Kim Addonizio

Sonoma State Community Writers Festival: Kim Addonizio, Terry Ehret, Randall Mann, more

4 APRIL 2024 — thursday

Sonoma State University English and Creative Writing Departments and Zaum magazine present the Sonoma State Community Writers Festival, including workshops, readings, exhibitors, and panels scheduled in both ballroom and classroom environments, Poetry Flash, Manic D Press, and many other exhibitors will be in attendance; The first readings from 4:00-4:50 pm will feature writers from the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference (Pamela Bordisso, antmen pimentel mendoza, Rashaan Meneses, Virgie Tovar, Ebony Haight, Frej Barty, Eliana Yoneda), Alexander Valley Room; an eBook and Chapbook event (Judith Day, Ed Mycue, Mary Holman Tuteur), Bennett Valley Room; Bilingual reading from the work of German poet Matt Sessner, Sonoma Valley Room; The next readings from 5:00-5:50 pm will be Sixteen Rivers Press poets, (Matthew M. Monte, Rosa Lane, Christina Lloyd, Murray Silverstein, Alice Templeton, Terry Ehret), Sonoma Valley Room; Feather Press writers read (Jennifer Barone, Cassandra Dallett, Ingrid Keir, Kalechi Ubozoh), Bennett Valley Room; Bay Area Queer Writers read (Liz Faraim, Wayne Goodman, Richard May, R.L. Merrill), Alexander Valley Room; and Wet Cement Press writers read (Thoreau Lovell, Michelle Murphy), Russian River Valley Room; The next readings from 6:00-6:50 pm will be Peter Kline, Brittany Perham, and Randall Mann read, Stevenson 1301; Reed Magazine writers read (Sophie Aust, Allegra Balbuena, Ian Meadows, Dylan Mueller, Ryan Steel), Bennett Valley Room; Jambu Press writers read (Virgina Barrett, Bobby Coleman), Alexander Valley Room; Blue Light Press poets (Diane Frank, Emilie Lygren, Prartho Sereno, Mark Tate, Ellery Akers, Steve Trenam), Sonoma Valley Room; and South Asian American writers read (Amna Ali, Moazzam Sheikh), Russian River Valley Room; the last readings are 7:00 to 7:50 pm and include Erotic Poetry (Michael Foulk, Yume Kim, Loria Mendoza, Christine No, Noah Sanders), Stevenson 1301; SFSU Creative Writing Program writers (Laird Harrison, Elodie Townsend, Evan Burkin, Michaela Chairez, Christopher Jones), Russian River Valley Room; WTAW Press & Betty writers (Anita Felicelli, Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Lillian Howan, Joanna Choi Kalbus, Julian Mithra, Marianne Villanueva, Olga Zilberbourg), Sonoma Valley Room; Bazaar Writers Salon (Kim Addonizio, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Kathleen Winter), Alexander Valley Room; Dominican MFA Students and Alumni (Brennen Belogorsky, Bonnie Carasso, Deidre Cavazzi, Caitlin Howery, Matthew Kline, Meg Neville, Dave Seter, Nichole Turnbloom), Bennett Valley Room; and Napa Valley Writers Conference Staff (Andrea Bewick, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Caroline Goodwin, Angela Pneuman), Stevenson 1201; Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, free, 4:00 pm-9:00 pm PDT (For more information and the full schedule of participants, visit english.sonoma.edu/community-writers-festival)