tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91841308916486902892024-03-20T06:40:57.795-07:00Poetry Express BerkeleyPOETRY EXPRESS BEREKELEY
PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-18536590002886063772022-06-30T14:32:00.000-07:002022-06-30T14:32:31.626-07:00What's Happening to Poetry Express<p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> <b>What's Happening to Poetry Express </b>?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">The pandemic put us on hold and time has flown.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">Many of us do not feel comfortable with an indoor setting.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">Some of the hosts have been otherwise occupied.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">We are seeking someone to take over and sustain this forum after 17 years of weekly readings which included many well-known poets, emerging poets, and the rest of us. It would be nice if PE could continue in any form. Let us know of your interest bagnell dot bruce dot a @gmail.com (remove the spaces, and use periods . for the dots.)</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></span></p><p><br /></p>PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-40443553784010245672022-04-15T11:06:00.001-07:002022-04-15T11:06:39.105-07:00<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5393539811745775638templateContainer" style="background-color: #7193c9; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; max-width: 600px !important; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-5393539811745775638templateHeader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 5px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3D15e90a9be6%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw2YilwNKlYWAq-RHqffwweB" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=15e90a9be6&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnImage CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiz0m6vvT96p63Nv7nBWzhnVnjTVYIdUfIgNzFWa7bqTn7IfIWQqVqMYAwd6xU-0v42XYbi_6j-5tFD5EOA1YQYtiYOW6laybzn7I-M0uG9SbSCw8aMnrtxiVis8_OmbFcmZFaj7nmW72fLu5yk4f_9iw9hRvzuiLVPm9GVrPnD7pbu2sKOblqVDbCumeMEVy2olSp8tbrNzy7LQDsJuGk_uu9g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1000px; outline: none; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px;"><br /><em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", "lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000066;">“Julia was not only a relatively unsung chronicler of her era, she is a singular talent whose inspiring story of thriving in spite of her disabilities must be told—especially in these turbulent times.”</span></span><br /><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">– </span></span></span></em><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;">Jim LeBrecht, Academy Award-nominated co-director, </span><strong><em><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;">Crip Camp</span></em></strong></span></span><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top">Hello Friends and Fans of Julia Vinograd,<br /> <br />It’s National Poetry Month – the perfect time to update you on our progress, the next steps in production, and how to help us get closer to a finished film<strong><em>.</em></strong></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, verdana, segoe, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Progress to Date</span></span></span></h1><p style="line-height: 20px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">• Completed 17 on-camera interviews with Julia’s fellow poets, People’s Park activists, publishers, her sister, and even her apartment manager.<br /> <br />• Amassed an extensive archive of Vinograd photos, newspaper articles, manuscripts and poetry readings.<br /><br />• Created motion graphic test se<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3Dcf13bacd59%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw1_HCn4xZpGzDchWZ4Sbnor" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=cf13bacd59&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #222222;" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="Street Spices Cover" class="CToWUd" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiO2C9BYtGjW8bkOBjLUOn6gE3DuodT-QdunGJEJ-T2uRSfvu47SQhYOtVlZtlpERfa8IuIdAQk3-LFS-5Zcl0r-uSmhPy4nZGZwMcFnTp1tVmDa8wjEsO50za2uX9KftyOKSllA8nDXCTVAjbANCsSaU5scpGXZclhDrvbNlD4ZijlR5Ae7sxMpdxAMkMBOD03SGxzcO4OfTvfMdH7JmO4vvmQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; height: 278px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 180px;" width="180" /></a>quences that integrate Julia’s poetry with photos of her and the urban landscapes where she worked and wandered.<br /> <br />• Collected dozens of vintage stills and footage of the People’s Park movement, and rare video and audio recordings of Cafe Babar readings.<br /> <br />• Produced a grant proposal video, a fundraising pitch video, and<strong> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3Dc66aa815e5%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw1w-3o_gqvcl-E1N0M0S4Ps" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=c66aa815e5&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">a new website trailer</a></strong>.<br /> <br />All of this progress was made possible by your donations, along with the materials and referrals many of you have shared with me. <strong>Thank you!</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, verdana, segoe, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>Next Steps</strong></span></span></span><br /><br /><strong>I’m now ready to enter a major production phase – editing the first full “rough cut” of the film.</strong><br /><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3D743988798b%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw38-NwZhjlVbjzsRHG828y-" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=743988798b&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #222222;" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Julie with bubble" class="CToWUd" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhZBsNy5Yh1zUdaMKE6UzTxIPlk2AW50RYRFzsqVu_3_7uJOU6fE-B00uz9m0G_BxCROq4x37gMWK6bY2hUn_FndvwyJVg1GdncUUgNGMjOVEVCy6coH6e7kqUoQRMpzEXqGDsytTjdSlF-TNhF1UXyskOjbXdVdJx99-mWoT4iwJO3Ww56oXM7a2s123XuzKbIIP9Gf0KS-xv2oQVx9WEaLdcT=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; height: 170px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 180px;" width="180" /></a>I'll start with transcribing the interviews in order to create a script and a “paper edit” of the film that will serve as the basis for the rough cut.<br /><br />I will also shoot aerial and other footage of Julia’s favorite Berkeley neighborhoods, such as Telegraph Avenue, People’s Park, UC Berkeley campus, and her plaque on the Addison Street Poetry Walk.