<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 dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading featuring Sandra Anfang<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Saturday, July 8</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">from 10:00 to 10:30 AM</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no need to pre-register; just click this link: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83027617971?pwd=cmhDaEN3MUJCUjFDVzdwS1IxRVBFZz09" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83027617971?pwd=cmhDaEN3MUJCUjFDVzdwS1IxRVBFZz09</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">Sandra Anfang is an award-winning poet, teacher, artist, and editor. Her poems have appeared in<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Rattle, The New Verse News, The MacGuffin, Spillway,</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and numerous other journals. Her books include<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Looking Glass Heart</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Finishing Line Press 2016),<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Road Worrier: Poems of the Inner and Outer</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Landscape</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(FLP 2018),<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Xylem Highway</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Main Street Rag 2019), and <i class="">Finishing School <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(Kelsay Books 2023)<i class="">.</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>She’s the founder and host of Rivertown Poets (since 2013) and teaches poetry to children and adults. Sandra also hosts a Sunday afternoon poetry radio show on Petaluma’s <a href="http://kpca.fm/" class="">KPCA.FM</a>. She spends a lot of time walking the hills of Sonoma County, California, snapping photos and writing poems. You can find samples of her art and poetry and links to her books at <a href="http://sandeanfangart.com/" class="">sandeanfangart.com</a>.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit; line-height: 18.4px;"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""> </font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><b class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">Foal</font></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><b class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""> </font></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">At five</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">I saw a mare give birth,</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">studied her heaving flank</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">as she pumped life onto the fallow ground.</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">Already a midwife, I breathed with her,</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">watched the flaccid sac give way</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">the slick bag slide from </font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">the dark recess of her legs</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">crimson waters drizzling into soil.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">The foal, amazed,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">stood up on trembling legs.</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">Thinking back on it</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">I wonder</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">was this the birth of poetry,</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">images seeping from my mind</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">etched in memory</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">words caught</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: inherit;" class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class="">in webs of milky moonlight?</font></div></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Sandra Anfang</font></div><div class=""><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C7A57E77-D8D7-459E-A2E1-9FBBE8EE6ADC" src="cid:4DF59832-F862-4C12-8E10-FD844CA2F4FD" class=""></div></div></body></html>