Thursday, April 25, 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
WOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION-SF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH EVENT
WNBA-SF
National Poetry Month Event
By Sue
Wilhite
The Beat
Museum
540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133
540 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133
Sunday,
April 28, 2019
3 pm: Poetry readings
for about 90 minutes, and celebration with noshes and beverages afterward to
6 pm.
Celebrate National
Poetry Month with the Women’s National Book Association Bay Area chapter in the
heart of North Beach with some of the finest female writers around. Wild Women
Poets will gather at the landmark venue, The Beat Museum in San Francisco.
Grab your bongos and wear your beret to what will be one of literary events
of the year! This will also be a mixer with food, sparkling beverages and wine.
Bring a friend and be ready for an evening filled with poetry, song, wine and a
love of literature.
Moderator: Brenda
Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation, will read new work and a
tribute to “Beat Goddess” ruth weiss. Brenda began her publishing career
at HarperCollins. An author of ten books, she won the American Book Award for
“Women of the Beat Generation.” In 2015, she was named Indiefab Publisher
of the Year. She is Editorial Director at Mango Publishing and is President of
WNBA-SF Chapter.
Readers will include:
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has
received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the
Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing
Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and
Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’
Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Diane Frank is an award-winning poet and author of
seven books of poems including Canon of Bears and Ponderosa Pines.
Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel won the Chelson Award
for Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Diane lives in San
Francisco where she dances, plays cello and create her life as an art form. She
teaches Poetry, Fiction and Memoir workshops at San Francisco State University
and Dominican University.
Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte is an Oakland writer of
prose and poetry, having written three books and a contributor to several
anthologies. Her latest book, Running For The 2:10, delves deeper into
her coming of age in the Bay Area and reviewed as “A great contribution
to literature.”
Kate Farrell founded the Word
Weaving Storytelling Project, in collaboration with the California State
Department of Education funded by grants from Zellerbach Family Fund, San
Francisco, to train educators at all levels, and published numerous educational
materials. Farrell edited the anthology, Wisdom Has a Voice:
Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother She is co-editor of the
anthology, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ’60s &
70s, 2013—Finalist for Foreword Reviews 2014 Book of
the Year Award and 2014 Indie Excellence Award. Farrell is co-editor for the
anthology, Cry of the Nightbird: Writers Against Domestic
Violence, 2014–Finalist for the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award
and the 2015 Indie Excellence Award.
Dr. Jeanne Powell received degrees from
WSU in Detroit and USF in San Francisco. She writes and performs poetry, flash
fiction, nonfiction and short plays. Much of her work has been published. Since
1996, her small press has published 20 poets. She teaches English, writing and
social studies to youth and adults. Her cultural and film reviews appear at
wattpad.com [worddoctor], starkinsider.com, and sidewalkstv.com. Regent Press
published CAROUSEL.
Beatrice Bowles in her own words:
I tell stories about
secrets that nature keeps.
A spy in Spider Grandmother’s tattered web,
I weave words into gardens and rust into silk.
A spy in Spider Grandmother’s tattered web,
I weave words into gardens and rust into silk.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
It's National Poetry Month!
Come celebrate National Poetry Month with us!
Six local
poets will be reading their poetry, followed by a short open-mic period.
Sheryl J. Bize Boutte will MC
Tuesday April 23, 2019
6 pm to 8 pm
The poets are:
Sheryl J. Bize Boutte
John Rowe
Leticia Garcia Bradford
Tobey Kaplan
Gary Turchin
Montclair Library
1687 Mountain Blvd.
Oakland, CA
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