<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=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading featuring Ed Coletti</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saturday, October 1 from 10:00 to 10:30 AM PDT</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is no charge for this event and no need to pre-register.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just click this link:</span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84924691684?pwd=ckEvc3pWNFQ0a1NVVVRjSmpYL3FUUT09" class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial;">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84924691684?pwd=ckEvc3pWNFQ0a1NVVVRjSmpYL3FUUT09</a></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and enter this passcode:</span><strong id="displayPassword" class="hideme" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">465317</strong></div><div class=""></div><font color="#0956b5" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#0956b5" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Ed Coletti is a poet and fiction writer widely published internationally. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds Masters Degrees in Creative Writing and Business Management from San Francisco State University (with Robert Creeley) and Sonoma State Universities respectively. Ed also is a painter and middling chess player. Previously, he served for three years as an Army Officer, college English instructor, then as a Counselor and later as a Small Business Consultant. <br class=""><br class="">More recent poetry collections were Germs, Viruses & Catechisms (2013 Civil Defense Press, SF), The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015) as well as Apollo Blue’s Harp (McCaa Books-2019) A few sample journals include ZYSSYVA, Volt, Spillway, North American Review and So It Goes: Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Museum in Indianapolis.<br class=""><br class="">Ed also curates the popular sixteen-year-old blog "No Money In Poetry." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://edwardcolettispoetryblog.blogspot.com/">https://edwardcolettispoetryblog.blogspot.com/</a> <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><strong class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Our Aether</div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"> </p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Beneficent formless force,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">how great the joy in finding you—</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">if “you” be fitting address.—</div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"> </p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Purposeless thought</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">pervading possible space,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">leave us to be what we can be.</div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"> </p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Know if you will, what we are,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">just as we accept, even embrace,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">all of our neighbors seen and unseen.</div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"> </p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Show us the light to keep communion</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">with how this touch like a fragrance enables</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">invisibly conscious enveloping forces.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ed Coletti</div></div></div></div></body></html>