Featured Readers
Wednesday, December 4
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz
Featured readers: .Andrena Zawinski, Nellie Hill, Susan Gubernat, and Lucille Lang Day celebrating newly released Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz
Featured readers: .Andrena Zawinski, Nellie Hill, Susan Gubernat, and Lucille Lang Day celebrating newly released Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan
- Andrena Zawinski
- Andrena Zawinski, originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000 and lives in Ballena Bay on Alameda island. Her writing has received accolades for lyricism, form, spirituality, and social concern. Her latest book is Landings; others are Something About (a PEN Oakland Award) and Traveling in Reflected Light (a Kenneth Patchen Prize), along with several smaller collections. Her poems most recently appear in Artemis Journal, Blue Collar Review Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature, Gyroscope Review, New Verse News, Santa Fe Literary Review, and elsewhere and are widely anthologized. Recently retired from teaching English and creative writing at Laney College, she continues to run the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and remains long time Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com
Nellie Hill
Nellie Hill’s work has appeared in a variety of journals that include American Poetry Review, The Harvard Magazine, Psychological Perspectives, Commonweal, The Bellevue Literary Review. She received an honorable mention in the 2013 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred competition. Of her five poetry chapbooks, the most recent is Winter Horse (Finishing Line Press).
She has had residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Blithewold Center for the Arts, and Ossabaw Island. Two of Nellie’s poems were set to music by composer Christopher Berg for piano and soprano, recorded for Opus One. Sixteen of Nellie’s poems have been set to music by composer Bruce Nalezny in his four song cycles for piano and soprano performed at various venues, including The Berkeley Piano Club.
Nellie Hill’s work has appeared in a variety of journals that include American Poetry Review, The Harvard Magazine, Psychological Perspectives, Commonweal, The Bellevue Literary Review. She received an honorable mention in the 2013 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred competition. Of her five poetry chapbooks, the most recent is Winter Horse (Finishing Line Press).
She has had residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Blithewold Center for the Arts, and Ossabaw Island. Two of Nellie’s poems were set to music by composer Christopher Berg for piano and soprano, recorded for Opus One. Sixteen of Nellie’s poems have been set to music by composer Bruce Nalezny in his four song cycles for piano and soprano performed at various venues, including The Berkeley Piano Club.
Susan Gubernat
Susan Gubernat’s second full poetry collection, The Zoo at Night, won the Prairie Schooner book award and was published in September 2017 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her first book of poems, Flesh, won the Marianne Moore Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Editions. Finishing Line Press published the chapbook Analog House: A Cabinet of Curiosities. Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, Michigan Quarterly, The Pinch, Prairie Schooner, and Pleiades, among others. She wrote the libretto for Adam Silverman’s three-act opera Korczak’s Orphans, which has been performed in a number of venues, including at the VOX: New American Composers series of the NY City Opera and by the Opera Company of Brooklyn. She is Professor Emerita of English at California State University, East Bay. She received her MFA in poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and a graduate degree from Rutgers University. Her awards and fellowships include artist’s grants from the states of New Jersey and New York, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was born in Newark, New Jersey, and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Susan Gubernat’s second full poetry collection, The Zoo at Night, won the Prairie Schooner book award and was published in September 2017 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her first book of poems, Flesh, won the Marianne Moore Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Editions. Finishing Line Press published the chapbook Analog House: A Cabinet of Curiosities. Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, Michigan Quarterly, The Pinch, Prairie Schooner, and Pleiades, among others. She wrote the libretto for Adam Silverman’s three-act opera Korczak’s Orphans, which has been performed in a number of venues, including at the VOX: New American Composers series of the NY City Opera and by the Opera Company of Brooklyn. She is Professor Emerita of English at California State University, East Bay. She received her MFA in poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and a graduate degree from Rutgers University. Her awards and fellowships include artist’s grants from the states of New Jersey and New York, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was born in Newark, New Jersey, and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lucille Lang Day
Lucille Lang Day has published ten poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Becoming an Ancestor and Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. She is also a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, as well as the author of two children’s books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and her many honors include 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. Read more about Lucille here lucillelangday.com.
Lucille Lang Day has published ten poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Becoming an Ancestor and Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. She is also a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, as well as the author of two children’s books, Chain Letter and The Rainbow Zoo, and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and her many honors include 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. Read more about Lucille here lucillelangday.com.