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Author Events
Readings 2019
BY SUGARTOWN POETS & WRITERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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March 8
PAST READINGS
2018
December 14: Judy Wells
December 14, Friday, 7 p.m.
Nefeli Cafe, 1854 Euclid Avenue (north of Hearst and the U.C. Berkeley Campus), Berkeley.
Last Word Reading Series, 510-841-6374 (cafe phone number).Wells will read from Dear Phebe: The Dickinson Sisters Go West. Kit Kennedy, longtime Bay Area poet and host of several reading series, will be Judy Wells' co-feature.
December 10: Judy Bebelaar
SF Ferry Building, Book Passages, 6 p.m.
Judy Bebelaar will present And Then They Were Gone at the Ferry Building store at the foot of Market: 1 Ferry Building. Songwriter Ken Risling will perform his haunting "Down to Jonestown."California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
November 26, Juan Sequeira
Reading from Mi Tierra: America, Nicaragua, Familia, Amor at Himalayan Flavors' Poetry Express reading series, hosted by Bruce Bagnell and others. Visit http://poetryexpressberkeley.com or [email protected]
November 15 & November 18: Yvonne Postelle
Thursday, November 15, 5:30 p.m.
Book Passage, 100 Bay Street, Sausalito
and
Sunday, November 18, 1:30 p.m.
Healdsburg Literary Guild at the Bean Affair
1270 Healdsburg Avenue, Ste. 201, Healdsburg, California
Yvonne Postelle will read from Family Matters at two venues in November. The Healdsburg Literary Guild event is part of an ongoing third Sunday readings at the Bean Affair, and there will be an open mic following Postelle's featured reading.
November 15: And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown
Thursday, 7 p.m.
East Bay Books, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland
Judy Bebelaar , co-author (along with Ron Cabral) will be featured along with Jonestown authors: Deborah Layton (Seductive Poison) and Julia Scheers (A Thousand Lives).
November 19: And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown
Monday, 10 a.m. - 12 noon
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Judy Bebelaar will join Jonestown friends and relatives, at the California Historical Society's Open House in honor of the 40th anniversary of the murders at Jonestown. CHS is the archivist for many document that remain from Peoples Temple and the Jonestown agricultural compound in Guyana. The event is open to the public.
October 27: Gary Turchin
Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Strawberry Creek Lodge, Berkeley
Reading by Gary Turchin, author of Falling Home, with singer/songwriter Ken Risling. Contact [email protected] for an invitation. Also, Turchin is showing his art work at Berkeley's Arts Passageway earlier the same day: 2067 Center Street, Berkeley. The opening reception is Saturday, October 27, 4-6 p.m.
October 20
Sugartown Publishing once again joins Poetry Flash and the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival in downtown Berkeley. We will be hosting a booth, have authors of our books on hand to sign books, and will make books available for sale. Sugartown poet Robert Coats, author of The Harsh Green World, will be one of the featured readers. Please come and enjoy a day of environmental and nature poetry!
September 22 Book Launch Party & Reading
for Yvonne Postelle's Family Matters
Released July 2018
Saturday 5-7 p.m.
Marin Shakespeare Festival's new indoor theatre space
514 Fourth Street, San Rafael, California 94901
Reading at 6, followed by refreshments
September 5
Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Octopus Literary Salon
2101 Webster @ 22nd
Oakland, California
Pandemonium Press presents “Banned Books” featuring Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Fred Dodsworth, and Missy Church. Open mic follows featured readers. Leila Rae, publisher of Pandemonium Press and Riverbabble online is the coordinator and host.
August 25
August 8
Noon
Berkeley Rotary Club
2407 Dana Street
Berkeley, California
Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral will be speaking about their book, And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from San Francisco to Jonestown.
The Rotary Club is a membership service organization which welcomes guests but you do need to make a reservation and purchase a ticket (which includes lunch) for the daytime event. For info, visit http://berkeleyrotary.org/
August 2
Thursday, 7 p.m.
Belvedere-Tiburon Library
1501 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon
(415) 789-2665
Yvonne Postelle, author of Family Matters, just out from Sugartown, joins Catharine Clark-Sayles, Lily Iona MacKenzie, , Bob Dougherty, and Janis Rader, as part of the Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show, hosted by Calvin Ahlgren.
July 31st
Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Marin City Library
164 Donahue St.
Sausalito, California
(415) 332-6159
Judith Yamamoto, author of At My Table, will take part in the Summer Traveling Poetry Show at the Marin City Public Library in the Marin City shopping center. She joins Yvonne Cannon, Peter Hensel, Sharon Pretti, and Stephen Gallani. This is an event sponsored through the Marin Poetry Center in San Rafael, California.
