That’s what Adam says when things are really fabulous. The Poetry Track at the San Francisco Writers Conference was the joint! The conference, of course, is the place to be if you are searching for an agent, editor, coach or publisher. It’s held in a fabulous venue (the gorgeous Mark Hopkins Hotel) complete with world [...]
Poetry Out Loud, created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, is a national recitation program in partnership with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states. Late last year, I was hired by POL to coach local high school students. Working with Heather Woodward, Director of the Creative Writing Program [...]
“A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities” San Francisco Bay Press, Virginia/San Francisco: 2009
In her second full-length poetry collection, Joan Gelfand explores the poignancy of living in a world that is war-torn and environmentally damaged. With a nod to the humorous paradox of modern life, Gelfand writes from the vantage point of a mother, an artist, and a Zen meditator. “A Dreamer’s Guide…” looks beyond the surface of our lives at the connections that make live worth living, and the sensual details that color it. Read More
Seeking Center: A Collection of Poems by Joan Gelfand, Two Bridges Press, Richmond CA: 2006
In Seeking Center, Joan Gelfand joins the reader in a free-wheeling discussion, beyond the poems themselves, regarding what is poetry today, here at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Read More