Poet Charles Stein in the Bay Area

Charles Stein—poet, independent scholar, performance artist, and musician—is coming to the Bay Area! He will be reading and presenting from his works in a variety of venues.

Stein is the author of eleven books of poetry. He studied ancient Greek at Columbia University and received a doctorate in literature from The University of Connecticut. His new verse translation of Homer’s The Odyssey came out in 2008. His recent exploration of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books, 2006) includes his translations of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the extant writings of Parmenides. He lives in Barrytown, New York, with classical guitarist, choral director, and research historian Megan Hastie.

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Schedule:

Saturday, February 13
Pantheacon
DoubleTree Hotel
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose

1:30pm

A combined reading, talk, seminar, discussion group, tarot card magic event, based on presenter’s Persephone Unveiled, Seeing the Goddess and Freeing the Soul, as well as his own deck of tarot poems based on Rachel Pollack’s “Shining Woman Tarot,” plus his own fifty years study of Parmenides, Magick, Buddhism, Modern Poetry, Philosophy, and Universal Anarchic Wisdoms.

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Monday, February 15
Bird and Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco

7:00pm

Poetry reading with Timotha Doane.

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Tuesday, February 16
Moe’s Books
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley

7:30pm

Poetry reading.

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