Sebastopo LitCrawl reading

I will be reading with Raphael Bloch, Pamela Singer Yezbick, Judith Stone, Sherrie Lovler and Sally Churgel for Earth Kindness, LitCrawl at The Redwood (West of the Laguna) 234 S. Main St. Sebastopol, Sat. April 13, at 2 PM. More readings about town until 7:30PM.

Maureen Hurley Guest Poet @Claremont Branch

 

— Clearly Meant presents -

Maureen Hurley

Guest Poet @Claremont

2:00 to 3:00pm

Saturday

February 17, 2024

Claremont Branch

2940 Benvenue @ Ashby

hosted by Glenn Ingersoll

Maureen Hurley reads her poems, followed by an interview and discussion

A West Marin native, Maureen Hurley has taught poetry for many years in Bay Area schools, including here in Berkeley at Alexander Valley and Malcolm X. Her writing appears in a variety of venues, in print and online, including in the anthologies Atomic Ghost, House on Via Gambito, and a forthcoming anthology of poems on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Catching the Last Light. Also a visual artist, Hurley's photos of Julia Vinograd will be featured in a documentary on the Berkeley Street Poet.

A free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!

For directions or other information call the Claremont Branch 510 981-6820

BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY

www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org

510-548-1240

Cranberry Coast Covid Special (with Moi reading three poems set to music)

First musical interlude installment is due tonight, Dec 24, at 12AM, Miami time, Dec. 23, 10 PM CA time. Stay Tuned. I have poems set to music in later broadcasts. My poems were prerecorded, looking forward to seeing the collage. Ok, so it went up on YouTube on Dec. 26. Erm, 27th. There was a traffic jam, a technical delay. Installment no. 1, is 22 minutes long (it goes by fast). Take Five is lively.

https://www.facebook.com/whipplemorales/videos/10159287656274767/

Part two. Originally it was supposed to be one one-hour broadcast, but it proved to be an unwieldy octopus, that wouldn’t upload. Besides, everyone and their uncle was on the internet doing the virtual Christmas-sing thing. Get in line!

https://www.facebook.com/whipplemorales/videos/10159299000704767/ There’s photo of me performing for the Cranberry Coast Concert series in Wareham, MA, in 2014, my reading begins at 3:20 minutes in, Betrayals of the Mind, followed by Wrong Roads, at 4:50 minutes in. Most of those photos in the photo montage are mine.

Part three debutted heads with time on Little Christmas, thus ending the holiday season with cymbals galore. Well, maybe a kettledrum, or three. No flatulent partridges in pear trees.

https://www.facebook.com/whipplemorales/videos/10159325062334767/ My poem on Vincent van Gogh, Perhaps a Garden, begins 7:30 minutes in if you want to rush right in.

Or, if you prefer to avoid Facebook completely, you can go direct to the source and watch all three videos on Kirk & Mari’s YouTube channel.

Poems for Armistice Day

Susie Terence and I read in the atrium at the Jewish Home in San Francisco. We had a rather small, but dedicated audience. I read The Poet’s Vest,  Pro-Found Memory Banks, and Poem for the Man Who Loved Falcons plus the classic Armistice poems listed below. As we were in an atrium, with three storied balconies above us, as I closed my set by singing an Eric Bogle anti-war song, No Man’s Land, the size of the impromptu audience tripled. In the distance, a hunched over woman sat in a wheelchair. She looked familiar, and then I realized who it was, but by that time I was too late. Her handler had wheeled her off. I regret that I never got a chance to go over and say hello to her. Clients were visiting with me and I didn’t want to be rude. Besides, Susie was in full Bubula mode, reading something Yiddish from her memoir. It was my old poetry teacher, Diane diPrima. She died soon after.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS
John McCrae (1872 - 1918)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Sunday is Veteran's Day, called Armistice, or Remembrance Day in the U.K. This year is the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, which was called "The War to End All Wars". It didn't take. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor serving on the Western Front, wrote In Flanders Fields after the Second Battle of Ypres, in 1915, for a close friend who died in battle. He wrote the poem, graveside, after conducting his friend's burial service. McCrae caught pneumonia in January, 1918, and died two weeks later. His poem, In Flanders Fields has become a leit-motif of the War, and is recited each year at Remembrance Day ceremonies around the world.

