose, California, where she interviews for 32 Poems and teaches. You can find her at www.catelycurgus.com or on Instagram @catelycurgus.
PREETI VANGANI is an Indian poet & writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers (River River Books, 2026). Her work has been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize.Vangani has been a resident at UCross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA through which she facilitates poetry workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.
MAW SHEIN WIN’S latest full-length poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Her previous full-length collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) was longlisted for the PEN America 2021 Open Book Award, and shortlisted for the Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA, the recipient of the 2026 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature, 2025 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2025 Nomadic/SF Foundation Literary Award for Non-fiction. She teaches poetry in the MFA Programs at the University of San Francisco, Dominican University, and Saint Mary’s College of California. mawsheinwin.com
ABOUT THE SERIES
LONE GLEN is a 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 hosts most events in the spring, summer, and fall months and usually goes on hiatus each winter.
ABOUT THE VENUE
This event will take place in 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.
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1409 Derby St, Berkeley, CA 94702-2310, United States
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