Poetry Walk: Duane Big Eagle, Rebecca Foust, Juanita J. Martin, more

18 SEPTEMBER 2016 — sunday

The 21st Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk presents a full-day of readings in a walk from venue to venue in downtown Petaluma: 11:00 a.m.: Barbara Swift Brauer, At Ease in the Borrowed World, Nina Lindsay, Because, and Dave Seter, with emcee Terry Ehret, Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd. North, at Washington; Noon: Jeanne Lupton, Ed Mycue, Song of San Francisco, Cathryn Shea, Snap Bean, emcee Sande Anfang, Riverfront Art Gallery, 132 Petaluma Blvd. North; 1:00: Duane Big Eagle, Kevin Gunn, Livermore Poet Laureate, Connie Post, Floodwater, North Bay Cafe, 25 Petaluma Blvd, South; 2:00:Dominican Republic-born artist and poet Ms. Noris Binet, Juanita J. Martin, Fairfield's first Poet Laureate, and Daniel Michael McKenzie, Lala's Creamery, 134 Petaluma Blvd, North; 3:00: Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus, A.D. Winans, emcee Gwynn O'Gara, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street; 4:00: Geri Digiorno, Petaluma Poetry Walk founder-director, Rebecca Foust, Paradise Drive, Mike Tuggle, The Motioning In, The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street; 5:00: Sonoma County Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle, There's a Ghost in this Machine of Air, reading with student poets, emcee John Johnson, Petaluma Historical Museum, 20 4th Street; 6:00: Playwright and poet J.R. Brady, The Space Between, Erica Goss, Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California, Israeli-born artist and author Leah Lubin, singer and poet Karen Melander Magoon, and Susan Weinstein, emcee David Madgalene, Aqus Café, 189 H Street (this venue is much farther away, prepare for a longer walk or drive to this one); Petaluma, free, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 (petalumapoetrywalk.org)