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Friday, October 11
 

7:30pm PDT

Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar
Friday October 11, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
Sponsored by St. Mary’s College of California’s MFA Program

This celebration of poetry collates a half-dozen poets’ stylings, live on our darkest, dankest stage. Featuring multi-hyphenate award winners Kim Addonizio, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Charif Shanahan, Zeina Hashem Beck, and Danusha Lamérisfor a lurid evening of ebullient verse. Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door.
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Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of prose and poetry. Her latest poetry collection is Exit Opera. Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. Addonizio’s work has been translated into several languages and honored with fellowships from... Read More →
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Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris is the author of three poetry collections including Blade by Blade (2024, Copper Canyon Press). Winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry, she is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program.
avatar for Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies, which was selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. Winner of The Sewanee Review... Read More →
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Zeina Hashem Beck

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third poetry collection, O, won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry and was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. Her previous full-length collections are Louder than Hearts, winner of the... Read More →
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Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a Whiting Award, and was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and... Read More →
Friday October 11, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
  Poetry
  • Age Limit 21+
 
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