We spent a wonderful Bay Area Thanksgiving with our musician and artist friends. Man can they cook! But first there was the beautiful walk up into the idlyllic Berkeley Hills where we rambled along the tiny streets with little wooden cabins and the historic Jenson mansion. Above was the faux Grecian temple where Isadora Duncan [...]
Back from the East Coast. During my stay in Vermont, I ate lunch at the ‘eat local’ Stella’s in Lyme, New Hampshire. Scary as the town name sounds, it is, in fact, not the place where Lyme Disease originated. That would be Lyme, Connecticut. Either way – the east coast is fraught with the tics [...]
Chad Sweeney, a great local poet who left town a couple of years ago to get his Ph.D had a piece up on “Writer’s Almanac.” And, Jennifer Sweeney’s new book was featured in the Poetry Foundation’s erudite magazine, reviewed by Bob Hicok. On the Women’s National Book Association front, Blas Falconer, Nashville Member and Editor [...]
“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