Friends of the Poet Laureate Meeting May 19
Any of you in the community who would like to lend your support to Gwynn O’Gara in her Poet Laureate projects are invited to attend a meeting of the Poet Laureate Selection/Support Committee on Wednesday, May 19 at 6 PM at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472-3452
For more information, contact Linda Galletta at lindag@monitor.net or (707) 829-4797.
One of the agenda items will be a brain storming discussion of the future of the Sonoma County Literary Update. More below.
The Future of the Sonoma County Literary Update
My role as the editor of the Literary Update ends in June of 2010.
A few members of the committee have come forward with ideas for how to keep the website going, and perhaps the monthly e-mail newsletter as well.
All who are interested are welcome to attend the meeting at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts on May 19, 6 PM. Location 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol.
If we can find a way to keep the website going, Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash has agreed to include a link to the SCLU website directly from the Poetry Flash website. She also welcomes any and all announcements from the Sonoma County Writing Community, and will include these in her monthly calendar under North Bay Events. Here is a link to the website, the premier monthly calendar for literary events on the West Coast. For those who have relied on the Sonoma County Literary Update to advertise your readings, workshops, publications, group meetings, and other events will find an even wider audience at Poetry Flash.
Poetry Flash:http://www.poetryflash.org/index.html
Congratulations to Doug Powell NCBRA Poetry Award Winner
Doug Powell’s new collection of poems Chronic has just been awarded the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award for Poetry for 2010.
Other Sonoma/Mendocino County Poets whose works were nominated include Stephen Kessler’ for his translation of Luis Cernuda’s Desolation of the Chimera, Sharon Doubiago for her creative nonfiction Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, and Alta Ifland for her fiction Elegy for a Fabulous World.
For the complete list of this year’s nominees and winners, check this link: http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.10.html
Fall Workshops at the Sitting Room
Once again, I will be offering two workshops at the Sitting Room in the fall of 2010. The Monday workshop will focus on Prosody—the Music of Poetry. The Friday workshop focuses on the prose poems of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral and the Marin County poet Gerald Fleming. Workshops will begin the week of September 20, and run for eight weeks. They are limited to 10 participants.
The Prosody Workshop is currently filled, but you can sign up on the wait list. Spaces often open up over the summer.
There are four spaces remaining in the Prose Poem Workshop.
Both are held at the Sitting Room in Cotati, 170 East Cotati. Cost of each workshop is $180.
For details contact me at tehret99@comcast.net or visit “Terry Ehret’s Workshops” page of the Literary Update online: https://literaryfolk.wordpress.com/spring-2008-workshops/.
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