<br /><br />Later this summer, I will begin assembling all the above interviews, audio, footage and archival material with an intended completion date for the rough cut of December 2022.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, verdana, segoe, sans-serif;"><strong>How You Can Help</strong></span></span></span></p> <div style="margin-left: 23px; margin-right: 23px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066;"><em>"<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", "lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", tahoma, sans-serif;">We feel confident that <strong>Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone</strong> will meet the highest quality standard required for broadcast."</span></em></span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #555555;">– Holly Kernan, Chief Content Officer, KQED</span></span></span></div><p style="line-height: 20px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br />In order to produce a rough cut and meet PBS broadcast standards, we need to raise $25,000 to cover the costs of video editing equipment<em>,</em> hard drives, a drone operator, digitizing analog media, and a motion graphics artist. </p><p style="line-height: 20px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>I'd welcome your support in two ways:</strong></p><div>• <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3Dc07a7b0a0e%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw3Kbh98FpaEVzuTGsMfliua" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=c07a7b0a0e&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #222222;" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><strong>Make a donation now through our nonprofit fiscal sponsor</strong></span></a>. Any amount you donate will help get us closer to reaching our goal and bringing Julia’s unique and inspiring story to the largest audience possible.<br /> </div><div>• <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3D7b34bdba0b%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw14wkN9ja1oOJbcxNbbxtsU" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=7b34bdba0b&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #222222;" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><strong>Share our website and new film trailer</strong></span></a> on social media and in email with friends who love poetry or might be inspired by Julia’s story of resilience and unflagging artistry. Encourage them to signup for our newsletter and donate.<br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 18px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #2baadf; border-radius: 11px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 18px;" valign="middle"><a class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnButton" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3Ddc61f098a6%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw0EW_NDvnMKyYBnRIzq_J0C" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=dc61f098a6&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: white; 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font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: left;">I'm making an emotionally immersive film that will present Julia Vinograd's life and legacy as a beacon for creatively transcending one's limitations.<br /><br />Please help me deliver it to the doorstep of your heart.<br /> <br />Gratefully Yours,<br /><br /><img align="left" class="CToWUd" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjBgOqe6R7aVur-P4BuwaXP9pOjE1yGi_2iIcW00fd4z0d0yDk3cX94aI-kRbZ8RA3Ol0rZhhm_2ybJvrBlKRSEQBZguj_2SNKpP_9PgLazpQp9LTuzme0hgaO03eTLREHipnAIXUzREJzdM8dlvNK3bL7i6afuzl7LFxo0pczZiSS_rpXpvZYGNI84s2qN5kgPPPtD5uK9jRm8WgRerrUDa-tBSQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; height: 93px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; width: 100px;" width="100" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ken Paul Rosenthal, Director<br /><strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3D3bfb93dd23%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw3upjVCmyr2POLZN5i1YCUl" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=3bfb93dd23&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #656565; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone</a></strong><br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="background-color: #856868; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnImageCardRightImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 282px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61%26id%3Df1e70d90cb%26e%3D21244bdb0b&source=gmail&ust=1650132103404000&usg=AOvVaw2cLuU1rwTZRinHiFI3zdG_" href="https://betweenspiritandstonethefilm.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387a5ce23c7d149544deebf61&id=f1e70d90cb&e=21244bdb0b" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><img alt="" class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnImage CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhHPwkRgvBe_NBhvKo4RS2TVVYxyKymJX_Za40patbNu9PiexLtcF4jQ-3Q12KH1KfOCl9U3KSlNU404zfBP9BwIfRJb4vdzKT7pBKgwk5yYyN9cxvOdVPU5YcFnX9tJkzwjBRWpu5ax88f0ultgabnNC_fK_ynUHNUKI5tPTqGezaar4gjn9X_1-8nHj230Od5ru4xsgJctQNhFoKc7mBCQtEl=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 600px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="282" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnImageCardRightTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 264px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-5393539811745775638mcnTextContent" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 21.25px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 18px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>But the sky behind the sky tells you its secret<br />close in your ear and warm against your lips:<br />everything lives.<br /><br />Reach out and touch, bend and believe.<br />Everything lives, leaf, bird, blackberry.<br />The world is too big to lose.</strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>From <em>World Dance by </em>Julia Vinograd</strong></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally from Salem, Oregon, <b>Scott Caputo</b> has had a life-long love affair with writing poetry and creating games. His work has appeared in <i>Red Rock Review,</i> <i>Ruah, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, </i>and <i>Saranac Review</i>. Blue Light Press published his second book of poems, <i>The Bridge Under Construction, </i>in 2019, and his first book, <i>Holy Trinity of Chiles</i>, in 2010. "Memories of a Preemie" was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. He also has five published board games, including Völuspá, based on the Nordic epic poem of the same name. He currently resides in Newark, California, with his wife and two sons. </span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">First memories</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">are newborn hairs</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">trailing off</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">soft infant heads.