Monthly

Poetry First!
Art Object Gallery

1st Tuesday of Each Month
(September - May)
7:30 PM
592 North Fifth Street
San Jose, CA 95112
www.artobjectgallery.com

Admission: FREE


Poetry Readings at:
Willow Glen Library

Second Monday of Every Month
7:00 PM
1157 Minnesota Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125

Admission: FREE

FEBRUARY

Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Libary

Poet: Jim Powell

Date/Time: Monday, February 8, 2010, 7:00 PM

Jim Powell is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow (Poetry), a scholar, and the author of books of lyric poetry and translation from classical Greek and Latin, including: It Was Fever That Made the World, Sappho: A Garland, and Catullan Revenants. His poems, translations and literary criticism have appeared widely in literary journals and periodicals in the United States and Great Britain.

Love is Not Time's Fool (an almost Valentine's Night's Revel) @ Le Petit Trianon

Poets: Nils Peterson, Sally Ashton, Elena Sharkova and The Silicon Valley Symphony Singers

Date/Time: Friday, February 12, 2010, 5:30 PM

Venue: Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. First Street, SJ, CA 95113

Join Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Nils Peterson and gang as they celebrate Valentine's Day with Wine, Poetry and Music! Come early for a glass of wine or soft drink. A donation of $10 is requested.

Workshop: Ins and Outs of Getting Published

Poet: Sally Ashton

Date/Time: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 1:00-4:00 PM

Venue: Firehouse, History Park San Jose, 1650 Senter Road, SJ, CA 95112

Workshop is $50 for PCSJ Members and $65 for non-members. This is a benefit for Poetry Center San José.
To register contact: Sally Ashton, sashton@pcsj.org

Sally Ashton, MFA, is a Bay Area poet, teacher and editor of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. She is the author of a collection, These Metallic Days, and her prose poem collection, Her Name is Juanita, was recently released from Kore Press. Ashton is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship, Poetry, from Arts Council Silicon Valley.

MARCH

Poetry First! @ Art Object Gallery with
Angie Boissevain

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 7:30 PM

Angie Boissevain served as Jikoji's first director and, later, as a teacher. While raising three sons, and being a wife and poet, she began her study with Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi at Haiku Zendo. Kobun called her the “transmitted” housewife and she was formally ordained as a teacher by Vanja Palmers after Kobun’s death. She has almost forty years of practice, is the Floating Zendo’s teacher, and leads sessions for her students in many parts of California, New Mexico, Colorado, Austria, and Switzerland.

Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Libary with
The Call: An Anthology of Women's Writing

Date/Time: Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:00 PM

The Call: An Anthology of Women's Writing was published as a gift by Calder Lowe, Editor, to her women writer friends who supported her professionally and personally throughout the years and as a testimony to their respective talents. The poets and writers from the anthology who will read for PCSJ are Cynthia Benson, Carolyn Dille, Jean Emerson, Blanca Espinoza, B.L.P. Simmons and Mary Lou Taylor.

APRIL

Poetry First! @ Art Object Gallery with
Hermie Medley

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7:30 PM

Hermie Medley is a delightful poet. Many Names published her first book of poems, Too Young to be Wise in 1998, when she was only 80 years old. Her joy in life, her cheery but not sappy style of writing, is crisp and wise, despite the title of her first book. She has met with grief and family loss, both a long and a short time ago. Mostly she can be imagined at her typewriter, a wicked-sweet little grin upon her face. When she reads in public, we are reminded of a young spelling bee contestant--we hold our breath for her simple response to a perplexing and complex word.

Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Libary for
Poetry Month

Date/Time: Monday, April 12, 2010, 7:00 PM

April is Poetry Month and as per tradition, everyone who attends the reading on this day is invited to read one poem of their favorite poet and one poem of their own as a way to celebrate Poetry Month. This has
always been very rewarding and fun night.

MAY

Poetry First! @ Art Object Gallery with
Atsuro Riley

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 7:30 PM

Atsuro Riley is the author of Romey's Order, forthcoming in 2010 from the Phoenix Poets series of the University of Chicago Press. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and McSweeney's, and has been awarded The Pushcart Prize and the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine.

Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Libary with
Patricia Machmiller

Date/Time: Monday, May 10, 2010, 7:00 PM

Patricia Machmiller has a book of translated letters, Autumn Loneliness: the Letters of Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi, July-December, 1967, coming out soon. Along with co-collaborater Tei Matsushita Scott, letters written by Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi, San Jose locals who started the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, are translated for the first time. The letters were written in 1967 when they were going through a very difficult time, Kiyoshi had just lost his hearing. The letters are poignant and full of longing, bravery and vulnerability. This should be a great event for all poetry lovers.