Linda Lancione, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, John Oliver Simon and Elaine Starkman
10 FEBRUARY 2011 — thursday
Poetry Flash presents Linda Lancione, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, John Oliver Simon and Elaine Starkman, reading in celebration of the anthology Child of My Child: Poems and Stories for Grandparents, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com; wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreters for the deaf and hearing impaired may be requested a week in advance by email, editor@poetryflash.org)
More about the readers
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is a Jungian analyst and a poet. Her two newest books of poems are Adagio & Lamentation and The Sister From Below: When the Muse Gets in Her Way. She is poetry and fiction editor of Psychological Perspectives and has published many essays and a prose book in her field.
Linda Lancione is widely published in literary journals, including Crazy Horse, Atlanta Review, and Poet Lore. Her latest chapbook is 2% Organic, 32 Short Poems from a West Marin Dairy Barn.
John Oliver Simon is a poet and translator. His most recent book of poems is Caminante; previous collections include Neither of Us Can Break the Other's Hold and Rattlesnake Grass. In 2001 he was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Translation for his translation of the Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas.
Elaine Starkman is both a poet and a prose writer. She's been published in Bellowing Ark, Calyx, Caesura, and many other journals. Along with five other Bay Area writers she published My Dreaming Waking Life: Sixty-Six Poems, Six Poets.
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