The Nevada County Poetry Series presents
Thursday, May 19
GRANUCCI ROOM
7:30 p.m, $5 general, seniors and students, and
$1 for those under 18. Refreshments and open-mic included.
The Nevada County Poetry Series brings Nevada County’s own internationally recognize and award winning poets Dale Pendell and Will Staple. Bill Gainer of the Nevada County Poetry Series says, “Pendell and Staple are examples of the treasures we live with. We stand in line with these guys – at the grocery store, the movie theaters, the DMV seeing them as our friends and neighbors, never realizing their places in literary world, contributions as writers, poets, teachers, visionaries or the gifts they share. Come spend an evening – rub shoulders. Just being around these guys is a lesson in who we are.”
Dale Pendell is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy on shamanic ethnobotany, Inspired Madness, a book about Burning Man, and Walking with Nobby, a book of conversations with the philosopher Norman O. Brown. His most recent book, The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, tracing the future history of California after a global pandemic, won the Green Book Festival award for best science fiction of 2010. Pendell was the editor of Kuksu, Journal of Backcountry Writing from 1972 to 1978. Living with Barbarians, A Few Plant Poems, was published by Wild Ginger Press in 1999. A new book of poems, The World Fire, will appear this year. He and his wife, Laura, and a familiar cat live in the foothills of the Sierra in California, where they grow pine and oak trees.
Will Staple –The sensuality and eroticism in Will’s poetry is so subtle that often the lips have dried before the reader realizes the kiss. Will lives in a world where romance balances on ice and where the human relationship is as fragile as a poet’s heart. Internationally recognized for his insight into the human condition, Will’s work has been translated into Russian, German, and Italian. He has received the Engpol Median International Award for a collection of books published between 1991 and 1999, and read from the coffeehouses of San Francisco to the Shakespeare & Company in Paris. In 2000, Will was a featured reader at the Internazionale Percorsi Poesia Festival in Locarno, Switzerland. Will says, “Poets…are thieves who give everything away, guilty of both miracles and wondrous crimes – liars who always tell the truth.”
The reading and open-mic will be videoed for presentation on Nevada County TV, channel 11.
Tickets are available at the door for $5 general, seniors and students, and $1 for those under 18. Refreshments and open-mic included. The show will be in the Granucci Room (use the main entrance) at the Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley, CA. For more information call (530) 432-8196 or (530) 274-8384.
