tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253382992011-04-21T20:39:09.413-07:00kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274958836581557573noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25338299.post-49532103105686406002007-08-28T18:14:00.000-07:002008-02-25T11:52:20.278-08:00<div align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)font-size:18;" ><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">***********************************************************</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>7th Annual Pleasanton Poetry, Prose &amp; Arts Festival</strong></span> </span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Saturday &amp; Sunday, April 5 &amp; 6, 2008</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br />Location: Pleasanton Senior Center, 5353 Sunol Boulevard, Pleasanton, CA<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pleasantonarts.org/poetry_prose.html">http://www.pleasantonarts.org/poetry_prose.html</a><br /><br />Keynote Speaker: Jane Hirshfield, Award-winning Poet, Essayist, Translator<br />Special Guest &amp; Performance Workshop: Word for Word by Greg Sarris, Award-winning Native American Author<br /><br />Poetry &amp; Fiction Workshop leaders:<br /><br />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. <span style="color:#ff0000;"><br /><br /><strong>Workshops led by Kathleen Lynch:</strong></span><br /><br /><em><strong>Masks: Some Ways to Hide Your 'I's</strong></em>: Writing experiences that induce unexpected personas to find and claim you. No mythological characters! No fairy tale creatures! No historical figures or movie stars!<br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Techniques for Oiling the Gears</em></strong>: Beyond the free-write, clustering and (<em>gulp</em>) thievery: fast &amp; furious blank-page stimuli for poets.<br /><br />Workshop size limited: enroll early...<br /><br />For further festival information, contact:<br />Michelle Russo: 925-931-5350 / <a href="mailto:mrusso@ci.pleasanton.ca.us">mrusso@ci.pleasanton.ca.us</a><br />David Wright: <a href="mailto:dawright@sbcglobal.net">dawright@sbcglobal.net</a><br />Kirk Ridgeway: <a href="mailto:PleasantonPoetry@comcast.net">PleasantonPoetry@comcast.net</a><br /><br />******************************************************************************<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">WINE AND WORDS</span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Sunday May 4, 2008</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">2 - 4 p.m.</span></span><br /><br /><br />Featured Readers: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:18;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">JP Dancing Bear <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/</span></a> &amp; Kathleen Lynch</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:18;" ><br /></span><br />Held at the Martinelli Event Center/ Catered by Garre Winery and Cafe in Livermore, CA<br /><br /><br />Admission $5 / Featured readers begin at 2 p.m.<br />Open mic after short break (open mic: poems: one page, 40 lines or less)<br /><br /><br />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!!<br /><br /><br />For more information contact connie@poetrypost.com or livermorepoetlaureate@hotmail.com<br /><br /><br />***********************************************************************************<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Carnegie Art Museum Reading</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>May 17, 7:OO p.m.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>424 S C St., Oxnard, CA 93030</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Kathleen Lynch reads with Christina Pages</span><br /><br />For more information, contact<br />Jackson Wheeler at <a href="mailto:jw@tri-counties.org">jw@tri-counties.org</a><br />or call 805-483-1905<br /><br />****************************************************************</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25338299-4953210310568640600?l=kathleenlynch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274958836581557573noreply@blogger.com0