The power of poetry & community: Poetry Los Altos’ Hilary King hosts hosts the online debut of Bone Flute
Event: Virtual Book Launch Honoring the Legacy of Los Altos Poet Irene Adler
Please join us for a special afternoon celebrating the posthumous release of Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks by Irene Adler.
With guests Angela Narciso Torres, Gail Goepfert, Naoko Fujimoto, and Nan Cohen, and host Hilary King.
Irene Adler was a poet and English teacher in Palo Alto, California where she was also a co-owner of the company that invented the Aerobie flying ring and the Aeropress coffee maker. By the time of her death in October 2023, she had written over 2,000 poems spanning 25 years.
Date and time
Sunday, June 8th | 5pm-6:30pm Pacific
Location
Zoom link will be provided in a reminder email before the event starts.
Readers
Angela Narciso Torres is the editor of Bone Flute and author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books 2021), Blood Orange, winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, and the chapbook, To the Bone (Sundress Publications 2020). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses, POETRY, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and Poetry Northwest. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received First Prize in the Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York). New City magazine named her one of Chicago’s Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she currently resides in San Diego. She serves as a senior and reviews editor for RHINO Poetry. http://www.angelanarcisotorres.com
Gail Goepfert is an ardent poet, photographer, and teacher. She’s been an associate editor with RHINO Poetry for over twelve years. Her book publications include A Mind on Pain, Finishing Line 2015, Tapping Roots, Kelsay Books 2018, Get Up Said the World, Červená Barva Press 2020, and Self-Portrait with Thorns, 2022, from Glass Lyre Press. This Hard Business of Living from Seven Kitchens Press, a collaborative chapbook with Patrice Boyer Claeys, was released in 2021, and they worked together on two photoverse books, Honey from the Sun, 2020, and Earth Cafeteria, 2023—Claeys’s centos and Goepfert’s photography. She has received fellowships from Ragdale Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She’s passionate about travel, but lives, writes, and snaps photos in the Chicagoland area. http://www.gailgoepfert.com
Naoko Fujimoto was born, raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and received a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University. Her poetry collections are We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan, winner of C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award by C&R Press (2022), Where I Was Born, winner of the editor’s choice by Willow Books (2019), Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory by Tupelo Press (2021), and four chapbooks. She is a RHINO associate & translation editor and Tupelo Quarterly translation editor. She is a Bread Loaf Translation full scholarship recipient and the 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation. She is a first judge of Illinois Center for the Book: Illinois Emerging Writers Competition (2021 – current) and reviewer for the 2024 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows. Her first translation chapbook is available from Toad Press in the fall of 2024. Her full-length translation collection, Of Women, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. http://www.naokofujimoto.com
Nan Cohen is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Unfinished City (winner of the Michael Dryden Award from Gunpowder Press, 2017), and Rope Bridge (Cherry Grove Editions, 2005). Her most recent publication is a chapbook, Thousand-Year-Old Words (2021), from Glass Lyre Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The New Republic, Slate, Ploughshares, Tikkun, Poet Lore, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. She has published nonfiction on literature, art, and culture in outlets such as Poetry Northwest, The Curator, Amsterdam Review, and Electric Literature. nancohen.org
Organizers
Paloma Press is an award-winning independent literary press founded on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Poetry Los Altos creates and supports poetry events in Los Altos, including a monthly open mic at the Los Altos Library.
Event host Hilary King is the founder of Poetry Los Altos and a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State. She is also an editor for DMQ Review, and the author of the poetry collection, Stitched on Me, published by Riot in Your Throat Press in 2024.
