Featured Readers
First Wednesday, October 5 ~ Alameda Island Poets on Zoom
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Cathy Dana and Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate
Featured readers: John Rowe and Mark Slates
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Cathy Dana and Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate
Featured readers: John Rowe and Mark Slates
John Rowe
John Rowe has poems appearing in numerous small press journals and anthologies. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including: At My Wit's Beginning and Winsome Losesome (Eventuality Press), and Beyond Perspective (Finishing Line Press). For over 25 years John has enjoyed active participation as a featured reader at many venues and festivals as well as volunteer involvement in the organization/ leadership of community poetry events in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently hosts a monthly (2nd Saturday) open reading on Zoom for the Bay Area Poets Coalition (BAPC). He and his wife, the poet Jan Dederick, reside in El Cerrito, CA with their black cat Benny and two backyard ducks.
Visit John's website here!
John Rowe has poems appearing in numerous small press journals and anthologies. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including: At My Wit's Beginning and Winsome Losesome (Eventuality Press), and Beyond Perspective (Finishing Line Press). For over 25 years John has enjoyed active participation as a featured reader at many venues and festivals as well as volunteer involvement in the organization/ leadership of community poetry events in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently hosts a monthly (2nd Saturday) open reading on Zoom for the Bay Area Poets Coalition (BAPC). He and his wife, the poet Jan Dederick, reside in El Cerrito, CA with their black cat Benny and two backyard ducks.
Visit John's website here!
Mark Slates
Mark States is the former host of Poetry Express (Berkeley, from 2002-2011) and facilitator of numerous Public Speaking for Poets workshops at the Berkeley Art Center. Mark has appeared in such publications as Electronic Corpse, Oakland’s Neighborhoods, Oracle, Poetalk, the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly; and on-line in Poeticdiversity.com, Poetrymagazine.com, and The November 3rd Club.
Once well-known in the Bay Area for dramatic features and special surprises (one of his features being recorded as a performance video before YouTube even became “a thing”), Mark has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2011, where he judges contests, occasionally makes a surprise appearance at an unsuspecting local open mike, and has learned how to Zoom just to be with us today.
Mark States is the former host of Poetry Express (Berkeley, from 2002-2011) and facilitator of numerous Public Speaking for Poets workshops at the Berkeley Art Center. Mark has appeared in such publications as Electronic Corpse, Oakland’s Neighborhoods, Oracle, Poetalk, the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly; and on-line in Poeticdiversity.com, Poetrymagazine.com, and The November 3rd Club.
Once well-known in the Bay Area for dramatic features and special surprises (one of his features being recorded as a performance video before YouTube even became “a thing”), Mark has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina since 2011, where he judges contests, occasionally makes a surprise appearance at an unsuspecting local open mike, and has learned how to Zoom just to be with us today.