Third Thursday Poetry Features Berkeley Poet MK Chavez
The Arena Theater and Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry present a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, November 19, 2020. This month features Berkeley Poet MK Chavez, with open mic to follow. To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email blake@snakelyone.com.
MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal, and Virgin Eyes. She writes poetry, essays, and short fiction about identity, wildness and wilderness, and the world that we live in.
Chavez has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, CantoMundo, Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, VONA, North Street Collective Residence Program, Real Time & Space Elevate Residency, and Napa Valley Writers Workshop.
Chavez is an activist in the literary community, helping to support emerging writers and writers from marginalized communities. She is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and has been a guest curator of limited reading series at BAMPFA, and LOTERIA in partnership with the Institute of (Advanced) Uncertainty.
Chavez is a passionate educator and leads workshops in community and academic settings. She has been a visiting instructor at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, Mills College, Berkeley City College, San Francisco City College, BAMPFA, and Hedgebrook.
She is the recipient of an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and was recognized by the Berkeley Public Library Foundation at their 18th Award Dinner in 2018.
Her most recent publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and on the Academy of American Poets website’s Poem-A-Day series.
