[Oakland, California]

Poetry reading with Julien Poirier
August 14, 2019, 6:30 pm
at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore

UDP poet & founding member Julien Poirier will be reading with Peter Myers and Geraldine Jorge.

Doors at 6:30/Reading at 7

Peter Myers is a poet and writer originally from Maryland. His poetry has appeared in Conjunctions, The Capilano Review, DATABLEED, Vestiges, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He recently completed his MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has taught creative writing in Philadelphia, Iowa City, and Stanford. He’s about to move to New York, where he’ll be a third grade teacher.

Julien Poirier’s poetry is published by the United States Postal Service. He was born in San Francisco in 1870. He teaches poetry at San Quentin State Prison and was a founding member of the Ugly Duckling Presse Collective.

Geraldine Jorge is a Bay Area native and erstwhile philosopher. She has recently turned to poetry to explore the different ways a poem can help us re-understand/un-understand our everyday experiences.