POETRY READINGS IN “OUTTA THE BLUE” SERIES
Poets Kathleen Lynch, Roger Groghan & Moira Magneson Featured at the Blue Line Gallery
ROSEVILLE, CA, October 11, 2010—Three published poets will complete the fourth and final evening of “Outta the Blue Poetry Series” at Roseville Arts’ Blue Line Gallery on Thursday, October 21, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The evening will feature Kathleen Lynch, an award-winning poet who has taught poetry through writers’ workshops and the schools. Roger Groghan’s early influences include biology and beatniks. Moira Magneson is active in poetry circles in Northern California and teaches English and Composition at Sacramento City College.
WHO: Roseville Arts Blue Line Gallery
WHAT: Final readings in “Outta the Blue Poetry Series”: Kathleen Lynch, Roger Groghan & Moira Magneson
WHEN: October 21, 2010, 7–9 p.m.
WHERE: Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100, Roseville
WHY: To cultivate poetry as an important part of Roseville’s culture.
COST: $5 members, students /$15 non-members (seniors 10% discount)
Kathleen Lynch’s collection Hinge (2006) won the Black Zinnias Press National Poetry Book Competition (California Institute of Arts and Letters). Her chapbooks include How to Build an Owl (Select Poet Series Award, Small Poetry Press, 1995), No Spring Chicken (White Eagle Coffee Store Press Award, 2001), Alterations of Rising (Small Poetry Press Select Poet Series, 2001) and Kathleen Lynch - Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2002). She worked as Coordinator of “Writers in Performance” and “Writers’ Workshops” for San Jose Center for Poetry and Fiction, served as board member for the San Jose Center for Literature and Arts, taught through “Poets in the Schools” (all grade levels), mentors individual poets, and conducts teachers’ in-service training programs for elementary and high school teachers. Lynch also publishes fiction, essays, reviews, and does free-lance editing.
Born and bred in northern California, Moira Magneson has worked as a truck driver, television writer, substitute teacher, artist’s model, and river guide. She now teaches English composition at Sacramento City College and lives in Placerville, where she is a member of Red Fox Underground, a Sierra foothills poetry collective. Her work has appeared in Margie, Verse Daily, Runes, Rattlesnake Review, Hanging Loose, and elsewhere. He Drank Because is her first published collection of poems.
Roger Groghan was a science major studying biology and anthropology. As a teenager the Beatniks were his cultural heroes. Lawrence Ferlingetti’s “Underwear” opened the possibility of poetry to him. Roger says the poets he is most familiar with are Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth and R S Thomas. Roger has been published in the Confluence, a quarterly of the environmental group Protect American River Canyons (PARC), the Nevada County Poetry Anthology, and on the Internet.
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Roseville Arts is a 501c3 non-profit community center for the arts that has served Roseville and surrounding communities for more than 45 years. Further information may be obtained on the website: www.rosevilearts.org or by calling (916) 783-4117.
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