Featured Readers
Wednesday, October 3
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz
Featured readers: Judy Wells and Dale Jensen ~ There will also be a book party for Judy Wells' new poetry collection, Dear Phebe: The
Dickinson Sisters Go West
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Nanette Deetz
Featured readers: Judy Wells and Dale Jensen ~ There will also be a book party for Judy Wells' new poetry collection, Dear Phebe: The
Dickinson Sisters Go West
Judy Wells and Dale Jensen
Judy Wells
Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Her 11th poetry collection, The Glass Ship (Sugartown), completes her trilogy of Irish-themed works, including Everything Irish and Call Home (Scarlet Tanager Books). Her poetry has recently appeared in Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women; San Francisco Peace and Hope; California Quarterly; Marin Poetry Center Anthology; and Stanford Alumni Magazine. KPFA’s Nina Serrano has recorded Judy reading from Dear Phebe, The Glass Ship, Little Lulu Talks with Vincent Van Gogh, and The Old People Monologues. In her new poetry collection, Dear Phebe: The Dickinson Sisters Go West about her Dickinson ancestors, three sisters who traveled from Massachusetts to California in the 1860s to establish new lives. Judy’s research led to her discovery that her great-grandmother Phebe was a distant cousin of Emily Dickinson, and so is she! Sugartown publisher Jannie Dresser will provide her famous cake for the launch. Please come and see this beautiful new book! Read more about Judy here!
Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Her 11th poetry collection, The Glass Ship (Sugartown), completes her trilogy of Irish-themed works, including Everything Irish and Call Home (Scarlet Tanager Books). Her poetry has recently appeared in Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women; San Francisco Peace and Hope; California Quarterly; Marin Poetry Center Anthology; and Stanford Alumni Magazine. KPFA’s Nina Serrano has recorded Judy reading from Dear Phebe, The Glass Ship, Little Lulu Talks with Vincent Van Gogh, and The Old People Monologues. In her new poetry collection, Dear Phebe: The Dickinson Sisters Go West about her Dickinson ancestors, three sisters who traveled from Massachusetts to California in the 1860s to establish new lives. Judy’s research led to her discovery that her great-grandmother Phebe was a distant cousin of Emily Dickinson, and so is she! Sugartown publisher Jannie Dresser will provide her famous cake for the launch. Please come and see this beautiful new book! Read more about Judy here!
Dale Jensen
Dale Jensen was born in Oakland, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, and received a master’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto, with which he said goodbye to academia forever. In 1974, he embarked on a career with Social Security that lasted until 1999, when he took early retirement. He lives in Berkeley and is married to the poet Judy Wells. Dale’s poetry is heavily influenced by the Surrealists and such cut-up writers as William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. He published and edited the experimental poetry magazine Malthus from 1986 through 1989 and has published several books through Malthus Press. He also has had published seven books and three chapbooks of his own poetry, including Purgatorial (2004), Cyclone Fence (2007), Oedipus’ First Lover (2009), Auto Bio (2010), Yew Nork (2014), and Amateur Mythology (2017), as well as an ebook novella, Why I Moved to San Francisco.
Visit Dale's poetry page here!
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Dale Jensen was born in Oakland, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, and received a master’s degree in experimental psychology from the University of Toronto, with which he said goodbye to academia forever. In 1974, he embarked on a career with Social Security that lasted until 1999, when he took early retirement. He lives in Berkeley and is married to the poet Judy Wells. Dale’s poetry is heavily influenced by the Surrealists and such cut-up writers as William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. He published and edited the experimental poetry magazine Malthus from 1986 through 1989 and has published several books through Malthus Press. He also has had published seven books and three chapbooks of his own poetry, including Purgatorial (2004), Cyclone Fence (2007), Oedipus’ First Lover (2009), Auto Bio (2010), Yew Nork (2014), and Amateur Mythology (2017), as well as an ebook novella, Why I Moved to San Francisco.
Visit Dale's poetry page here!
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