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Moe's literary events began as a weekly poetry reading called Monday@Moe's. Over the years Moe's Books has become one of the premier Bay Area venues to hear novelists, poets, activists, and scholars read from their works. We archive our events in audio and video files that can be accessed from our webpage. Sign up for the Moe's Books events calendar alerts here.
All events, unless noted, start at 7:30pm
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Nathalie Handal and Deema K. Shehabi, Thursday, May 17th
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Nathalie Handal's new book of poems is Poet in Andalucía. Rattapallax Magazine says, "Poet in Andalucía—about Spain, about the Middle East, about shared destinies and hopes—touches me deeply; it reminds us of what's inconsolable, of what's multiple, of what's irreducible, and what's simultaneous." Among her other books is the poetry collection Love and Strange Horses and the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond, which she co-edited. She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order, and winner of a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award. |
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Deema K. Shehabi's first book of poems is Thirteen Departures From the Moon; Naomi Shihab Nye says, "Deema Shehabi's map is huge and deep as she weaves the threads of landscape, earth and sky, into a cloth wide enough to cover everyone. Her grandfather was the mayor of Gaza—in his light, in the light of her precious mother and her people's ongoing pain, with a stunning lyrical gift of seeing and knowing, she walks the wide world through language that redeems and blesses." She is also co-editor of the anthology Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (poems and essays celebrating Baghdad's oldest bookselling and publishing street) to be published in June 2012. |
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Elisabeth Frost, Amanda Nadelberg and Mira Rosenthal, Thursday, May 24th
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Elisabeth Frost's first full-length book of poems is All of Us. Alicia Ostriker says, "In the white space out beyond Elisabeth Frost's cropped tales, subtle situations, plausible and bizarre fantasias, you may sense the ghosts of Kafka and Borges strolling. But these delicious, low-key, disturbing and always surprising prose poems are a world unto themselves." She has also published the chapbook Rumor and a critical study, The Feminist Avant-garde in American
Poetry. She is co-editor, as well, of Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews. She is founder and editor of the Poets Out Loud Book Series from Fordham University Press. |
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Amanda Nadelberg's new book is Bright Brave Phenomena. Timothy Donnelly says, "Nadelberg's second collection offers dizzying shifts in scale and boldly propulsive logic from the stability of poems scrupulously attentive to what the aircraft industry calls 'structural integrity.' . . . This is a beautifully affirming book." Her first collection, Isa the Truck Named Isadore, was winner of the 2005 Slope Editions Book Prize. |
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Mira Rosenthal's first book of poems, The Local World, was the 2010 winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize selected by Maggie Anderson, who says, "In poem after poem of The Local World, the human body and the land are at risk. What mitigates the danger is the
power of language to reshape experience. . . . What an eye for the precise detail this poet has, and what wild music!" She is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. |
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Carol V. Davis and Grace Grafton, Thursday, May 31st
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Carol V. Davis's new book of poems is Between Storms. Elaine Terranova says, "In ravishing line after line, Carol V. Davis balances between cultures, between generations, and, yes, between storms. She traces her family's odyssey back to the old world against the tide
of survivors escaping from it. The voice of these poems is true and constant, finding a still, tender center in the upheaval of living." She won the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize for a previous collection, Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg. She was a senior Fulbright
scholar in Russia 1996-7 and 2005; she published It's Time to Talk About . . . in a bilingual collection in Russia in 1997, and had her poetry read on Radio Russia, as well on National Public Radio here in this country. |
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Grace Marie Grafton's new book of poems is Whimsey, Reticence and Laud, a book of sonnets each triggered by one word which serves as the title; the poem then tries to embody the spirit of the word. Her other books of poems include Other Clues, a book of prose poems, Visiting Sisters, poems inspired by artwork of contemporary women, and the chapbook Zero, winner of the Poetic Matrix Press contest. She is a coordinator of the Last Word reading series at Nefeli Café in Berkeley. |
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Barry Gifford, Monday, June 4th
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The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for millions of readers around the globe. He is literary heir of Conrad, of Hemingway, of Algren and Camus, exposing the underbelly of the American Dream in ever surprising twists and turns. His novel Wild at Heart was made into a film by David Lynch, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and his novel Perdita Durango was made into a feature film by Alex de la Iglesia. He cowrote, with David Lynch, the film Lost Highway , and with Matt Dillon, the film City of Ghosts . Gifford has received awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Premio Brancati in Italy. His most recent book is Imagining Paradise: New and Collected Poems. |
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David Stark Wilson, Wednesday, June 6th
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David Wilson was born in Berkeley, California, in 1961. His father was a computer scientist and an avid outdoorsman who often marshaled the family on rugged mountaineering adventures in the nearby Sierra Nevada. Growing up in the university town of Berkeley, Wilson gained an early appreciation for the diverse architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 1984 Wilson received a degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. While studying there, he began the furniture and building projects that inspired his pursuit of architecture and led to his founding of the firm WA Design in 1985. His early work was strongly influenced by the early twentieth-century shingle style architect Bernard Maybeck. Wilson's work has matured into a regional modernist architecture that shows influences of Maybeck and Neutra.