July 28Saturday, 2 p.m.
Stinson Beach Library
3521 Shoreline Highway
Stinson Beach, California
(415) 868-0252
Bonnie Thomas, Sugartown author of Sun on the Rind, joins Lisa Rubio, Bonnie Thomas, Eleanor Channell, Claudia Chapline in Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Poetry Show.
Judy Wells and Dale Jensen, plus open reading.July 8
Judy Wells and Dale Jensen
Thursday, April 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Berkeley
Reading at 6 p.m. Music with Ken Risling, composer and guitarist.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. PLEASE TELL IS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND: [email protected]
Book Launch Party for
And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples
Temple from High School to Jonestown
by Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral
"A poignant, scrupulously remembered and reported account. The book's warm descriptions of Jonestown-bound teenagers and the poems they wrote tug at the heart. There is a sense of belated justice in these individual lives being made visible." --Autumn Stephens, author of the Wild Women book series
The reading and book-signing will take place in the early evening (5:30-7:30). To reserve a place, contact [email protected]
OTHER UPCOMING READINGS SCHEDULED FOR
AND THEN THEY WERE GONE INCLUDE
Sunday April 22, 3-4:30
Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby at Adeline streets, Berkeley, near Ashby BART station.
Monday April 23 Odd Mondays series at Folio Books in San Francisco 3957 24th Street, 7 pm. Produced by Judith Levy-Sendar and Ramon Sender Barayon and Folio Books.
In May, there will also be a presentation at the Breakfast Club has been moved to May, 7 a.m., cost people $35 for breakfast.
Judy Bebelaar, photo by Laurie Bell Bishop
Ron Cabral, photo by Rita Cabral
May 8, 6:30-9 p.m. Bruce Bagnell
Sugartown poet Bruce Bagnell, author of The Self-Evolution Spa, will read at the Cafe Society in Half Moon Bay,522 Main Street, Half Moon Bay. Coastside Poetry website.
PAST READINGS
2017
Sunday, January 28, 3 p.m. 
Bruce Bagnell, author of 2017's The Self-Evolution Spa, will be reading with poet-teacher Sharon Coleman at the reading series held in the Expressions Gallery at 2035 Ashby Avenue at Adeline in Berkeley.
August 8, 7 p.m., Tuesday, John Hart, author of Storm Camp released Spring 2016, will read at Marin City Library. He is joined by fellow Sugartown poets Bonnie Thomas and Judith Yamamoto, as well as Sharon Pretti, Barry Peterson, Phyllis Teplitz. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St, Sausalito, (415) 332-6159. Cathryn Shea hosts.
August 11, Friday, 7 p.m. Judy Wells, author of The Glass Ship from Sugartown, will join Evelyn Posamentier, and Natasha Sajé at Nefeli Caffè, 1854 Euclid Avenue, just north of Hearst, in Berkeley, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. There is also an open reading.
August 18, Friday morning at 7 a.m., John Hart will read from Storm Camp and discuss the topic of risk in poetry and climbing at the Berkeley Breakfast Club. The Club is a private business men and women's club but welcomes new members and interested people. 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704, (510) 848-7800
August 12, Saturday, 7-9 p.m., Bruce Bagnell will be joining other readers at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, hosted by Jeanne Lupton. Bruce's book, The Self-Evolution Spa, is the latest title from Sugartown. 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA 94501, 510-523-6957September 6: Wednesday, 7-9 p.m., The Octopus Lounge hosted by Leila Rae of Pandemonium Press: features Bruce Bagnell whose The Self-Evolution Spa will be hot off the press. Bagnell reads with Terry Lucas, M.K. Chavez, and Mary Mackey. 2101 Webster Street at 22nd Street. Free.
September 9: Sunday, 5-7 p.m. Book Launch Party for The Self-Evolution Spa by Bruce Bagnell will take place at a completely remodeled studio space, a former French Laundry, in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood. Contact [email protected] if you would like a personal invitation. Bagnell will read from his new book and food and cake will be served.
