Joanne Kyger

Join The New School at Commonweal host Steve Heilig for a conversation with poet Joanne Kyger, one of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance. A longtime Bolinas resident, Kyger will also read from her new collection, On Time: Poems 2005–2014. Co-presented by Point Reyes Books and The New School at Commonweal. Reservations are required.

About Joanne Kyger: Joanne was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she and then-husband Gary Snyder traveled in Japan and India where, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, they met the Dalai Lama. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled in Bolinas, where she continues to reside today. She has published more than 30 books of poetry and prose, including Strange Big Moon, The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964, As Ever: Selected Poems, and About Now: Collected Poems, which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. She occasionally teaches at Naropa University.

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