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If we are the forest the animals dream

Patrick Cahill

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Page count: 94
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-41-7

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Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

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Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

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In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

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Page count: 118
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ISBN: 978-1-939639-37-0

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the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

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Page count: 104
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Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

Selected by Simon Ellefson, Sylvi Kayser, and Dina Lusztig Noyes

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Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-46-2

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News and Events

Murray Silverstein June 12 at Café Nefeli

Murray Silverstein and Sheila Davies Sumner will read at 7 pm on Friday, June 12th, at Nefeli Caffe, 1854 Euclid Avenue, a little north of Hearst, in Berkeley, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading.

Jeanne Wagner at Second Sunday Poetry Series

Jeanne Wagner, author of In the Body of Our Lives (2011, Sixteen Rivers Press), is reading with Pam Uschiak at the Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series on Sunday, June 14. Open mic to follow. 3-5 p.m., Valona Delicatessen & Café, 1323 Pomona St, Crockett.