Tebot Bach Series

Additionally, Tebot Bach sponsors poetry readings and writing workshops for schools Kindergarten through college and marginalized venues such as homeless shelters, battered women's shelters, nursing homes, senior citizen daycare centers, hospitals, AIDS hospices, and correctional facilities.

Participating poets include:
John Balaban, M.L. Liebler, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, Laurence Lieberman, Richard Jones, Arthur Sze, and Carol Moldaw.

Photographer: Bob Lanphar | Webmaster: Tom Thomas

Reading
Friday, January 27th, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.
Open reading sign up at 7:30 p.m.

Susan Davis

Susan Davis´s poetry reflects a birth in Louisiana, a childhood in upstate New York and stints in the giant states of Texas and Alaska. She now resides in California with her husband and directs undergraduate creative writing at University of California, Irvine. Her poem "The Season Begins in a Waiting Room" was chosen for the 2010 Rebecca Lard Poetry Award, and the poem "Farm Days" was installed on wind screens at the Lake June transit station in Dallas in November of 2010. Her first book, I Was Building Up to Something, came out from Moon Tide Press in 2011.

Tina Yang

Tina Yang was Born in Monterey Park, CA, but brought up in a religious commune in Northern CA, where her mother became and remains a Buddhist nun. She graduated from UCLA in 2004 with a BA in Film and Television. Tina began attending the UCLA Extension Writers' Program in 2007 and studied with poet and teacher Suzanne Lummis for 3 years. She currently works as a docent at Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House and is married to Michael Babcock.

Tebot Bach Brings DAVID ST. JOHN to the Ruskin Art Museum
FEBRUARY 11, 2012 WORKSHOP
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

9-9:30ish Continental Breakfast

9:30- 12:30 Morning lecture and discussion

12:30 Lunch

1:45 Afternoon Critique Session

Registration Procedure follows the workshop description

Workshop Description:

The morning session of our workshop will focus on the stunning poetry of the remarkable poet and fiction writer Denis Johnson. One of America's most distinguished novelists and story writers, Denis Johnson is the author of many books, including his National Book Award winning novel, Tree of Smoke, and the superb story collection, Jesus's Son (the movie's pretty good too). His most recent book, Train Dreams, received a rave review in The New York Times Book Review.

But many have forgotten that he began his writing life as a poet, and his poems rank among the finest poems of his generation. In anticipation of Denis Johnson's upcoming visit to Los Angeles, and his reading at USC for The Masters in Professional Writing Program on Wednesday February, 15th, 2012, I wanted you to have an opportunity to become more familiar with Denis's poetry. Please order his book: The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New.

As always, bring in 30 copies of a poem by Denis Johnson for the morning session and 30 copies of a poem of your own for the afternoon session.

To register, email Mifanwy Kaiser at mifanwy@tebotbach.org to let her know and to receive further instructions. Send a check for $95 to:

Mifanwy Kaiser
Tebot Bach
Box 7887
Huntington Beach, CA 92646

Tebot Bach is going as green. Please bring your own mug for coffee and/or tea. I'll provide the glasses for drinks, utensils, plates, and cloth napkins.

Happy New Year!