An Eye To See: Prose Poetry
by Six Poets from Susan Kelly-Dewitt’s Prose Poetry Workshop
Stan Zumbiel, Melinda Rivasplata, Kate Asche, Susan Flynn, James Cooper and Lisa Gardiner
Monday May 11, 2015 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street
Host: Emmanuel Sigauke
Melinda Rivasplata grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and the southern San Joaquin Valley. She has a degree in Environmental Biology and recently retired from a career in Environmental Planning. She has been published in SPC’s Late Peaches anthology and in the online blog, Yoga Stanza.
Kate Asche’s first poetry chapbook, Our Day in the Labyrinth, will be published in September 2015 by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review (audio online], Bellingham Review and RHINO. Her poem “Incoming” was selected by Camille Dungy for the summer 2015 issue of Colorado Review. A graduate of the UC Davis creative writing program, she teaches workshops in Sacramento and is contributing editor at Under the Gum Tree. Follow her on social media and at www.kateasche.com <http://www.kateasche.com/> .
James Cooper is a writer and psychologist in Sacramento. He won First Place in Short Short Story in New Millennium Writings, 2013, and Second Place in Essay in Literal Latte, 2014. His writing has appeared in Oberon, Subliminal Interiors, The Sun (Reader’s Write), Barrier Islands Review, and is forthcoming in Manhattan Review.
Susan Flynn is a poet, photographer, and psychoanalyst, living and working in Sacramento and Georgetown, California. She has been published in Tule Review, Late Peaches, Oberon Journal, Cosumnes River Journal, and the 2015 War Poetry Anthology, No, Achilles.
Stan Zumbiel taught English in middle and high school for thirty-five years. He wrote his first poem in 1967 while serving in the Navy. He served on the board of the Sacramento Poetry Center for twenty-five years. In 2008 he received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems have appeared in Poet News, Nimrod, The Suisun Valley Review, Primal Urge, Convergence, and Medusa’s Kitchen.
Lisa Gardiner is a former newspaper reporter now working as a legislative staffer in the State Capitol. She is a graduate of Reed College and Vanderbilt University and has lived in Sacramento for the past 15 years.
