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Apr.28.2013 The Fourth Annual Ekphrastic Poetry Reading at the San Jose Museum of Art Rocked Few events soar as this one did. Sally Ashton brought together a diverse group that somehow came together for a memorable reading at the Museum. These are the talented group of poets from Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz and points in between, who read • ...	Jan.13.2013 Celebrating Poet William Stafford’s 99th Birthday Stafford, Oregon's most famous poet and one of America's most important 20th-century poets, was born on January 17th, 1914. He left Oregon to teach at San Jose State University in the 1956-1957 academic year. He made many friends in the San Jose area, including the County’s first...
Nov.30.2012 Nils and Sally, Santa Clara County’s Two Poets Laureate, Keep on Keeping On They’re indomitable. Here’s what they’re up to this month: Sally Ashton, current Poet Laureate (2011-2012) In her second year as PL, after having organized countless readings and sold-out workshops and finding a way to display poetry on the bus lines of San Jose through a program...	Oct.03.2012 Poetry Center San Jose is Hosting Sharon Olds for Workshop and Reading Tomorrow Much-esteemed poet Sharon Olds, formerly the Poet Laureate of New York State and a faculty member at New York University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, will be reading in downtown San Jose tomorrow. Those of you who snicker at the term ‘downtown San Jose’ might note that it...
Feb.11.2012 Poetry Center San Jose Will Host Noted National Poet Sharon Olds This October As the Poetry Foundation states: Sharon Olds is one of contemporary poetry’s leading voices. Winner of several prestigious awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, Olds is known for writing intensely personal, emotionally scathing poetry which graphically depicts family life...	Sep.06.2011 Poetry Workshop with Jane Hirshfield is FULL The workshop on October 6, 2011, from 1:00-4:00 with Jane Hirshfield is FULL. If you would like to be on the waiting list, send a check for $100 made out to Poetry Center San Jose to: Erica Goss, 21559 Santa Ana Road, Los Gatos, CA 95033. (Checks will be returned if spaces do...
Sep.01.2011 Jane Hirshfield: Workshop Announcement, Review in New York Times Through Poetry Center San Jose, Jane will be giving a workshop on October sixth in San Jose, CA. Although it’s pricey ($100 for PCSJ members, $120 for non members if available) it should fill up quickly, so potential member-enrollees should mail in checks...	Aug.08.2011 Tickets now Available for Jane Hirshfield Reading in San Jose October 6th, 2011 Poetry Center San Jose is pleased to present an evening of poetry with Jane Hirshfield (October 6, 7:00 p.m., Le Petit Trianon in San Jose). Hirshfield's latest book of poems, Come, Thief, will be released in August 2011. Her collection After was named a "best book of 2006" by The...
Jul.12.2011 Save These Dates—Three Upcoming Poetry Events Thursday, July 21st (next week), Nils Peterson will be signing books and reading from A Walk to the Center of Things at the Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 at 7PM. This is the first book of the Center's Caesura Edition Series and all current members of...	Dec.19.2010 Reading Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales with Nils Peterson Much beloved Nils Peterson, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, honored me by asking me to join him and two other poets, Sally Ashton and Kelly Cressio-Moeller, at a local reading. Nils arranged "A Child's Christmas in Wales" for the four of us to read. He assigned me two roles, an...