Poetry
Ravenswood Historic Site in Livermore on Sunday,
Sept. 4, from 2-4 p.m. Three diverse Bay Area
poets --
Gerald Fleming, David Alpaugh and Minal
Hajratwala --will be featured as part of
the ongoing Poetry at Ravenswood series,
sponsored by the City of Livermore.
An Open Mic will follow a short break with refreshments, so bring an original or favorite poem to share. All three poets will have books available for purchase, and I'm sure they would be happy to sign them.
Admission is $5 at the door; students with ID are admitted free. Ravenswood is located at 2657 Arroyo Road, Livermore.
For information or directions, contact me at 925 824-4824 orcherw@cherw.com. You can also find event information at http://www.livermorelit.com/. Invite a friend! For information about the poets, see below or the attached flyer.
Gerald Fleming’s poetry and prose poems have appeared widely over the past 30 years. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, and between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review, whose archives can be found at U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library.
His book of poems “Swimmer Climbing onto Shore” appeared from Sixteen Rivers Press in 2005, and a book of prose poems, “Night of Pure Breathing,” which appeared from Hanging Loose Press in New York this spring, has been nominated for a National Book Award.
He taught in San Francisco public schools for 37 years, and has published three books for teachers, the most recent of which is “Rain, Steam, and Speed” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley).
David Alpaugh is a well-known East Bay poet, essayist and publisher. He is one of the 100 poets whose work appears in Heyday Press’s California Poets from the Gold Rush to the Present. Journals that have published his poetry include Able Muse, The Formalist, Light, Poetry, Rattle, Wisconsin Review and Zyzzyva.
His controversial essays on “pobiz” have appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Mudlark, Rattle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. The most recent, “The Mathematics of Poetry,” has stirred up animated discussion, both in journals and online. His new chapbook, “Crazy Dave Talks with The Poets,” is filled with his trademark wit and humor.
Minal Hajratwala is the author of the non-fiction book “Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which won a Pen USA Award, an Asian American Writers Workshop Award, a Lambda Literary Award, a California Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Writing Prize. A Stanford graduate and former journalist with the San Jose Mercury News, she lives in San Francisco (her parents live in Pleasanton).
Minal will share selections created during her recent Fulbright fellowship in India. This body of writing includes "novelistic ecstasy, chimeric poetry, explosions at the India-Pakistan border, and more."
DANCING POETRY FESTIVAL
The 18th annual festival of spectacular and exciting poetry on stage!
Poetry that moves and motivates in fusion with music and dance performances from
around the world.! Visual arts, fusion arts, and pure poetry is celebrated in this entertaining event. Share the latest and initiate your friends in this variety of offerings choreographed, costumed, and performed. Come and see POETRY as something to dance about!
DANCING POETRY FESTIVAL
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
September 24, 2011, NOON until 4:00
Tickets range from $10 to $15 for all day VIP ticket that includes entry to the art museum and Festival. See some wonderful poets, say hello to some of your best friends, and
see some of your favorite dance companies and dancers share the spotlight with poetry.
Visit our website at www.dancingpoetry.com or CALL 510-235-0361 or 415-681-0618
The link to our ticket order form is: http://dancingpoetry.com/dpftickets.html
This is an outreach program presented by Artists Embassy International to explore avenues for
poetic outreach, create and expand audiences for poetry and dance, promote and reward
excellence in poetry and to further understanding though the universal language of the arts.
AEI is a non-profit volunteer organization founded and continuing service to the arts since 1951. We thank you for your support.