Featured Poets
Saturday, May 12
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Jeanne Lupton
Featured poets: Andrena Zawinski and Jennifer Fellguth
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Jeanne Lupton
Featured poets: Andrena Zawinski and Jennifer Fellguth
Andrena Zawinski
Andrena’s poems have received accolades for free verse, form, lyricism, spirituality, and social concern. She has published two previous full collections of poetry: Something About (Blue Light Press, San Francisco), a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, OH), a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. Her third poetry collection is Landings from Kelsay Books (Hemet, CA). Andrena has also authored four chapbooks and is editor of Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. She founded and runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is features editor at PoetryMagazine.com. Andrena lives in Alameda.
In Landings, Andrena 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 this 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 that Andrena “embraces the richness of human experience and praises the courage of those who go on ‘living as if they could do anything.’”
Andrena’s poems have received accolades for free verse, form, lyricism, spirituality, and social concern. She has published two previous full collections of poetry: Something About (Blue Light Press, San Francisco), a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, OH), a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. Her third poetry collection is Landings from Kelsay Books (Hemet, CA). Andrena has also authored four chapbooks and is editor of Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. She founded and runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is features editor at PoetryMagazine.com. Andrena lives in Alameda.
In Landings, Andrena 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 this 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 that Andrena “embraces the richness of human experience and praises the courage of those who go on ‘living as if they could do anything.’”
Jennifer Fellguth