Healdsburg Literary Guild

Poet Donna Emerson reads at the Third Sunday Salon. She's just retired from teaching at Santa Rosa Jr. College and her clinical social work practice. Her recent publications include Calyx, Sanskrit, the Denver Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Weber: the Contemporary West, and the London Magazine. She has been nominated for two Pushcarts, Best of the Net and received two Allen Ginsberg awards (2015, 2017). Her four chapbooks include This Water, 2007, Body Rhymes, 2009, Wild Mercy, 2011, and Following Hay, 2013. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Place of Our Meeting was published in January 2018 and nominated for a California Book Award. Donna’s second, Beside the Well, has just been released by Cherry Grove Collections. Donna will read all new poems from Beside the Well.

Join the Healdsburg Literary Guild for its Third Sunday Salon on January 19th at 12:30 pm for featured reader, Brian Martens who will be reading form his book, Three Raven Gate: Haiku & Other Poems. Open Mic will follow his reading.