Featured Readers

Wednesday,  October 2
​7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz
Featured readers:  Alisha Rodrigues ~ reading and book launch of Poetic Masquerade

•                                                                         Alisha Rodrigues


• Alisha Rodrigues is a Poet Laureate Women of Letters, author, dancer and award winning poet. She has 10 chap books of poetry and has authored 3 books: Fire of the Dance is the history of Middle Eastern Dance on the west coast; a re-telling of the ancient myth, Lady White Snake, commissioned by Dr. Kenneth Fan from Taiwan and Shanghai; and The Art of Cooking.  Rodrigues, also a visual artist, will release a new book, Poetic Masquerade.  She is the Vice President of Artists Embassy International and guest dances with Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company, of which she is a charter member.


• She will be talking about her new book, Poetic Masquerade. The book contains the poetry of famous classical poets and, on the facing page, photographs of masks she has created to depict each poem. 
  Rodrigues will also be reading poems from her chap book,  The People, poetry dedicated to the First Americans.

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