POETRY FLASH PRESENTS: JANÈE BAUGHER & REBECCA FOUST
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024, 2727 CALIFORNIA STREET, BERKELEY
Join us for an exciting Poetry Flash reading, with Janée J. Baugher and Rebecca Foust, Sunday, April 7, at 3pm, 2727 California Street, A Cooperative Art Gallery, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, refreshments, free.
Poet JANÉE J. BAUGHER is the author of the only book of its kind, “The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction.” WomensVoicesforChange.org calls it, “a guidebook that comprehensively treats the subject of ekphrasis at the same time it provides an inspiriting and practical guide to those who aspire to practice it.” She’s published two books of poetry, “The Coordinates of Yes” and “The Body’s Physics,” which David Roderick says “demonstrates extraordinary poetic vision, and her lyric style is both tender and resolutely connected to the body.” A featured poet at the Library of Congress, Janée Baugher was a judge for the 2023 “Frame to Frames” ekphrastic film prize (Fotogenia Festival, Mexico City). As a collaborator she’s had poems adapted for the stage and set to music at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan), University of Cincinnati, Contemporary Dance Theatre (Ohio), Dance Now! Ensemble (Florida), Otterbein University, and University of North Carolina-Pembroke. Baugher is recipient of a 2024 CityArtist grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
REBECCA FOUST'S seventh poetry collection is Only. Ellen Bass says, "In ‘Only,’ her luminous new collection of poems, Rebecca Foust's gifts are in full flower. Richly imagistic and achingly lyrical, these poems wrestle with the big questions—religion, immigration, climate change, politics, parenting, autism, and death—all on a deeply intimate level. Like an impressionist painter, she uses light to capture the immediacy of the present, the passage of time." Her previous collections include Paradise Drive”; “All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song”; and in collaboration with Lorna Stevens, “God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World.” Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2023New Ohio Review prize, 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, and fellowships from The Frost Place, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. As Marin County Poet Laureate 2017-2019, her program, “Poetry as Sanctuary,” featured readings by local immigrant poets.