March 11: Saturday, 7-9 p.m. Frank Bette Center in Alameda FEATURING
featuring Robert Coats, John Hart, Dale Jensen, Benjamin Slomoff
March 15: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Ironworks, Berkeley
Featuring John Hart reading climbing poems from Storm Camp
May 18: Thursday, 5:30-7 p.m., University Press Books, Berkeley, featuring John Hart
June 6: 6:30 p.m. Spice Monkey in Oakland FEATURING
Robert Coats, Jannie M. Dresser, John Hart, Dale Jensen
ABOUT THE POETS
Robert Coats, of Berkeley, is an environmental scientist working on water quality and climatic change issues, most recently with documenting changes to Lake Tahoe. He has widely published in his professional field. A devoted poet for over 40 years, he has published work in Orion, Windfall, Canary, Song of the San Joaquin, and the Pudding House anthology Fresh Water. The Harsh Green World is his first poetry book.
John Hart is an environmental writer and a beloved teacher of poetry in the Bay Area. Hart’s second poetry volume, Storm Camp, draws on his experiences as a rock climber and mountaineer. Author of 16 books, Hart’s first book, The Climbers, a selection for the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series. In addition, he is a recipient of a James D. Phelan Award, the Commonwealth Club Medal in California, and the David R. Brower Award for Service in the Field of Conservation.
Dale Jensen is a Bay Area native, born in Oakland, California and now living in Berkeley with his poet wife Judy Wells. He graduated U.C. Berkeley and received a master’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto. In 1999, he took early retirement from a 25 year career with Social Security. His experimental poetry has been published in five other books and three chapbooks. Jensen is a longtime organizer of poetry events in the Bay Area and is presently co-coordinator of the poetry readings series at Nefeli Café in Berkeley. Amateur Mythology is his newest release.
Benjamin Slomoff, originally from Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and now living at Rossmoor in Walnut Creek, turned 103 years old this past November. After retirement from his long career in manufacturing, Slomoff earned a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from the University of Massachusetts and continued to work as a mediator in the Contra Costa County court system. His first poetry book, A Stalwart Bends, was published in 2012 (Slomoff was 99); his second book, Never Enough, was released last year.
ABOUT SUGARTOWN
Sugartown Publishing was launched in 2012 when an out-of-work book and publications professional decided to help 98-year-old Benjamin Slomoff get his first book into print. Now, celebrating its 5th year, we have just published Slomoff's second book, Never Enough; Ben is now 103. We hope his and our longevity continues!
Based in Crockett, California (location of the C&H Sugar Plant), Jannie M. Dresser and Sugartown have published 20 books of poetry and one memoir. In 2015, Sugartown was voted “Best Local Publisher” in the East Bay Express’ “Best-of-the Bay Area” contest.
INFORMATION ON EVENT LOCATIONS
3/11 Robert Coats, John Hart, Dale Jensen and Benjamin Slomoff
Frank Bette Center for the Arts
1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA 94501
510-523-6957
3/15 John Hart
Berkeley Ironworks
800 Potter St, Berkeley, CA 94710
510-981-9900
5/18 John Hart
University Press Books
Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley
6/6 Robert Coats, Jannie M. Dresser, John Hart and Dale Jensen
1628 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94612 (upstairs)
510-268-0170
2016 EVENTS
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
6:45-9 p.m. (come earlier to enjoy a meal)
1628 Webster St., Oakland, CA. (Webster at 17th)
Pandemonium Press presents a reading on the theme of "April in Paris" with poets Sharon Coleman, Yanina Gotsulsky.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Sausalito City Library, in the Council Chambers
420 Litho Street, Sausalito, CA 94965.
Poets published in the California Quarterly
Bonnie Thomas, author of Sun on the Rind and Chantal Guillemin, author of Truchas: Closer to Heaven
share the stage on Friday, April 8
7-9 p.m.
(come a little early to get some food and your beverage then settle in)
1854 Euclid Avenue, just north of Hearst and the U.C. Campus
Friday, April 15
7 p.m. sharing feature with singer/songwriter Ken Risling, open mike follows...
2035 Ashby Avenue, just east of Adeline in Berkeley
SUGARTOWN POETS AT SPICE MONKEY!
Chantal Guillemin, author of Truchas: Closer to Heaven
Gail Peterson, author of Swimming the Sky
Kimberly Satterfield, author of Voices from the Field
Bonnie Thomas, author of Sun on the Rind
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:45-9 p.m. (come earlier to enjoy a meal)
1628 Webster St., Oakland (Webster at 17th)
On guitar: Hao C. Tran. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book, Broadside, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table. Free.
sharing feature with singer/songwriter Ken Risling
Saturday, June 11, 2016
7 p.m. (open mic follows)
1601 Paru Street
Alameda, CA 94501
510-523-6957
P.O. Box 128
Crockett, CA 94525
ph: 510-290-6254
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