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">So I hoped for my son</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">who lived his first weeks</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">in a heated box</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">hooked to heart monitors</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">a feeding tube</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">threaded up his nose</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">down to his tiny</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">walnut-sized stomach</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">all day a slumber</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">under bright blue</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">bleaching yellow</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">from his fresh skin</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">eyes closed</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">to the world.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Evenings after work</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">I scrubbed my hands orange</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">before entering the NICU</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">a room punctuated</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">by heart and breath</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">monitors beeping</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">suddenly screaming</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">before settling again.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Nurses rowed between</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">shuttered pods</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">cheerful blankets</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">hiding the one inside.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">I held my son to my bare chest</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">let him feel my body heat</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">before putting him back</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">inside his incubator</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">for night after night.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">My wife and I</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">hoped his first weeks</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">of solitude</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">would barely smudge</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">the mirror of his mind.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">But months later</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">well after he came home to us</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">well after he learned to smile</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">we brought him back</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">to be with his former</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">roommates and nurses</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">a party with balloons and cake.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">I did not expect how strongly</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">my son would embrace</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">his daytime nurse.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">He last saw her when he was only</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">a few weeks old.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">He gripped her with everything</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">a six-month old could give.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Somewhere deep inside</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">he was being held again</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; 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<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Dennis J Bernstein lives in San Francisco. He is the award-winning host/producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on public and community radio stations across the United States. Bernstein is the recipient of many awards for his work, including the 2015 Pillar Award in Broadcast Journalism. In 2009, Pulse Media named him one of the “20 Top Global Media Figures.” Bernstein’s articles and essays have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Denver Post, Philadelphia Enquirer, Newsday, The Nation, Dallas Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Mother Jones, Village Voice, The Progressive, Vibe Magazine, Spin Magazine, Toronto Globe, Kyoto Journal, Der Spiegel, and many more. Bernstein is the author of Henry Hyde’s Moral Universe, and the co-author of two decks of political trading cards, Friendly Dictators and The S&L Scandal Trading Cards. He founded The Muriel Rukeyser Reading Series in Park Slope Brooklyn, and broadcast it over public and community radio in New York City; the series was named after his friend and mentor, the late poet and biographer, Muriel Rukeyser. Bernstein also produced the first complete live, 35 hour broadcast of James Joyce’s Ulysses in the U.S. at New York’s Bloomsday Bookstore. He is author of the poetry collection Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom, which won the 2012 Artists Embassy International Literary Cultural Award. His poetry has appeared in The New York Quarterly, The Chimaera, Bat City Review, The Progressive, Texas Observer, ZYZZYVA, Red River Review, and numerous other journals. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, writes that Special Ed “is art turned to us through the eyes of love.” Carol Smaldino says in The Huffington Post that the poems remind us how “we are all connected to the sorrows as well as to the grandness of being human.” Bernstein’s earliest poems appeared as a chapbook, Particles of Light, with woodcuts by Stan Kaplan. His artists’ books/plays French Fries and GRRRHHHH: a study of social patterns, co-authored with Warren Lehrer, are considered seminal works in the genre, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Georges Pompidou Centre, and other museums around the world</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Lenore's poetry collections form a trilogy about love, loss, and being mortal: Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island (West End Press, 2012); Two Places (Kelsay Books, 2014), and The Golem (Hadassa Word Press, 2017). Her most recent poetry chapbook is <i>From Malls to Museums (Ethelzine, 2020), and her </i> prize-winning flash fiction chapbook, <i>Holding on to the Fringes of Love</i>, was published by Alexandria Quarterly Press. Lenore tutors middle-school and high-school students in reading and writing and volunteers at Chapter510 in Oakland, California.