Join us on Friday, August 20 at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) for an evening of poetry and conversation featuring Peggy Dobreer and Janet Fitch. In addition to Peggy’s reading from her new book, Forbidden Plums, Peggy and Janet will be discussing how their books came to be—their inspirations and process especially during the pandemic for Peggy. Questions from the audience will be welcome.
Peggy Dobreer is a poet, parent and former choreographer who brings movement, meditation, mystical traditions, visual craft and an enduring love affair with language to her E=Mc2Bodied Poetry Workshops.
Dobreer’s Forbidden Plums was selected by Glass Lyre Press for its 2021 chapbook release. She has two earlier collections from Moon Tide Press: Drop & Dazzle (2018), In the Lake of Your Bones (2012). Peggy has two Pushcart Prize nominations and was awarded Downey Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 Poetry Matter’s Prize in celebration of a 60-year collaboration between the City of Downey and NASA.
Peggy’s poems have been featured in the Aeolian Harp Folio Series, I and V, and in journals such as Cultural Weekly, The Rise Up Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Malpais Review, and LA Yoga Magazine. She been interviewed for Poetiscape, The Poet’s Café on KPFK, and the L.A. Poetry Examiner. Ms. Dobreer is a member of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center and the Long Now Foundation. www.peggydobreer.com
Purchase Forbidden Plums here.
Janet Fitch is an American author and teacher of fiction writing.
She is the bestselling author of novels White Oleander, an Oprah Book Club selection translated into 24 languages, Paint It Black, and the epic novels of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral. White Oleander and Paint it Black have been made into feature films, and a film based on her Noir short story “The Method” will be shot in September 2021.
Her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Noir, Vogue, Shondaland and other publications. She has taught creative writing at the Community of Writers, USC’s MPW program, Esalen Institute, A Room of Her Own (AROHO) and regularly offers online writing talks on her Facebook author page. www.janetfitchwrites.com
Purchase any of Janet Fitch’s books here.
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