Light Jacket #3 is coming your way on Saturday, June 3rd at 3pm with readings by Angel Dominguez, Misha Crafts, Kelly Hoffer, and Amy Berkowitz! Meet us at Portals of the Past in Golden Gate Park, closest entrance is 25th Avenue and Fulton. We’ll be celebrating two new books, Amy’s Gravitas and Kelly’s UNDERSHORE.
Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (published last week by Éditions du Noroît and Total Joy!!!) and Tender Points. Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, and Jewish Currents. She lives in San Francisco, where she's working on a novel and a nonfiction project. When she's not writing, she co-hosts this very reading series with Erick Sáenz!
Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA by their immigrant family. They now live amongst the Santa Cruz Mountains in Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of Desgraciado (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books, 2022), and other books. They are the 2023 summer writer in residence with the University of Arizona Poetry Center and have shared their work across the country in various venues, universities, and states of consciousness. You can find Angel’s words online and in print in various publications including BOMB Magazine, The Berkeley Poetry Review, FENCE, Prolit Magazine, SFMOMA Open Space, and elsewhere. You can find Angel in the redwoods or ocean.
Misha Crafts is a poet and former bookseller living in San Francisco. They are the poetry editor for the publishing project Smooth Friend and an adjunct lecturer at Santa Clara University. Their writing has appeared in Prolit, Jewish Currents, and the Poetry Project Newsletter.