Featured Readers
First Wednesday, April 3 ~ Alameda Island Poets on Zoom ~ Celebrating National Poetry Month
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate and Cathy Dana
Featured readers: Natica Angilly, Tanya Joyce, and Alyza Lee Solomon
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate and Cathy Dana
Featured readers: Natica Angilly, Tanya Joyce, and Alyza Lee Solomon
Natica Angilly
Natica Angilly is a poet, painter, and a primary choreographer and co-founder along with Poet Richard Angilly of the annual Dancing Poetry Festivals and The Poetic Dance Theater Company. With the continuing mission to share poetry and poetry and dance as a unified art form in concert and on many local, international and unique venues together with poets and other artists, we encourage the hope that each created poetic opportunity helps in sharing greater understanding and the love of poetry through the universal language of the arts. Natica's poetry and poetry anthologies are gatherings of poetry, poetic experiences, stories and views from poets and poetry encountered from the almost 50 years of poetic pursuit. Author of over 14 books, her latest book is Dance for Poetry.
Natica Angilly is a poet, painter, and a primary choreographer and co-founder along with Poet Richard Angilly of the annual Dancing Poetry Festivals and The Poetic Dance Theater Company. With the continuing mission to share poetry and poetry and dance as a unified art form in concert and on many local, international and unique venues together with poets and other artists, we encourage the hope that each created poetic opportunity helps in sharing greater understanding and the love of poetry through the universal language of the arts. Natica's poetry and poetry anthologies are gatherings of poetry, poetic experiences, stories and views from poets and poetry encountered from the almost 50 years of poetic pursuit. Author of over 14 books, her latest book is Dance for Poetry.
Tanya Joyce
Tanya Joyce is a Bay Area poet and painter. Her new book, “Modern Muses,” is scheduled to be out soon. Tanya’s own Muse stopped the book several times, saying, “Hmmmmm — have you thought of that?” "Modern Muses" were begun by Alameda Poet Laureate Mary Rudge, who worked hard to bring more muses into our daily lives.
Tanya’s background includes writing and teaching. She has taught children at the Fleming Museum in Vermont, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Tanya taught freshman English at San Francisco State and published an online monthly poetry column in the Pinole Artisans Newsletter for ten years. Her current projects beyond “Modern Muses” include art videos from her studio and a new children’s book.
Tanya Joyce is a Bay Area poet and painter. Her new book, “Modern Muses,” is scheduled to be out soon. Tanya’s own Muse stopped the book several times, saying, “Hmmmmm — have you thought of that?” "Modern Muses" were begun by Alameda Poet Laureate Mary Rudge, who worked hard to bring more muses into our daily lives.
Tanya’s background includes writing and teaching. She has taught children at the Fleming Museum in Vermont, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Tanya taught freshman English at San Francisco State and published an online monthly poetry column in the Pinole Artisans Newsletter for ten years. Her current projects beyond “Modern Muses” include art videos from her studio and a new children’s book.
Alyza Lee Solomon
Alyza Lee Salomon is a poet/writer/dancer/bibliophile and grandma who has worked as a tutor and editor. She ascribes her love of words and languages to a trilingual childhood with a European heritage, as filtered through the experience of growing up as a first-generation American. At the age of seven, she recited the Pledge of Allegiance to a nice lady judge looking down from a huge desk, and proudly became a naturalized U.S. citizen! Her poems have appeared in local anthologies, and she has thrice been featured as “Poet of the Month” on the website of United Poets Laureate International. As a dancer, she has performed with Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company since 2003. Alyza studied at Harpur College (now Binghamton U) and earned her master’s degree in English Literature at Sonoma State University
Alyza Lee Salomon is a poet/writer/dancer/bibliophile and grandma who has worked as a tutor and editor. She ascribes her love of words and languages to a trilingual childhood with a European heritage, as filtered through the experience of growing up as a first-generation American. At the age of seven, she recited the Pledge of Allegiance to a nice lady judge looking down from a huge desk, and proudly became a naturalized U.S. citizen! Her poems have appeared in local anthologies, and she has thrice been featured as “Poet of the Month” on the website of United Poets Laureate International. As a dancer, she has performed with Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company since 2003. Alyza studied at Harpur College (now Binghamton U) and earned her master’s degree in English Literature at Sonoma State University