Caesura 2012 Call For Entries
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2012, and July 30, 2012 for members of PCSJ.
PCSJ Events:
POETRY READINGS @ WILLOW GLEN LIBRARY
Third Thursday of Every Month
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 7:00pm
Featured Reader: John Landry
An open mic reading will follow
Willow Glen Library
1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125
(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361
Free and open to the public
See more about the Featured Reader and list of upcoming readers in the calendar.
POETS @ PLAY
returns Sunday, May 20, 11:00am to 4:00pm
This Sunday, please join Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and Poetry Center San Jose at Asian American Heritage Day at San Jose's History Park. We will be operating a haiku workshop and contest, for both children and adults, haiku readings, and art activity.
If we have enough interest and time, the Poets@Play group will also meet in the Markham House parlor during a portion of the time.
Have you ever wanted a quiet place to write? Or an informal gathering for collaborating with fellow poets about works in progress? That’s what Poets@Play is all about. We alternate between writing and sharing our works in progress. This is not a workshop, but rather a playhouse – some starter ideas and a comfortable place to play with words. Registration is encouraged, but not required, at poetsatplay@pcsj.org (we can also provide you with information on how to avoid a parking fee).
Edwin Markham House in History Park
1650 Senter Road, San José, CA 95112
Parking in city operated lots ($6 or $10)
see full details on the events calendar
News:
Sharon Olds
mark your calendar for Thursday, October 4, 2012
venue and time to be announced
Poetry Center San Jose will present one of contemporary poetry's leading voices. Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and was one of the founders of the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Her work has received the Harriet Monroe Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets, and the San Francisco Poetry Center Award. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Details of Ms. Olds' visit and reading are being finalized and will be announced soon.
Caesura 2011
The latest issue of Caesura, Brothers and Sisters, with cover pictured below, has been sent to PCSJ members. At 134 pages, this is the largest issue of Caesura to date. The issue includes an interview with Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Sally Ashton that you can read here.
Cover of Caesura 2011, Brothers and Sisters
PCSJ presents Nils Peterson's
A Walk to the Center of Things
Poetry Center San Jose is proud to have released Nils Peterson's new book A Walk to the Center of Things in PCSJ's new Cæsura Editions. The book has been distributed as a benefit of Membership, with additional copies available for sale online.
San José native Kay Ryan, former U.S. Poet Laureate, has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. See the press release.
To see what PCSJ has been up to lately, see the event archive.
