Photo Credit: Angel O’Brien

Please join the Grabhorn Institute and Arion Press for a poetry reading and short film screening by Bay Area luminary Norma Cole. Norma is a poet, visual artist and translator. Included in the program is the San Francisco premiere of her most recent film, "By the Turning Bridge." The reading will be at 6:30 and the film will screen throughout the evening in the gallery; refreshments at 5:30. RSVP here.

Her most recent book of poetry is FATE NEWS. Other books include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008, Spinoza in Her Youth, TO BE AT MUSIC: Essays & Talks and Actualities, her collaboration with Marina Adams. Her translations from the French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then, Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (edited and translated by Cole), and Jean Daive’s White Decimal. Her awards include the Fund for Poetry, Gertrude Stein Award, the Richardson Award for Non-Fiction Prose and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award for Poetry. She curated a show by Marina Adams at Cue Arts in NYC and collaborated with Adams in BOMB 114, Winter 2011. Her visual work has been shown at the Miami University Art Museum, [2nd floor projects] in San Francisco, “Way Bay,” at the Berkeley Art Museum and most recently her film, “By the Turning Bridge,” at NIAD, Richmond, California.