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2013 THIRD SUNDAY SALON SCHEDULE
Bean Affair Coffee Shop, 1270 Healdsburg Avenue—1:30–3:30 p.m. |
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| January 20 |
JIM MILLER
In Geyserville, Jim Miller is known as a father, grandfather, landowner and grape farmer. At 77, he is also a published poet. His fourth book, “Going Off the Pavement,” was published in June, the culmination of 30 years’ work. It includes 118 poems and 43 photos he describes as his search for “the center line” of his life. For almost as long, Miller has been writing poems and, after studying with Ansel Adams in Yosemite, taking photographs. “I have not stopped using my brain and still love thinking,” he said. “I am always learning to see things. There is beauty in everything.” |
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| February 10 |
GUILD'S POETRY VALENTINE (Click for a list of the twenty poets selected for this year's event.)
The Guild's Annual Poetry Valentine will be held at Healdsburg's Bean Affair Coffee Shop on Sunday, February 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Unlike previous years, this year we are issuing an open call for Love Poems. All are invited to submit a poem that will fit on one page of a chapbook. A committe made up of individuals not submitting poems will select the twenty poems to be read on Feb. 10 and to be published in the chapbook. Submission deadline is January 21, 2013. Click here for a brochure with all entry rules. Free and open to the public, this is the Guild's love-gift to the community. |
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| February 17 |
LARRY ROBINSON
Larry Robinson is a retired psychotherapist and former mayor of Sebastopol. His abiding obsession is to restore the oral tradition of poetry. He hosts occasional poetry salons where the only rule is "no reading" and offers a daily poem via e-mail to anyone who is interested. For the past 12 years he has produced Rumi's Caravan, an evening of poetry in the ecstatic tradition. |
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| March 17 |
VILMA GINZBERG & TOM MARIANI
Vilma Ginzberg was the fifth Healdsburg Literary Laureate [2008/2009].
Since 2004 she has published four books of poetry: Colors of Glass in 2004, Murmurs & Outcries in 2007, Snake Pit in 2010, and I Don’t Know How to Do This, poems on aging, in 2011.
Vilma will read from just published new book of poetry, making noise.
Tom Mariani was born in San Francisco and is a fifth generation Californian. After working in bank management for eightteen years, he turned to writing. A number of his poems and prose essays have been published. He is involved in several local literary groups and is a big supporter of Poetry Slam. |
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| April 21 |
JOHN KOETZNER & KIDS
John Koetzner, the 2012–2013 Healdsburg Literary Laureate, will appear with some of the kids from his poetry classes. John and the kids will read some of their poetry. It should make for a wonderful and engaging afternoon.
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| May 19 |
MARVIN HIEMSTRA
Marvin R. Hiemstra is a poet, humorist, editor, critic, scholar, and entertainer. Marvin lives in San Francisco where he is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review and teaches performance techniques to a wide range of writers and musicians. Marvin has appeared in 10 countries and throughout the United States. The poetry/humor performance DVD, French Kiss Destiny, was called “superb work” by Dana Gioia. Marvin studied under Donald Justice at the Iowa Writers Workshop and holds a Master’s Degree in Literary Criticism from Indiana University.
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| May 26 |
GUILD'S GRAVESIDE READINGS
Now in its 14th year, the Guild's Graveside Readings continues at Oak Mound Cemetery. Each year, gathered on the bumpy, weed-thick ground, we manage to drape it with two hours of dignity and gentle laughter. In past years, we have heard songs performed by local musicians, and moving poems penned by previous Healdsburg literary laureates. Join us at the fountain on the hillside, Oak Mound Cemetery, First and Piper Streets, Healdsburg, May 26 (the Sunday preceding Memorial Day), 2 PM – 4 PM. Bottled water provided. For more information, contact Jeane Slone, 707-431-8276. |
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| June 16 |
KATHERINE HASTINGS & DANIEL COSHNEAR
Katherine Hastings is the author of Cloud Fire (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2012) and several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, anthologies and journals, including the Book of Forms — A Handbook of Poetics; Everything Indicates — Bay Bridge Poems & Portraits/em>; Visions and Affiliations — A California Timeline; Ambush Review, CALYX, Comstock Review; Parthenon West Review and many others. She is the executive director of the non-profit Wordtemple, curator of the WordTemple Poetry Series and host of WordTemple on KRCB, a Northern California NPR affiliate. Her Small Change Series of WordTemple Press has published beat poet David Meltzer, San Francisco poet laureate emerita devorah major, and many others. Hastings grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco and received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College.
Daniel Coshnear most recent book is Occupy and Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press, 2012). He is the author of a previous collection of stories, Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine Editions), which was awarded the Willa Cather Prize in Fiction. He teaches in a variety of university extension programs, including University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Coshnear works at a group home for homeless men and women with mental illness. He lives in Guerneville, California with his wife Susan and their children Circe and Daedalus.
In 2003, Coshnear was awarded the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and in 2005 the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship. |
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| July 21 |
MARK RAWITSCH & DIXON WRAGG
Mark Rawitsch's book The House on Lemon Street (University Press of Colorado, 2012) ranks with Valerie Matsumoto's Farming the Home Place, Yasuko Takezawa's Breaking the Silence, and Linda Tamura's Nikkei Soldiers Break Their Silence as among the very best books in Japanese American studies to simultaneously make a major contribution to that field of study plus local and public history. What the sterling works by Matsumoto, Takezawa, and Tamura accomplished for Cortez, California; Seattle, Washington; and Hood River, Oregon—to render these sites touchstones of Nikkei history and memory—Rawitsch has done for Riverside, California. He is Dean of Instruction at Mendocino College and a founding member of the Harada House National Historic Landmark Ad-Hoc Advisory Council of the City of Riverside.
Dixon Wragg’s main interest is in writing short autobios. Unfortunately he must write other kinds of things to get his bios printed. He’s won awards for poetry (both written and slam performances), short fiction, essays (his column The Gospel According to Dixon, which appears on WaccoBB.net), and humor, which has been published in Fantasy and Science Fiction and regularly in the Washington Post. He’s an editor of the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form(!) |
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| August 18 |
JOELLE BURNETTE & LILITH ROGERS
Joelle Burnette is the author of the nonfiction narrative Cancer Time Bomb, and the children’s Hanukkah story Freedom Doesn't Just Come Along with a Tree. She writes for Family Life Magazine after having written for the Press Democrat, San Francisco television news, in congressional offices on Capitol Hill, and media relations on presidential and regional political campaigns.
Lilith Rogers has lived in Sonoma County for almost thirty years and in Monte Rio for seven. She has been a writer in various mediums--poetry, prose, plays, children's stories--for most of her life. Lilith has self-published five chilidren's books, two books of poetry, Lilith Returns and Persimmons and Other Lesbian Erotica and a gardening book, Raising Bread and Roses: A Sonoma County Gardening Guide.
Lilith is also a performer and loves presenting her one woman show, Rachel Carson Returns, in which she becomes the author of Silent Spring. She has performed Rachel Carson Returns for schools, civic groups, and friends. |
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