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A STARRY NIGHT POETRY SERIES
FEATURED & OPEN MIC POETS

SUNDAY, ONCE MONTHLY
CHECK EACH MONTH FOR DATE
2:00 - 4:30 P.M.

LODI PUBLIC LIBRARY
201 WEST LOCUST STREET
LODI, CA 95240

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E-MAIL: starrynightpoetry@gmail.com



OUR APPRECIATION TO LODI PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR CO-SPONSORING THIS SERIES.

http://www.lodi.gov/library



(Scroll down to view schedule of Featured Poets.)





FEATURED POETS

3rd SUNDAY 09-19-10

BRAD HENDERSON

Brad Henderson (AKA, beau hamel) specializes in teaching writing to engineers and scientists during the day, and playing drums and writing poetry and prose at night. The research and publications of Tom Moran, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, NY, have distinguished Henderson as being one of the United States' top twelve "literary engineers." During the 1980s, Henderson played drums in a popular nightclub band called Newcastle and earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He then worked as a design engineer for Parker-Hannifin Aerospace in Irvine, California, wrote three novels, earned an MFA in creative writing from University of Southern California, taught engineering writing at University of California, Irvine, and participated in John Rechy's private Los Angeles fiction workshop.

During the 1990s, Henderson's book, Drums: a Novel, found a small-press publisher and achieved brief notoriety among modern music aficionados, as well as praise from several rock stars. Henderson moved to Corvallis, Oregon, and did another stint in industry as a technical education consultant and manager for Hewlett-Packard. In Oregon, he developed his alter ego, beau hamel, and played drums in The Love Handles, a blues-rock power trio.

Henderson is now a full-time faculty for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of California, Davis. He co-hosts a reading series, Poetry Night at Bistro 33 in Davis, and is looking for a new bassist and lead guitar player to start another band.

July Update: Beau Hamel has new individual poems to be published soon in The New Anthology: Flatmancrooked's Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry 1 and The Quarterly Journal: Song of the San Joaquin. Also, two new chapbooks by Oak Meadows Press: Speed, Horse-sweat, & Unboxed Sky and Blue Devil: The Dark Poem Series.

August Update: A re-issue e-book version (Kindle Edition) of Brad Henderson's Phi Kappa Award Winning rock 'n' roll novel, Drums: a Novel (Special 13th Anniversary Edition) by Oak Meadows Press. Also, Brad Henderson is featured as one of twelve "literary engineers" writing poetry and fiction in the United States in Tom Moran's new e-book (IEEE Press, 2010) Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing by Contemporary Literary Engineers.

http://bradhenderson.net


Additional Information:

http://www.pw.org/content/beau_hamel





4th SUNDAY 10-24-10
Teen Poets of San Joaquin & Sacramento Counties
(Thirteen to Eighteen Years Old.)


Presented by
Starry Night Guest Host
David Voytek

For More Information





3rd SUNDAY 11-21-10
Young Adult Poets (YA) of San Joaquin & Sacramento Counties
(Eighteen to Twenty-Five Years Old.)

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3rd SUNDAY 12-19-10

SPECIAL HOLIDAY OPEN MIC
NO FEATURED POET


Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), "The King Eats"




4th SUNDAY 01-23-11

DANNY A. ROMERO

Danny Romero was born and raised in Los Angeles. He has degrees from University of California, Berkeley and Temple University in Philadelphia, where he taught writing for many years. He currently teaches at Sacramento City College.

Romero’s poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals throughout the country, such as Bilingual Review, Colorado Review, Drumvoices Revue, Paterson Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, Permafrost and Solo. His work can also be found in a number of anthologies, including West of the West: Imagining California (1989), Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction (1993), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (2003), Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (2008) and Pow Wow: Charting the Faultlines in the American Experience – Short Fiction from Then to Now (2009).

He is the author of the novel Calle 10 (1996) and two chapbooks of poetry. A poetry collection is forthcoming from Bilingual Press. He lives with his son in Sacramento, California.



Calle 10
Mercury House Press






4th SUNDAY 02-27-11

ALBERT J. GARCIA

Albert J. Garcia is a native of Northern California. He grew up on a walnut orchard near Red Bluff, and much of his work has a connection to the valley. He graduated from California State University, Chico, and the University of Montana. He is the author of a book of poetry, Rainshadow, published by Copper Beech Press, and of a textbook, Digging In: Literature for Developing Writers. His most recent book of poetry is Skunk Talk, published by Bear Star Press.

His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Laurel Review, Poetry East, Mid-American Review, Yankee, The North American Review, and other journals. Among his awards, he has received an Emerging Artists Fellowship from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

A former naturalist at Lassen Volcanic National Park, Garcia currently lives in the rural community of Wilton, California, with his wife and three children. He has taught community college English for 22 years, and serves as dean of the Language and Literature Division at Sacramento State City College.


Skunk Talk
Bear Star Press


Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac
Reading two Albert J. Garcia’s poems:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/author.php?auth_id=1717





4th SUNDAY 03-27-11

D.B. PACINI

D.B. Pacini, a volunteer writing mentor to teen and young adult writers, is co-founder of A Starry Night Productions and founder of A Starry Night Poetry Series. She is a California songwriter and vocalist. She has written two novels, countless short stories, and a couple of boxes stuffed full of poetry and novellas.

Her youth/YA fantasy novel, The Loose End of the Rainbow, the first novel in her Universal Knights Trilogy, was published by Singing Moon Press, USA in March, 2009. Her contemporary novelette, Sterling Court Cul-de-Sac, was published by Turner Maxwell Books, UK in August, 2009. She has short stories and poetry published in several small literary journals.

Her contemporary mainstream novel, Emma’s Love Letters, will be published in 2012. She is currently writing her third (presently untitled) novel, the second youth/YA fantasy for her Universal Knights Trilogy, and a four novel, a young adult science fiction fantasy titled, Jonathan’s Dream.

Because of the devastating economy crisis, Singing Moon Press decided to close their publishing doors in the summer of 2010. After much deliberation, D.B. Pacini and her husband have decided to start, A Starry Night Press, a subdivision of A Starry Night Productions. Information about A Starry Night Press will be available on the front page of A Starry Night Productions website in January, 2011.


D.B. Pacini’s E-Mail:
Pacini.Novelist@gmail.com

A Starry Night Productions:

http://www.astarrynightproductions.com






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