Poetry, Music and the Language of the Spirit
Diane Frank will read from her new book, While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems. A Poetics Talk will follow with ideas about poetry as the language of the soul, virtuoso editing techniques, and how to write poems inspired by music. Then a Q&A. She will share ideas about poetry to help and inspire those who attend.
About Diane
Diane Frank is author of eight books of poems, three novels, and a photo memoir of her 400 mile trek in the Nepal Himalayas. While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems was published in 2021 by Glass Lyre Press. She is also editor of two bestselling anthologies: Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here and Pandemic Puzzle Poems.
Diane lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she dances, plays cello in the Golden Gate Symphony, and creates her life as an art form. Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel, won the Chelson Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Her books will be available for sale at the meeting:
- While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems
- Pandemic Puzzle Poems
- Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here
- Letters from a Sacred Mountain Place: A Journey through the Nepal Himalayas
- Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines
- The Winter Life of Shooting Stars
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Meeting Agenda and Logistics
- 12:45 pm Zoom Room and in person meeting opens for informal conversation with members and guests
- 1:00 pm Meeting beings — Welcome from the President
- 1:05 pm Featured Presentation
- 2:15 pm Board Announcements
- 2:20 pm Member Announcements
- 2:30 pm Meeting Closes
The meeting will be recorded and made available to registrants.
All CWC members and non-members are welcome to attend.
Express Members use a special code during registration.
Saturday, 19 March 2022 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM PDT
Please arrive ten minutes before the hour.
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Where
This is an online event.
The meeting will be recorded.
You may attend in person:
Finley Community Center
2060 West College Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Contact
Judy Baker, Vice President
Redwood Branch of the California Writers Club
707-210-6696
If you have questions about the event or how to register.
