Featured Reader: Mark Turpin
Mark Turpin, reading from hammer, a book of poetry said by Robert Pinksy, "as likely to recall Tomas Hardy as William Carlos Williams." This collection won the Ploughshares' Zacharias First Book Award in 2004. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and Slate among others; they have been read on the Lehr News Hour (for Labor Day) and by Garrison Keillor for The Writer's Almanac. His work is embedded in a Berkeley sidewalk as part of the Addison Street Anthology, selected by Bob Hass. He has spent 25 years working construction and building houses. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.
Nina Krieger Cynthia Robinson
David Sorrell Carolyn Hart
Nina Krieger is a stay-at-home dad (without child) who occasionally dabbles in employment. She prefers travel over work, bicycle touring over backpacking, and supports her lifestyle through frugality, subsisting during paycheck droughts on only library books and PB&J sandwiches. Originally from New York City, she has not forgotten her neurotic roots and after eight years in the Bay Area is still learning how to relax. She received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her travel writing has won a couple of awards and has appeared in a few web and magazine publications. Visit her at www.ninaherenorthere.com.
David Sorrell has his MFA in Creative Writing from U of Bama. Roll Tide, roll! He grew up in NY State, was a professional student for a long time all over these Uniteds, lived in Japan for a year, taught high school for a while, and now he shows old women how to google recipes and knitting patterns at Apple. He's been published in Poet Lore, Hawaii Pacific Review and Whirligig. He has great rejections from The Paris Review, The Atlantic and The New Yorker... His chapbook "Bones" was published by Smashed Penny Press in 1994.
Above: host Tim Rein