Featured Readers
First Wednesday, June 1 ~ 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:
Claire J. Baker
After early traumatic family experiences, Claire J. Baker credits poetry with helping her to survive. Claire is proudest of having promoted poetry landmarks in Northern California, and securing from California State Library in Sacramento ample shelving for preserving books by members of the Coolbrith Circle.
Her publications number over 4,600. She has self-published several chapbooks and keeps a long list of her poems that have placed in local and national contests. An early member of Alameda Island Poets, she credits this vital group with helping her learn how to write and offering fellowship with other poets, citing Mary Rudge, Alameda Poet Laureate, as a friend for over 30 years.
After early traumatic family experiences, Claire J. Baker credits poetry with helping her to survive. Claire is proudest of having promoted poetry landmarks in Northern California, and securing from California State Library in Sacramento ample shelving for preserving books by members of the Coolbrith Circle.
Her publications number over 4,600. She has self-published several chapbooks and keeps a long list of her poems that have placed in local and national contests. An early member of Alameda Island Poets, she credits this vital group with helping her learn how to write and offering fellowship with other poets, citing Mary Rudge, Alameda Poet Laureate, as a friend for over 30 years.
Deborah Bachels Schmidt
Deborah Bachels Schmidt has self-published four chapbooks, with a fifth, Stumbling into Grace, released in 2021 by Orchard Street Press. Her poems have appeared in journals including Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, The Lyric, and The MacGuffin, as well as in anthologies such as Pandemic Puzzle Poems, From Pandemic to Protest, and the Marin Poetry Center’s Identity and the Self. A Pushcart nominee, she placed first in the Sonnet category of 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, as well as earning awards from the Poets' Dinner, the Coolbrith Circle, and the Dancing Poetry Festival. She also loves to write creative non-fiction.
Deborah Bachels Schmidt has self-published four chapbooks, with a fifth, Stumbling into Grace, released in 2021 by Orchard Street Press. Her poems have appeared in journals including Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, The Lyric, and The MacGuffin, as well as in anthologies such as Pandemic Puzzle Poems, From Pandemic to Protest, and the Marin Poetry Center’s Identity and the Self. A Pushcart nominee, she placed first in the Sonnet category of 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, as well as earning awards from the Poets' Dinner, the Coolbrith Circle, and the Dancing Poetry Festival. She also loves to write creative non-fiction.