<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 18px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;" class="">You are cordially invited to join us for a poetry reading by Tim Hunt.</span></div></font></h1></div></div></div></span><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">February 16, 2pm at the home of Rebecca Evert in Sebastopol.</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><h1 class="entry-title" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 40px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 40px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;">Tim Hunt</h1><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.tahunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/portrait.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font size="2" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(30, 115, 190);" class=""><span style="max-width: 100%; float: left; margin-right: 1.5em;" class=""><img class="gmail-jetpack-lazy-image--handled gmail-size-medium gmail-jetpack-lazy-image gmail-alignleft gmail-wp-image-63" title="portrait" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.tahunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/portrait-199x300.jpg?resize=199%2C300" width="199" height="300" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 1.5em;"></span></font></a></p></div></div></div></div></span><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">A fourth generation Californian, Tim Hunt was born in Calistoga and raised primarily in Sebastopol. As a boy he identified strongly with the Lake County region of his father’s family. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Educated at Cornell University he has taught at several American Universities. Hunt’s scholarly publications include Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction, The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose, and the five volumes of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Hunt has also published four collections of poetry: Fault Lines, The Tao of Twang, Poem’s Poems & Other Poems and Ticker Stubs & Liner Notes (winner of the 2018 Main Street Poetry Book Award), received three Pushcart nominations and been awarded the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Prize for the poem “Lake County Elegy.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.tahunt.com/" class="">https://www.tahunt.com/</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Seating is limited. To reserve a seat and receive directions please write to <a href="mailto:revert@sonic.net" class=""><span style="color: purple;" class="">revert@sonic.net</span></a>.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;" class="">Peets</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">At the Peets in Berkeley, I am drinking a double<br class="">espresso with unrefined sugar in it; you, a mocha.<br class="">Do you remember in high school how we would<br class="">walk the campus, prowl the bookshops,<br class="">then sit here as if this were more real<br class="">than the little town to the north—<br class="">the apple trees and canneries, evenings<br class="">of <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Rawhide</span>, <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Lawrence</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class=""> Welk</span>, <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Route 66</span>?</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">No, you don’t. Because I am not in Peets.<br class="">Here, no one else is up yet. I am drinking tea<br class="">(from the Peets in Portland) as the blue<br class="">squeezes down against the fog, and the trees<br class="">come out across the estuary.<br class="">And you? I don’t know who you are<br class="">as I write pretending I do.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But if you were you and we were sitting in Peets, each<br class="">detail would draw another. “Do you remember<br class="">when?” “And how we . . . ?” “And that time . . .” until<br class="">we could put on the world we’d woven<br class="">and stare off through that window at what might pass by.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Or, to remember differently. It is Sunday evening,<br class="">a small college town in Maine. The control panel’s meters<br class="">cast puddles of light on the spinning vinyl<br class="">feeding Ellington to all the someones who might hear<br class="">if they happened to turn their radio dials that way.<br class="">Is anyone there? Or am I alone with the Duke and Johnny Hodges<br class="">talking to myself between numbers as I pretend<br class="">to talk to you and you and you, each in your separate<br class="">living rooms, where the light is different in each.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Here, this morning, the air is still cool, it lifts<br class="">off the water as the light grows within it<br class="">and you draw the ink across the page.<br class="">Perhaps where you are the light is also<br class="">warming your skin. Perhaps<br class="">as we share the passing by<br class="">these words are not silence.</p><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Tim Hunt</div></div></body></html>