Poetry Exchange featuring Sally Ashton & Nils Peterson!
Sunday, December 15th, 3:00 p.m. (PST)
via Zoom
Poetry Exchange featuring Sally Ashton & Nils Peterson!
via Zoom
Sunday, December 15th, 3:00 p.m. (PST).
Hosted by Lesa Medley!
Contact Lesa Medley to receive your Zoom link: lcmedley016@gmail.com
Sally Ashton
Longtime PCSJ member and Former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Sally Ashton is the author of five books, most recently Listening to Mars. She last read with Nils Peterson in December 2020 and can't wait to make mischief with him again.
Nils Peterson
Nils Peterson is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University where he taught in the English and Humanities Departments.
He has published poetry, science fiction, and articles on subjects as varied as golf and Shakespeare, several chapbooks, and three collections of poems The Comedy of Desire, A Walk to the Center of Things, and All the Marvelous Stuff. Talk in the Reading Room, was chosen by Wordrunner Press as its memoir selection in 2014. earth, water, fire, air a collection of poems each illustrated by a watercolor by Lorraine Chapparall appeared in 2016. The Dear Time of Our Talking, poems and essays about working with Robert Bly, appeared in 2020.
In 2009, he was chosen to be the first Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County.
In 2019, he was honored by SVCreates for his work as poet and teacher as the OnPage Laureate of the Year. Coleman Barks describes his poetry as “so intelligent, lonely, funny and real. Necessary….”
All the Marvelous Stuff was chosen as the best collection of poems at the 2020 San Francisco Book Fair.
Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn), Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant. We also thank Brandenburg Family Foundation and Anne & Mark's Art Party for their generous giving.