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milvia street journal

Milvia Street Journal - The Night Heron


Milvia Street produces a print and online journal showcasing the diverse voices and visions of Berkeley City College students. The journal is all student-made to help usher them into professional publishing. They are the next generation of literary movers and shakers in the East Bay and beyond!


Come hear the work of six up-and-coming and super talented writers and poets!!  This year's readers are Somiah Nettles, Hanna Mae Sturges, Lorena Giacoman, Loa Niumeitolu. Check out the recent issue of Milvia Street: www.milviastreet.com.


Somiah Nettles is a poet and classical pianist from Alameda, who’s writing her first chapbook, One Girl, Holy Trinity. Somiah produces Victorian Voices, her Substack newsletter on poetry and classical music. She loves listening to Rachmaninoff, reading Sylvia Plath, and spending time with her lover.


Hannah Mae Sturges is an actor who has performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway. Poetry has always provided a current of rhythmic processing. She enjoys hikes, tree-hugging, singing, and being a weird hippie tomboy Auntie. Recently published in viewlesswings.com // Spotify; Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.


Lorena Giacoman has lived in the Bay Area since migrated from El Salvador. She holds a professional degree in Architecture, Associate in Arts and a LEED AP Building Design + Construction Certification. She’s taking creative writing classes at BCC and working on her memoir.


Loa Niumeitolu is a Tongan poet, community organizer, educator and farmer. She is working on her first film: E Le Malemo Se I'a,  A Fish Does Not Drown: Pasifika Communities during Prop 8. Sharon Coleman's poetry classes at BCC propelled Loa to write after not writing poetry for five years. 

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