Alejandro Murguía
Breaking Borders Poetry Festival: Alejandro Murguía, Sally Ashton, more
18 SEPTEMBER 2016 — sunday
Breaking Borders: San Jose Poetry Festival 2016, featuring Alejandro Murguía, San Francisco Poet Laureate; Arlene Biala, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate; Sally Ashton, former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate; and many more local and regional poets, with Small Press Fair; spoken word performances; "Veterans Write"; "Words & Music" features Diane Frank, accompanied by cellist Eric Levins; Charlotte Muse presents a segment on how poetry inspires "The Senses," "The Borders of Ecstasy" features poets Mark Heinlein and Pranita Patel; "World Poetry" readings in original languages and translation, curated by Pushpa MacFarlane; "Scientist Poets" with Len Anderson; "Youth Poetry" features high school poets led by Dennis Richardson, Poetry Workshops: "Surreal Poetry" with Tresha Haefner Rubinstein; "Revision" with Dean Rader, "Building a Poem—Word by Word" with Tim Myers; "How to Read a Poem" with Nils Peterson; "Self Publishing" with Diane Moomey; "Journal Submission" with Kelly Cressio-Moeller, History Park San Jose, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose, $20/$15 PCSJ members/$5 students, priority for limited festival seating will be given to advance ticket holders and registrants from www.eventbrite.com, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 (www.pcsj.org/festival)