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Join us December 16, 2009, 7-10 p.m.
Featured Poets:
Richard Garcia
Katherine Williams
Judith Pacht
Guest Poet:
Tom Thomas
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Richard Garcia was born in San Francisco in 1941 and began writing in his teens. After publishing his chap book, Selected Poems, in 1972, he stopped writing for a number of years until an encouraging letter from Octavio Paz convinced him to return to writing. In 1978 he published a bilingual book for children, My Aunt Otilia's Spirits, and University of Pittsburgh Press published The Flying Garcias in 1991. He earned the MFA degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College Writers' Program in 1994. BOA Editions published his third volume of poetry, Rancho Notorious, in 2001, and released his fourth volume, The Persistence of Objects, in October 2006. His latest release is Chickenhead: Prose Poems, a chap book with Foothills Publishing, 2009.
Richard's publication credits include Ploughshares and the Colorado Review, and among his numerous awards are the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. For twelve years he was Poet-in-residence at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where he conducted workshops in art and poetry for hospitalized children. Richard teaches creative writing in the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA program, and at the College of Charleston, as well as privately. He makes his home on James Island, South Carolina with his wife, Katherine Williams, and their dogs Louie and Sully.
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Judith Pacht’s chapbooks, Users Guide, 2009, and St. Louis Suite due in 2010, were and will be published by Finishing Line Press. Summer Hunger, her full length book, will be published in 2010 by Tebot Bach and was a finalist for the 2008 Philip Levine Prize and the Tupelo Press’ open submission competition. Pacht won Honorable Mention in the 2007 Robert Frost Award competition, the 2007 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, and the Smartish Pace Erskine J. Poetry Prize. She was first place winner in the Georgia Poetry Society, Edgar Bowers competition.
A two-time Pushcart nominee, her work includes poems published or to be published in Ploughshares; Runes; Phoebe; Cider Press Review; The Los Angeles Review, Red Hen Press; SOLO 6; Foreign Literature, a Journal (Moscow, Russia); and the University of California Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (Lost Hills Press. 2007), The Poetry Of Relationships, an anthology (Canadian Federation of Poets, 2009), The Gastronomica Reader, an anthology, (University of California Press); and Tebot Bach’s Anthology Of California Poets, 2003 and 2006. Writers at Work featured her poem, Surface, as their January, 2009 selection. Her chapbook, also her first poetry collection, Falcon (Conflu:X Press), was published in 2004.
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Katherine Williams has authored four chap books and was a featured poet at Beyond Baroque, KXLU FM 88.9, the Valley Contemporary Poets, and Moonday Poetry; she received further encouragement by way of a Pushcart nomination, first prize in a poetry slam, and the gala Curators' Choice Reading of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. Katherine now lives on James Island, SC, with her husband, poet Richard Garcia, where she researches coral disease at Hollings Marine Lab.
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Tom Thomas has written poetry since he was 18. Currently he works for a software company in Quality Assurance. He provides technical support for the Tebot Bach poetry web site. He lives and writes in Long Beach, CA
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