The Editors just wrote to tell us (their erstwhile contributors) that “TOUCHING: Poems of Love, Longing and Desire,” has won again in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (SECOND PLACE GRAND PRIZE WINNER, Nonfiction Books category.) From Sari Friedman, co-Editor: “This is a stunning achievement for a book of poetry, in addition to being named [...]
I’m not sure whether it was the name – the silky alliteration of “Blue Buddha” or the suggestion of a spiritual experience, but I took a risk and went for “the Ritual” with Erik @ Blue Buddha a few days before Mother’s Day. The package was compliments of Adam, for all that I do in [...]
What a lovely and exciting afternoon in Anne Hathaway Park on the Dominican Campus in San Rafael on Saturday afternoon. Saw some old friends – Martin, the hardworking Sunset Poetry organizer, Becky Foust of the Marin Poetry Center board (both wonderful poets), JF Teodoro (a fellow CPITS teacher) and made a few new friends, particularly [...]
“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