Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to host author, editor, poet, and literary arts activist M.L. Liebler for a discussion of a new anthology that touches upon all aspects of working-class life, Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams, on Sunday, January 16 at 3pm. Liebler will be joined by Diane di Prima, Geri Digornio, Sue Doro, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Michael McClure, and Al Young as they delve into their contributions to this collection about living while barely making one. M.L. Liebler is an internationally known and widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and organizer, and the author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream. Diane di Prima is the author of more than forty books of poetry and prose, and her work has been translated into over twenty languages. She lives and works in San Francisco. Geri Digornio is founder and director of the Petaluma Poetry Walk. Her book, White Lipstick, was published by Red Hen Press. Sue Doro is the daughter of a welder and a homemaker and has had three books published, most recently Blue Collar Goodbyes. She is the mother of six and a retired machinist and lives in Oakland, California. Maria Mazziotti Gillan won the American Book Award for her latest book, All That Lies Between Us. She is the founder/executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic Country Community College in Patterson, New Jersey, and director of the creative writing program and professor of poetry at Binghamton University, SUNY. Michael McClure has long been noted for the popularity of his dynamic poetry performances. At the age of twenty-two he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. McClure has found inspiration in music from Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis to the composer Terry Riley, with whom his poetry readings frequently share a bill. He is the author of several books of poetry and writing from New Directions, and he currently records and performs with Ray Manzarek of the Doors. Al Young is a poet, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, editor, essayist, musician, and educator. He is the recipient of several awards, including National Arts Council awards for editing and poetry, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the Before Columbus Foundation Award, as well as several NEA fellowships. He lives in Palo Alto, California.