Siegfried Sassoon's poem, Suicide in the Trenches, was composed in response to his witnessing the atrocities of WWI, on the Western Front, and Sassoon, a much decorated soldier, became a focal point for dissent when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his Soldier's Declaration of 1917. Instead of idealizing war, he was the first poet who spoke of the atrocities he had witnessed first hand at the Front, in vivid detail—which landed him in a military psychiatric hospital where he met fellow soldier and poet Wilfred Owen, who ironically was killed in 1918, one week before Armistice.

SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.

Moving a hundred years forward to time present, a poem of UK poet laureate (2009-2019) Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, caught my attention. Even though few surviving  members of WWI are still with us, and ditto that for WWII, we are all still wounded by war. Her second poem as Poet Laureate, Last Post, was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last two British soldiers to fight in World War I, is worth a look.

Last Post makes explicit references to Wilfred Owen's poem from the First World War Dulce et Decorum Est. It imagines what would happen if time ran backwards and those killed in the war came back to life; their lives would still be full of possibilities and filled with "love, work, children, talent, English beer, good food."  Wiki, 

Last Post opens with Wilfred Owens' first two lines:

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning....

Itself, which is a line borrowed from the Roman poet Horace– Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"). Memory, remembrance, in memoriam, these notions have fed a self-fueled war machine since Classical times.

Duffy is a Scottish poet/playwright of Irish parentage, who was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow's version of Hell's Kitchen, wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

When she was 16, she met Adrian Henri, one of the Liverpool poets, and decided she wanted to be with him; she then lived with him until 1982. "He gave me confidence," she said, "he was great. It was all poetry, very heady, and he was never faithful. He thought poets had a duty to be unfaithful." Wiki

I guess Adrian was successful, as he seemed to put Carol Ann off men for good, but I can attest that he was a charismatic pied piper, having met him at Poetry International in Rotterdam in the mid 1990s. Adrian and I shared a common bond in that we both worked in the schools teaching kids poetry. I gave him an armful of student anthologies. Perhaps some of Adrian's work rubbed off. In 2011 Duffy spearheaded a poetry competition for school children, dubbed Anthologise.

Many assume that, Scottish-Australian poet-songwriter Eric Bogle's No Man's Land is a reference to the Battle of the Somme, which celebrated its centenary in 2016, but Eric, a great storyteller who immigrated to Australia, penned this song in response to sectarian violence in Ireland. I first met Eric in Sebastopol for the Celtic Festival, ca 2000. At the time, he said that he wrote it during the Vietnam War, but it wasn't even about WWI. Bogle gave the fictitious dead soldier an Irish name to counter the anti-Irish sentiment in Britain during the 1970s. In an Irish News interview, in 2106, Eric said:

"I’ve often said that there never was one actual soldier called Willie McBride that I wrote about. I didn’t sit by the grave of a Willie McBride to write the song, that would be bulls**t. But I wanted to remind people that a lot of Irish lads had died fighting for king and country during WWI as well because when I wrote it in 1975, the IRA bombing campaign on the UK mainland was in full swing and there was a lot of anti-Irish feeling about and I just thought, ‘Well, here’s a wee subtle dig at the haters. “It was so subtle that most people missed it, of course,” he laughs, “but I don’t like to harangue or shove a point down people’s throats in my songs."

Eric often follows No Man's Land up with And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, (1971) a reference to Gallipoli, and the futility of war. In 2015, Eric played a concert at the site of the slaughter at Gallipoli, something he had previously refused to do because “the thought of singing for all those ghosts has always intimidated me.”

THE WOUND IN TIME
Poem on the centenary of Armistice Day 2018
Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)

It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides,
chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it.
Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place;
the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching
new carnage. But how could you know, brave
as belief as you boarded the boats, singing?
The end of God in the poisonous, shrapneled air.
Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love
you gave your world for; the town squares silent,
awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next?
War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore;
for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice.
Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea.

NO MAN'S LAND
aka The Green Fields of France, or Young Willie McBride
Eric Bogle (1944-)

Well how do you do young Willie McBride?
do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside
and rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
I've been walkin' all day and I'm nearly done.
I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
when you joined the great fallen of 1916.
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Willie McBride was it slow and obscene?

CHORUS
Did they beat the drum slowly,
did they play the fife lowly,
did they sound the death march
as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus,
did the pipes play the "Flowers of the Forest"

And the beautiful wife or the sweetheart for life
in some faithful heart are you forever enshrined
and although you died back in 1916
in that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?
Or are you a stranger without even a name
enshrined forever behind a glass pane
in an ould photograph torn tattered and stained,
fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
CHORUS

Now the sun shines down on the green fields of France
a warm summer wind makes the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished all under the plows,
there's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard it's still No Man's Land,
the countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
for man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
to a whole generation that was butchered and damned.
CHORUS

Now Willie McBride I can't help wonder why
Do those who lie here do they know why they died
Did they really believe when they answered the call
did they really believe that this war would end wars
Forever this song of suffering and shame
the killing, the dying, was all done in vain
for young Willie McBride it's all happened again,
and again, and again, and again and again.

Firestorm of Words reading in Healdsburg

I'm still feeling a bit under the weather, after a week of intense headaches and earaches. Smoke inhalation takes its toll. Trying to muster energy to drive to Healdsburg for our big Firestorm of Words reading at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, organized by Penelope la Montagne to honor Brian’s dad,  Monte Kervin who died in the Tubbs Fire. 

Bea & Fran Hawkes in the 2017 anthology, Singing the Feathers of Freedom. 

I was almost about to cancel, but as Sean Folsom flagellated me on Facebook, and said, The show must go on. So, I girded my loins, I rallied the ponies and had a great time. My Alexander Valley students were stellar. A good reading all round, and I wasn't as tired! I went back to Nicasio and spent the night there, as Sinead was driving. Emotional times.

Alexander Valley School students in both California Poets in the Schools 2016 & 2017 poetry anthologies!

Historic Alexander Valley Schoolhouse by Frances Hawkes, 1st Grade

Bay Area Generations reading 42 at the Bellevue Hotel, Oakland, photos

John Oliver Simon began his worldly travels in 1942, from the red diaper bullpen of New York City, to scribing poem-broadsides to sell on Telegraph Avenue. While at Cal, he was active in the Free Speech Movement; he read with Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Kenneth Rexroth. Since 1971, he has taught poetry to kids, with California Poets in the Schools, where he has passed the poetry baton onto his granddaughter. In the 1980s, he began translating poets from Mexico to the farthest corners of Latin America. He picked up an NEA translation fellowship along the way. And the City of Berkeley honored him for his 50-year-contribution to arts and culture, proclaiming January 20, 2015, as "John Oliver Simon Day."  —Maureen Hurley

 Maureen Hurley emerged in 1952 from the ravine that trickles from the bloody green wordstreams of Eire out of the poverty creeks on the backside of Tamalpais where her mother hung out for a thousand years in the No Name Bar with Jack Kerouac and Bob Kaufman. Schooled in her craft with California Poets in the Schools, she has carried her lyre from Chernobyl to Lake Titicaca. She holds an MA in creative writing from San Francisco State and has been awarded eight California Arts Council artist in residence grants. She lives in Oakland.   —John Oliver Simon

Google Photos link

Bay Area Generations, Edition #42, The Bellevue Club, Oakland, Maureen Hurley & John Oliver Simon

We are very grateful to invite you to be a part of Bay Area Generations at The Bellevue Club, Oakland on Monday, February 27, 2017.
We would like you to read the following pieces:

STILL LIFE WITH DEAD BIRD (Maureen Hurley)
LETTER TO COLM TÓIBÍN (Maureen Hurley)
I WAS TEN (Maureen Hurley)

Pablo (John Oliver Simon)
Mama Skunk (John Oliver Simon)
After Rilke (John Oliver Simon)

Day of The Show
Your Reader arrival time - 6:45pm
Writer's mixer (at the bar) - 6:30pm
Doors open for seating - 7 p.m.
Reading starts - 7:30 p.m.

We invite you to arrive early so that you may meet your fellow readers and then we can review our reading procedures for the show.

We provide you a complimentary "souvenir" chapbook of the entire show, and there will also be a small number of copies available for purchase at a nominal cost.

Sales Table You are welcome to bring your own products to sell at the book table: books, chapbooks, cds, broadsides.

Guests We hope that you invite friends and colleagues to hear you read! We are unable to offer comps. We do ask that all attendees, other than readers, donate $7.00 admission (or $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook), which helps to offset our costs.

Directions The Bellevue Club, Oakland is located in Oakland at 525 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA, right on beautiful Lake Merritt. It's walkable from BART (19 St.). The Bellevue Club has a full bar and offers a sumptuous view of the Lake. Map:https://goo.gl/maps/pjv7KpvvWv62

We are happy that you will be participating in this event and look forward to a memorable evening with your work.