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">1990s. Author of 4 books [ <i>Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater </i></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><i>and Skeletal Black</i>, all from POOR Press ] and 24 anthology </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">appearances [ including Poets 11: 2014, Feather Floating On The </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Water, Rise, Your Golden Sun Still Shines, What Is Love, The City </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Is Already Speaking, The Land Lives Forever, Extreme and Civil</span><br style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Liberties United, edited by Shizué Seigel ] under his figurative </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">belt so far. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Allen’s fifth book, <i>Elohi Unitsi</i>, will be released Earth Day 2020</span><br style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">from Conviction 2 Change Publishing.</span><br style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTPHZVZdMqkQn9IZvR2BAL-PgYEUa8af0iW3lLe6ZNBpkHOe_RUUVIolBH0swJXDjtLztCuh4xuRvqVC8hiiHqiHwv5ec7ODu2bZecJ6U7X4I1ePzudC-4THvSEpE3zBddNPTyeSlH1VX/s1600/HeatherScott.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #141414; clear: left; color: magenta; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitTPHZVZdMqkQn9IZvR2BAL-PgYEUa8af0iW3lLe6ZNBpkHOe_RUUVIolBH0swJXDjtLztCuh4xuRvqVC8hiiHqiHwv5ec7ODu2bZecJ6U7X4I1ePzudC-4THvSEpE3zBddNPTyeSlH1VX/s320/HeatherScott.jpeg" style="background: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="240" /></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Heather Scott is a teacher in Oakland and sometimes writer. 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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: inherit;">I showed her my silver earring.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: inherit;">She has a telescope back in Chile.</span></span></div>
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-79990296963400165332020-01-06T21:00:00.000-08:002020-01-06T21:00:05.243-08:00Paul Jolly features 1/13/20<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>1/13/2020Paul Jolly</b></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">hosted by Jim</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">Paul Jolly was raised in Oakland, and, after a thirty year detour on the East Coast, returned to Berkeley in the summer of 2019. His poems have appeared in Permafrost, the Columbia Review, and Straylight. His first book, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Cream-Trucks-Play-Christmas-Songs/dp/1594980535/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Dwhy%2Bice%2Bcream%2Btrucks%2Bplay%2BChristmas%2Bsongs%26qid%3D1565066262%26s%3Dgateway%26sr%3D8-1&source=gmail&ust=1565208097071000&usg=AFQjCNHyVodwtCaSdCr_Ll4lFmMk1K6FRw" href="https://www.amazon.com/Cream-Trucks-Play-Christmas-Songs/dp/1594980535/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=why+ice+cream+trucks+play+Christmas+songs&qid=1565066262&s=gateway&sr=8-1" style="color: magenta; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Why Ice Cream Trucks Play Christmas Songs</a>, was published by Fernwood Press in December of 2018. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">in their grand round lab coat<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">pockets? Did prayer warriors spout<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">glossolalia in the same dead language?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><b>1</b></span><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;">/6/2020 </span></b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">Kelliane Parker </span><span style="color: white;">hosted by Elaine Brown</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black;">Kelliane Parker is a Bay Area poet and co host of My Word Open Mic. Her work has been featured in local anthologies and she has performed around the Bay Area and. Her work gives voice to survivors of sexual abuse and other violent trauma to heal and break the cycle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">While the world sleeps, I negotiate and wrestle</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">I let go and become. The night person, sleepless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Unpredictable and uncooperative. I unearth secrets</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">And deconstruct stories, stories carefully crafted and rehearsed</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">By the entire cast in the role of a lifetime</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">For a lifetime…a life sentence, really.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">And I nurture and embrace The Survivor</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">The one who faced down monsters from untold fairy tales</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Where the outside world finds most of us unworthy</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Of be saved or believed. So again we save ourselves,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Unless we don’t. And then the body count is uncounted,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">By the unspeakable cancer called shame.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">And another is lost</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">And, another…is… lost</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">So, tell me your secrets, the ones you don’t even tell yourself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">What could you lose to tell another unworthy, the familiar tale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Only the cast member names are different, but the story is the same</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">So we share the secret handshake, to acknowledge our membership</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Only this time, it is different, we are the majority</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">And the light no longer stings our eyes, or maybe it just makes us feel alive</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">To feel something, anything even pain is beautifully real</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">You, my sisters, count</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">I see you, I hear you</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">First session will be Monday, January 6th.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Happy New Year !</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span>PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-14610321295335017172019-12-16T19:00:00.000-08:002019-12-16T19:00:00.975-08:0012/23/19 Aileen Cassinetto Features<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Aileen Cassinetto is the first Asian-American appointed to the post of Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Having grown up in the Philippines during Martial Law, she seeks not only to make poetry more accessible to people in their everyday lives, but to advocate for social justice and diversity. Widely anthologized, she is the author of the poetry collections,<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;"> Traje de Boda</span> and<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems</span>, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. Aileen is also the publisher of Paloma Press, an independent literary press established in 2016 which has released 17 books to date.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Andrena Zawinski’s latest poetry collection, Landings, is from Kelsay Books (Hemet, CA). She has published two previous full collections of poetry: Something About (Blue Light Press, San Francisco, CA), a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, O), a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. She has also authored four chapbooks and is editor of Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry (Scarlet Tanager Books, Oakland, CA). Her poems have received accolades for free verse, form, lyricism, spirituality, and social concern. She founded and runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Landings, Zawinski presents poems that embrace, in original ways and with deep-rooted emotional power, the worldwide condition of women, immigrants, and the working class alongside an abiding reverence for the natural world. Of this work, Jan Beatty says Zawinski is the necessary voice of the truth teller, speaking trouble among the beauty. Rebecca Foust lauds the collection as a book that offers wisdom and solace and one you will take comfort in reading again and again. Carolyne Wright goes on to say in these Landings, she embraces the richness of human experience and praises the courage of those who go on ‘living as if they could do anything.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Links to work: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://poetrymagazine.com/zawinski&source=gmail&ust=1556665715840000&usg=AFQjCNHSC7zNUs4Juhb4mtMZG9-OzLUNbQ" href="http://poetrymagazine.com/zawinski" style="color: magenta; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">poetrymagazine.com/zawinski</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://amazon.com/author/andrenazawinski&source=gmail&ust=1556665715840000&usg=AFQjCNEBGxrAlV0pM2mrIa4vBEd8D9oXhQ" href="http://amazon.com/author/andrenazawinski" style="color: magenta; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">amazon.com/author/<wbr></wbr>andrenazawinski</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">from Aleppo across the Aegean away from bombs and bullets</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">into this dark sea cannot be rescued with innocent teasing and mirth.</span></div>
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-74080512973012147942019-12-02T19:00:00.000-08:002019-12-02T19:00:09.144-08:00Becky Bishop White features 12/9<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">12/9/19 </span><span style="color: yellow;">Becky Bishop White</span><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hosted by Jim</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">The east coast, the SF Bay Area, and Lake Tahoe are threaded throughout the poetry of Becky Bishop White. An emerging poet, Becky won the 2019 First Prize in the Benicia Love Poetry Contest for her poem, </span><u style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Flying Start</u><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">, and was Second Place winner for an unpublished poem, </span><u style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ghost Fleet</u><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">, at the 2019 Solano County Fair. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Becky lives in Benicia with her husband, author James W. White, who is her very best friend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d0e0e3; font-family: inherit;">You are no longer fugitive</span></div>
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-70580969766819314582019-11-25T21:00:00.000-08:002019-11-25T21:00:01.554-08:00Jeanne Lupton Features 12/2/19<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Jeanne Lupton hosted Second Saturday Poetry and Prose at Frank Bette Center for the Arts for 13 years until this month. She writes poems and memoir and her tanka are published internationally. She's happy to feature again at Poetry Express. She gets great material from living at Strawberry Creek Lodge, senior housing in Berkeley. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Dave Holt, born in Toronto of Irish/English and Ojibwe Indian ancestry, moved to California as an aspiring songwriter, then graduated from SF State University’s Creative Writing program (B.A. ‘93, M.A. ‘95). He’s won several poetry prizes, including a Literary/Cultural Arts award for his book <em>Voyages to Ancestral Islands</em>, and is included in several anthologies, most notably, <em>Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California</em>;<em> Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California</em>; <em>The Wild, Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2019</em>, and <em>Descansos: Words from the Wayside,</em> where his poem received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Also a musician & composer, he sometimes performs his poetry with Ojibwe drum or keyboard.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">I come from ice and snow, winter memories</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">carry me, crossing tundra to a new land.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Fleets of dugout canoes floated us through kelp forest.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Bass, crabs, otters fed us,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">this history etched in our hearts like petroglyphs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">pecked in stone by our native artists.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">This new Turtle Island formed by Skywoman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">and before then, he who descended to Earth</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">as if by a rope dropped through Bugonagiizhig,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">“Hole in the Sky,” the seven sisters, the Pleiades.