Bazaar Writers Salon

Readings by Heather Bourbeau, Jalen Eutsey, and Mukethe Kawinzi

Hosted by Peter Kline

Sunday, June 4^th, 6:00p.m.

Bazaar Café, 5927 California St., San Francisco

Heather Bourbeau’s poetry and fiction have appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She has written inMadagascar, read in Tunisia, and worked in Liberia. While drinking strongtea, she wonders where she will explore next. Her collection Some DaysThe Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet AnneCasey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection Monarch is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the US West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, 2023). 

Jalen Eutsey is a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He received his MFAfrom The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He has been the recipient of a Rubys Artist Grant and a Hatty Fitts Walker Scholarship from theProvincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems have appeared in Best NewPoets 2022, Nashville Review, Poetry Northwest, Harpur Palate, and The Hopkins Review. He was born and raised inMiami. 

Mukethe Kawinzi herds goats on the openrange in coastal California. Her work has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and has appeared in HOBART, Puerto del Sol, and Obsidian. Her chapbook ‘saanens, nubians, one lamancha’ (2022) won the Quarterly West Chapbook Contest; her micro-chapbook ‘rut’ (2022) was published as part of Ghost City Press’ Summer Series.

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Peter Kline is the author of two poetrycollections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Deviants (SFASU Press).  A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House.  His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure,and the Persea anthology of self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange.  Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon.  He teaches writing at the University of San Fr