SNS | 9-24-22
Featuring: Valerie Sopher & Steven Gray
Theme: The Blues
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday September 24, 2022
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
In honor of this month’s musical poet features, Steven Gray & Valerie Sopher, we’re celebrating The Blues—whether that means music, or something lyrical, or the color of your childhood bathroom, ocean and sky, the worst flavor of M&M, your favorite jeans, the “something blue” from your wedding, your sad post-pandemic life, your Covid Blues, the time you saw Taj Mahal live at Yoshi’s, your ekphrastic take on Picasso’s Blue Period, your jealous tribute to Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”—let (the) BLUE(s) inspire you this month.
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Author Bios
Valerie Sopher s a singing quilter from the San Francisco Bay Area who found her poetic voice during the pandemic. She did so with much help from Hollie Hardy and her San Francisco Creative Writing Institute classes. She has had some success in getting her poems out into the world, many of which were written from prompts in Hollie’s classes. Her work has appeared in Canary, Caustic Frolic, Slant, Prometheus Dreaming, Science Write Now and will soon appear in River Mouth Review and Quiet Diamonds - the Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest 2022. She was the grand prize winner in the Wingless Dreamer Dawn of the day contest.
Steven Gray is a poet and musician celebrating the new release of his album, Exile:
https://stevengray.bandcamp.com/album/exile
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