The amazing Lone Glen reading series comes to our galeria tonight to celebrate writers Jacob Kahn and Randy Prunty!
This event is a book launch for Prunty’s debut collection, Test Camp, just published by BlazeVOX. “In revelation of how the emptiness inside meets ‘the emptiness outside,’’ praises Kimberly Lyons, “the poems in Test Camp bring us through the foliage of their landscape: wild, dense, ripe with ‘nature’s ordinary things’ and full of ‘rips to the real.’” We are also thrilled to feature poet Jacob Kahn and his best selling new book, Mine Ecologue. Brian Blanchfield testifies to Kahn’s visionary lens: “I can’t think of another book in which the pastoral has been so knowledgeably upbraided and reanimated. That Mine Eclogue is also a blast to read is a testament to Jacob Kahn’s embodied musicality, deft touch, arresting candor, and infectious will to community.” Lone Glen readings are donation based: $10-15 suggested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
ABOUT THE WRITERS:
Poet and editor JACOB KAHN lives in Oakland, CA. He is the author of Mine Eclogue (Roof
Books, 2022), and the chapbooks A Is For Aegis (DoubleCross Press, 2022), Mine
Eclogue (Dirty Swan Projects, 2019), and A Circuit of Yields (Wolfman Books, 2014). From
2016-20, he was a managing editor, curator, and bookseller at Wolfman Books, a bookstore,
small press, and community arts hub in downtown Oakland. He is an editor of the poetry
chapbook press, Eyelet Press, and reading series, Islet, which he cofounded with Sophia Dahlin
in 2019. He works as a freelance grant writer and copyeditor, as well as at the Berkeley Public
Library.
RANDY PRUNTY grew up in West Virginia and North Carolina and has lived in Atlanta and
Boulder. He now lives in California with his wife, poet Elizabeth Robinson, and works as a bus
driver in the San Francisco Bay Area. His collection of poems, Test Camp, was just published by
BlazeVOX. When he’s not writing or working, he’s birding or biking.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
LONE GLEN is a quarterly reading and performance series dedicated to cultivating a down-to-
earth, inclusive creative community among makers of all forms. In December 2021, Lone Glen
celebrated its decade birthday with authors from Nightboat Books. Lone Glen will continue to
host events in-person, for as long as that remains possible.