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Poetry at the Albany Library

Featured Poets

Joyce Jenkins & Katherine Hastings

2nd Tuesdays: Featured Poets and Open Mic 

Tuesday January 12, 2010 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Courtesy AlYoung.Org

Joyce Jenkins, author of Portal (introduction by Carolyn Kizer), and
Joy Road, a limited edition chapbook, has read her poetry across the
country. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary publications,
including Parthenon West Review, speechlessthemagazine.com,
ZYZZYVA, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Addison Street Anthology:
Berkeley’s Poetry Walk, and Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year
Anthology: 1996-2005. Her poem “Piano Man” is part of the Addison
Street Poetry Walk in Berkeley.

Jenkins is the editor/publisher of PoetryFlash magazine and PoetryFlash.org., California Book Reviewers/Northern California Book Awards. She received the American Book Award in 1994 and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006. The City of Berkeley named June 6, 2009 “Joyce Jenkins Day” in honor of the Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Katherine Hastings hosts WordTemple on Santa Rosa, CA’s NPR affiliate KRCB FM and is the founder of the WordTemple Poetry Series in Santa Rosa. Her own poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals, including the Comstock Review, Rattle, Parthenon West Review, CALYX, and Golden Handcuffs Review. She edited San Francisco Bay Area Women Poets for Big Bridge, an anthology with contributions from major Northern California poets.

Hastings’ chapbook, Sidhe (pronounced SHE), was published by dPress. Her book Updraft (Finishing Line Press) is due out in the summer of 2010. Hastings received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College.  She grew up in San Francisco and lives in Sonoma County with her partner and with her Chihuahua, Gizmo Federico García Lorca.

Produced by Catherine Taylor

Partially funded by Friends of the Albany Library. The library is wheelchair accessible and wil provide an ASL interpreter
with 7 working days notice. Cal 510-526-3720 or TYY 510-663-0660. Produced by Alameda County Library, Albany

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