• Readers' Night - every second
Thursday of the month • |
Thursday April 12, 2007
Benefit for California Poets In The Schools
Dinnertime will start at 6:00 PM and performance at
8:00 PM. Jackie Hallerberg will introduce us to the
creations of poets that are teaching in the California
and to the poetry of young talents that in their schools.
25% of the proceeds of dinner will benefit this much-needed
organization.
For reservations please call 707 875 2700
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Dear Poetry Lover,
A day without a poem is like spring in Northern California
without the fields of wild mustard greeting us as we
drive over the hills and through the farmlands of Sonoma
County. As such, we, the CPITS poet teachers, would
like to invite you to an evening of poetry at Seaweed
Café in Bodega Bay.
Jackie Martine and Melinda Montanye, owners of the
cafe, are hosting their second benefit reading for CPITS
on Thursday, April 12th, 2007. In this intimate setting,
with the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop, you will dine
on fresh local cuisine and later listen to several poet
teachers showcase a portfolio of their own poems as
well as student work.
25% of the evening’s proceeds will be donated to CPITS
for our ongoing work in local public and private schools.
Please join us at 6 PM for a Prix Fixe Dinner ($47 per
person) of: Asparagus Salad with Aged and fresh Andante
Goat Cheese Paella with Clams, Mussels, Chorizo, Chicken
or Spring Vegetable Curry for vegetarian alternative
Rhubarb and Strawberry Cobbler with Crème Fraiche Bread
and olive Oil, Coffee included.
The ninety minutes reading begins immediately after
dinner at 8pm.
Reservations are encouraged.
Contact Seaweed Café at (707) 875-2700.
We appreciate your support and hope that you will join
us at the coast on April 12th. We have all been busy
this year enriching the lives of children through poetry.
Our commitment to the students of this county is stronger
than ever as we are reminded of the power of words to
express deep feelings and insights, ultimately connecting
us to each other. Thank you and see you at the reading!
Jackie Hallerberg, CPITS Sonoma County Poet-Teacher
367 Brookhaven Ct., Sebastopol, CA 95472
email: jackiehallerberg@earthlink.net
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* The return of the writer’s
reading night starting November 9, 2006!
The Seaweed Café is proud to present Rob Swigart
the author Xibalba Gate, Little America,
The Time Trip, Book of Revelations
and other works.
For this evening, we will serve a $ 27 prix fixe three
courses dinner . Dinner time will start at 5:45 PM and
at 8:00 PM.
Rob Swigart will introduce us to the complex universe
of his last creation Xibalba, a novel of the
ancient Maya. Please check Rob Swigart on the WEB and
make your reservation for this great event.
November 9 2006
Prix Fixe Menu @ $ 27
Marin Roots Farm Beet Salad with Queso Fresco
Chicken , Mussels, Chorizo Quinoa Paella
Bitter Sweet Chocolatl Habanero Tart
* Vegetarian and Vegan options available
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| September
8th, 2005
6 pm to 9 pm
California Poets-in-the-Schools
Poet-teachers: Gwynn O’Gara, Jackie
Hallerberg, Arthur Dawson, Penelope La Montagne, Claire
Drucker, Bill Churchill and Phyllis Meshulam will read
from their own work as well as the remarkable words
of their students.
CPITS has been bringing poetry appreciation
and poetry writing to California students for over 40
years. The organization’s mission is “To
help every student recognize and celebrate his or her
own creativity, intuition and intellectual curiosity
through the creative writing process.” This evening’s
reading is a benefit for CPITS. There is a recommended
donation of $10. No one will be turned away for lack
of funds.
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August
11th, 2005
6 pm to 9 pm
Our Gang Reader's Night!
Please, join us for one of our regular-hometown
evenings of local talent. With the new fireplace and
the usual foggy summer weather the evening promises
to be cozy and uplifting. |
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 July
14th, 2005
6 pm to 9 pm
California Poet Laureate *
Al Young - Featured @ Reader's Night!
*Underscoring the importance of poetry
and the literary arts, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
on May 12th 2005 appointed Al Young as California's
Poet Laureate.
