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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
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PCSJ 2010 Calendar
JUNE
Poetry First! @ Art Object Gallery it is
Open Mic Night!
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 7:30 PM
Share your latest creations with fellow writers, friends and family amidst some of the latest creations by local artists and sculptors. There will be some refreshment provided. Come Join us and be there for the last gathering of Poetry First until Fall.
Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Libary with
Santa Clara County Poetry Contest Winners
Date/Time: Monday, June 14, 2010, 7:00 PM
The Nine prize winners of the Santa Clara County Poetry Contest have been asked to read their winning poems, plus two more of their own, for this month's poetry reading.
Bill Emerson, a long time supporter of Poetry Readings at Willow Glen Books and Library, is a science fiction writer. His latest is The Chicken That Learned to Fly.
Samantha Le was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US in 1983. Her publications include My Solitude, Corridors and Little Sister Left Behind.
Christine Richardson grew up in Redwood City and has been writing poetry in the 1980’s. She is the co-host for the poetry readings at the Willow Glen Library.
Katie Carter has been attending the poetry readings in Willow Glen since before it moved from the bookstore. She was a featured reader in May.
Judy Darling is a former English teacher and a lifelong reader and writer of poetry.
Paul Highby of Mountain View has done technical writing, editing, some teaching and tutoring, and a lot of computer stuff, but has always loved poetry. He has lived in the Bay area since he escaped from Washington, DC in 1981.
Harry Lafnear often attends the poetry readings at the Willow Glen Library and reads for the open mic.
Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Libary
July - December 2010
JULY
Date/Time: Monday, July 12th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Vuong Vu was born in Saigon, Vietnam. He grew up in San Jose, CA. He studied creative writing at San Jose State and Fresno State universities. He currently works as an admin at Stanford Medical School.
AUGUST
Date/Time: Monday, August 9th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Bob Scher served from 1995 to 2000 as president of a major computer-industry consortium composed primarily of Fortune 100 companies. He was re-elected each year because he was able to unite intensively competitive organizations in a spirit of cooperation. Previously, he scripted and directed award-winning documentary films, one of which, narrated by Orson Welles, is in three international film museums, including La Cinémathèque Française and the MOMA. He is the author of five non-fiction books, including As If the Sky Were Open, Selected Poems, There's a Hole in Your Sky, Clean Limericks (called "Limes") on Science, Animal Passions, People in Trouble, and Ourselves, illustrated by Peter Szasz.
SEPTEMBER
Date/Time: Monday, September 13th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Dennis Noren has been part of Poetry Center San Jose for the past few years, after having been captured by the web of poetry a bit later In life. He has lived in the Bay Area nearly all his life, graduated from UC Berkeley, and works as an engineer. He is a board member for PCSJ and is the focal point for activity with the Markham House at San Jose's History Park. Dennis enjoys reading from the varied threads of modern and contemporary poetry, attends workshops and poetry readings, and will often grab an open mic when available. He is “pre-published” but moving glacially to change that.
OCTOBER
Date/Time: Monday, October 11th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter and professional storyteller living in Santa Clara, California, where he teaches in the Education and English departments at Santa Clara University. His essay in the Kyoto Journal, “Glimpsing Tokyo,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He's published over 110 poems (South Carolina Review, Rattle, Northeast), has a chapbook out from Pecan Grove Press (That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant), and won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike. He also has articles in Media Ethics and New York State History, has placed stories with Indy Men's, The MacGuffin, ELF, and The Bryant Literary Review, and won a prize in an international science fiction contest. His children's book Basho and the River Stones is a Junior Library Guild selection, his Tanuki's Gift got an excellentboxed review with art in the New York Times, and his Basho and the Fox, a New York Times bestseller and Smithsonian Notable Children's Book, was also read aloud on NPR. He has ten children's books out and one on the way.
NOVEMBER
Date/Time: Monday, November 8th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Connie Post served as Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 - June 2009. Her work is widely published and has appeared in such journals as Calyx, Kalliope, Cold Mountain Review, Chiron Review, Comstock Review, DMQ Review, Dogwood, Iodine Poetry Journal, Main Street Rag, White Pelican Review, RiverSedge, Up The Staircase, and The Toronto Quarterly. She was the winner of the Cover Prize for the Spring 2009 issue of The Dirty Napkin and the winner of the 2009 Caesura Poetry Awards from Poetry Center San Jose. She runs a popular reading series in the Bay Area - the Valona Deli Second Sunday Series. Her new book Trip Wires (Finishing Line Press) will be out in June 2010.
DECEMBER
Date/Time: Monday, December 13th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Nils Peterson is the current Poetry Laureate of Santa Clara County and is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University where he taught in the English and Humanities Departments. He has published poetry, science fiction, and articles on subjects as varying as golf and Shakespeare. A chapbook of poems entitled Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing was published by No Deadlines Press. A collection of poems entitled The Comedy of Desire with an introduction by Robert Bly was published by the Blue Sofa Press, and a collection of poems entitled Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango appeared in 2005. He was nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize.
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