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Saturday, October 2, 2010
7 to 9 pm
Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles, CA
Beg No Pardon
Perugia Press
Lynne Thompson’s Beg No Pardon won the Perugia Press First Book Award and Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Thompson was recently commissioned to write a poem to celebrate the installation of Alison Saar’s statue of Harriet Tubman at her alma mater, Scripps College. Her work has previously appeared in the Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Southeast Review, Poetry International, and Margie and new work is forthcoming in Sou’Wester, Ploughshares and Spillway and on the Writers At Work 2011 Poem of the Month Calendar. She’s recently completed a new full-length manuscript tentatively titled Metronome, lately adagio which is seeking a publisher.
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
7 to 9 pm
Santa Cruz, CA
Gary Young’s honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of American, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vogelstein Foundation, the California Arts Council, and two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received a Pushcart Prize, and his book of poems, The Dream of a Moral Life, won the James D. Phelan Award. He is the author of several other collections of poetry including Hands, Days, Braver Deeds (winner the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize), No Other Life (winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America), and most recently, Pleasure. His New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from White Pine Press. He is the co-editor of The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California. He has produced a series of artist’s books, most notably Nine Days: New York, A Throw of the Dice and My Place Here Below. Since 1975 he has designed, illustrated, and printed limited edition books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Getty Center for the Arts, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and lives in the mountains north of Santa Cruz with his wife and two sons.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
7 to 9 pm
Connie Post, Kirsten Jones Neff & Catharine Clark-Sayles
Photo by Ronna Leon
Livermore, CA
Trip Wires
Finishing Line Press
Connie Post served as Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 June 2009. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Kalliope, Cold Mountain Review, Chiron Review, Crab Creek Review, Comstock Review, DMQ Review, Dogwood, Iodine Poetry Journal, Main Street Rag, The Great American Poetry Show, Karamu, Carquinez Poetry Review, The Pedestal Magazine, RiverSedge, Up The Staircase, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and The Toronto Quarterly. She was the winner of the Cover Prize for the Spring 2009 issue of The Dirty Napkin and the winner of the 2009 Caesura Poetry Awards from Poetry Center of San Jose. She currently hosts the popular Valona Poetry Series in Crockett.
Novato, CA
When the House is Quiet
Finishing Line Press
Kirsten Jones Neff is a Gardening teacher and poet who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked professionally as a journalist, travel and food writer, blogger, and documentary filmmaker. Currently, she is a K-8 Gardening teacher at the Novato Charter School. Her debut collection, When The House Is Quiet, won the 2009 Starting Gate prize and a Pushcart nomination from Finishing Line Press. She is a co-founder of Poetry Farm, a monthly reading series in her hometown, and is a board member and newsletter editor for the Marin Poetry Center. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, periodicals and anthologies, including Spoon River Review, Spillway, LiteraryMama, RiversEdge, The Believer, When The Muse Calls: Poems for The Creative Life, Writer’s Advice and elsewhere.
San Rafael, CA
Londonberry Salon 