WNBA-SF
National Poetry Month Event
The Beat
Museum
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.
Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte is an Oakland multidisciplinary writer
whose works artfully succeed in getting across deeper meanings about
life and the politics of race and economics without breaking out of the
narrative, with Oakland often serving as the backdrop for her touching
and often hilarious works. Her first book, A Dollar Five-Stories From A Baby Boomer’s Ongoing Journey (2014) has been described as “ rich in vivid imagery”, and “incredible.” Her second book, All That and More’s Wedding (2016),
a collection of fictional mystery/crime short stories, is praised as
“imaginative with colorful and likeable characters that draw you in to
each story and leave you wanting more.” Her latest book, Running for the 2:10 (2017), a follow-on to A Dollar Five,
delves deeper into her coming of age in Oakland and the embedded issues
of race and skin color with one reviewer calling it “… a great
contribution to literature.” Her fictional story, “Uncle Martin” will be
published by Medusa’s Laugh Press Summer 2019. She currently has a
novel in progress titled “Betrayal on the Bayou,” slated for publication
in early 2020. She is also a contributor to award winning author Kate
Farrell’s upcoming book “Story Power,” an anthology on how writers build
and create their stories.
Mary
Mackey is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels, including The Earthsong Series—four novels which describe how the peaceful
Goddess-worshiping people of Prehistoric Europe fought off patriarchal nomad invaders (The Village of Bones, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses at the Gate, and The Fires of Spring
). Mary’s novels have been praised by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Pat
Conroy, Thomas Moore, Marija Gimbutas, Maxine Hong Kingston, Marge
Piercy, and Theodore Roszak for their historical accuracy,
inventiveness, literary grace, vividness, and storytelling magic.
They have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle
Bestseller Lists, been translated into twelve foreign languages and sold
over a million and a half copies. Mary has also written seven
collections of poetry including Sugar
Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN
Oakland Josephine Miles Award. This September Marsh Hawk Press will
publish a collection of her new and selected poems entitled The Jaguars That Prowl
Our Dreams. At marymackey.com
, you can get the latest news about
Mary’s books and public appearances, sample her work, sign up for her
newsletter, and get writing advice. You can also find her on Facebook and
follow her on Twitter @MMackeyAuthor.
Joan
Gelfand’s reviews, stories and poetry have appeared in over 100
national and international literary journals and magazines including
Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Kalliope, California Quarterly, the Toronto
Review, Marsh Hawk Review and Levure Litteraire.
Joan has been a featured reader at
numerous venues in the United States and Mexico including Bowery Poetry
Club, the Southern Festival of Books, The Public Library of New York,
and Litquake. Development Chair of the Women’s
National Book Association, a member of the National Book Critics Circle
and a juror for the Northern California Book Awards, Joan blogs for the
Huffington Post and coaches writers. She lives in San Francisco with
her husband, Adam Hertz and two beatnik kitties
– Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
