Kim Addonizio

writer musicmaker maquisard

Kim Addonizio is the author of six poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me. Her latest books are Mortal Trash: Poems (W.W. Norton) and a memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress (Penguin). She recently collaborated on a chapbook, The Night Could Go in Either Direction (Slapering Hol Press) with poet Brittany Perham. Addonizio also has two word/music CDs:  Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, a companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems & Portraits, featuring woodcuts by Charles D. Jones. She teaches and performs internationally

 
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 Readings, Conferences, Retreats

Latest on BBC Radio: California Burning: Jack Kerouac inspires poet Kim Addonizio to spend time as a forest fire watcher - scanning for smokes from a lookout tower high above the giant sequoias of California. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bz6l

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UPCOMING SF BAY AREA READINGS

Friday Feb 21, 7pm PEGASUS BOOKS, Shattuck Ave, Berkeley with Cynthia Goode (In the Thaw of Day), Dorianne Laux (Life on Earth), Danusha Lameris (Blade by Blade)

Sunday Feb 23, 2pm, SPECS BAR, 12 William Saroyan Place, North Beach SF, “Stranger Than Fiction” with Joe Loya, Naomi Goldner, Alan Black, Grace Loh Prasad, and Natacha Ruck.

Sunday March 2, 6pm BAZAAR CAFE, 5927 California St, SF

 

(with Danny Caron at the Port Townsend Writers Conference, July 2023)