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MARCH IS POETRY OUT LOUD MONTH THE GARY SOTO LITERARY MUSEUM ARTISTIC LICENSE SAVE THE DATE SPECIAL EVENT - THE WRITING LIFE EVENTS KUDOS POEMS |
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| MARCH IS POETRY OUT LOUD MONTH | ||||
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| THE GARY SOTO LITERARY MUSEUM | ||||
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Gary Soto, who wrote the introduction to our CPITS 45th Anniversary Anthology, is the author of 35 books and has captured the largest readership of Latino children and young adults in the nation. He now has a museum dedicated in his honor that contains his first manual typewriter, manuscripts and letters, photographs, medals and honors. School children and the public are able to tour the museum that is in the refurbished Old Administration Building of Fresno City College. For tour information contact Sean Henderson, FCC director of Student Activities, at (559) 265-5711. return to top |
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This year the CPITS annual symposium will be held at the beautiful retreat center of Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road, Santa Barbara on September 9-11, 2011. |
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| SPECIAL EVENT-THE WRITING OF LIFE | ||||
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Sunday, March 20, 1-2:30 pm, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th and R, Sacramento, CPITS is hosting a panel presentation with published authors, Susan Kelly DeWitt, Jim DenBoer and Indigo Moor, moderated by Sacramento Poet Laureate, Bob Stanley. They will present a discussion on the “writing life” that will include publishing and marketing. This event is open to the public and will be followed after an 11 am meeting for Area Coordinators of CPITS. James DenBoer has published five full-length books of poetry, six chapbooks, two books of translations, a bibliography of an American poet, and has received grants and awards for his writing from the National Endowment of the Arts. He was also for many years a rare book seller, and is now the publisher of Swan Scythe Press, which publishes chapbooks of contemporary poetry; the press, founded in 2000 by Sandra McPherson, has published 30 books to date. Susan Kelly-DeWitt is author of The Fortunate Islands and eight small press collections, including Cassiopeia Above the Banyan Tree, Poems about Hawai’i. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and her poetry has also appeared on Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily, in journals like Poetry, Prairie Schooner, North American Review and Poetry Northwest, and in many national and regional anthologies. She has been the program director for the Sacramento Poetry Center and The Women’s Wisdom Project. Currently she's a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and a blogger for Coal Hill Review. See www.susankelly-dewitt.com Indigo Moor has published two full-length books of poetry, including Through the Stonecutter’s Window winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second book. Additional publication credits include two chapbooks, short stories, essays, and reviews. In 2010, Indigo directed his first full-length play, Live! at the Excelsior. Other honors include: Cave Canem writing fellowship, 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Prize for Emerging Writers, and2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. Indigo is a graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. He conducts residencies and workshops across the country, including "Writing Outside the Writer's Domain," tailored for those attempting success in publishing while not connected to large literary communities. return to top |
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Friday, March 11, 2011 7-10pm, a Native American reading at Tony Serra's Law Offices, 506 Broadway, San Francisco (above Enrico's in North Beach) with Duane BigEagle, Linda Noel, & others. |
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| Kings of the Wind the kids playing in the sun hearing the sounds of wind filling the air reminding me we are the ones who are kings of the wind the ones of the forest the ones of the grass the fruit the kids growing, jumping around roaming the woods the sound of water the salamanders growling for food the black ink sky the golden stars we are the ones of the wind Thomas Gregson, Grade 7 Fort Ross School, Sonoma County Elizabeth Weiss, Classroom Teacher Blake More, Poet Teacher Instructions for Listening to Your Dog Forget that you are the master. Look into those eyes that only have eyes for you. Turn off your words. Keep your hand quiet on his head or against his furred flank. When you are truly in the moment, as he always is, ask your question— not the rhetorical kind (he will be onto that in a greyhound’s second) but the one that waits for an answer. At first you will have to pretend to know his language. Take note: curve of lip, flick of ear, tilt of head, humming whine — the basics of his vocabulary. If he sees you are a willing student he will open his whole world to you— all his words beyond words. Lois Klein, Poet teacher Santa Barbara County return to top |
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