Maxine Chernoff

Petaluma Poetry Walk: Judy Grahn, Gerald Fleming, Kim Shuck, more

15 SEPTEMBER 2013 — sunday

The Petaluma Poetry Walk presents a full-day of readings as you walk from venue to venue in downtown Petaluma: 11:00 a.m.: Sixteen Rivers Press presents Barbara Swift Brauer, At Ease in the Borrowed World, Gerald Fleming, The Choreographer, and Jodi Hottel, Heart Mountain, Viva Chocolat, 110 Petaluma Blvd. North; Noon: Jamie Asaye FitzGerald, Glenn Ingersoll, Fact, and Kathleen Winter, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, Riverfront Art Gallery, 132 Petaluma Blvd. North; 1:00: Michelle Baynes, Yvonne Baynes Eavey, Nancy Keane, Geri Digiorno, Daniel Michael McKenzie, The Apple Box Café, 224 B Street; 2:00: Raphael Block, Diane Frank, Stewart Florsheim, A Split Second of Light, The Apple Box Café, 224 B Street; 3:00: poet/percussionist Avotcja, With Every Step I Take, and Judy Grahn, internationally poet, cultural theorist, and memoirist, A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street; 4:00: Sonoma Poet Laureate Bill Vartnaw, Kim Shuck, Rabbit Stories, and Nancy Wakeman, Prisoners of the Earth, The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street; 5:00: Jennifer Barone, host of WordParty poetry and jazz open mic, Martin Hickel, host of Sunset Poetry by the Bay, and Lynn Watson, Petaluma Historical Museum, 20 4th Street; 6:00: Neeli Cherkovski, Manila Poems, David Meltzer, When I Was a Poet, and Julie Rogers, House of the Unexpected, Aqus Café, 189 H Street (this venue is farther away, prepare for a longer walk or drive); Petaluma, free, noon-8:00 (petalumapoetrywalk.org)