The April Poetry Flash events calendar lists over 20 poetry events a week including Marin Poetry Center’s Annual Event on April 18, the upcoming Word Temple Party in Sonoma, and many other fabulous and inspiring venues featuring amazing up and coming and iconic poets.
Two Tuesdays ago, I read as the first winner selected for Poets [...]
5:50 AM
Morning. Layer of mist
Night streetlights still lit
Neighbor flicks on kitchen
Overhead, winter birds scatter
From nests. We are the restless
The night shift going home.
Square-shaped Latin woman lugs
Two shopping bags, lumbers
Toward #44 O’Shaunessy.
We are the silent ones,
Hurling through urban landscape
Slowly waking, driving toward the cushion
Where we sit upright, poised, alert.
One foot on earth, one in sky -
A [...]
“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