Petaluma Poetry Walk At The Museum
September 18, 2022 @ 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Petaluma Poetry Walk Returns!
September 18, 2022
The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum is thrilled to host the 5:00 reading. We are excited to welcome: Sandra Anfang, Joyce Jenkins and Raphael Block
Petaluma Poetry Walk 2022
Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
20 4th Street, Petaluma – (Corner of 4th & B St.)
5:00 PM
Sandra Anfang is an award-winning poet, editor, and poetry teacher. She’s the author of Looking Glass Heart and Road Worrier (Finishing Line Press, 2016 and 2018) and Xylem Highway (Main Street Rag, 2019) and the founder of Rivertown Poets, a poetry series based in Petaluma. Her work has been widely published and she has a new chapbook due from Kelsay Books in early 2023. During the pandemic, she has completed three more manuscripts. Learn more at sandeanfangart.com
Raphael Block has lived on three continents and now resides happily in Northern California. A long-time meditator, he breathes in wonder at Earth’s and our own rhythmic ebb and flow. He is the author of Songs from a Small Universe, Spangling Darkness, Strings of Shining Silence, and At This Table, and a monthly Earth-Love Newsletter. To learn more about Raphael please visit his website, raphaelblock.com, where you can also watch a National Geographic selected 5-minute documentary.
Joyce Jenkins – Joyce was one of the readers at the first Poetry Walk and she has continued to support the Walk on the Flash. She also runs the Watershed Poetry Festival.
She is the longtime editor of Poetry Flash, Literary Review & Calendar (Poetryflash.org) and director of its programs. Author of Portal and Joy Road, chapbooks; her poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Ambush Review, Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed, and elsewhere. She received an American Book Award in 1994 and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Lifetime Achievement Award 2006, and was honored with the Berkeley Poetry Festival lifetime achievement award and a day proclaimed in her honor by the City of Berkeley in 2009. Poetry Flash received Litquake’s 2012 Barbary Coast Award.