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Well-RED features Gail Wronsky and Joel Thomas Katz reading from their new books!Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
New address: 38 South Second Street, downtown San José.
Come visit and celebrate the new gallery space for Works/San José!
Open mic to start the show!
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Joel Thomas Katz lives in Palo Alto, California. His poems have appeared in Sand Hill Review, Montserrat Review, West Wind Review, Spillway, Caesura, DMQ Review, Red Wheelbarrow and MacQueen’s Quinterly. His latest books are Aqueduct (2023) and Erase | Endure (2020), both published by Dutch Poet Press. Joel has also co-translated poems by contemporary Dutch poets Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer. www.joelthomaskatz.com
Gail Wronsky is the author, coauthor, or translator of seventeen books of poetry and prose, including Some Disenfranchised Evening (Swan Scythe Press, 2024), Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2021) and the poetry collections Imperfect Pastorals; Poems for Infidels; and Dying for Beauty, a finalist for the Western Arts Federation Poetry Prize. She is the translator of Argentinean poet Alicia Partnoy’s book Fuegos Florales/Flowering Fires, winner of the American Poetry Prize from Settlement House Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry International, Guesthouse, and Volt.
Gail is the recipient of an Artists Fellowship from the California Arts Council. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Pratik, the LA Issue; Poets Against War; The Black Body; In Possession of Shakespeare; The Poet’s Child; Wide Awake: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond, and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles. The Moose in the Moon, her book of poetry for children, was published by Tsehai Publishers. Gail is coeditor of the anthology What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing & Death (What Books Press, 2021). She taught creative writing and women’s literature at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she was awarded the Harry M. Daum Professorship.
https://www.gailwronskypoet.com
Photo: Alexis Rhone Fancher
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Poetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and, in many cases, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived, now located in San José History Park. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn), Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant. We also thank Brandenburg Family Foundation and Anne & Mark's Art Party for their generous giving.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Works/San José, art and performance center, 56 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95113-2500, United States,San Jose, California
