MONTEREY BAY POETRY CONSORTIUM PRESENTS: J.P. Dancing Bear & Simon Hunt

J.P. Dancing Bear & Simon HuntSunday, June 14, 2:00 p.m.  $5.00 Admission

J. P. Dancing Bear is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public station, KKUP and available as podcasts.  He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, most recently Cephalopodic (Glass Lyre, 2015) and Love is a Burning Building(FutureCycle Press, 2014). His work has appeared or will shortly in American Literary ReviewCrazyhorse, the Cimmaron Review and elsewhere.   
 
Simon Hunt was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and raised in England and the United States.  He co-edited Renaissance Culture and the Everyday (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) and contributed an essay to that volume.  His poems have appeared in Light Quarterly, The Raintown Review, The Seventh Quarry, The Sewanee Review, and other journals—as well as in the online publications 14 X 14 and The Chimaera.  Forthcoming poems will appear in Measure and The Sewanee ReviewHe teaches English at Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, where he lives with his wife and two children.  He is a member of the Board of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, where he has served as a volunteer docent for more than a decade.

The Art and Life of Jean Varda

MONDAY, JULY 6 / 2-4PM.  A PRESENTATION BY ELIZABETH LEAVY STROMAN. We are excited to announce the upcoming publication of an important book about the legendary iconoclast in the 20th century art world – a visionary artist who live large in Europe, then in California’s central coast, before slipping through the cracks of historical memory.

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Theory & Philosophy Reading GroupXI: Angela Davis

Libertad_para_Angela_Davis_by_Genun23 June 2015 – 7pm: In collaboration with the Direct Action Monterey Network, this month’s Theory & Philosophy reading group is highlighting struggles against solitary confinement by featuring the writings of Angela Davis.

For this reading group, we’ll be exploring her work, Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Maggie Bennett

14 July 2015: Networking Aloud features Maggie Bennett, a long-time midwife in Monterey County. Our free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday.  NETWORKING ALOUD: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15-20 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work in progress, OR published, we want to hear your VOICE.Continue reading “Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Maggie Bennett”

Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Diana Y. Paul

June 9th 2015: Networking Aloud features Diana Y. Paul, author of Things Unsaid. Our free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday.  NETWORKING ALOUD: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15-20 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work in progress, OR published, we want to hear your VOICE.Continue reading “Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Diana Y. Paul”

Book Signing: Sally-Christine Rodgers, author of Convergence: A Journey Through French Polynesia

Saturday, May 2, 3-4pm: Sally-Christine Rodgers, the author of Convergence: A Journey Through French Polynesia, will be in store signing copies of her travel book.

Sally-Christine Rodgers Writes Eloquently About Life, Sailing, Family and Protecting Our Oceans

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Theory & Philosophy Reading Group X: Antonio Gramsci

511BWF4JZ5LThursday, 21 May 2015 – 7pm: In collaboration with the Direct Action Monterey Network, this month’s Theory & Philosophy reading group is highlighting struggles against solitary confinement by featuring the prison writings of Marxist theorist, Antonio Gramsci.Continue reading “Theory & Philosophy Reading Group X: Antonio Gramsci”

Book Signing: Mike Ventimiglia – Italians of the Monterey Peninsula

Saturday May 9th & Sunday May 10th – 12-2pm: Since the early 1900s, Monterey was known for its fishing, mostly for salmon and the abalone that was plentiful in Monterey Bay. The migration of the Sicilian Italian community is credited for reaping what was called the “Silver Harvest.” The Silver Harvest is the name that was given to the fishing of sardines in Monterey, which mostly was done by the Sicilian Italians who established the working fabric in the sardine industry for nearly five decades. Most of that generation is gone, and only a few are memorialized in books. It is this author’s attempt to capture the working class that made Monterey the “Sardine Capital of the World.”Continue reading “Book Signing: Mike Ventimiglia – Italians of the Monterey Peninsula”

20% off all Used Poetry Books – in Celebration of NaPoMo 2015!

Here at Old Capitol Books, we love National Poetry Month – I mean, what’s NOT to love? So, in celebration of this glorious time, we are offering 20% off* all of our used poetry books from April 1st to 30th! Come get your fill of Milton, Dickinson, Maya Angelou, H.D. T.S. Eliot, and hundreds more!Continue reading “20% off all Used Poetry Books – in Celebration of NaPoMo 2015!”