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Heart of a Warrior: Create Your Courage Shield with Leslie Lew – CANCELLED

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
2:30pm-3:00pm
Location:
Berkeley Public Library, Story Room
Audiences:
All Ages
Themes:
NonfictionYouthlit
Booksales:
Medicine for Nightmares, on the 4th floor, near the stage
Access:
FREE

Join author Leslie Lew for an interactive read-aloud of I Have the Heart of a Warrior featuring her “Warrior & Friends” puppets. Together, they explore courage, kindness, and self-expression, then create their own Courage Shield—decorating it with colors, words, and symbols of their inner strength.

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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