PEN Oakland Literary Awards 2014

Posted on November 30th, 2014

The 24th annual PEN Oakland Book Awards presentation will be held Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the Rockridge Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA  94618 from 1 to 5 p.m.   The program will con...

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Fightin’ Words

Posted on November 15th, 2014

Fightin’ Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from ‘The Blue Collar’ PEN, ed. by Judith Cody, Kim McMillon and Claire Ortalda, jointly published by Heyday Books and PEN Oakland Public...

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Stay Amazed

Posted on October 3rd, 2014

In 2013, one year after the death of her husband, poet Morton Felix, acclaimed ceramic artist Susan Felix, Berkeley’s Arts Ambassador, asked friends in her far-flung art and literary circles to writ...

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Mystic Boxing Poetry Event Santa Cruz

Posted on September 1st, 2014

Floyd Salas, Tony C. Rodriguez, Kirk Lumpkin, other poets and I will be among the readers at a Mystic Boxing/Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts event at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Downtown Santa C...

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Radio Show on Dreams

Posted on July 18th, 2014

http://awakeningzone.com/Episode.aspx?EpisodeID=3237     Please tune in on Monday,  July 21st, 2014, (using the link above) for an interview of me by Joan Gelfand (pictured here) on Awakeni...

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Blog Crawl. . .

Posted on April 22nd, 2014

As promised, here are the three bloggers to follow me in what is kind of a literary pub crawl.  The idea is to introduce writers and readers to one another in the writer’s own setting, their ow...

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International Blog Tour

Posted on April 22nd, 2014

My friend, Andrew Hill (author of the outstanding, exciting, beautifully crafted and necessary Crowed series on Kindle, a multi-generational story of a black family in the South and their struggles fo...

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Brandishing the PEN Reading

Posted on April 8th, 2014

Brandishing the PEN PEN Oakland at Bird & Beckett Books Sunday, April 13th, 2pm 653 Chenery Street, in San Francisco Free A reading by six PEN Oakland writers– the “working class”...

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Environmental Poetry Reading

Posted on April 8th, 2014

Here is one of the poems I read Saturday at the reading:   In This Syntax of Water   A swell of green I slip below into the dreamworld of history the anthropology of my being   I am the...

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