Please join us at 7 pm Friday, August 7, for Hearts Desire, the monthly reading series of the Bay Area Public School, with readings by Yosefa Raz, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Sarah Rosenthal. The event will be held in the second-floor Disco Room at Omni Oakland Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave. in Oakland, CA. https://bayareapublicschool.org/ http://heartsdesirereadingseries.tumblr.com/ YOSEFA RAZ’s poetry and translations have appeared in ZYZZYVVA, Tikkun, Lilith, Try!, Sundial, Where Eagles Dare, and World Literature Today. She is the author of the poetry book In Exchange for a Homeland (Swan Scythe Press 2004), the chapbook All these years practicing while momentous events were happening all around (Gavia Immer 2015) and co-translator of Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores (Wayne State University Press 2015). She currently lives in Toronto where she is a member of the Contemporary Poetry Research Group, a research & reading collective dedicated to creating spaces for engaged dialogue at the intersections of poetry and critical thought. BARBARA JANE REYES is the author of Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry and a finalist for the California Book Award. She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlan Libre Press, 2012). An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program, where she teaches Filipino/a Literature in Diaspora, and Filipina Lives and Voices in Literature. She has also taught Filipino American Literature at San Francisco State University, and graduate poetry workshop at Mills College, and currently serves on the board of Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA). She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press. SARAH ROSENTHAL is the author of Lizard (Chax, forthcoming) and Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) as well as several chapbooks including Estelle Meaning Star (above/ground, 2014), disperse (Dusie, 2014), The Animal (in collaboration with artist Amy Fung-yi Lee, Dusie, 2011), How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998). She edited A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Eleven Eleven, Sidebrow, Zen Monster, Otoliths, eccolinguistics, textsound, and Little Red Leaves, and is anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, and Stories for Children (Black Radish, 2013), Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim (P-Queue, 2008), Bay Poetics (Faux, 2006), The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2004), and hinge (Crack, 2002). Her essays and interviews have appeared in journals such as Jacket, Denver Quarterly, Rain Taxi, New American Writing, and How2. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award, a Creative Capacity Innovation Grant, a San Francisco Education Fund Grant, and grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale. From 2009–2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She manages programs for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury.