Vivian Torrence

Wendy Rockett

 

With other friends of Reginald Lockett, screenwriter Karen Folger Jacobs and Al wait their turn at KPFA Berkeley to pay tribute to the late poet on Living Room, Kris Welch’s popular noontime show, 30 May 2008
Raymond Nat Turner

 

New Orleans, 2008 | Al Young

 

California high school student recipients of Poetry Out Loud awards and citations gather with their judges and producers in Sacramento, April 2008
Mary Beth Barber

 

Gospel Brunch, United Methodist Church, San Luis Obispo, 2008
Al Young

 

Glenna Luschei, Al, Nancy Giles, Pastor Jane Voights
United Methodist Church, San Luis Obispo, Easter Sunday, 2008
Bill Horton

Guitarist Maxwell Gualtieri, poet-teacher-producer Gwendolyn Alley, and trmpeter Louis Lopez following our evening of poetry, jazz and song for Ventura College, April 2008

 

With Cozetta Guin, California History Center, De Anza College, May 2008

 

Tom Izu, Director of the California History Center, and distinguished educator Ulysses Pichon, De Anza College, 2008
Al Young

 

Hanging with noir mystery writer Jim Nisbet at the Friends of the San Francisco Library Laureates Dinner, April 2008

 

Writers photographed at the Friends of the San Francisco Library’s “Noir in the City” Laureates Dinner, April 2008
[Names and photographer credit forthcoming]

 

Joyce Jenkins, Mark Baldridge, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Al, Floyd Salas, Claire Ortalda, Eileen Malone, James LeCuyer and unidentifed Bulldogs T-shirter. Photographed at the Northern California Independent Booksellers Awards (13 April 2008), the Sunday they honored Al Young with the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award at San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium.

 

French Quarter, New Orleans, 2008 | PC Mack

 

With popular poet and Times-Picayune columnist Jarvis Deberry at the Tennessee Williams Festival, New Orleans, 2008, where DeBerry and Al Young conversed on-stage about life, art, craft, personal history, and vision.

 

Hurricane Katrina shop window poster display, French Quarter, New Orleans, 2008 | Al Young

 

On the set at Post Modern Group Studios in Irvine, CA with Sam Reece, producer and director of The Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection, a forthcoming PBS-length documentary honoring the life and work of the enduring 19th century African American poet. Al narrates the film and reads some of Dunbar’s poems on-screen. The cast includes Nikki Giovanni, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Mitch Capel, Charlotte Blake Alston, and Awele Makeba. 

Spring at Sea Ranch on the California Coast | Al Young

 

Adam David Miller and Al Young, respective recipients of Upsurge’s first and second Annual Bay Area Jazz/Poetry Festival Recognition Award for sustained excellence in art and community service. | Zigi Lowenberg

 

Zigi Lowenberg and Raymond Nat Turner, co-founders of Upsurge Jazz
Al Young

 

Saint Al of UCLA | Wendy Rockett

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Visit painter & storyteller J. Michael Walker’s
ALL THE SAINTS OF THE CITY OF THE ANGELS
Official Web Site

Heyday Books publisher Malcolm Margolin and Wendy Rockett, Heyday’s director of marketing and publicity, pause to pose with Al at the 2008 L.A. Times Festival of Books on a globally heated UCLA afternoon.

 

Patty Milich, California Arts Council’s public awareness coordinator, takes orders for My California: Journeys by Great Writers, a popular and outstanding collection of memoirs and essays. Sales directly benefit the Arts Council whose state funding was slashed by 96% in 2003. | Al Young

 

With William Minor, poet, novelist, essayist, pianist and author of Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years. Bill’s other books include Unzipped Souls: Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union, Jazz Journeys Through Japan: The Heart Within, Some Grand Dust, and the comic novel Trek: Lips, Sunny, Pecker & Me
Photo: Jim Schneeweis (Angel City Press)

 

Poet Jill Bialosky, W.W.Norton editor and moderator of “Rhyme and Reason,” a Los Angeles Times Festival of Books panel that featured former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, poet-translator James Ragan and Al Young.

 

James Ragan — poet, screenwriter, translator, and reader extraordinaire — holds his L.A. Times Festival of Books audience spellbound during his performance at UCLA’s Poetry Stage. Ragan commits his work to memory, which is, he says, the way he revises. | Al Young

 

Novelist and poet Joyce Carol Thomas and Eileen Callahan commiserate at the memorial service for author-publisher Bob Callahan held at Anna’s Jazz Island, Berkeley, February 2008 | Al Young

 

Carla Blank, Spain Rodríguez, Ishmael Reed, Joyce Carol Thomas, Gary Gach pause to pose at the Bob Callahan memorial, Berkeley 2008
Al Young

 

Culver Hotel, Culver City, CA | Al Young

 

With Ivry and Cynthia Pride Glamore, L.A. cousins, lunching at Pacifico in Culver City, April 2008

 

Cousin Cynthia Pride Glamore

 

With poet-novelist-essayist Morton J. Marcus at the gala debut of Striking Through the Masks, his time-stopping memoir, Santa Cruz, March 2008 | Peter McGettigan

 

“The sea, the sky, and you, and I — we’re all blues …” | PC Mack

 

Just outside Gualala
O.O. Gabugah

 

Savoring morning sea air, bassist Dan Robbins measures and scores the sky’s mood | Al Young

 

Al Young

 

Sleepy Train at Sunset
Al Young

 

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