A Reading: “The Future is Not Communal,” 2018 (begins at 12:00)

Michele Carlson was invited to participated in “Dodie Bellamy is on our mind,” a yearlong series of public events and reading group centered on the work of Dodie Bellamy. The reading group includes Nicole Archer, Michele Carlson, Tonya Foster, Jeanne Gerrity, Lisa Heinis, Glen Helfand, Anthony Huberman, Trista Mallory, Anne McGuire, K.r.m. Mooney, and Marcela Pardo Ariza. September 20, 2018 – August 14, 2019

As a part of this series she read with four other former students of Bellamy: Linda Bakke, Victoria Gannon, Carlos Jackson, and Ismail Muhammad.

Press release: Dodie Bellamy is many things, and one of them is a teacher. In the context of her college courses or her informal writing workshops, she has mentored hundreds of younger writers, which has inevitably left a mark on parts of the Bay Area's literature and poetry community.
Linda Bakke, Michele Carlson, Victoria Gannon, Carlos Jackson, and Ismail Muhammad have all studied with Bellamy - some recently and others not so recently. They come together to read their work, and, by extension, to provide an introduction to a new generations of Bay Area writers and poets.