RSVP: info@ashbyvillage.org or 510-204-9200
When: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Where: Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81080254797
Open to: Members and volunteers
Writing in the Second Half of Life
Three published women poets, in their second half of life, will read their work and circle up for a discussion about these questions:
At what age did you come to writing?
What brought you to it?
What role does being a poet play in your life right now?
How do you stand in your older voice as a poet?
Joanne Rocky Delaplaine’s first poetry book The Local World, was published in 2019 and was awarded one of the top ten poetry books for 2019 by Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Ekphrastic Review, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. Her poems have won Best of the Net 2014, first place in the Bethesda Literary Festival Poetry Contest, 2014, and first place in The Northern Virginia Review contest 2013. She recently relocated from Maryland to California and lives in Oakland.
Yeva Johnson, a poet and musician whose previous work appeared or is forthcoming in the Bellingham Review, the Marin Poetry Center 2020 Anthology, and Sinister Wisdom, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems explore interlocking caste systems and the possibilities for human connection. A past Artist-in-Residence for Show Us Your Spines sponsored by RADAR Productions and the SF Public Library and part of QTPOC4SHO, a small and sustaining artists’ collective, Yeva is a Board Member of the Marin Poetry Center.
Nancy L. Meyer, she/her/hers
End of Life Counselor, grandmother of 5, Nancy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she rides her bike up mountains and chips away at her white supremacist programming. Over 50 journal publications including Colorado Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Caesura. Forthcoming in The Sugar House Review and The Stonecoast Review. Published in 8 anthologies, most recently Open Hands (Tupelo Press), Dang I Wish I Hadn’t Done That, Ageless Authors and Crossing Class: An Invisible Wall by Wising Up Press.
The Local World, Dang I Wish I Hadn’t Done That and Crossing Class available on Amazon.com.