<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body 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 Steve Trenam<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Saturday, August 12 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/81226751584?pwd=RFdmb0gyckFmYXNudVliRWJzSjlEZz09" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81226751584?pwd=RFdmb0gyckFmYXNudVliRWJzSjlEZz09</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span>Steve Trenam teaches a poetry writing class through Zoom for the Santa Rosa Junior College Older Adults Program. He is also a founding member of Poetic License Sonoma, a group of local poets who perform quarterly under the auspices of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. His book of poetry, <i class="">An Affront to Gravity,</i> was published by Blue Light Press and can be ordered through your local bookstore or Amazon.<b class=""> </b>His work is also present in <i class="">Moonlight and Reflections, </i>published by Valley of the Moon Press, and some of his poetry and ceramic art can be found in an ekphrastic poetry book titled, <i class="">Canyon, River, Stone and Light</i>, and in <i class="">Pandemic Puzzle Poems</i>, both published by Blue Light Press. Other poems appear in the California Writers Club poetry anthologies, both state and local; <i class="">Jerry Jazz Musician: A Collection of Jazz Poetry</i>; and <i class="">Poem for the Day</i> with Larry Robinson, multiple online publications<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><br class="">
</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><b class="">Not Even</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">For once, leave </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">the blank page to itself.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Feel the pull of the oar, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">the light on the water.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Forget putting words </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">around that bottomless sky,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">or the rainbow that just</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">swam by your boat.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Be mindless of your middle name</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">and the need to record</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">alders and poplars as they pass.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Note only a mosquito</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">in the instant of its landing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Simply drift</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">as the current takes you</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">by the honeysuckle shore</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">towards home.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Ignore the circling words.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Not even the great blue </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">of the heron flying </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">into a setting sun </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">will make you</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">write this </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class="">down.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Steve Trenam</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><img alt="pastedGraphic.png" apple-inline="yes" id="0D1BC8CC-2281-486B-97D4-AA09112F0D20" src="cid:7E2E5EE7-E444-4C6F-B509-E1F6E46605BA" class=""></p></div></body></html>