MARIN POETRY CENTER SUMMER TRAVELING SHOW

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Host: Rose Black 

The Marin Poetry Center's Traveling Show provides a wonderful showcase for member poets to share their work with family, friends and the general public. This year there will be 23 readings throughout the Bay Area, with Frank Bette Center hosting September 21^st.

Readers:

David Alpaugh has been a featured reader more than one hundred times at Northern California poetry venues. Journals that have published his poetry include Able Muse, Evergreen Review, Poetry, Rattle, Wisconsin Review, and Zyzzyva. His essays on poetry and “pobiz” have appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Mudlark, Rattle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education and he is a contributing writer for the international on-line arts and review monthly SCENE4. 

Patricia Edith is a visual artist and writer living in Alameda and directed the literary arts programs at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts from 2004 – 2007. She has published three collections of poetry, The Modern Office, The Commute and Eight Student Nurses and Other Dead Girls, and been widely published in literary journals. Her work has been shown at the SF Arts Festival, SF Women Artists Gallery, the national juried photography exhibit of the Women's Caucus for the Arts, and at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts.

Susan Kolodny poems appear in many journals including New England Review
and The Beloit Poetry Journal, and most recently The Place that Inhabits Us--Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. Her first collection, After the Firestorm, is forthcoming in October from Mayapple Press.

Adam David Miller has worked in the Bay Area Arts community as writer, radio and television as programmer and producer, publisher, editor and theater producer for four decades.  He is working on Fall Rising, sequel to his memoir Ticket to Exile.

Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 – June, 2009. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Kalliope, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Comstock Review, DMQ Review, Dogwood, The Great American Poetry Show, The Pedestal Magazine, and The Toronto Quarterly. She won the 2009 Caesura Poetry Award and the 2009 Cover Prize for the Dirty Napkin, and currently
hosts the popular reading series “Valona Deli Second Sunday” in Crockett.

Lenore Weiss is an award-winning writer who has made her home in New York City, Chicago, and now Oakland, California. She edited From the Well of Living Waters: Voices of a 21^stCentury Synagogue (2011), and awaits two poetry collections also to be published this year: Tap Dancing on the Silverado Trail, from Finishing Line Press, and Mother and Other Love, West End Press.

To learn more about Marin Poetry Center activities visit www.marinpoetrycenter.org