<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><table class="OuterBGColor" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td class="Body" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" style="padding-top: 14px; padding-right: 14px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 14px; "><table class="MainWidth" border="0" width="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td class="OuterBorderBGColor OuterBorder" bgcolor="#473E3F" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(71, 62, 63); padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; "><table class="InnerBGColor" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center"><table class="MultiColumnSplitBGColor" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><tbody><tr><td class="MainColumnBGColor" valign="top" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td class="MainColumn" valign="top" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 12px; "><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK123" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td class="MainText Content" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 8px; "><div style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; "><span size="3" face="Times" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; "><span size="3" face="Times"><div align="right" style="text-align: right; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b style="font-size: 12pt; "><div style="font-size: 14pt; ">DIGGING OUR POETIC ROOTS - </div><div style="font-size: 14pt; ">POEMS FROM SONOMA COUNTY</div><div><div>Saturday, August 29, 2015 7:00 pm</div></div></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><b style="font-size: 12pt; "> </b></div></div></span></span><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><div align="center"><img height="800" vspace="5" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.879" hspace="5" width="600" id="f08003d4-51b0-4479-a72a-e89054d3a910" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:2D7C3DF7-A1D2-48CE-9BDB-2A500EC4B5C9@gateway.sonic.net"></div><div align="justify" style="text-align: justify; "><span><span size="3" face="Times" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; "><div>Sonoma County Poet Laureate Katherine Hastings celebrates the release of the anthology that is the culmination of her two-year project - Digging Our Poetic Roots - Poems from Sonoma County. Many poets whose work is included in the anthology will read tonight. Included in the book are: Terry Ehret, Maya Khosla, Patti Trimble, Nancy Cavers Dougherty, Fran Carbonaro, Gregory W. Randall, Janine Canan, Dave Seter, Amy Trussell, Jodi Hottel, Michelle Wing, David Beckman, Clara Rosemarda, Thomas Ziemer, Elizabeth Herron, Sandy Eastoak, David Madgalene, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, the late Paula Koneazny, and many others. Also included are poems by contributing editors Jennifer K. Sweeney, Lee Slonimsky and Patrick Cahill, as well as Katherine Hastings, editor. Come celebrate this wonderful anthology of Sonoma County poets. </div><br><div>"What pleasure to read these poems from Sonoma County poets both new to the craft and well-accomplished on the path. From the intimacy of the Sunday dinner table to the unforgettable image of a funeral gondola in Venice, these are poems that reach toward the world to meet it at the precipice. Connecting to nature, art, myth, and back to self scavenging for truth in the inner journey, the poems here remind me that the act of writing is both a call and response, the most artful kind of listening." - Jennifer K. Sweeney</div><br><div>"These poems cover a remarkable range of subjects, sensibilities, and approaches to poetry. There is a freshness and authenticity of voice everywhere that is inspiring, as if lines were written 'with the flutter of butterfly wings.' 'How do you paint the wind?' a poet asks. In unison, an answer comes from this exceptional collection: poems paint the wind." - Lee Slonimsky</div><br></div></span></span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>