A Night With Nightboat Poets | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join the Green Arcade and four renowned poets from Nightboat Books as they read recent works on Tuesday, November 24 at 7pm.

Cole Swensen is the author of 10 poetry collections and was editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid. A San Francisco native, she is currently a professor at Brown University and has received numerous prizes including the National Book Award for poetry. The Boston Review says of her work, ” Swensen is interested in the representation of representation, in examining not only the way the paintings make meaning, but the way language makes meaning of that meaning. Above all, she is interested in the process and procedures of perception.”

Orlando White is the author of Letterrs (2015) and Bone Light (2009). He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is a recipient of a Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency, and a Bread Loaf John Ciardi Fellowship. He has taught at The Art Center Design College and Brown University. Currently, he teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, AZ and in the low-residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

Gabriella Klein is the author of Land Sparing (2015). She earned her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Barbara, California.

John Sakkis is the author of The Islands (2015) and Rude Girl (2009), as well as numerous chapbooks and ephemera. Since 2005 he has edited Both Both, a magazine of poetry and art. With Angelos Sakkis he has translated four books by Athenian poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis: most recently Y’es and Diaeresis (2015); Maribor (2011), which was awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation, and Chinese Notebook. He lives in Oakland.

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