<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 class="">You are cordially invited to join us for the second of a monthly series of virtual poetry readings, this one featuring Sonoma County Poet Laureate Elizabeth Herron</span><div class=""><span class="">Saturday, August 27 from 10:00 to 10:30 AM PST.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no charge for this event and no need to pre-register, just click this link: <span class="" style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"> </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86138765725?pwd=dFRVaEVxR3lkWUsvdGhxd3pOc1dxZz09" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(9, 86, 181); text-decoration: none; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86138765725?pwd=dFRVaEVxR3lkWUsvdGhxd3pOc1dxZz09</a></div><div class="">and enter the passcode: <strong id="displayPassword" class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">591540</strong></div><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#232333" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#232333" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#232333" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">After attending the University of Hawaii, Elizabeth earned a Masters in Counseling at San Francisco State University. She studied the origin of aesthetic behavior, and received a PhD in Psychology from the University for Integrative Learning, a fleeting distance-learning program founded by graduates of the Harvard School of Education. She joined the Counseling Center at Sonoma State University and subsequently moved to a faculty position, teaching Creative Writing, Creativity and Contemplative Practice, and Ecological Identity. “Whether facilitating dream groups, studying, teaching, or gathering hawthorn berries and windfall apples, writing has always been my life.” </span><br class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">Born in Illinois and raised in Hawaii, <span class="">in the 70s she moved to Sonoma County and in 1991,the year of the Dunsmuir Spill, she settled in the Atascadero Watershed, west of the Laguna </span>de Santa Rosa, and south of the Russian River. After traveling north to bear witness to the aftermath of the spill, she committed a decade of her work to the study of wild trout and salmon and threats to their survival. <span class="">Watershed</span> work led her <span class="">ultimately </span>to the climate crisis<span class="">. H</span>er recent writing includes a <span class="">forthcoming book</span> of poems centered on climate<span class="">,</span> as well as <span class="">two new </span>chapbook<span class="">s</span> of “poems from the post-post world,” <span class="">one of these entirely from the voices of women</span>.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Migration</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">If my words can be<br class="">
as honest as desire<br class="">
they will go to you<br class="">
like a flow of caribou over ice<br class="">
they will lick the air<br class="">
like a migration of wild geese spill<br class="">
like salmon upstream<br class="">
words of a primal instinct<br class="">
pulling you<br class="">
into an urgent journey knowing<br class="">
though you know not where<br class="">
you’re going home<br class="">
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</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Elizabeth Herron</span></div></span></div></div></body></html>