Matt Gonzalez’s New Poetry Series | The Green Arcade

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Join publisher Matt Gonzalez in celebrating the launch of The Page Poets Series with reading from the poets whose verse collections represent volumes I, II, and III.

Tamsin Spencer Smith is a poet, painter, and essayist. Her debut collection Word Cave was published by Risk Press in early 2018. Between First & Second Sleep is her second full-length collection. Her poems appear in various verse anthologies, including Everything Indicates (Heyday Press); Lightning Strikes (Dolby Chadwick Gallery); Love in the Face of Everything (Tamalpais Press); and Reverberations: A Visual Conversation (Risk Press). Smith was born in Cambridge, England, and grew up in Coconut Grove, Florida. She graduated with highest honors from Kenyon College and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, where she gives an annual poetry reading. She lives in Noe Valley with her son and daughter.

Micah Ballard was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books), Afterlives (Bootstrap Press), and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press). Ballard has authored over a dozen small books, including: Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse), Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter), Absinthian Journal (Old Gold), Bettina Coffin (Red Ant), New Poems (Blue Press), and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Bootstrap Press). With poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, he co-edits Lew Gallery Editions and Auguste Press. They live in San Francisco with their daughter Lorca. He works at the University of San Francisco.

Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library. Post-Apollo Press published his first full-length book There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn’t Talk: A GUSTONBOOK in 2011. Other books include: The Duncan Era: One Poet’s Cosmology (Spuyten Duyvil); Drops of Wine / Drops of Rain (Spuyten Duyvil); from Book of Kings (Bird and Beckett Books); Das Gedichtete (Ugly Duckling); her friends down at the French cafe had no English words for me (PUSH); Easy Eden (PUSH); from Chansonniers (Blue Press); Spirit Guest & Others (Lew Gallery Editions); Fess Parker (Red Ant Press); After the Sinews (Auguste Press); U.S.A. (SurfZombie); The Young American Poets (showerhead press). With his wife, Iranian poet and artist Ava Koohbor, Dunagan translates poetry from Farsi.

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