Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is a Jungian analyst and poet. Her writing has appeared in Atlanta Review, Boulevard, Drunken Boat, and Prairie Schooner, as well as in many other journals and anthologies, including Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. Rachel Dacus is the author of Gods of Water and Air, a mixed-genre collection, the novel The Renaissance Club, and the poetry collections Earth Lessons, Femme au Chapeau, and Arabesque. Cynthia’s new collection of poems, The Luminous In-Between, invites readers to experience the radiance of one woman’s evolution through marriage, motherhood, spiritual individuation, and kinship with nature. His award-winning poetry collection is V oyages to Ancestral Islands.Ĭynthia Leslie-Bole of Orinda is a writing coach, editor, and certified Amherst Writers and Artists Method writing group leader who has been published in Pure Slush, Rootstalk and Moonshine Ink’s Creative Brew. He is Anishinaabe/Ojibway (Chippewa) Indian from his mother’s side. This led to a move from Toronto, Canada, to California, where he followed the muse of storytelling and poetry into San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program (MA ’95). Īfter high school, Dave Holt began setting poems to music. She is a professor at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. īrenda Hillman is the award-winning author of ten collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, and Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared widely.

She is a co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California and the author of two children’s books and a memoir. Lucille Lang Day, coeditor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, has published ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including Becoming an Ancestor and Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. Several contributing poets will be reading their works, and copies of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California will be available for purchase.Ĭontributing poets reading at the event include:

National Poetry Month kicks off with this special reception and reading from a newly-published collection of poems that contemplate the varied terrains and environments of the Golden State.

The Renaissance Club by Rachel Dacus