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Geri Digiorno and the Petaluma Poetry Walk

Poetry and art events in the North Bay Area

VANISHING CALIFORNIA: Paintings and Poems by Patti Trimble

VANISHING CALIFORNIA Paintings and Poems by Patti Trimble in response to an endangered world GALLERY ROUTE ONE DOWNTOWN POINT REYES STATION in the Environmental Art Project Space Artist’s Reception Sunday May 20, 3-5 pm Exhibit runs through June 23 This installation by native-to-Marin poet Patti Trimble includes paintings of California’s endangered species and Trimble’s poetical-science writings: a personal response to changes over forty years in one woman’s landscape. http://galleryrouteone.org

News from Ellen Bass

SANTA ROSA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE Hi, my name is Max and I am Ellen’s son. For the past two years I have been learning to be a farmer—living and working on a beautiful organic farm in the Los Altos area. I recently moved to Santa Rosa and am continuing to farm with a good friend, Joey Smith. Joey started Let’s Go Farm last year on an acre of his parents’ land, selling at the Windsor farmers market and loving the… Read More »

Henry Washer’s first solo show!

Please join us for Henry Washer’s first solo show!  “To mark my 21st birthday, I decided to produce a body of work  for my first solo art show. This show is about exploring questions  that I face as a young man growing and entering the world.  I am drawn to wood carving as my main medium because i enjoy  dealing with a material that yields consequences, if not done carefully, and the romance of creating art through the process of… Read More »

from my poet friend Clive Matson

Poetry Saloon (drunk on poetry!) Friday,  May 11, at 472 44th Street (between Telegraph and Webster), Temescal district in North Oakland – close to MacArthur BART.  The Saloon starts with a casual potluck at 6pm, reading at 7:30pm, and there may even be dancing, starting at 10pm. For the reading, bring a couple of poems of yours and someone else’s, or 2-3 pages of prose, or come just to enjoy. Dessert, coffee and tea are provided. Our host will be Kayla… Read More »

Message from WordTemple

Dear Poets and Friends: Please join me for a special evening at the WordTemple Poetry Series on Saturday, May 12 at 7 p.m., Sebastopol Center for the Arts.  We’ll be celebrating new books with local poets Kathleen Winter and David Beckman, and the wonderful giovanni singleton.  Here’s the scoop (and please help spread the word): GIOVANNI SINGLETON.   KATHLEEN WINTER.   DAVID BECKMAN. giovanni singleton (photo credit: Sarah Collins) giovanni singleton is a poet, teacher, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal… Read More »

The Petaluma Poetry Walk schedule is up on the home page at – http://petalumapoetrywalk.org/index.html. Love, Geri

“It’s A Small World After All” marathon hum-along and conga line!

Remember, the opening for this show is this coming Saturday!  Hope to see you there!  The show will run from March 24th through April 15th,  with an artists reception Saturday, March 24th from 7:00 til 9:00PM. Please join us… This show is going to be a lot of fun!  As a special treat, there will be free kazoos for the first 50  people!  Join in the “It’s A Small World After All” marathon hum-along and  conga line!  Heebe Jeebe &… Read More »

A Reading at the Petaluma Library Saturday

A Reading at the Petaluma Library will feature Petaluma authors Emma Webber and Geri Digiorno reading from their own works during a program on Saturday, March 24, at 2:00 pm. Both authors are well known in Petaluma and the entire North Bay area. Emma Webber is a poet, rug artist and colorist. Her published works include How Was I to Know: A Memoir – The First Ten Years Together and Three Squares and the Laundry. Both are memoirs about her… Read More »

Prose and Poetry Reading by TERRY WOLVERTON and DEVREAUX BAKER

Received this from Sharon Doubiago–Geri   THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 3:00 Poetry Flash at Diesel, A Bookstore Prose and Poetry Reading by TERRY WOLVERTON and DEVREAUX BAKER DIESEL, A BOOKSTORE, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com). Terry Wolverton‘s new book is a novel, Stealing Angel, dealing with questions of custody, child abuse, conflict between lesbian lovers, set, for the crux of its action, in a spiritual commune in the southern Baja town of Todos Santos. Wolverton has published Embers, a novel-in-poems, two other prose novels,… Read More »