S U N S E T P O E T R Y  B Y  T H E B A Y
Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333
333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, Calif.
Wednesday, Febuary 8 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Ellery Akers , Charles Entrekin & Gail Rudd Entrekin

Ellery Akers is an award-winning writer and artist living on the coast of Northern California. She received a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. Her collection of poems, Knocking on the Earth, from Wesleyan University Press (1989) was named one of the year's best books by the San Jose Mercury News. She is also the author of a children's novel, Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse (2009). Akers has won ten national writing awards, including the John Masefield Award, the Paumanok Award, and Sierra magazine's Nature Writing Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Orion, Harvard, The Sun, and many other magazines. Among her honors are fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and a grant from the Marin Arts Council.

Charles Entriken has taught pre-school, Head Start; high school, Upward Bound; and he has taught English Literature, Creative Writing, and Philosophy at the University level.  He was a founder and managing editor of The Berkeley Poets Cooperative and The Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, and he was a co-founder and Advisory Board member of Literature Alive!, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping literature alive in Nevada County, California.  His most recently published works include a novel, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 (2008), and LISTENING: NEW & SELECTED WORK (2010).  Currently he is editor of the Ezine Sisyphus, a magazine of literature, philosophy and culture, and managing editor of Hip Pocket Press www.hippocketpress.com). 

Gail Rudd Entrekin has taught English and creative writing at California community colleges for 25 years.   The most recent of her three collections of poems is Change (will do you good), Series Selection from Poetic Matrix Press and nominated for a Northern California Book Award.  Poetry Editor of Hip Pocket Press, she edited Yuba Flows in 2007 and Sierra Songs & Descants: Poetry & Prose of the Sierra in 2002.  Her poems have been widely published in literary anthologies and magazines, including Cimarron Review, Nimrod, The Ohio Journal, and Southern Poetry Review and were finalists for the Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod in 2011.  She lives in Orinda, California, with her husband, writer Charles Entrekin.

Studio 333 Art Gallery ~ 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, Calif. -- (415) 331-8272
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