Born May 31 1939 at Ocean Springs, Mississippi
on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Al Young grew up in the
South and in Detroit. From 1957-1960 he attended the
University of Michigan, where he co-edited Generation,
the campus literary magazine. In 1961 he emigrated to
the San Francisco Bay Area. Settling at first in Berkeley,
he held a variety of colorful jobs (folksinger, lab
aide, disk jockey, medical photographer) before graduating
from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in Spanish. From 1969-1976
he was Edward B. Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing
at Stanford near Palo Alto, where he lived and worked
for three decades. In 2000 he moved back to Berkeley.
Young has taught poetry and fiction writing
at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, U.C. Davis, Foothill
College, the Colorado College, Rice University, the
University of Washington, the University of Michigan,
the University of Arkansas, and San José State
University. In the spring of 2003 he taught poetry at
Davidson College (Davidson, NC), where he was McGee
Professor in Writing. In the fall of 2003, he will be
Coffey Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian
State University in Boone, NC.
His honors include Wallace Stegner, Guggenheim,
Fulbright National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships,
the PEN-Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction,
the PEN-USA Award for Non-Fiction, two American Book
Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and two New York Times Notable
Book of the year citations.Young's many books include
novels, collections of poetry, essays, memoirs and anthologies.
His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Ploughshares,
Essence, the New York Times, Chicago Review, Seattle
Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Letters,
Chelsea, Rolling Stone, and the Norton Anthology of
African American Literature. He has written film scripts
for Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor. In
2001 he traveled to the Persian Gulf to lecture on African
American literature and culture in Kuwait and in Bahrain
for the U.S. Department of State.
Al Young travels internationally and extensively,
reading, lecturing and often performing with musicians.
His poetry and prose have been translated into Italian,
Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish,
Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, and other languages.
Current projects: A Piece of Cake (a novel), Mad, Bad
and Dangerous to Know: Or, Opus de Funk (an account
in verse of Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb's infamous
romance), a screen adaptation of Seduction By Light,
his 1988 Hollywood novel); volume two of The Literature
of California, co-edited with scholar-critic Jack Hicks,
and novelists James D. Houston and Maxine Hong Kingston,
and CitiZen: Spirit & Democracy, a collection of
column-length dialogues between Young and O.O. Gabugah
on the current state of democracy in the U.S. (inspired
by Langston Hughes' Simple Speaks His Mind). |
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Archives of Past Events:
|  April
14th, 2005
6 pm to 9 pm
Patrick Dillon - (rescheduled)
Hundreds of men travel each year to the Bering Sea,
braving frigid winds to secure their livelihoods from
the unmerciful depths of the ocean. They go in search
of crab, to to a job that allows them to earn tens of
thousands of dollars for a few weeks work, but it extremely
difficult -- and potentially deadly.
In Lost at Sea, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Patrick Dillon exposes the traditionally remote fishing
industry by tracing the events leading up to the worst
commercial fishing disaster in U.S. history and examining
its impact, both on one small, close-knit community
and on the industry as whole.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with the
families of the victims and other involved with fishing
industry, as well as his own experience working on a
crab boat in the Bering Sea, Dillon transports readers
from the icy bleakness of the northern fishing waters,
where the most ruthless forces of nature bear down upon
the daring crews of fishing vessels, to the small town
of Anacortes, where the victims’ families -- as
well as those of others lost at sea -- are haunted daily
by inexplicable tragedy.
from: http://www.morrill.org/books/dillon.shtml |
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 March
10th, 2005
6 pm to 9 pm
First of the Season - Readers' Night!
•Carol Lundberg
Carol teaches Creative Writing at Santa Rosa Jr. College
and in private workshops. Her poetry, short stories, and
essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,
including Poetry New York, Green Hills Literary
Lantern, Green Mountains Review, Albatross,
and Jane's Stories. She is the winner of the
Rhino Poetry Prize. Her first book of poetry, 'The
Secret Life,' was published by Mellon Poetry Press.
A second book, 'Dreams of Another Body,' is awaiting
publication.
•Elizabeth Herron
Poet and SSU Professor, Elizabeth Carothers Herron’s
poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in Orion,
Northern Lights, Wild Duck Review, Revision, and a variety
of literary magazines. Her recent work, The Poet’s
House, with sculptor Bruce Johnson (formandenergy.com)
will be featured as the summer fund raiser for the Sonoma
County Book Fair. Current projects include spring performaces
of her collaboration with dancer/choreographer Nancy
Lyons at Cornerstone and new work with Bruce Johnson.
