Next Meeting
Gillian Wegener, Poet, April 20, 2024
Gillian Wegener, published poet, and president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, will present “The Relevance of Poetry in Our Everyday Lives, or Poetry and Why it Makes Our Lives Better,” at the Tri-Valley Writers April 20, 2024, meeting. We turn to poetry in times of grief and in times of celebration. It comforts us, it inspires us, and it connects us to each other. Every year someone says that poetry is dead or dying, and every year, they are proven wrong. Poetry is relevant every day, everywhere, and for just about everyone.
Join us on the third Saturday of each month beginning at 2:00 p.m. at Tri-Valley Writers’ meeting location: Las Positas College, Room 2470 (Multi-Disciplinary building) at 3000 Campus Hill Dr. in Livermore. Check-in begins at 1:30 p.m. There is a two-step RSVP & Payment process:
- An Email RSVP is REQUIRED at treasurer@trivalleywriters.org by the Thursday before the meeting date
- Payment is REQUIRED (see below)
Speaker Meeting Attendance Fees
CWC adult members, $10; nonmembers, $12. Students (ages 14-22), $5; Student nonmembers (ages 14-22), $8. Las Positas College students need to email treasurer@trivalleywriters.org for payment instructions.
NOTE: Attendees acknowledge this meeting may be recorded.
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Member News
Member Success: Publications
Monique Richardson’s book, Despina, has been published and can be purchased at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. She was also on the SolFul Connections podcast talking about her memoir. Her poem, “Now She Knows,” was published in The Wingless Dreamers Poetry on Life anthology.
Member Success: Publication
Eve Sprunt’s book, Passionate Persistence: The Life of My Mother, Ruth Chew, is now available on Amazon. http://Amazon.com%20:%20passionate%20persistence Here she is with her new book in front of two of her mother’s paintings that she did late in her life when she was a student at the Art Students League in Manhattan.
Member Success
George Cramer will be attending Left Coast Crime in Seattle. He will be a panelist discussing Talking About Tough Topics: Writing About Addiction, Mental Illness, PTSD, etc. George and renowned Police Psychologist Dr. Ellen Kirschman are offering Coffee with a Cop for a no-holds-barred conversation about cops, both real and fictional. Free ticket reservations for Coffee with a Cop will open on March 1st at
https://CoffeeWithCop.eventbrite.com
Member Success
James Morehead just published a collaborative interview with fellow poet Tennison S. Black in The Critical Flame.
https://criticalflame.org/conversations-tennison-s-black-and-james-morehead/