POETRY READINGS @ WILLOW GLEN LIBRARY
Third Thursday of Every Month
Bob Scher, featured poet
open mic reading will follow
Thursday, August 19, 2010
7:00 pm
Willow Glen Library
1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125
(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361
Bob Scher served from 1995 to 2000 as president of a major computer-industry consortium composed primarily of Fortune 100 companies. He was re-elected each year because he was able to unite intensively competitive organizations in a spirit of cooperation. Previously, he scripted and directed award-winning documentary films, one of which, narrated by Orson Welles, is in three international film museums, including La Cinémathèque Française and MOMA.
He is the author of five non-fiction books, including As If the Sky Were Open, Selected Poems (Browser Books, 2009); There's a Hole in Your Sky, Clean Limericks (called "Limes") on Science, Animal Passions, People in Trouble, and Ourselves (Browser Books, Spring 2007), illustrated by Peter Szasz; Lightning, the Nature of Leadership (Codhill Press, 2003), photographs by Jane English; The Little Know-How Book (Harmony, 1993; Crown, 1994); The Fear of Cooking (Houghton Mifflin, 1984). His articles and poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Parabola, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The American Mathematical Monthly, and Works and Conversations. For publication in 2011: My Words Chill and Burn Me, The Amazing Sense of Emily Dickinson.
