Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

Join us at the Barkin’ Dog for the January edition of the Second Tuesday Reading Series. Our featured readers will wow and inspire us with their work, and our Most Excellent Open Mic will knock your socks off.

Susan Cohen is the author of two poetry chapbooks and two full-length collections, including A Different Wakeful Animal, winner of the 2015 Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press and finalist for half a dozen other awards.  Stephen Dunn wrote: “There are pleasures in almost every poem in Susan Cohen’s excellent A Different Wakeful Animal, pleasures that arise out of an alertness to the natural world, and the original phrasing she seeks and regularly finds.” She earned an MFA after a career as a journalist, and lives in Berkeley.

Paul Neumann‘s first book of poetry was published in 2003. His second collection, This Valley, appeared in 2013 and was informed by his love for the land and the people in the Central Valley. Beginnings and Endings, his most recent collection,begins with a series of poems inspired by the birth of his granddaughter, Mary. The last segment of the book examines issues of aging, a subject influenced by his own sense of mortality.