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Celebrate Poetry Month with Oakland writer James Cagney. He will be reading and discussing his newest collection, Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive.
James Cagney is a writer from Oakland, Ca. Primarily self taught as a poet, he is the author of two collections. His first, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory, won the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Cagney’s second book, MARTIAN: The Saint Of Loneliness, is the winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. His newest collection is Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive published by Black Lawrence Press. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Alta, Cola, Entanglements, Beat Not Beat, SF Chronicle, and Zyzzyva. JamesCagneypoet.com.
Books will be for sale at the event from Pegasus.
EVENT TYPE: | Authors, Books & Writing |
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