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Wareham Development Announces: Happy Hour Poetry at Emerystation

What: Network & join the group for beer, wine and appetizers while great Bay Area poets share their work.

When: Thursday, July 17: 5:30-7:30pm

Where: The Wintergarden at Emerystation, 5858 Horton St., Emeryville CA 94608

Why: Because it's SUMMER!

This event is free, but please make sure to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-hour-poetry-at-emerystation-tickets-10499370901

Featuring poetry from Sarah Kobrinsky & Hugh Behn-Steinberg

Happy Hour Poetry at EmeryStation eventbrite.com

Join us for beer, wine and appetizers while these great poets share some recent work. 

Sarah Kobrinsky is the Poet Laureate of the City of Emeryville, CA, and a recent Pushcart nominee. Her poems and stories have appeared in Fjords Review, Magma Poetry, Monkeybicycle, 100 Word Story, Shampoo Poetry, The Molotov Cocktail, Sparkle + Blink, *82 Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, among many others. Sarah and her husband have a small handmade dinnerware company in Berkeley called Jered's Pottery.

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press), as well as two Dusie chapbooks, Sorcery and Good Morning! His poems have appeared in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Tab, Aught, Slope, Fence, Swerve, dirt, ditch, Zeek and Sweet, as well as a few places with more than one syllable. He teaches writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

Katie Peterson is the author of three books of poetry, This One Tree (2006), Permission (2013) and The Accounts (2013). She was born in California and just moved back to her home state after a winter enduring the Arctic Vortex in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has lived for many years. This year she'll divide her time between rural Inyo County, California, where she will teach the fall semester at Deep Springs College, and Davis, CA, where she will begin teaching in the Department of English at UC Davis in January.

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