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">A different people followed Giiwedin’anung,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">North Pole star, brought trade goods from the south,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">taught us their friendship songs,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">gave us the three sisters: corn, beans, squash,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">traded for gifts of the north, obsidian, copper, beaver furs.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">They shared their strange stories of origin and creation,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">here on this land, where they emerged like ants</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">from an anthill, from an underground world</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">into the fourth world of pueblos and mesas,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">and Spanish soldiers offering Bibles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">We nodded, knowing that what we were hearing was sacred.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Like us, they came from the Star People</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">who gave us seven sacred laws, affirmed our place</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">in the sacred hoop, and another non-heavenly origin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">in the land across the water, beyond snows and ice flows,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">back in time where we were given stewardship of the earth.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Of the four races, the white race became guardians</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">of the fire, the spark at the center of things.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Carried here across the Bering Strait, to where our fight</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">for protection of the water has earned us pepper spray,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">guard dog attacks, jail cells, federal prison sentences.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cfe2f3; font-family: inherit;">Of what crime, against who, have we been accused? </span><br />
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-16322490069166454942019-11-11T19:00:00.000-08:002019-11-11T19:00:09.579-08:00Joyce Young Features 11/18<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">11/18/2019 Joyce Young</span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hosted by Bruce<span style="color: #00b050;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Joyce E. Young</b> is the author of How it Happens, published by Nomadic Press. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Her writing has been nominated for both a Pushcart and a California Book Award</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">and has appeared in Smith Alumnae Quarterly, WORDPEACE, riverbabble, The </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">New Poets of the American West, and elsewhere. She has received grants from </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">the California Arts Council, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Writers on Site </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">residency program at the Oakland Museum and Oakland Public Library through</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">Poets &amp; Writers, Inc. Joyce has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Soapstone and Vermont Studio Center. She </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">works as a Writing Consultant at John F. Kennedy University, teaches writing p</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">rivately, and is currently at work writing poetry, essays, and Parallel Journey, a </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">novel.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">Joyce maintains regular Yoga and Chi Gung practice and is a semi-retired Afro</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">Cuban folkloric and modern dancer. She keeps lots of music in her life,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">particularly Jazz, Salsa, Reggae, Samba, and combinations of notes that defy</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black;">category. In reality, though, she really doesn’t like to assign categories for music.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">Like angels are supposed to</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">You don’t do it because</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">you want to be good,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">get candy, or ice cream</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">You do it because you love</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">And forgetting all else</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">You tend to her or him,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;">for life, health, the best</span></span></div>
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-35659014894650530982019-11-04T21:00:00.000-08:002019-11-04T21:00:11.059-08:00Bruce Fessenden Features 11/11/19<div style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><b>11/11/19</b></span><b><span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"> Bruce Fessenden </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">hosted by Jim</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Bruce lives in Berkeley and is co-owner of Fessenden Firewood with his partner Christine. He has been deeply immersed in the natural world his entire life through the activities of backpacking, climbing and skiing. A book of his poems —“Crimson Coat” — was published in 2014 by Goldenstone Press. Pieces of Bruce’s writings have appeared in a MoonShine Star Co. anthology called “What is Love”, and also in Richard Grossinger’s book “2013”. A second volume of poems, titled “Bones” will be published shortly.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">My Mothers’ Mother was a gentle woman</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> I remember her deep set, brown eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">She had a hearing aid, like a little microphone</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> all that was available in the 50s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">She had her hearing aid as long as I can remember</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> her hearing impaired by typhoid fever</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> is the story I was told.