Petaluma Poetry Walk

2009 Petaluma Poetry Walk Schedule & Bios

Petaluma Arts Center (1)
10:00 am --230 Lakeville St.
[corner of D and Lakeville Streets]

Carolyn Miller, a painter and poet, has published two books of poetry with Sixteen Rivers Press: After Cocteau in 2002 and Light, Moving in 2009. She teaches writing workshops in France and San Francisco.
Lynne Knight’s fourth collection, Again, has just been published by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her awards include a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and an NEA grant. She lives in Berkeley.
Donna Emerson, an SRJC instructor, fell deeply into poetry when she began her four generational memoir. Her poetry is found in journals such as South Carolina Review, and So To Speak. Donna’s second chapbook, Body Rhymes, was recently published by Finishing Line Press.

Jungle Vibes (2)
11:00 am. – 136 Petaluma Blvd. N.
Five Minute Play

Joan Gelfand, an award winning poet, Joan was the recipient of the Chaffin Fiction Award for 2005. Her letters, articles, reviews and poetry have appeared in national magazines including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and Poets & Writers. Widely anthologized, Joan’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals. Seeking Center – A Collection of Poetry was published by Two Bridges Press in 2006.
Gini Savage is the author of four books: Natural Selection first published by Radiolarian Press, Triad by Norton Coker Press, Loud Nipples by Chichi Press, and Gripe Water. Her latest solo collection is published by Nighthawk Books.
Nancy Cavers Dougherty is author of two chapbooks -- Tape Recorder On and Memory In Salt; and Silk, a collaborative work. Nancy supports and advocates for several local organizations working on homelessness and child and family welfare issues. She is also a collage artist.

Apple Box at The Mill (3)
12:00 Noon --6 Petaluma Blvd. N.
Five Minute Play

Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. Her work has won numerous awards. Judy has two new books out this year: a collection of poems new and classic,from 1965-present, love belongs to those who do the feeling (Red Hen Press) and The Judy Grahn Reader, a collection including prose, fiction, and poetry (Aunt Lute Press). Judy Grahn will be accompanied by Anne Carol.
Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet and has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She has published 54 books of poetry and won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for The Book of Jerusalem. She has three poetry CD collections. She was one of four editors of the anthology, New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Barbarians of San Francisco — Poets from Hell.

Apple Box at The Mill
1:00 pm --6 Petaluma Blvd. N.

Rachel Guido deVries' latest book of poems is The Brother Inside Me, (Guernica,2008). Her first children’s book, Teeny Tiny Tino’s Fishing Story, (Bordighera, 2008) won a 2008 Paterson Prize:Books for Young People. She lives in Cazenovia, NY.
Greg Sarris is the author of the widely anthologized collection of essays, Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (1993), and Grand Avenue (1994), an award-winning collection of short stories. He serves as Honorary President of Word for Word Theatre,which has performed two of his new short stories in over 80 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He now holds the position of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria Endowed Chair of Sonoma State University, where he teaches Creative Writing, American Literature, and American Indian Literature.

Bella Luma Caffe - - Helen Putnam Plaza (4)
2:00 pm--125 Petaluma Blvd. N.
Five Minute Play

Ellen Bass's poetry books include The Human Line from Copper Canyon Press and Mules of Love from BOA Editions. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University and at conferences nationally and internationally. Ellen will be reading with students from her workshop: Ingrid Moody, Lisa Akeson, Jane Macdonald, Manfred Luedge, Pam Mitchell, Barbara Leon, Jessica Flynn and Danusha Lameris.

Copperfield’s Books (5)
3:00 pm--140 Kentucky St.
Five Minute Play

Joanne Kyger has published over 20 books of poetry. She was the winner of the National Poetry Series in 1983 for her book Going On. Her most recent books of poems include Again (La Alameda Press), As Ever: Selected Poems published by Penguin Books, and ABOUT NOW published in 2007by The National Poetry Foundation. Joanne Kyger is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2005
and 2006 Grant Recipient, a Marin Arts Council grant recipient a Small Press Traffic Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007, and a winner of the 2008 PEN Oakland--Josephine Miles Award inpoetry.
Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic, editor, and curator who has been active in the art and poetry worlds for many decades. He is the author of eighteen books and pamphlets and poetry, including most recently Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz) and Our Friends will Pass Among You Silently, as well as an epistolary collaboration by Bernadette Mayer entitled What's Your Idea of a Good Time? He is a corresponding editor for Art in America, and his criticism has appeared there and in Artforum and other journals. A collection of his essays, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art
Writings, appeared in 2004, and Sudden Address: Selected Lectures in 2007. He was Distinguished Paul Mellon Fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for 2006.

