“Love’s Meditation,” Four Poets Present Free Public Poetry Reading
Four local poets will read from their poetry anthology, Love’s Meditation, at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 120 East J Street in Benicia. Mary Eichbauer, Johanna Ely, Deborah Schmidt, and Laurie Hailey will read poems from their work, answer questions, and sign copies. Books will be available for purchase. The public is invited.
As a sponsor, the Benicia-Vallejo branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will provide light refreshments.
Mary Eichbauer is Editor-in-Chief of Benicia Literary Arts. Her publications include a book of poetry, After the Opera (Random Lane Press, 2020), and a book of literary criticism, Poetry’s Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in René Char and John Ashbery (1992).
Johanna Ely is an award-winning poet who has been published in several journals and anthologies. Her fourth book of poetry, What Still Matters, was recently published by Last Laugh Productions. Ely served as Benicia’s sixth poet laureate from 2016-2018.
Deborah Bachels Schmidt has four self-published chapbooks, with a fifth, Stumbling Into Grace, published by Orchard Street Press. Other publication credits include Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, The Lyric, and The MacGuffin. A Pushcart nominee, she placed first in the Sonnet category of 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition.
Laurie Hailey lives in Walnut Creek, is a former teacher, and has written poetry for many years. Her poems have appeared in Nooks and Crannies, a First Tuesday Poetry anthology.
AAUW puts its mission – to support equity and education for all women and girls – into action. To join the American Association of University Women, please visit the website https://beniciavallejo-ca.aauw.net/ or send an email to [email protected]
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