Have loved each iteration of Poetry Walk, from the five I filmed early on with others for PCA, to the three with ironic beat music preceding the poets (last three years along Water St. behind Jungle Vibes). So THIS Sunday, 11am-7pm, we get to do the Walk again.

Poetry Walk is – what? Refreshing? Daunting? Memorable?
Haunting? Intense? Funny? Endearing? Deeply Moving? Yup. And I always go.

Begins at the Arts Center, 11am, w. award-winning poets Christina Hutchins, Jeanne Wagner and Kathering Hastings, founder of WordTemple on KRCB Radio locally, then on to familiar territory of Water Street behind Jungle Vibes Gift and Toy Emporium and its neighbor, Lala’s Creamery.
If you want coffee, there’s the Coffee Bar, too hot? Try a Jr. Hot Fudge Sundae!

Intrigued that Ron Salisbury, former owner, Deaf Dog, and a fine poet, as I recall, reads behind JV. Accompanied by Gerald Fleming and his Night of Pure Breathing, and poet/critic/humorist, Marvin Hiemstra.

From our JV/Lala’s backyard, Poetry Walk meanders over to Apple Box where we hear from former Petaluma Poet Laureate (and founder of Poetry Walk), Geri Digiorno, who’s White Lipstick poems sits near me at home, to be picked up and read from time to time. She’s got a new manuscript, BarTalk, am wanting to hear from. Digiorno is joined by Gwynn O’Gara, Sonoma County Poet Laureate 2010-2011, and Mike Tuggle, atuhor of Absolute Everywhere and Sonoma Cty. Laureate 2008-2009.

Apple Box gets a double dip with 5 more poets, to be followed by the famous Jane Hirshfield at Copperfields Books on Kentucky St., where she is followed by Andrena Zawinski, who runs Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at Poetry Magazine.

And as if THAT weren’t enough, Poetry Walk saunters over to the Phoenix to hear from A.D. Winans (author of over 50 chapbooks!) and Neeli Cherkovski, featured poet at Walt Whitman House, Long Island.

Pelican Gallery hosts The Walk at 5pm with Indigo Hotchkiss, editor, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and Sanny Anne Frye, a 23rd St. Poets group member, NYC.

Poetry Walk winds up at Aqus Cafe Foundry Wharf at 6p to hear from Avotcja accompanied on koto (instrument), David Magdalene of Poets for Change, Jym Marks, jazz drummer and poet, Kim Shuck, visual artist and “recovering sarcastic” and last but never least, Luke Warm Water offers some of what he’s offered at poetry slams around the globe.

Quite some walk! Poetry Walking is good exercise – for your mind, heart, and, OK, your bod.

PETALUMA POETRY WALK

When: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18
Where: Downtown Petaluma
Admission: Free
Information: 763-4271 or visit http://geri-digiorno.blogs.petaluma360.com
POETRY WALK SCHEDULE
11 a.m. — Christina Hutchins, Jeanne Wagner and Katherine Hastings at the Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St.
Noon — Gerald Fleming, Ron Salisbury and Marvin R. Hiemstra at Jungle Vibes, 136 Petaluma Blvd. North.
1 p.m. — Geri Digiorno, Gwynn O’Gara and Mike Tuggle at the Apple Box, 6 Petaluma Blvd. North.
2 p.m. — Stephanie Mendel, Rose Black, Catharine Clark-Sayles, Daniel Polikoff and Karla Clark at the Apple Box, 6 Petaluma Blvd. North.
3 p.m. — Jane Hirshfield and Andrena Zawinski at Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky St.
4 p.m. — A.D. Winans and Neeli Cherkovski at the Phoenix Theatre, 201 Washington St.
5 p.m. — Alice E. Rogoff, Indigo Hotchkiss, Cesar Love and Sally Anne Frye at Pelican Art Gallery, 143 Petaluma Blvd. North.
6 p.m. — Avotcja, David Madgalene, Jym Marks, Kim Shuck and Luke Warm Water at Aqus Café Foundry Wharf, 189 H St.

The walk begins at 11 a.m. at the Petaluma Arts Center with readings by Christina Hutchins, Jeanne Wagner and Katherine Hastings.

Hutchins is author of two chapbooks, “Collecting Light” and “Radiantly We Inhabit the Air,” which won a Robin Becker Prize. Wagner is the recipient of several national awards, including the Ann Stanford Prize, the Briar Cliff Review Award and the 2011 Inkwell Prize. Hastings is the author of “Updraft” and “Fog and Light.”

The poetry walk continues at noon at Jungle Vibes with poets Gerald Fleming, Ron Salisbury and Marvin R. Hiemstra.

Fleming has won numerous awards and fellowships and has published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review. Salisbury is a writer who has integrated his poetry with his business life for decades. Hiemstra was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is poet, critic, humorist and the founding editor-in-chief of the Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review.

At 1 p.m. at the Apple Box, Petaluma Poetry Walk organizer and poet Geri Digiorno will read from her work. Digiorno is a 2006-2007 Sonoma County Poet Laureate and founder of the Petaluma Poetry Walk. Also reading from their work are 2010-2011 Sonoma County Poet Laureate Gwynn O’Gara and 2008-2009 Sonoma County Poet Laureate Mike Tuggles.

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