edited by Lucille Lang Day
Monday, October 28 at 7:30 PM
with
E. K. Cooper, Tom Goff, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Stephen Meadows, Joshua McKinney, J.C. Olander
E.K. Cooper writes, “I am a 60-year-old Pomo from the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Northern California. Writing has helped me to remember not only my own rich history but histories of family who have passed on. I am now an Elder of my tribe, and the beats of the drum have become the heartbeats of my ancestors.”
Tom Goff is an instructional assistant at Folsom Lake College. He has published five poetry chapbooks, including Tintagel 2.0: Sir Arnold Bax—A Composer-Poet Revisited, from Tiger’s Eye Press (2018). His first full-length collection, Twelve-Tone Row: Music in Words (I Street Press), appeared in late 2018. Tom is married to poet/artist Nora Laila Staklis; they live in the Lower American River watershed.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s poetry books are Spider Season, The Fortunate Islands, A Camellia for Judy, Feather’s Hand, To a Small Moth, Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s Greatest Hits, The Land, The Book of Insects, and Cassiopeia Above the Banyan Tree. Her many awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. She lives in Sacramento, California.
Stephen Meadows is a Californian of pioneer and Ohlone descent whose poems have appeared in anthologies and journals nationwide. He is a twenty-year veteran of public radio, where he has interviewed scores of musicians and visionaries. The author of Releasing the Days (Heyday), he resides with his family in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
Joshua McKinney is the author of four collections of poetry. The most recent is Small Sillion (Parlor Press 2019). He is a professor of English and the creative writing coordinator at California State University Sacramento. With Tim Kahl, he edits the online ecopoetics journal, Clade Song. An amateur lichenologist, he is a member of the California Lichen Society.
J.C. Olander, Poet Laureate of Nevada County, has been a bio-educator with California Poets in the Schools since 1984. He blends performance with spoken word, creating musical image phrasings dramatizing relative experiences—poetry arising from oral traditions—a sound poet exploring meanings of words, phrasings, ideas arranged in sound rhythm patterns. River Light is his first book of poetry.