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">An uneducated woman living in a rooming house</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> as a boy I felt we were connected close.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">Two quiet souls, filled with empty time</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> and the occasional unfriendly ghost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">When in high school, I’d drive</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> her to her solitary room</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">He never gave her a single penny</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> he was blind in so many ways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">Often I wonder why a few rise up</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> while the others struggle and fall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">Hands of the clock easily seen</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> but the inner gears remain hidden.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">I’ve heard it said</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> broken ones of this world sacrifice themselves</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> discarded fruit enriching the soil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">She liked menthol cigarretes and dime store crime novels.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">Who was the kindly elementary school teacher</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> who taught her how to read?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">Welfare checks and food stamps, TV in the lobby</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> Bathroom and showers at the end of the hall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">The last forty years of her life</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> spent in that solitary room</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> with her paperbacks, her cigarretes, her silence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">For the forgotten ones, its almost a blessing</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> to be so broken, and disassociated from their grief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">She lived her life a little bit stunned</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;"> in that way we are so much alike.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: inherit;">There was not a single instance her entire life</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When she’s not drumming in two feminist rock bands, K.R. Morrison teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to high school students at Galileo in San Francisco, CA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Morrison recently featured on Bay Area’s podcast, <i>Storied: San Francisco </i>about being an educator, musician, and writer in a city that’s rapidly changing. She has featured for many curations throughout the Bay Area, most recently <i>Bay Area Generations, Naked Bulb, </i>and <i>Red Light Lit. </i>Apart from reading her poetry at art events in Los Angeles and New Orleans last summer, Morrison featured for curations in New York in June, 2019. Published by <i>Switchback </i>and <i>Quiet Lightning,</i> <i>Haight Ashbury Literary Journal </i>as well as New York’s <i>Gasconade Review </i>selected Morrison as their feature for their most recent publications. She’s currently searching for a publisher for her chapbook, “Cauldrons,” while working on a larger poetry collection entitled, “From Her Wrist.” Once the manuscript is finished, she hopes to have it published by a press that reflects the priorities she voices in her writing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace Marie Grafton's most recent book is LENS from Unsolicited Press. It features poems inspired by California artists, 1853-2010. She is the author of six previous collections of poetry. <i>Zero</i> won the 2000 Poetic Matrix Chapbook contest. <i>Visiting Sisters</i> is a collection inspired by the artwork of contemporary women. <i>Other Clues</i> consists of experimental prose poems. A chapbook, <i>Chrysanthemum Oratorio, </i>plays with language and concept. <i>Whimsy, Reticence & Laud, </i>also from Poetic Matrix, explores the sonnet form. <i>Jester, </i>from Hip Pocket Press, features surreal persona poems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Georgette Howington is a UC Davis California Naturalist of the Mt. Diablo Region. Her poems are published in Iodine, Sleet, Poeming Pigeons, Sacred Grounds, among others. Her poems placed at the North American Women’s Music Festival, Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contests and the Benicia Love Poem Contest 2018. As a horticulturist, her niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters. She is a County Coordinator and the Assistant State Program Director for the California Bluebird Recovery Program (<a href="http://www.cbrp.org/" style="color: magenta; text-decoration-line: none;">www.cbrp.org</a>) and an activist in the conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years. Georgette is also a published garden and environmental writer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-1007047967017660712019-10-14T21:00:00.000-07:002019-10-14T21:00:04.795-07:00Sunday, 10/20, at 2pm,Julia Vinogad Book Release Party <span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sunday, 10/20, at 2pm,</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books with a celebration at Himalayan Flavors. Publisher Bruce Isaacson has put together "A Symphony for Broken Instruments", a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume, which is 384 pages in total, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event, editor Deborah Fruchey presents "Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue", the new tribute anthology of poems to, for, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers.</span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please join us for a festive afternoon celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years.