Navigating Emotional Storms with Nunu

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
11:30am-12:00pm
Location:
Berkeley Public Library, Story Room
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Medicine for Nightmares, on the 4th floor, near the stage
Access:
FREE

Join Isabella Kung for a swell time reading her latest book, Nunu and the Sea. She will share symbolisms within the book, how big emotions are as natural as storms at sea, invite the audience to create a drawing with her, and end by leading a breathing and movement exercise to conjure up a “storm” and help regulate ourselves. 

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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