Poetry & Pizza with Julia Vinograd & Judy Wells

Fri, May 5
7:30-9:30
$5 donation

POETRY & PIZZA presents Julia Vinograd & Judy Wells in a reading to =

benefit the Berkeley Food & Housing Project

JULIA VINOGRAD is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 51 books =

of poetry, and won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus =

Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones, =

Eye of the Hand, and The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from =

the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the =

University of Iowa. She received the 2004 Poetry Lifetime Achievement =

Award from the City of Berkeley. She was one of the four editors of =

the anthology New American Underground Poetry Volume1: The Babarians =

of San Francisco - Poets from Hell.

JUDY WELLS was born in San Francisco and raised in Martinez, =

California. Her seventh book of poetry, Call Home, was published by =

Scarlet Tanager Books in 2005. Her other books are Everything Irish; =

The Calling: Twentieth Century Women Artists; The Part-time Teacher; =

Jane, Jane; Albuquerque Winter; and I Have Berkeley. She has read her =

poetry all over the place from the famed bookstore, Shakespeare & Co. =

in Paris, to the famed Caff=E9 Med in Berkeley. She is currently a =

faculty member of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at St. Mary's =

College of California and lives in Berkeley.

BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT provides emergency food and shelter, =

transitional housing and assistance, and long-term housing placement =

with support services to homeless individuals and families.

Venue:

Escape from New York Pizza
333 Bush St at Montgomery
San Francisco
415-421-0700


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