Writing Salon Mistress Muses

Upcoming Poetry Reading Weds. Feb. 29th

Our memoir writing teacher, Kathleen McClung (who is also a poet) alerted us to this upcoming event (poetry reading) at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza:

Northern California kickoff reading of this new poetry anthology:

A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens
Edited by Enid Osborn and Cynthia Anderson

Wednesday February 29, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Books Inc. in Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness
San Francisco, CA

415-776-1111
Host: Connie Post
 
In this diverse anthology, over 80 of the Golden State’s finest poets hold  forth on the theme of crows and ravens — offering passionate, vivid, sometimes humorous, and ever-surprising views of these common yet mysterious birds, called “black as the sun” by Gary Snyder. Among the outstanding poets in the book are Christopher Buckley, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dan Gerber, Michael Hannon, Steve Kowit, Carol Muske-Dukes, Jim Natal, Kay Ryan, Barry
Spacks, Ann Stanford, Joseph Stroud, Cecilia Woloch, and many more.

Poets who will be reading their own poems are as follows:

Enid Osborn
Kathleen McClung
Kim Shuck
Rochelle Arellano
Constance Crawford
Ellaraine Locke
Cher Wollard
Patrick Daly
Charlotte Muse
Mary Rudge
Diane Martin
Kit Kennedy
Paul Fericano
Jennifer Arin
Robert Evans
Danusha Lameris
Molly Fisk
Kevin Hearle
Ruth Nolan
Andre Levi
Ron Alexander
Connie Post

We hope you can join us for this splendid event!

Another Feather in Another Writing Salon Student's Cap

I often suggest to my Daily Write Round Robin students that they check out the upcoming topics in The Sun Magazine's "Readers Write" section, to see if they might have written any daily writes that would work for that section. Several students have indeed submitted writes and had them accepted -- most recently, Brenda Moguez, who has had more than one of her pieces published in "Readers Write." You can read her short piece here:

The Sun Magazine | Warning Signs

Congrats, Brenda! Yet again.