“I know I am but summer to your heart,
and not the full four seasons of the year.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Early tomato champ |    Al Young

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Date Palm afternoon

Photo courtesy of Bo’s Barbecue & Catering, Lafayette, CA

(L-R) Four Nerds: Al Young, Mark Cohen, Alan Fambrini, Dan I. Slobin (all but Fambrini have been pals since Central High School, Detroit, the 1950′s)

Photo: PC Mack

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Sharon Coleman conducting her three-day Summer Creative Writing Intensive at Berkeley City College, June 2009

Sharon Coleman

Invited guest poets Lorna Dee Cervantes and Al Young at Berkeley City College’s Summer Creative Writing Intensive, June 2009

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Dan and Kate Robbins at their Santa Cruz digs, Bastille Day 2009

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Milo Robbins nuts out on sock cymbal.

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Al Young and Dan Robbins relax before rehearsing new poetry & jazz material on a hot Santa Cruz afternoon near the Pacific.

  Photo: Kindness of Strangers

Poet-novelist Kate Evans, Al Young, and poet-essayist Persis Karim pose on the Berkeley Pier following lunch at Skates on a gorgeous afternoon by San Francisco Bay.

Emerging sundeck tomato, mid-July 2009
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Perennial newlyweds Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich at Squaw Valley Community of Writers, August 2009. | Al Young

Al Young with Stacey Knapp (glasses off, glasses on): writer, bookseller, and a joy every summer to Squaw Valley’s visiting authors, readers, editors and literary agents as well as fanciers of baseball caps, T-shirts, sweatshirts and ski vests.  | Photos: Louis B. Jones

Amy Tan and Al Young in August light, Squaw Valley 2009
Photo: Kim Palchikoff

(L-R) Alan Cheuse, Kris O’Shea, Gabrielle Houston, Al Young, Cori Houston,and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston gather for a shot hours before the memorial tribute to James D. Houston at Squaw Valley Community of Writers, August 2009.  |   Photo: John Neville

Diana Fuller, Squaw Valley’s screenwriting program director, with Al Young and Dr. Harold Weaver in a toast to the Weavers’ 70th wedding anniversary, 2009. | Photo: Brett Hall Jones

Blair Fuller, co-founder with Oakley Hall of Squaw Valley Community of Writers, relaxing at the annual Argentine asado hosted by Eddie and Osvaldo Ancinas. With George Plimpton, Fuller also co-founded the Paris Review. |Photo: Al Young

Truckee River residence bouquet
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The spiderwalk in full summer splendor   | Al Young

August tomatoes
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