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Galway Kinnell at Poetry Center San Jose in conjunction with Le Petit Trianon Theatre invite you to a poetry reading by Galway Kinnell on Thursday November 3rd at Le Petit Trianon Theatre, beginning at 7:00pm.
The theatre is located at 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose. Admission is $0-$10 sliding scale. No one will be turned away. For more information, please call (408) 292.3254 or visit the Poetry Center's website at
www.pcsj.org. Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He studied at Princeton University and the University of Rochester. His volumes of poetry include A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), a finalist for the National Book Award, Imperfect Thirst (1996), Three Books (1993), When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (1990), The Past (1985), Selected Poems (1980), for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980), The Book of Nightmares (1971), Body Rags 1968), Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964), and What a Kingdom It Was (1960). He has also published translations of works by Yves Bonnefroy, Yvanne Goll, François Villon, and this year, Rainer Maria Rilke. Galway Kinnell divides his time between Vermont and New York City, where he is the Erich Maria Remarque
Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. He is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
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Jason Scorse, Rose Black, and Chella Courington
will be reading Monday, October 10th, 7:30 PM
Santa Cruz Art League Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
 
Jason Scorse, fiction: Jason will read from his new novel, As It Was In the Beginning. Mitch Greene, staff writer for a supermarket tabloid, crosses the country following a man imitating the life of Jesus. His experiences cause him to question some of his own long standing beliefs. Equal parts satire and soul-searching, As It Was In The Beginning is a celebration of America in all its contradictory splendor. Jason Scorse, Assistant Professor at Monterey Institute of International Studies, grew up in New York City. He currently resides in Santa Cruz.
 
Rose Black, poetry: Clearing. "Rose Black is an unusually truthful, fresh and unflinching witness to what life has brought her. Her poems are striking in their openness, their painful innocence in the face of experience.  They are deeply moving. A genuine story and voice emerges from Rose Black's body of work." Robert Sward
“Rose Black is a remarkable and heart-breaking poet. Her meditations on the passages of experience and the psychological resonances of childhood are compelling and powerful, surprising and illuminating. There is a quiet and elegant music to Rose Black's poems, and once heard, it's not forgotten.”--David St. John. Rose Black lives with her husband in Oakland, CA. Rose organizes workshops and lectures for artists, poets and writers.
 
Chella Courington, poetry: Southern Girl Gone Wrong. “No one writes of sexuality more sweetly or bitterly than Chella Courington. Her talk is tough, sensual, sparse, yet laced with lyricism and love for the family and all things southern that come from staring truth in the face.” Perie Longo, Author of The Privacy of Wind
“In Chella Courington's "Jesus Loves Me" the speaker fantasizes about making love to Jesus. The experience she describes is both sinful yet oddly innocent, and that atmosphere of naiveté and abandon pervades the poems in Southern Girl Gone Wrong. Her  world is lush, humid, sensual and inviting.” David Starkey. Chella teaches at Santa Barbara City College and has published poems in The Tusculum Review, Ibbetson Street, King Log, In the Grove, and Lotus Blooms Journal.   
 
Independent Voices is open to small press, self-published, and previously published authors from across all genre. For Information, contact: T. Mike Walker, Host; 425-5755 or tmike@townscribe.com  
 Sponsors: National Writers Union Local 7; Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Art League

A reading by award winning poets: Frances Payne Adler and George Lober,

7:00 p.m., Friday, October 14, 2005
 
          Frances Payne Adler and George Lober will present “The Path Home,” a reading of their poetry Friday, October 14, at 7:00 p.m..  Sponsored by the Santa Cruz-Monterey Chapter of the National Writers Union, the reading will be held in the Bingham Room of Carmel’s Sunset Center (San Carlos & 9th Street).  There is a $5 admission fee.
           Frances Payne Adler is the author of two poetry collections, The Making of a Matriot and Raising The Tents, and three collaborative poetry-photography books and exhibitions with photographer Kira Carrillo Corser.  Adler’s poems and prose have appeared in Poetry International, Women’s Review of Books, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, and Calyx, among others. Her awards include a California State Senate Award for Artistic and Social Collaboration, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award.   Adler is the founder and director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at California State University Monterey Bay.
  George Lober, a former winner of the Ruth Cable Memorial Prize for Poetry, is the author of one collection of poetry, Shift of Light.. His poems have appeared in Spectrum, Sage, The MPC Journal, Eclectic Literary Forum, Quarry West, Homestead Review, The Central California Poetry Journal, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, 2004, MiPOesias, and Lily.

1.Friday, September 30 7pm: Crashing America Book Party at Varnish Fine Art Gallery 77 Natoma St (between 1st/2nd and Howard/Mission) in San Francisco. The author is Katie Noyes, our September featured writer.

2. Saturday, October 1 at 7 PM, Occidental Center for the Arts hosts a benefit reading with Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass, poet Brenda Hillman, and fiction writer Chester Aaron.

