Thursday, March 25th: Poetry Flash presents Laurel Bogen & Susan Kelly-deWitt

Laurel Ann Bogen's recent book of poems is Washing a Language. Edward Field says, "In this fascinating book, again and again, she transforms her moments of joy, the wounds she has suffered, into a mouth, speaking her terse and immaculate poemsŠ" A founding member of the acclaimed poetry performance group Nearly Fatal Women, Bogen was named Best Female Poet/Performer by the L.A. Weekly. She is the author of ten previous books of poetry and short fiction. A former literary curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she ran the Writers in Focus poetry series, her honors include two awards from the Academy of American Poets.

Susan Kelly-DeWitt is author of The Fortunate Islands. Dennis Schmitz says of it, "These poems take pleasure in the multiplicity of things. . .whatever personal loss or change. Their power is in their spiritual longing. They are graceful, so accurate and deep in their discernment. . ." A former Stegner fellow at Stanford University, she has been widely published and anthologized, featured on Writer's Almanac and Verse Daily, and she's published a number of chapbooks, including Cassiopeia Above the Banyan Tree, Poems about Hawai'i. She's a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Northern California Book Reviewers, and she's a contributing editor of Poetry Flash.

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