Phoenix Theatre (6)
4:00 pm--201 Washington St.

The American Indian poet known as Luke Warm Water is Lakota (Sioux). Luke has featured at poetry venues throughout the United States and in Europe, and has won Poetry Slam competitions fom Oregon to Germany.
Kirk Lumpkin: “. . . one of my favorite performers.”
—Avotcja, poet, bandleader, radio host;
". . .solid real illumination . . ."
—Michael McClure;
"No matter what, he will make sure the sidewalks are shaking before you go home."
—(San Francisco) Examiner.com
David Madgalene is the author of Kali (Round Barn Press, Santa Rosa) and I Heard A Journeyman Sing. He is accompanied by Judy Irwin on keyboards.

Aqus Cafe (7)
5:00 pm--Foundry Wharf - -
89 H Street
Five Minute Plays with Nancy Long

A Festival of 10 short plays written by local writers and performed by local actors. Surprise plays onthe Street: 11:00, Jungle Vibes; Noon, Apple Box Alleyway; 2:00, Bella Luma Courtyard; 3:00, Copperfield's Street Corner; concluding at Aqus Cafe at 5:00 PM
Nancy Long is a writer, director and performer. She hosts the Livewire Literary Salon and has published numerous short stories and plays. Her play, "Some People Find Their God" received acceptance at an off-broadway theatre festival in New York City, Canada and at the Ross Valley RAW Festival. Nancy has performed with Writers on the Edge and Terry McGovern's Marin Actor's Workshop and is also the Theatre Production Manager and Director of short plays at Dominican University One Act Play Festival. Presently, she helps coordinate the People, Places and Things Poetry Group at Aqus Café.

Aqus Cafe
6:00 pm--Foundry Wharf - -89 H Street

Charles Curtis Blackwell is a jazz poet, playwright, performance and visual artist. He is the author of Is the Color of Mississippi Mud among other works and has three spoken-word CDs in collaboration with jazz drummer Billy Toliver. His paintings have been shown from coast to coast and have received multiple awards.
Bill Vartnaw, a Petaluma poet and publisher, can still count his books on one hand. (Can you hear it clapping?) His latest, Suburbs of my Childhood, was published this year by Beatitude Press.He is co-editor with Geri Digiorno of the Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology, 1996-2005.
GP Skratz is a poet published widely in journals from Rolling Stone to The Formalist to Exquisite Corpse. In 1975, he taught poetry at Naropa Institute at the invitation of Allen Ginsberg. Actor/playwright Bob Ernst, founder of the legendary theatrical company The Blake Street Hawkeyes (out of which emerged George Coates & Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal Hughes in Arundo.

Aqus Cafe
7:00 pm--Foundry Wharf - -89 H Street

David Meltzer. A leading poet of the Beat Movement and San Francisco Renaissance, David was editor and interviewer for San Francisco Beat: Talking With The Poets [City Lights, 2001].Meltzer's book Beat Thing [La Alameda Press, 2004] won the Josephine Miles PEN Award, 2005 and that same year saw the publication of David’s Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer by Viking/Penguin, a collection spanning over forty years of work that paints a vivid portrait of Meltzer’s life as a poet through poems taken from thirty of his previous books of poetry.
Michael Rothenberg is a poet,editor and publisher of Big Bridge magazine, www.bigbridge.org.His poetry books include The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), and most recently CHOOSE, Selected Poems (Big Bridge Press). He is also editor for the Penguin Poet series, which includes selected works of Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer and Ed Dorn. He has recently completed The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen for Wesleyan University Press.

David Bromige, RIP

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