</span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zeitgeist Press Presents:</span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia Vinograd Release Party – New Book and Tribute Anthology </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">with </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bruce Isaacson presenting "A Symphony for Broken Instruments: Selected and New Works by Julia Vinograd" </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deborah Fruchey presenting the Julia Vinograd tribute anthology "Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue" </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">with readings from both volumes</span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hosted by Bruce Isaacson, </span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">event is free of charge (</span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">except</span></span><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">for</span> <span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">restaurant</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> purchases) and books for sale at a one-time discount</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABOUT <b>JULIA VINOGRAD</b></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br style="white-space: pre-wrap;" /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia Vinograd, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley, California, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018). She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley, where her mother was a poet and English Professor. Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. This book represents a life’s work of Street Poems that are accessible, charming, and deeply human.</span></span>PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-11561626280895517992019-10-07T21:59:00.000-07:002019-10-07T21:59:00.280-07:00Lucy Lang Day & Diane Frank Fire & Rain book reading 10/14/19<b style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">10/14/19 Lucy Lang Day and Diane Frank</span></b><b style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hosted by bruce</span><br style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #141414; color: #fce5cd; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 18.4px;"> Fire & Rain book reading </span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="m_-1627823621069091411field-data">Lucille Lang Day’s latest book is <i>Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California</i>, an anthology she coedited. She is also the author of ten poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently<i>Becoming an Ancestor </i>and<i> Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems</i>; the coeditor of <i>Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California</i>; and the author of two children’s books, <i>Chain Letter</i> and <i>The Rainbow Zoo</i>, and a memoir, <i>Married at Fourteen: A True Story</i>. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and her many honors include </span>the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and nine Pushcart nominations. She is the founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://lucillelangday.com&source=gmail&ust=1557208526852000&usg=AFQjCNF8K5mfQoLS34r8Yvjvzj44i9VhCQ" href="http://lucillelangday.com/" style="color: magenta; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://lucillelangday.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">Rust-colored ladybugs, clustered like grapes,<br />mate on horsetails that wave by a creek,<br />where silvery salmon spawn and leap<br />when the sandbar breaks at the gate to the sea.<br /><br />The ladybugs have come hundreds of miles,<br />from valley to coast, for this singles bash.<br />The females are choosy: they twiddle the males,<br />seeking appendages padded with fat.<br /><br />And all around—high in redwood burls,<br />on elk-clover leaves, and in the rich soil—<br />the meaning of life is to stroke and prod<br />under a humpbacked moon, dissolving in fog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;">From <i>Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California</i> (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Diane Frank is author of seven books of poems, two novels, and a photo memoir of her 400 mile trek in the Nepal Himalayas, <i>Letters from a Sacred Mountain Place</i> (Nirala Publishing, 2018). Her new book of poems, <i>Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines</i>, was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2018.<i>Blackberries in the Dream House</i>, her first novel, won the Chelson Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Diane lives in San</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Francisco, where she dances, plays cello in the Golden Gate Symphony, and creates her life as an art form. She teaches at San Francisco State University and Dominican University. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dianefrank.net&source=gmail&ust=1557251866262000&usg=AFQjCNEKrnGLyMS1ztl8zEgp135chdrxAg" href="http://www.dianefrank.net/" style="color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.dianefrank.net</a><br /><br />A poem from <i>Fire and Rain:</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><br /></i><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"> <b> In the Mendocino Woodlands</b><br /><br />He walks into the forest<br />where trees are burning<br />finding his path in the silence.<br /><br />Woodpecker, memory, larkspur<br />in the night of burning.<br /><br />His eyes ask me to wait,<br />to keep the connection inside<br />the silent place where I find<br />pebbles of intuition, rose quartz.<br /><br />In the morning, lupines on the trail<br />to the cliff where the giant trillium blooms,<br />kelp and seals swimming beyond<br />the tide pools below.<br /><br />I run through Indian paintbrush,<br />milk maids, cinquefoil,<br />climbing the path where he finds me.<br /><br />And what is love?<br />A fire walk initiation<br />from the ocean through a cathedral of trees,<br />fuchsia, wild grape, sudden<br />blue streaks on the wing of a moth<br />stellar jay wanting to fly free.<br /><br /> Diane Frank</span></span></span></div>
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PoetryExpressedBerkeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12509512505073184624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184130891648690289.post-826674952067506732019-09-30T21:00:00.000-07:002019-09-30T21:00:06.494-07:00Tom Stanton, Poet Laureate of Benicia Features 10/7/2019<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>10/7/19 Tom Stanton</b></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e6b9b8;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">host Elaine</span></span><br style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thomas Eric Stanton [American, 1947– ]). </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is primarily known as a California Surrealist. His works engage many mediums, and often emphasizes the aspects of 'Performance'. He has produced books of poetry, and his Paintings are included in many public, private, and museum collections. He lives and works in Benicia, California. He is the current Poet Laureate of Benicia, California </span></span></div>
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