West Trestle Review received a grant from the Auburn Arts Commission to run a new literary series and open mic. Events are live and in-person, streamed and recorded.
When: 4 p.m., Saturdays, Oct. 8 & Nov. 12
Where: City Council Chambers, 1225 Lincoln Way, Auburn
Details: Free event, hosted by West Trestle founding editor, Patricia Caspers. Donations welcome.
Masks Required.
Featured Readers
Oct. 8: Susan Cohen is the author of Throat Singing, A Different Wakeful Animal, and the forthcoming Democracy of Fire. Her recent poetry appeared in 32 Poems, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and won prizes from Red Wheelbarrow and Terrain.org. She lives in Berkeley.
Nov. 12: Devorah Major, San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate, is an award-winning poet and fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, performer, editor, and part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts. She was poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for 28 years. She has toured internationally in places such as Italy, Bosnia, Jamaica, Venezuela, Belgium, England and Wales, as well as throughout the United States both performing her poetry and serving on panels speaking on African American poetry, Beat Poetry, and poetry of resistance. She has two novels and seven books of poetry published.
When: 4 p.m., Saturdays, Oct. 8 & Nov. 12
Where: City Council Chambers, 1225 Lincoln Way, Auburn
Details: Free event, hosted by West Trestle founding editor, Patricia Caspers. Donations welcome.
Masks Required.
Featured Readers
Oct. 8: Susan Cohen is the author of Throat Singing, A Different Wakeful Animal, and the forthcoming Democracy of Fire. Her recent poetry appeared in 32 Poems, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and won prizes from Red Wheelbarrow and Terrain.org. She lives in Berkeley.
Nov. 12: Devorah Major, San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate, is an award-winning poet and fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, performer, editor, and part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts. She was poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for 28 years. She has toured internationally in places such as Italy, Bosnia, Jamaica, Venezuela, Belgium, England and Wales, as well as throughout the United States both performing her poetry and serving on panels speaking on African American poetry, Beat Poetry, and poetry of resistance. She has two novels and seven books of poetry published.
Past Featured Readers
Sept. 10: (postponed) Aileen Cassinetto is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and served as poet laureate of San Mateo County from 2019 to 2022. The founder of Paloma Press and author of two poetry collections, her work has been featured in POETRY, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Fellowship, and KALW Public Radio, among others. Her poems have also been set into orchestral music for upcoming concerts in Los Angeles and at Carnegie Hall. She is a 2022 Metro Film and Arts Foundation grantee, and currently serves as Commissioner for the County Commission on the Status of Women.
Aug. 13: Andrea Ross's memoir, Unnatural Selection, about her years as a wilderness guide searching for her biological family, was published in 2021. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, Terrain, The Conversation, Bay Nature, Mountain Gazette, and she has been featured on many podcasts about writing, wilderness travel, and adoption. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ross worked throughout the American West as a wilderness guide, a National Park Service Ranger, and a backcountry Search and Rescue captain. She is a faculty member in the University Writing Program at UC Davis.
July 23: Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.
June 18: Claire Unis MD MFA is a board-certified practicing pediatrician whose creative nonfiction has been published in a number of journals including Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Awakenings Review, and East Iowa Review. Her memoir, Balance, Pedal, Breathe: A Journey through Medical School, was published in April 2022.
May 21: Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah and elsewhere.
May 14: Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, Exile Heart, was published in 2021 by That Painted Horse Press.
Aug. 13: Andrea Ross's memoir, Unnatural Selection, about her years as a wilderness guide searching for her biological family, was published in 2021. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, Terrain, The Conversation, Bay Nature, Mountain Gazette, and she has been featured on many podcasts about writing, wilderness travel, and adoption. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ross worked throughout the American West as a wilderness guide, a National Park Service Ranger, and a backcountry Search and Rescue captain. She is a faculty member in the University Writing Program at UC Davis.
July 23: Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.
June 18: Claire Unis MD MFA is a board-certified practicing pediatrician whose creative nonfiction has been published in a number of journals including Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Awakenings Review, and East Iowa Review. Her memoir, Balance, Pedal, Breathe: A Journey through Medical School, was published in April 2022.
May 21: Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah and elsewhere.
May 14: Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, Exile Heart, was published in 2021 by That Painted Horse Press.
