A Night of Poetry: Michelle Brittan Rosado’s “Why Can’t It Be Tenderness” | SF

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Bay Area poets Heather June Gibbons, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Randall Mann will read with Michelle Brittan Rosado, who will be in town to launch her debut collection, Why Can’t It Be Tenderness.

Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and published by the University of Utah Press. She teaches at San Francisco State University.

Barbara Jane Reyes is an adjunct professor in Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco and the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017), and four previous collections of poetry.

Michelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at the University of Southern California.

Randall Mann is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Proprietary (Persea Books, 2017), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Northern California Book Award. A book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry, is forthcoming from Diode Editions in March 2019.

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