I’m proud to have a poem published in the latest issue of Minerva Rising Literary Journal! I’m loving the cover and the content of this food-themed issue, with all writing and artwork by women. I’m mainly a prose writer, so it’s an honor to get a poem out into the world. My piece, “Study in Wine and Stone,” is a loose sestina about Bordeaux, France, inspired by an assignment that my friend Kate O’Brien gave to our writing group, The Burning Baguettes, when we used to meet once a week over pizza and wine in our friend’s apartment in downtown Bordeaux to workshop our writing. Kate provided the words for the end of each of the six lines and challenged us to write a sestina about our adopted city. Almost a decade (and countless revisions) later, my poem has found a home!

I’ve created a YouTube channel to share some videos of my literary and musical performances.

After reading at the inaugural edition of the new Bay Area Generations reading series last month, curators Charles Kruger and Sandra Wassilie asked me to be the guest curator and host of this month’s reading. I’m thrilled and honored to be helping present some amazing cross-generational pairs of local writers in the gorgeous library at the Berkeley City Club Monday, October 28, 7-9 pm. 

The lineup for this month’s reading is: 

John Oliver Simon + Alana Cybele Zufolo 

Stephen Kopel + John Rowe

Karen Penley + GP Skratz

Maw Shein Win + Matt Cantor

Anne Franken + Martin A. David 

Plus a return engagement by musicians Miles Karp + Steven Gray

About Bay Area Generations:

The format of this series, our “gimmick” if you will, is that each “reader” is actually an intergenerational creative couple who perform as a pair. Each show includes three to five pairs of readers and one pair of musicians.

We encourage our contributors to be creative within this format, stipulating only that they propose a combined performance lasting no more than 10 to 15 minutes.

“Generations” includes no introductions or banter, but we do provide a program which provides statements from each pair of readers.

I’ve been selected to read at a new series here in SF called Generations, which pairs writers of different generations whose work complements each other. I’ll be reading a short prose piece as the partner to poet Stephen Kopel. I’m honored to take part in the inaugural event!

Generations Reading Series at The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno St., San Francisco (in North Beach), Monday, September 23, 2013, 7:30-9:30 pm.