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October in Oregon at Linfield College
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South studio window in October
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Graduating senior Jolene Nieves gives Al Young a late-morning tour of Seton Hill University’s exquisite campus in Greensburg, Pennsylvania during his week-long visit in mid-September 2008.    Al Young
 
Michael Arnzen, fiction writer, poet and Professor of creative writing with Al following a gala Friday night presentation and book-signing reception at the Seton Hill University Theatre.   John Spurlock
At Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, CA, poet Joyce Jenkins — in the musical company of her partner Mark Baldridge, a feeling flautist — reads from Joy Road and other recent work. Â Â Al Young
Mark Baldridge and Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash renown kick back to listen to Avotcja perform with her blues-koto trio at the Petaluma Poetry Walk 2008.    Al Young
Avotcja performing in the outdoor patio of the Bella Luma Caffe at the 2008 Petaluma Poetry Walk (poet-percussionist Avotcja, koto master Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto, and bassist Eugene Warren). Â Â Â Al Young
Poets from every direction: Al Young, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Ishmael Reed (New York City, October 2008 following the Cave Canem Legacy Conversation at The New School). Â Â Â Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Poet-broadcasters Bryan Sanders, Rafael Alvarado, and Corrie Greathouse of World Wide Word pose with Al at the Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, October 2008
Bruria Finkel
October in full glory at Linfield College (McMinnville, Oregon)
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Visiting Woodrow Wilson Scholar Al Young addresses a Linfield College classroom on the urgency of our times and the healthful role that poetry and artistic creativity play in the human struggle to survive.
© Rachel Palinkas (The Linfield Review)
Student writers from Camas, the Linfield College literary magazine, gather with Al at Dillin Hall for a late afternoon snack.Â
At Nick’s Italian CafĂ© with my host Fred Ross (Senior Adviser to the President of Linfield College), Cindy Ross, and their daughter Amy Ross.    Photo: Carmen Peirano
With Pamela Z, composer/performer/sound artist/extended vocalist extraordinaire, at the 2008 Artful Harvest, an annual auction and dinner orchestrated to fund the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Woodside, CA).      Photo: Randall Schwabacher
Oklahoma Sunset   |   Al Young
Quartz Mountain Arts & Conference Center:
One lake view (October 2008)Â Al Young
The Quartz Mountains: Are these rock formations really mountains? Â Â
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Most of my energetic Oklahoma Arts Institute poetry workshop at Quartz Mountain, October 2008 [Names forthcoming]Â Â Â Â |Â Â Â Â Emily Clinton
Bassist Robb Fisher, poet-vocalist Al Young, and drummer Akira Tana in performance at The Jazz School, Berkeley, Halloween night 2008. Our sympathy lay with pianist Susan Muscarella, whose father’s death forced her to cancel the trio-leading engagement she had fondly organized.     Mark Cohen
Johnson C. Smith University, an historically Black U.S. university established just after the Civil War.
With Professors Glenn Hutchinson (English and Foreign Languages), Kirsten Hemmy (English, Literature, Creative Writing), poet Donald Mager (Dean of Arts and Letters), and Pamela Richardson (Composition, English, African American Literature) in the lobby of the Sarah Belk Gambrell Auditorium, Johnson C. Smith University, November 2008.  |  Jamil CallubÂ
With Dr. Ronald L. Carter, President of Johnson C. Smith University, in his office, November 2008. Â | Â Donald Mager
 To emphasize the power of sense-appealing imagery and metaphor in writing, Al Young reads a student poem to the afternoon workshop at JCSU, Charlotte.   |   Joshua M. Nypaver
Al and Don Mager with the JCSU poetry workshop on a Friday afternoon (Translation: Not everyone was present). Joshua M. Nypaver
Two People
Gary Gach, dispatcher |Â The Buddhist Channel
Painter Eddy Monroe, guitarist-shopkeeper Fat Dog, and Moose (songster Marc Silber) at Berkeley’s Mediteraneum Caffè,
November 2008
Photo © 2008 Carl Martineau
