Poetry Exchange featuring Barbara Saxton!

Sunday, July 21st 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
via Zoom

Poetry Exchange featuring Barbara Saxton!
Sunday, July 21st
1:00-3:00 p.m. (PDT)

Hosted by Lesa Medley!

Contact Lesa Medley to receive your Zoom link: lcmedley016@gmail.com

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 889 3869 6028 
Passcode: 324343

Barbara grew up (sort of…) in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the youngest of four children. She moved to California in her senior year of high school, earned a B.A. in Asian Studies (Chinese language/history emphasis) from UC Santa Barbara, and lived in Hong Kong, Berkeley, and Seattle before returning more or less permanently to the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked in the financial sector for many years, before and after a seven-year stint as an at-home mom to her two young sons. Her “second career,” which she pursued for about seventeen years, was as a middle and high school English teacher. She and Owen have been married for over forty years, and have basically been too happy for their union to show up in many of her poems. Besides writing (and reading) poetry, Barbara engages in a wide range of interests and activities: performing classical, folk and Eastern European vocal music, teaching, folk dancing, hiking,cooking and traveling. Her chapbook Dual Exposure was published in 2015 by Blue Light Press. De-Classified was published in 2024. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Nature Pictures, Poetry Breakfast, Slippery Elm, River of Earth and Sky: Poetry for the Twenty-First Century, Pandemic Puzzle Poems, Canyon, River, Stone and Light and many other literary journals and anthologies.