BOOK LAUNCH: July 16th @ Rebound Bookstore, San Rafael
Book release month is here and we're ready to celebrate
Hello friends, family, community. I cannot believe July is here — the time-oriented part of my brain feels frozen somewhere several months ago and yet the days keep marching on. So many pieces have been rapidly changing in my personal life, family life, in the political world. How can we possibly keep up? I have hardly stopped to take a breath, a beat. Well here we go:
This month is book launch month for me, and while past-me would quietly release my projects into the internet ether and move right along, I’m excited to share that I’m learning to celebrate, really celebrate, in person with the people I love most and those who I may not know yet. And so, join me in celebrating the launch of my latest poetry book, Itinerant Songs, on Wednesday, July 16th at 6:30pm at Rebound Bookstore in San Rafael, CA. Rebound Bookstore is the coziest used bookshop in the North Bay co-owned by long-time radical organizer Joel Eis and his spouse, Toni Eis, and I am thrilled that we’ll be celebrating in such a warm and charming place.
Poetry readings will include Marin Poet Laureate Francesca Bell, former Marin Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust, and then I will be doing a reading from Itinerant Songs.
6:30pm: Light snacks, refreshments, social
7:00pm: Poetry readings featuring Rebecca Foust, Francesca Bell, and Terra Oliveira
8:00pm: Q&A and book signing
For those still getting to know my work: I’m a writer and visual artist born and raised in the Bay Area, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. My poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Common, Puerto del Sol, and more, and I’ve authored several poetry, art, and photography books including And Still To Sleep, An Old Blue Light, and others. Itinerant Songs is my latest book, and my most developed and reflective work. My creative projects are an extension of my core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples’ movements globally.
Francesca Bell is author of Bright Stain and What Small Sound and translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here. Her work appears in ELLE, New England Review, and Rattle. She is Marin County Poet Laureate, translation editor for the Los Angeles Review, and teaches embroidery and poetry at San Quentin.
Rebecca Foust’s books include YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems (Backbone Press 2024) and ONLY (Four Way Books 2022). Her poems won the James Dickey Prize and Telluride Institute Fischer Prize in 2024, and in recent years, the New Ohio Review, Pablo Neruda, James Hearst, and Poetry International prizes. Other recognitions include fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee, and a Marin County Poet Laureateship. Rebecca works as a Senior Fiction Editor for Narrative Magazine and divides her time between northern Minnesota and northern California.
Itinerant Songs will be available for purchase at the event. You can also pre-order the book here.
See you there <3
