Featured Readers
Wednesday, August 4 ~ Alameda Island Poets on Zoom
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz, Cathy Dana and Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate
Featured readers:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz, Cathy Dana and Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate
Featured readers:
Dr. Sarah Oktay
Dr. Sarah Oktay published her first chapbook of poetry Sifting Light From Darkness in September 2020. She is a chemical oceanographer specializing in climate change and works at the University of California's Davis campus in the John Muir Institute of the Environment's Natural Reserve System. Her poems examine the interfaces between science and the sublime. She co-hosted a poetry venue on Nantucket with her husband Len Germinara for over a decade.
Dr. Sarah Oktay published her first chapbook of poetry Sifting Light From Darkness in September 2020. She is a chemical oceanographer specializing in climate change and works at the University of California's Davis campus in the John Muir Institute of the Environment's Natural Reserve System. Her poems examine the interfaces between science and the sublime. She co-hosted a poetry venue on Nantucket with her husband Len Germinara for over a decade.
Len Germinara
Len Germinara has been writing, publishing and performing his poetry for over three decades. For 17 years he ran spoken word venues in Massachusetts from south of Boston to Nantucket. He brings his poetry workshops into primary and secondary schools and introduces poetry and written observation and journaling as an integral part of biological field station curriculum for K-12 and college groups. He taught Eco-Poetics as part of the “Semester on Nantucket” Program for the University of Massachusetts Boston School for the Environment. He has been featured on WCAI-NPR in Massachusetts and Writers on the Air in Sacramento. Len currently resides in Elk Grove California. On the board of the Sacramento Poetry Center, he helps to run their socially distant verse events. His latest poetry book “Back Story” is available on Amazon. He has been published in various national journals and publications.
Len Germinara has been writing, publishing and performing his poetry for over three decades. For 17 years he ran spoken word venues in Massachusetts from south of Boston to Nantucket. He brings his poetry workshops into primary and secondary schools and introduces poetry and written observation and journaling as an integral part of biological field station curriculum for K-12 and college groups. He taught Eco-Poetics as part of the “Semester on Nantucket” Program for the University of Massachusetts Boston School for the Environment. He has been featured on WCAI-NPR in Massachusetts and Writers on the Air in Sacramento. Len currently resides in Elk Grove California. On the board of the Sacramento Poetry Center, he helps to run their socially distant verse events. His latest poetry book “Back Story” is available on Amazon. He has been published in various national journals and publications.
Jeanne Lupton
Jeanne Lupton, a poet since she learned to read, moved to the San Francisco East Bay from Northern Virginia in 2002 and has been active since then in the poetry community here and in the tanka community worldwide through tanka journals. Her collection, but then you danced, which appeared in 2006, and several booklets published since then are included here. This collection represents the first 25 years of her tanka. Jeanne hosted the Second Saturday Poetry and Prose Reading Series at Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, California, for 13 years. She has given several short solo performances at the Marsh Theater in Berkeley. Jeanne leads a memoir writing group for seniors on Zoom, is a member of Fresh Ink Poetry Collective and Bay Area Poets Coalition, and writes with Clive Matson's Too Busy to Write group every Tuesday night. She lives at Strawberry Creek Lodge in Berkeley with 150 other elders and her cat BB.
Jeanne Lupton, a poet since she learned to read, moved to the San Francisco East Bay from Northern Virginia in 2002 and has been active since then in the poetry community here and in the tanka community worldwide through tanka journals. Her collection, but then you danced, which appeared in 2006, and several booklets published since then are included here. This collection represents the first 25 years of her tanka. Jeanne hosted the Second Saturday Poetry and Prose Reading Series at Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, California, for 13 years. She has given several short solo performances at the Marsh Theater in Berkeley. Jeanne leads a memoir writing group for seniors on Zoom, is a member of Fresh Ink Poetry Collective and Bay Area Poets Coalition, and writes with Clive Matson's Too Busy to Write group every Tuesday night. She lives at Strawberry Creek Lodge in Berkeley with 150 other elders and her cat BB.
James Moore, 11th grade ACLC Poet Laureate