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Donna de la Perrière's second book of poems is Saint Erasure. Donald Revell says, “in Saint Erasure, we may witness, with the leisure of true virtue, poetry's essential miracle.…The curve of a cheekbone becomes eternal love, and memory an ocean. Here is a radiant palimpsest. Here is vision awash in vision itself.” She teaches at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon.

Joseph Lease's new book is Testify. Julie Carr says, “…he is one of the few writers I have ever read who unveils the deeply personal in the political. We are his grateful readers, for we need this book now.” He is also the author of Broken World, Human Rights, and The Room. His poems have been featured on NPR and published in or selected for The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR, Bay Poetics, Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and the forthcoming Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition). He chairs the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts.

After the reading at the store, you're invited to a related event:

100,000 Poets For Change
“A demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change”
Saturday September 24th, 8pm @ The Subterranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
with Mama Coatl, Chris Cole,, Jenny Overman and Sam Pierstorff