SUMMER SEQUENCE
North studio window in summer |Â Â Al Young
Playwright-publicist Kim McMillon, poet-bandleader Avotcja, Al Young at Bacheeso’s, Berkeley, August 2008
Al in the Bronx outside Teatro Pregones moments before the Lincoln Center La Casita performance begins, August 2008
Janet Coleman, WBAI‘s Arts Director, August 2008 | Al Young
Janet Coleman and husband David Dozer fast at work, WBAI New York, 2008
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Outside Janet Coleman’s WBAI Wall Street office window overlooking the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge
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Al, Janet Coleman, David Dozer at WBAI, New York, August 2008
Dred Scott Keyes, WBAI production engineer, New York 2008
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Mexico’s popular poet Francisco Hernández and producer Claudia Norman on the steps of Teatro Pregones, Lincoln Center La Casita Festival,The Bronx 2008
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Three drummers and singers from Pipestone, the award-winning, Minnesota-based troupe of performers of traditional and contemporary Ojibwe song and poetry and dance (Lincoln Center La Casita Festival, New York City 2008)
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Books by Oakley Hall stacked atop one another as faculty member after faculty member read passages from them during an early August 2008 tribute to the late novelist-teacher and co-founder of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers
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From the manuscript of a new memoir — partially devoted to her experiences with Ă©migrĂ© Arab women in France — novelist-essayist-screenwriter Diane Johnson reads during the annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference, August 2008
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Novelist Louis B. Jones and novelist-tap dancer Rhoda Huffey in rapt discussion on the deck of the popular Olympic Plaza, high in the Sierras, Squaw Valley, August 2008
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Milo Robbins, Dan Robbins, Kate Robbins at Burning Cat Recording Studio, Santa Cruz, CA, August 2008
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Bard on BART with Bird and Ella, San Francisco, July 2008
Cecil Brown and Randi’s cat Bianca with carrot juice | Al Young
Winners of Alameda, California’s Jewel By the Bay Poetry Contest gather at Jackson Park, 19 July 2008: Mary Loughran, first prize (center right); Alameda poet laureate Mary Rudge, honorable mention (left); Patricia Edith, Frank Bette Center for the Arts‘ literary arts director (center left); Al Young, 2008 contest judge (right) | Photo: George Rowan, Jr.
Patricia Edith in Alameda’s Jackson Park reads from The Commute, her poetry collection. | Al Young
Al with old pal Peg O’Donnell of Chelsea Green Publishing at American Library Association, Anaheim 2008
At the Sourcebooks, Inc. booth, Al signs copies of Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry, ALA (American Library Association) 2008 | Melanie Thompson
Drummer Jaimeo Brown in live performance, Jazz at Pearl’s, North Beach, San Francisco (across the street from City Lights Books), 20 July 2008. Jaimeo and his quartet were joined onstage by his mom and dad — saxophonist-flautist Marcia Miget and singing bassist-guitarist Dartanyan Brown — along with California poet laureate Al Young
Photo: Al Young
