<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=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">It doesn't matter if you no longer live in the county, you can still submit to a county-wide anthology that I'm planning. T</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">he three sections I envision for this book are based on Joanna Macy’s “the work that reconnects.” She starts with the concept of “gratitude,” then moves to “honoring our pain for the world,” then “seeing with new eyes.” I definitely don’t expect any one poem to fit all of these. Previously published work is welcome.</span><br class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">On May 13, at 7 pm, I will be giving a virtual workshop to help clarify my vision for one section </b>- seeing with new eyes, or talking back to some of our foundational texts. You can sign up at this link. The cost is by donation to the Sebastopol Center for the Arts — $0 and up: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wordpress.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8478d6463d8703be4a5d1f4f4%26id%3Dc5c0a455cb%26e%3D3d7048bd02&source=gmail&ust=1620308785387000&usg=AFQjCNHtey5Gzmx_F9wPu1fUNdH8RkITBw" href="https://SittingRoom.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c96b4316dae58d28efa9492f&id=869220928c&e=952827db70" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">https://www.sebarts.org/classes-lectures/workshop-with-sonoma-county-poet-laureate-phyllis-meshulam</a><br class=""></span></p><p class="">Gratefully, Phyllis<br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""></span></p><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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Phyllis Meshulam, Sonoma County Poet Laureate May 2020 - 2022
author, LAND OF MY FATHER'S WAR, Cherry Grove Collections, winner of
a 2019 Artists Embassy International literary prize. (Available at Copperfield's and Many Rivers in Sebastopol)
Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate, said of Land of My Father’s War, an “urgency of spirit has
emerged eloquently here in these poems of perception and
even prophecy….”
editor, POETRY CROSSING, 50 Lesson Plans for 50 Years of California Poets in the Schools, <a href="http://Californiapoets.org" class="">Californiapoets.org</a>
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