Join us for our monthly Poetry Reading Series featuring Clive Matson, Garrett Murphy, and Terra Oliveira. 

Clive Matson was taught by Beat Generation writers Herb Huncke, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, John Wieners, and Alden van Buskirk in New York in the 1960s. His books include Let the Crazy Child Write! and Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye. Matson taught creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension for many years and currently offers online classes and supports students on Wordswelljournal.org. He received the Berkeley Lifetime Achievement in Poetry Award in 2012, was named the Best East Bay Writing Teacher in 2006, received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Award in 2003, and the Beat Poetry Foundation named Clive "Lifetime Beat Laureate." matsonpoet.com
 *Clive may be accompanied by musician Gail Alcock, Cellist.

Garrett Murphy is well-known in the Bay Area poetry scene as a political and human satirist. He published several chapbooks of poetry and prose, including Now Showing, What We Claim… What We Are, the novel Yang But Yin: The Legend of Miss Dragonheel, and recently, Scooting Along or How to Function as One of The Most Despised Persons on Earth. Murphy's work is noted for its rhythmic structure and musical resonance. His performance-ready feel is enriched by internal rhythms and echoes of gospel and blues.

Terra Oliveira, author of Itinerant Songs (2025), and founding editor of Recenter Press, has been awarded international residencies at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at the Great Wall of China. Her collection, An Old Blue Light won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest in 2016.  A SF Bay Area native, she is of Azorean-Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and mixed Eurasian descent. Her work is inclusive and an extension of her core practices and beliefs: in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally.