Sanjyot Pia Walawalkar works as an Associate Professor and Equity and Outreach Librarian at Skyline College. Besides helping students develop their critical information literacy and research skills, she leads the library’s social-justice-centered programming efforts. Her research interests include critical information literacy, metaliteracy, and critical global citizenship education. Poems SPRACHE / LANGUAGE Original German by FriedrichContinue reading “Sanjyot Pia Walawalkar”
Category Archives: San Mateo County
Rob Williams
Rob Williams co-edited the Lambda Literary Award-Nominated anthology, From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up (Carroll & Graf). He received his MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. His prose and poetry have appeared in Versal, Maisonneuve, San Diego Citybeat, The Racket, and others. He lives in San Francisco and is a professor of English and Literature at SkylineContinue reading “Rob Williams”
Phyllis Klein
Phyllis Klein‘s work has appeared or will appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Chiron Review, Portside, Sweet: A Literary Confection, 3Elements, Poetry Hotel, I-70, California Fire and Water, and the Minnesota Review. She is a finalist in the Sweet Poetry Contest (2017), the Carolyn Forche Humanitarian Poetry Contest (2019), and the Fischer Prize (2019). She was nominated for a Pushcart prize inContinue reading “Phyllis Klein”
Megan Duffy Brown
Originally from New Orleans, Megan Duffy Brown is a queer poet and writing coach/editor/tutor living in coastal San Mateo County. Her poetry has been published, most recently, in Poetry Ink, an anthology curated by Moonstone Press, by MiGoZine, and in Forum Magazine. In 2020, her poem “Life at the Center” was selected to commemorate the first anniversary of Jose Castro’s paintingContinue reading “Megan Duffy Brown”
Toni Mirosevich
Toni Mirosevich, Poet Laureate of Pacifica, grew up in a Croatian-American fishing family in Everett, Washington. Her books of poetry include The Takeaway Bin (Spuyten Duyvil), Queer Street (Custom Words), My Oblique Strategies (Thorngate Road, 2005, winner of the Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award for LGBTQ poetry), The Rooms We Make Our Own (Firebrand Books), and Trio: Toni Mirosevich, Charlotte Muse, Edward Smallfield (Specter Press). SheContinue reading “Toni Mirosevich “
Kathilynn Lehmer
Kathilynn Lehmer is an educator, writer, artist, and poet who has lived on the Coast for over forty years. Her daughter, her family and friends, her sanctuary—the ocean and the redwoods—are her inspiration for her art and writing. Poem The silent scream appeared the day you told me, but I stilled it to live our moments.Continue reading “Kathilynn Lehmer “
Clifford Hunt
Clifford Hunt is a husband, father, poet, writer, editor, and teacher in Half Moon Bay, California. He’s lived and worked in Bethel, San Francisco, Seattle, Arcata, San Diego, and Beirut, Lebanon. He and Tim Badger are co-founders, editors, and publishers of Just Press; small press publishers of poems, poetics, art, and ideas. Clifford’s publications includeContinue reading “Clifford Hunt”
Eileen Malone
Eileen Malone is the author of The Complete Guide to Writers Groups, Conferences and Workshops (Wiley), the award-winning collection Letters with Taloned Claws (Poet’s Corner Press), and poetry books: I Should Have Given Them Water (Ragged Sky Press) as well as It Could Be Me, Although Unsure (Kelsay Press). Her poetry and stories have beenContinue reading “Eileen Malone”
Renee Aubuchon
“Poetry has been a part of my life since I wrote my first poem when I was five years old. I have published some poems in poetry journals and have taught creative writing. I taught creative writing to eighth graders on the Hoopa Reservation. Students read some of their poems over the local tribal radioContinue reading “Renee Aubuchon “
Eric Forgaard
Eric Forgaard moved to the SF Peninsula in 2002 after growing up in Santa Cruz and then logging decade-long stints in San Diego and Washington, D.C. He worked for 10 years as a systems manager, first for a scientific publishing firm and then for an accounting firm. After moving to the Peninsula, Eric served asContinue reading “Eric Forgaard “
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