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7th Annual Pleasanton Poetry, Prose & Arts Festival
Saturday & Sunday, April 5 & 6, 2008
Location: Pleasanton Senior Center, 5353 Sunol Boulevard, Pleasanton, CA
http://www.pleasantonarts.org/poetry_prose.html
Keynote Speaker: Jane Hirshfield, Award-winning Poet, Essayist, Translator
Special Guest & Performance Workshop: Word for Word by Greg Sarris, Award-winning Native American Author
Poetry & Fiction Workshop leaders:
Kim Addonizio; Martha Alderson, M.A.; Maureen Boyd Biro; Kevin Hearle; Kathleen Lynch; Martha Meltzer - Poet Laureate of Pleasanton, CA; Connie Post -Poet Laureate of Livermore CA; Nina Schuyler.
Workshops led by Kathleen Lynch:
Masks: Some Ways to Hide Your 'I's: Writing experiences that induce unexpected personas to find and claim you. No mythological characters! No fairy tale creatures! No historical figures or movie stars!
Techniques for Oiling the Gears: Beyond the free-write, clustering and (gulp) thievery: fast & furious blank-page stimuli for poets.
Workshop size limited: enroll early...
For further festival information, contact:
Michelle Russo: 925-931-5350 / mrusso@ci.pleasanton.ca.us
David Wright: dawright@sbcglobal.net
Kirk Ridgeway: PleasantonPoetry@comcast.net
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WINE AND WORDS
Sunday May 4, 2008
2 - 4 p.m.
Featured Readers: JP Dancing Bear http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/ & Kathleen Lynch
Held at the Martinelli Event Center/ Catered by Garre Winery and Cafe in Livermore, CA
Admission $5 / Featured readers begin at 2 p.m.
Open mic after short break (open mic: poems: one page, 40 lines or less)
DIRECTIONS: Take Vasco Rd off Highway 580. Follow to Tesla (past Lawrence Livermore Lab). LEFT on Tesla, LEFT on Greenville, Left into parking lot...look for the balloons!!
For more information contact connie@poetrypost.com or livermorepoetlaureate@hotmail.com
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Carnegie Art Museum Reading
May 17, 7:OO p.m.
424 S C St., Oxnard, CA 93030
Kathleen Lynch reads with Christina Pages
For more information, contact
Jackson Wheeler at jw@tri-counties.org
or call 805-483-1905
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