selena feliciano (Bushwick Book Club Oakland)

selena feliciano is a hopeful-eco-sad-girl in the Bay Area. Her songs are a mixture of folk and soul, rooted in memory, resistance, and the Earth we’ve nearly forgotten how to listen to. Through sound, story, and community, she offers a reminder: we are not alone in our healing. We can return to each other, and we can return to ourselves. Listen to her debut EP FROM EVERY DIRECTION on all streaming platforms, on instagram (@selena_feliciano_), and on her website www.selenafeliciano.com.

Bushwick Book Club Oakland (BBCO) is a community event series co-produced by Claire Calderón, Nikki Bonsol, and Mia Pixley where Bay Area musicians from a wide range of genres compose and debut brand new original songs inspired by books.

Where to find me at the festival

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.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis