Well-RED features Gail Wronsky and Joel Thomas Katz reading from their new books!
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
New address: 38 South Second Street, downtown San José.
Open mic to start the show!
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Joel Thomas Katz lives in Palo Alto, California. His poems have appeared in Sand Hill Review, Montserrat Review, West Wind Review, Spillway, Caesura, DMQ Review, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine and MacQueen’s Quinterly. His latest books are Aqueduct (2023) and Erase | Endure (2020), both published by Dutch Poet Press. Joel has also co-translated poems by contemporary Dutch poets Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer. www.joelthomaskatz.com
Gail is the author, coauthor, or translator of seventeen books of poetry and prose, including Some Disenfranchised Evening (Swan Scythe Press, 2024), Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2021) and the poetry collections Imperfect Pastorals; Poems for Infidels; and Dying for Beauty, a finalist for the Western Arts Federation Poetry Prize. She is the translator of Argentinean poet Alicia Partnoy’s book Fuegos Florales/Flowering Fires, winner of the American Poetry Prize from Settlement House Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry International, Guesthouse, and Volt.
Gail is the recipient of an Artists Fellowship from the California Arts Council. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Pratik, the LA Issue; Poets Against War; The Black Body; In Possession of Shakespeare; The Poet’s Child; Wide Awake: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond, and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles. The Moose in the Moon, her book of poetry for children, was published by Tsehai Publishers. Gail is coeditor of the anthology What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing & Death (What Books Press, 2021). She taught creative writing and women’s literature at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she was awarded the Harry M. Daum Professorship.
https://www.gailwronskypoet.com
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