Connie Post and Jeremy Cantor
Monday, January 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM
719 25th Street
Host: Cynthia Linville
Connie Post has been writing poems and presenting them to the public for over twenty five years. She has published in many magazine throughout the U.S., such as Big Muddy, Karamu, Kentucky Review, Poemeleon, The Pedestal Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Spillway as well as many others. Her latest book is Floodwater from Glass Lyre Press. She has a been an advocate for issues surrounding the care of those with autism. She was the Poet Laureate of Livermore, CA from 2005 to 2009. She is the host for the very popular Bay Area reading series at the Valona Deli.
Jeremy Cantor began writing poetry shortly before retiring from a career in laboratory chemistry. He has cleared tables and washed dishes, made and tested detergents, pharmaceuticals and engine oil additives, driven a forklift, spent time in a full-body acid-proof hazmat suit, tried to keep his fingers working in a walk-in freezer at -40°F and worked behind radiation shielding. He prefers writing.
His poem, “The Nietzsche Contrapositive,” won the Grey Sparrow Journal‘s 2014 Flash & Poetry Competition. A Leaflet edition of his haiku and senryu, The Owl at Sunset, is forthcoming from Leaf Press, Vancouver, Canada. Jeremy’s work has appeared in The Naugatuck River Review, Printer’s Devil Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Glassworks, The Bicycle Review, Prospectus and other publications. His latest collection is called Wisteria From Seed.
Jeremy was born and raised in Connecticut, attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and now lives with his wife in a small town on a tidal strait connecting the Sacramento River with San Francisco Bay. There, he goes fishing downtown from the pier at the foot of First Street, while the sun sets behind the bridge and the sea lions dive for salmon.
