Poets Against Hunger: I am currently producing benefits with several local poets to raise much needed funds for local food banks. Recently, “Russian River Watershed” was published in “Broken Circles: A Gathering of Poems for Hunger” (read below.) Jenny Holland (musician, playwright and teacher) and Emily Klion (Director, Marsh Youth Theater) and I are planning [...]
Full Moon Over Ocean Beach Bleached landscape white moon Arcs over ocean Morning sea shines metallic. In Honor of this week’s Full Moon From “A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams,” by Joan Gelfand. San Francisco Bay Press, 2009
Yerba Buena Center is hosting its own “Outdoor At Night” party – on October 15th – the same night as the now famous “Litcrawl.” Well, in the spirit of ‘more is better’ let’s just say it could be a great ‘after-party’ option? What do you think? I’ll be reading in the Litcrawl, Session II – [...]
“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