Celebrate this Valentine's with Tritone and our four February poets: Felix Dina, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Ivan Sokolov, and J. Yuru Zhou ♡♡♡♡
Doors at 6pm, poetry at 6:30pm on Friday February 14 at
@tamarackoakland (1501 Harrison St, Oakland). The bar downstairs will be open.
Tritone is joining a new weekly reading series at Tamarack, where you can find poetry every Friday evening -- see the link in bio for the schedule.
We'll provide KN95 masks and request masks be worn when not eating/drinking; please stay home if symptomatic. The reading is on the second floor, up a staircase.
Our readers:
♡ Felix Dina lives and works in San Francisco. Their Chapbooks are "No More Bookselling to the Night" (2023) and "Night at the Opera" (coming soon). [Felix also made this beautiful flyer; thank you Felix!]
♡ Miriam Bird Greenberg is a poet and occasional essayist with a fieldwork-informed practice. The author of In the Volcano’s Mouth, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, Miriam’s work has appeared in Granta and Kenyon Review. A high school dropout and former hitchhiker, Miriam has written about contemporary nomads, hitchhikers, and hobos living on America’s margins, and the economic migrants and asylum seekers of Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions (but really primarily about rural Texas).
♡ Ivan Sokolov is a poet, translator and critic from St Petersburg, Russia. Author of five books of poetry in Russian, he also translates the international avant-garde, including Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Timestead by Paul Celan. His Russian version of Ron Silliman’s You should be out in Petersburg any day now.
♡ J. Yuru Zhou / 周玉茹 is dabbling within and assembling skeleton architectures, after Audre Lorde. Currently, she's curious about the poetics of girlblogging, opacity as visual technique, networked selves, container theory, and Fred Moten's undercommons. She is a is a poet-teacher in training with CalPoets, and with Kazumi Chin, she co-stewards Flowers & Fields (), a literary collective dedicated to the incubation of a more radical Asian American politics and poetics in the Bay Area.