Sincerely,

Sarah Kobrinsky, Guest Curator
Sherry Wilson + Amos White, Board Curators

Bay Area Generations
A Reading Series for the Ages
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sandra Wassilie, Co-Founder & Chair
Amos White, President
Gina Goldblatt, Secretary
Sherry Wilson, Treasurer
Charles Kruger, Emeritus & Co-Founder

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Bay Area Generations reading 42 at the Bellevue Hotel 

Bay Area Generations Reading, Hotel Rex
Fred Dodsworth + John Oliver Simon introduce Bay Area Generations #15 at Hotel Rex in San Francisco on November 24, 2014

Gerald Stern reading at the Albany Library

Wow, what a rare evening, so many old and new friends in the audience. Poets everywhere. Thank you Joyce Jenkins, Richard Silberg, Catherine Taylor, and the Albany Library.      

In a rare West Coast appearance, Gerald Stern read from his new collection, Divine Nothingness, and from his previous book, In Beauty Bright—as well as from his latest manuscript of 60 pages and growing by the minute. Prolific and energetic,  Gerald Stern taught us with much laughter and wit, that 90 is the new 60. 

Gerald Stern is the recipient of a National Book Award, the Library of Congress 2005 Wallace Stevens Award, and the 2012 Rebekah Johynson Bobbitt National Prize. As this year’s Robert Frost Gold Medalist for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry From the Poetry Society of America, Stern is one of the country’s most honored poets. He has been writing for over seventy years, with seventeen books of verse and a memoir, Stealing History. 

Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner, introduced Gerald Stern. We had a book signing with cake at Saint Alban's Episcopal Church, hosted by Poetry at the Albany Library and co-sponsored by Poetry Flash.I also ran into Jane Hirshfield at the reading, and she gave me a big hug. We haven’t physically seen each other in decades. Al Young took a photo of us together, but it was blurred. Story of my life.

Elemental Portraits Reading, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales 3/7/2014

Elemental Portraits Performance and Reading, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and Unitarian Church, Santa Rosa, CA, Maureen Hurley reading her poems from Elemental Portraits, with Pianistas Duo, Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales 3/7/2014

 

Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales, with special guests...

Elemental Portraits Performance, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales Cape Cod    

Elemental Portraits with Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales, Florida   

ELEMENTAL PORTRAITS: NOCTURNES FOR TWO PIANOS

Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales, with special guests Bob Afifi & Maureen Hurley perform Elemental Portraits at Sebastopol Center for the Arts

We had a blast performing Elemental Portraits: Nocturnes for Two Pianos at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

Kirk Whipple & Marilyn Morales Duo Pianists & Compsoers in Concert

Kirk Whipple Marilyn Morales, Duo Pianists Composers (Press Democrat)

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We also performed at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa, but there were no programs, just a poster. I wasn't listed on it. It was also poorly advertised (other than on Facebook), so we had a small turnout. But it was there, where I got my groove back—after being so long away from those poems.
Hangtime: Whipple & Morales, Duo Pianists & Composers in Concert

Facebook: Whipple & Morales, Duo Pianists & Composers in Concert

In the mid 1990s, Kirk and I did a collaboration where I wrote poetry while he composed musical portraits of Sonoma County musicians. As he composed, I freewrote to the music, then I interviewed him (also his dream journal), then I interviewed the people the portraits were composed for. I put it all together.

The last time we performed Elemental Portraits was in in Onset, Ma., in 2008: 

Cranberry Coast Concerts Sun Chronicle. ArtsBoston

More on Cranberry Coast Concerts at MySpace
More on the poems at the Unconservatory website:
Elemental Portraits: Nocturnes for Two Pianos (the poetry)

ELEMENTAL PORTRAITS: NOCTURNES FOR TWO PIANOS 20 poems

Whipple & Morales, Duo Pianists & Composers in Concert—with special guests Maureen Hurley

This Friday and Saturday evening, I will be reading several poems I wrote while Kirk Whipple was composing his "Elemental Portraits."

That's two chances to catch the piano concerts of the fab Pianistas duo Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales in Sonoma County this weekend—with special guests Maureen Hurley and Bob Afifi!
This Friday, March 7th at 7:30 PM at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol, 95472

Saturday, March 8th at 7:30 PM at the Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino, Santa Rosa, 95401. Please come and join us.

