Crocosmia: San Francisco Launch

Celebrate the launch of Miranda Mellis’ Crocosmia at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, with the poet, essayist, and critic Eleni Stecopoulos.

Miranda Mellis is the author of Demystifications (2021); The Instead (2016); The Spokes (2012); None of This Is Real (2012); The Revisionist (2007). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Millay Colony. She received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, the Michael S. Harper Praxis Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in Olympia, Washington.

Eleni Stecopoulos is a poet, essayist, and critic. Her most recent book is Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing, published by Nightboat. Her other books include Visceral Poetics (2016), a hybrid of criticism and memoir that Petra Kuppers called “a thick rich book of Artaudian trickster moves”; and Armies of Compassion (2010), a collection of poems that Anne Waldman called “riveting . . . rare beauties.” Stecopoulos’s writing has appeared in Pamenar Magazine, [φρμκ], Best American Experimental Writing, Open Space (SFMOMA), In Insomnia: An Anthology, Somatic Engagement: The Politics and Publics of Embodiment, ecopoetics, Viz. Inter-Arts, Second Stutter, The Capilano Review, Harvard Review, and many other venues. She taught at Bard College and the University of San Francisco and now works with writers as an independent editor and mentor. She lives in Northern California.