3. Workshops with CLARA ROSEMARDA, MA
For information or to register
707:579-2081
FINDING YOUR WRITE MIND: Writing from Your Core
8 week workshops begin:               Fee $225
EVENINGS--Wednesday, OCTOBER 5th, 7- 9:30pm or
MORNINGS--Thursday,  OCTOBER 6th, 9-11:30am
DISCOVERY & ASTONISHMENT: A Creative Writing Workshop
Saturday, OCTOBER 8th, 10am-4pm, at SRJC, Sec.#9168, $65
To register, call SRJC Community Services, 707:527-4372
ENNEAGRAM OF PERSONALITY: A Gateway to Understanding
    Yourself and Others
(This workshop is invaluable for writers interested in
developing characters.)
5 week workshop at Angela Center begins:
Tuesday, SEPTERMBER 20th, 7-9pm, $100
(Presented by Clinical Training Seminars--CEUs available)
To register, call Angela Center, 707:528-8578

4. Tuesday, October 4 7-9 PM, The Center Literary Cafe in Healdsburg presents The Magdalene Stories: An original play with music by Katie Ketchum. 
Healdsburg Senior Center
133 Matheson St.  (Just East of the Downtown Plaza)
  (open mic as time allows)
Free  $5.00 Donation encouraged
Light Refreshments 
431-3324 for further information

Tuesday, October 4th 7-8:30 PM, Zebulon Lounge, Petaluma: "Mothers and Daughters," Host Kathy Rueve with Barbara Toohey, Lum Franco, Amy Peele, Christie Nelson

Friday, October 7. 10 AM, Emeritus 1588. Sally Nelson on Writing and Dreaming, Santa Rosa Junior College WOLM/Arts and Lectures Presentation

Saturday, October 15, The Power of Poetry II: Six poets laureate lead writing lessons and playful exercises from noon to 5 at the Petaluma Regional Library at the Fairgrounds off E. Washington

Thursday, October 20, 6:30-8:30 pm, Fiftieth Anniversary Reading of Ginsberg’s Howl, Phoenix Theater in Petaluma ---There will be a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first public reading of Alan Ginsberg’s “Howl.”  This poem launched the ‘Beat’ poetry movement into the public consciousness and affected American arts and letters in ways that continue to this day.  Professor Jonah Raskin of Sonoma State, the author of  ”American Scream”, a book that concerns Ginsberg’s writing’s  effect on America, will be present to give a short talk on “Howl.”  Following that there will be a read-through of “Howl” by Prof. Raskin and other members of the local poetry and writing community plus a few as-yet-unconfirmed guest readers.  The event will be from 6:30 to about 8:30 or 9:00.  It will be for those over twenty-one as beer and wine will be sold.  The event is a fundraiser for the youth services provided at the Phoenix Theater—drop-in health screening, dental check-ups, and free drop-in tutoring.  Suggested donation at the door is $5.00.

Sunday, October 23: First Annual Sonoma County Writers’ Conference, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM,
Sebastopol Community Center
390 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA
 The day will include a series of inspirational key note speakers. Participants will be able to peruse a variety of information booths that cover a large scope of writing tools and genres, and provide information on local publishing opportunities. There will be workshops to choose from, facilitated by an impressive line-up of qualified instructors. A home cooked lunch will be served under the direction of Jeff Reilly, esteemed chef at the Duck Club in Bodega Bay.
 Presenters include Susan Bono, Jim Dreaver,  Terry Ehret, Peter Laufer, Sharon Tyler Herbst, Ron Herbst, and Domenic Stansberry
Conference fee is $125. For more information or to register, check the website at
www.sonomacountywritersconference.com.

Thursday, October 27 at 7 PM: Copperfield's Books in Petaluma presents Poems of Remembrance Community Reading--A bilingual remembrance of our friends and family we have lost. Armando Garcia Davila, Jabez Churchill, and Terry Ehret host. All are welcome to read in Spanish or English.

A new workshop--"Re-Mythologizing our Lives: Explorations in Art & Language," October  29-30, 2005 and November 11-12, 2005 9am-5pm Sebastopol Center for the Arts with Lauren Schneider and Vicenta Theresa.
13. Friday, November 11 at 7 PM: "The Heart of the Matter"-- a tribute to poet Robert Creeley at Copperfield's Books, downtown Petaluma. Community invited to come read a favorite Creeley poem or share a Creeley memory.
 
Nov. 17th (Thursday) 7:30p.m. "Coyote Starts Talking"
Fall Selections from the Poet's House with Elizabeth Herron, Fran Carbonaro, Phil Belb with sculptor, Bruce  JohnsonThe Quicksilver Mine Co. , 6671  Front Street, Downtown Forestville
 For more information, contact
Elisa Baker
Volunteer Coordinator
Canine Companions for Independence
PO Box 446, Santa Rosa, CA  95402
707-577-1838 Phone 707-577-1712 Fax

WORLD GROUND CAFE, 1st & 3rd Tuesday--Features & Open Mic, 7:00-9:00 PM, 3726 Mac Arthur Blvd, Oakland, California. 510-482-2933, Hosted by Chokwadi a.k.a. Alison. From downtown Oakland, get on 580 east and exit 35th Ave, turn left onto 35th, go about 3 short blocks, turn right on Mac Arthur, go another 3 short blocks and the World Ground Cafe will be on your left.
Our readings have moved to Tuesdays!!! and added a 2nd reading every month! The series is now on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. World Ground the reading starts with a featured poet first,then open mike. Come listen, come share, come be, come. . . and do your thing. FMI: Jokwadi@yahoo.com

THE POET SKOOL
Poetry Jam Sessions Featuring your Host-- PARADISE FREEJAHLOVE--7pm Thursdays at CafÈ 1428 14th & Alice Street, Downtown Oakland, Fruitful Poet Tree, With Blak Classical Music, Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Jazz, Gospel, R&B,Featured Readers & Open Mic

The Poetry Center at SFSU sponsors a number of fine Poetry Readings by prominent and emerging writers.They are located in Humanities 512 on the SW corner of the SF State University Campus, 1600 Holloway Ave., SF CA 94132, (2 blocks west of 19th Ave. on Holloway Ave). SFSU Poetry Center