•Greg Mahrer
Gregory Mahrer’s work has been published or is
forthcoming in The New England Review, The
Florida Review, The Cream City Review,
Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse as
well as the web site Poetry Daily. He is currently
at work on his first collection; A Provisional Map
of the Lost Continent.
•Maya Khosla
"I have completed two poetry manuscripts, Keel
Bone (“Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Award”,
Bear Star Press, Cohasset, 2003), and Heart of the
Tearing (Red Dust Press, New York, 1995) and am
currently working on my third Breathing This Swale
(working title).
I've also been obsessing about salmon for a while, and
my guidebook, Web of Water,
about Muir Woods National Monument, was published in
1997. |
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| December
9th
Readers' Night
6 pm to 9 pm |
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| Our regular second
Thursday of each month Readers' Night. Please, join us
for another intimate evening with writers sharing their
works. |
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| November
11th - Readers' Night
6 pm to 9 pm |
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| The
theme this month is "Anything Goes". There is
sooo much this time of year: Holidays, elections,
beautiful fall weather (after that funky summer), transitions
-- so, this Thursday, come listen and/or read with us.
Anything goes! |
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June 10th - To Swoon in June
Writers Reading Night
6 pm to 9 pm |
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The theme this month is "To Swoon in June".
I am confident the writers will do better than I with
the rhymes that come to mind.....moon, croon, tune.
Please, join us for a fun summer evening. |
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| May
13, 2004
Writers Reading Night
6 pm to 9 pm |
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We hope you can make it this month to the Writers Reading
Night. The theme this month is "Au Moi de Mai,
fait ce qu'il te plait"! Got that? Translated it
means: "In the month of May, do as you please".
Now, to me that sounds like the grasshopper speaking
instead of the ant and it may not be the best advice
but, heck, Spring is here! Let's play!
The second Thursday is already this coming week. With
the longer daylight hours 7 pm seems much earlier. Let's
enjoy this great season together with readings of our
talented friends. |
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April
8, 2004
6 pm to 9 pm
Stories of the Sea |
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As people start coming to the coast in greater numbers
to enjoy the change of season and welcome the return
of the sun, following the spring equinox, we invite
you once again to gather, eat, drink and listen to writers
sharing their works. This month's theme is Stories
of the Sea.
Writers Reading are:
- Joe Hawkins
- Steve Brumm
- Pat Rothchild
- Gillian Parker
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| March
11, 2004 :
6 pm to 9 pm
Ides of March |
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| What could
be more timely, inspiring and community forming than
to gather, eat, drink and listen to writers sharing
their works with us around the time-honored theme of
"the Ides of March"?
Please, join us for our Fourth Writers Reading
on March 11, 2004 at 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. We will listen
to:
- Frank Dice
- Steve Brumm
- Pat Rothchild
- Zenmai
- and more who will join us.
Tapas, wine, coffee, tea and dessert will be served. |
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February
12, 2004 :
6 pm to 9 pm
Stories of the Heart |
| Opening Night
at the Seaweed Café
Our third evening of local readers and musicians sharing
their talents to kick of the new season. The theme of
the evening is "Stories of the Heart, Seduction
and Betrayal".
- Bebek McGhee
- Zenmai
- Steve Brumm
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| December
4, 2003:
7 pm to 9 pm
West County Stories |
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| Ever heard
about the mummy cats in the freezer and the big hole?
Please, join us for an evening of "West Sonoma
County Lore", secrets and fantasies. The rich
history of West County, its traditions, its eccentrics
and colorful rednecks is a source of endless stories
that will be heard at the Seaweed
Café this winter night. |
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November
6, 2003 :
7 pm to 9 pm
Tasty Morsels |
| The Seaweed
Café is proud to present its first evening
of poetry and short fiction. Five local writers will
share their writing around the theme of "Tasty
Morsels".
Please, join us to hear:
- Chas Abate
- Earlynne DiGiovine
- Robin Johnson
- Bebek McGhee
- Zenmai
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