Fwd: Monday September 25 at SPC: Gail Rudd Entrkin & Cheryl Dumesnil

[jill stockinger]

Are any of you planning on going? I am thinking about it.

Jill

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From: Patrick Grizzell <spc...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Subject: Monday September 25 at SPC: Gail Rudd Entrkin & Cheryl Dumesnil
To: <pgri...@aol.com>

Hi. I'm writing to a few of you to make sure you know that there is a great reading in store on Monday, September 25 in the Monday Night Poetry Series which features Gail Rudd Entrekin and Cheryl Dumesnil.

I'm hoping to offer these visitors a good welcoming audience. Come if you can, and please spread the word either way. It's sometimes difficult to get folks out when neither reader is local, even though these two have amazing credits. Evidence of that below.

It should be a wonderful event, and I hope to see you.

Thank you!

Pat

Bay Area poets Gail Rudd Entrekin and Cheryl Dumesnil!

Monday, September 25, 7:30 p.m.

These two poets will bring the practical as well as the lyrical to their reading.

Gail Rudd Entrekin is Poetry Editor of Hip Pocket Press and Editor of the online environmental literary magazine, Canary (www.canarylitmag.org). She won the Women's National Book Association Award in 2016 for her poem, “Before Making Love,” and was a Semi-Finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize in 2021 for her poems “The Current That Language Makes Visible” and “Wind”. Her six books of poetry include The Art of Healing, Rearrangement of the Invisible, and Change (Will Do You Good), which was nominated for a Northern California Book Award. Her poetry collection, Walking Each Other Home, released from Longship Press in May, was a finalist for the Blue Light and Richard Snyder Prizes, and her chapbook The Mother/ Daughter Papers was a finalist for the Comstock and Poetry Box Chapbook Prizes in 2023.

She holds an MA in English Literature/Creative Writing from the Ohio State University and taught both subjects in Northern California community colleges for over 25 years. She lives with her husband, the poet, novelist, and editor Charles Entrekin, in the San Francisco East Bay Area.

Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of three poetry collections, What Is Left to Say (Glass Lyre Press), Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes (University of Pittsburgh Press), and In Praise of Falling (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her collections have won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and a Golden Crown Literary Society award. Dumesnil's other publications include a memoir, Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood (Ig Publishing), and two anthologies, Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos, co-edited with Kim Addonizio (Grand Central), and We Got This! Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor, co-edited with Marika Lindholm, Domenica Ruta, and Katherine Shonk. An erstwhile creative writing professor and a longtime freelance writer, she recently launched an “act three” career as a hospice social worker. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her two (nearly grown) sons and her wife, Sarah, and where she practices living slow in a too-fast world.

Domenica Ruta, author of With or Without You and Last Day, says of Dumesnil’s What Is Left to Say: “(The book) is Cheryl Dumesnil's love letter to a country on the brink, a state on fire, a world more broken than we ever thought possible. Dumesnil's poems locate the flicker of a butterfly's wings, the shimmer of light in the smoke, the beauty in a cultural and spiritual landscape hellbent on breaking us. At a time when hope feels dangerous and stupid, she reminds us of these simple, sacred truths: that we are never alone, that we must love, and keep on loving.”

[Maryellen Dabaghian]

Mulvaney’s tonight. Can’t make it. Darn!!

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 25, 2023, at 10:46 AM, jill stockinger <jills...@gmail.com> wrote: