Agenda for April 13
 
12:30 PM Meet the poets!
1:00 PM Featured Readers (start right away)
2:00 PM Book Sales and Signing
2:30 PM Open Mic (One Poem 3-4 minute max)
2:45 PM Airport Departure
3:00 PM Extended Open Mic (if needed)
 
Annie Finch is an award-winning American poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, and performer. She is the author of seven books of poetry and many books and anthologies on poetics. Her other works include writings on women and spirituality, a landmark anthology of abortion literature, and music, opera, and dance collaborations.
 
Finch is recognized for her deep command of meter and poetic craft and mesmerizing talks and poetry performances. Her poems have been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
 
She has taught widely, and offers online poetry classes regularly at Randolph Lundine. Based in New York, she travels widely to share workshops and performances.
 
Two Bodies
 
Two bodies, balanced in mass and power,
move in a bed through the dark,
under the earliest human hour.
A night rocks,  like an ark.
 
They reach through the ceilings of the night,
tall as animals.
Through their valleys bends the light
of their fertile hills.
 
Two bodies breathe their close hellos
through interlocking pores,
while that hush of beating slows,
held, with many oars,
 
heart over heart, leg over leg,
trading still breath, until,
heart over heart, and seed into egg,
night holds two bodies still.
 
First collected in Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003, second edition with CD, 2008).

Bishop Randall.  He is a poet and glass artist, a student of Zen, a father and storyteller as well.   Bishop emphasizes the importance of knowing our history and cultural inheritance which are shaped by our “place” or environment.  He has learned much about his place on the Motezuma Ridge of the Yuba watershed in Nevada City, California both from his own explorations and also from his mentor and friend Gary Snyder who first taught him to know the four directions.