Wilson's most valued early experiences were rooted in hiking and climbing the mountains and cliffs of the Sierra Nevada. Incorporating his outdoor influences, his approach to design emphasizes the interrelationship of building and site. Ordering principles for a project borrow from their context and often metaphorically relate to the natural landscape.
David Wilson's interest in architecture and photography converged during his backroad encounters with the austere agricultural buildings and landscape of California's Central Valley. In June 2003 his first book, Structures of Utility , was published. In July 2008 his second book, Above All , a photo essay on California's highest peaks, was published by Heyday. Articles on Wilson's architecture and WA Design have been featured in numerous publications, including Metropolitan Home, Residential Architect, and California Home and Design. The Norfolk House was recently selected for inclusion in Russell Abraham's California Cool: Residential Modernism Reborn (Images Publishing, 2010). Wilson and his wife, Stacia Cronin, live in Berkeley with their two children, Chase and Kai.
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Celebrating Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women's Poetry edited by Andrena Zawinski, Thursday, June 7th
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Contributors reading: Judy Bebekaar, Lucille Lang Day, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Christina Hutchins and Janell Moon. This contributors’ reading by five accomplished Bay Area women
poets is a celebration of Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women's Poetry, which includes forty-one San Francisco Bay Area women poets in total. Grace Cavalieri, producer of NPR's "The Poet and the Poem" says, "Forty-one women are unarmed but dangerous. They can change your life with clarity, truth and power in equal measure. These poets, from the literary culture of San Francisco, make up an album of rich fabrics combining the ordinary and the magnificent. Intimate details and heightened temperaments give us more reason to care about poetry." The anthology editor is Andrena Zawinski, also an award- winning poet and educator. Her books of poems include Something About, winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and Traveling in Reflected Light, winner of a Kenneth Patchen Prize in Poetry. A longtime feminist and activist, she is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com and founder and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area Women's Poetry Salon. |
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Jessica Fisher and Margaret Ronda, Thursday, June 14th
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Jessica Fisher's new book of poems is Inmost. Louise Glück says of it, "Her poems are analytic meditations, their variety and beauty manifestations of extraordinary sensitivity to English syntax." Her first book, Frail-Craft, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. |
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Margaret Ronda's first book of poems is Personification; it was chosen for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize by Carl Phillips, who says, "The poems of Personification fascinate—as in, bind fast—the reader with their invitation to join "a pilgrim's journey chastened by ruin. Here is a strange and arresting vision, indeed." |
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David Alpaugh and Kathleen Lynch, Thursday, June 21st
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David Alpaugh's new poetry chapbook is Crazy Dave Talks With the Poets. His work appears widely in hard copy and on the net, and he is the monthly poetry columnist for Scene 4 Magazine. A finalist for Poet Laureate of California, he is known for his controversial essays
and his satiric poems on “Po-Biz.” His first collection, Counterpoint, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press. His work is anthologized in California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present. |
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Kathleen Lynch's first collection, Hinge, won the Black Zinnias National Poetry Book Competition. Stephen Dunn says, "She's a poet of both gravity and charm, continually fascinated with the vagaries of what it means to be alive. I'm an unabashed Kathleen Lynch fan. She even knows how to make sadness lively." Her chapbooks include How to Build an Owl, No Spring Chicken, Alterations of Rising, and Kathleen Lynch: Greatest Hits. |
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Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show Rose Black & poets to be announced, Thursday, July 19th
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Kaya Oakes with the Conspiracy of Beards, Wednesday, July 11th
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Kaya Oakes is the author of Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, the poetry collection Telegraph , and cofounder of Kitchen Sink , winner of the Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Magazine. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Oakland. |
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Conspiracy of Beards is a 30-member a capella male choir which performs exclusively the songs of the legendary poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Since its foundation in 2003, the choir has performed to dozens of enthusiastic audiences around the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Anita Barrows, Dawn McGuire and David Shaddock, Thursday, July 26th
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Ruth L. Schwartz and Ruth Thompson, Thursday, September 20th
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