Kirk Whipple & Marilyn Morales will perform a concert of their original works and arrangements for two pianos. The internationally touring husband and wife duo will perform a retrospective of works, spanning their career of over a quarter century.

The duo’s program will be selected from works available on several of their recordings: Elemental Portraits ~ Nocturnes for Two Pianos, Latin Lovers, The White Season, Danzas Para Dos Pianos (Dances for Two Pianos) and Celebrating Americans.

Special guest artists will join Whipple & Morales on stage. Maureen Hurley will read her original poems inspired by Elemental Portraits and Bob Afifi will be the featured flute soloist in selections from Danzas Para Dos Pianos.

To hear selections performed by Whipple & Morales, please visit:
www.Reverbnation.com/KWMM


Friday, March 7th at 7:30 PM at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol, 95472  Tickets: $20 general, $15 for seniors and Youth (18-25), 17 and under free when accompanied by adult with paid admission. Child care is available with advance reservation.

Info: (707) 568-5381
www.glasercenter.com

ELEMENTAL PORTRAITS: NOCTURNES FOR TWO PIANOS 20 poems
 

Point Arena 3rd Thursday reading, Maureen Hurley, Oct 20, 2011

Point Arena 3rd Thursday reading, Maureen Hurley, Oct 20, 2011

Maureen Hurley to read in Point Arena, Independent Coast Observer

POETRY FEEDS Benefit For Share First Oakland Program, 12/12/2010

I read too, no idea where in the program, as I am not listed, Elmaz Abinander did not come, I might have read during his slot.

POETRY FEEDS Benefit For Share First Oakland
Program, 12/12/2010
MC's: Loma Dee Cervantes, Ishmael Reed, Francisco Alarcón
6:00-6:45 pm 

Hall - Feast or Famine Chance Dinner: $5 - $10 meal ticket;

Foyer - Holiday Book and Craft Fair; Instant Publishing Poetry Wall. Come attach or write your latest autographed creation on our paper wall for

"instant publishing." Artist? Add your finest. Conserve space for others.

We will be auctioning and/or raffling off the results at the end of the event.

Sanctuary - Slides and Music Presentations

6:45 pm Sanctuary - Welcome: Lora Dee Cervantes

Invocation: Francisco Alarcon

Opening Remarks by J. Webb Mealy, co-founder and Executive Director of Share First Oakland

Reading of poem by Oakland poet, Reginald Lockett: Lorna Dee Cervantes

7:00 pm First Group with Lorna Dee Cervantes

1-2. Special Presentation: Jack Foley and Adelle Foley
Rafael Jesús González
Nina Serrano
Paul Lobo Portuges
Vicki Vertiz
Cecile Pineda
John Oliver Simon
Lucha Corpi
Special Presentation: Ishmael Reed

7:45 pm Second Group with Ishmael Reed
Tennessee Reed
Timothy Reed
Odilia Galvan Rodriguez
Elmaz Abinader
Ruth Schwartz
Becca Carmona
Sharon Doubiago
Francisco X. Alarcón
Special Presentation: Cherrie Moraga

8:45 pm Raffle / Auction / Donation Drive
Special Music Presentation
Special Presentation: Avotja

8:55 pm Third Group with Francisco Alarcón
Leticia Hernández
Tomas Riley
Javier O. Huerta
Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Cesar A. Cruz Leolol
Blackberri
Trina L. Drotar
Sandy Thomas
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Fundraiser for Lagunitas Montessori, Point Reyes Sta. (photo)

I was a featured reader for the Lagunitas Montessori School.

2010 Pt. Reyes Fall Festival fun-raiser for the Lagunitas Montessori School—housed in my old alma mater—Lagunitas Elementary School. A one-school district—aka LSD. (LOL—it was the '60s!) 

Jay and Leora's October Fest at the Pt. Reyes Surf Shop with the whole crew from the San Geronimo Valley Montessori program. 

Can't remember this guy's name—but he lives in Dogtown (I think) and we seemed to know everybody in common. Ah, West Marin, my heartland, my anim cara.

added 4/24/2016 

Elemental Portraits Performance, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales, Cape Cod

Maureen will be performing with Unconservatory pianist duo Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales at the Cranberry Coast Concert series in Cape Cod, MA.  

We read at several venues, Onset Community Church, Onset Chapel, Wareham Bank, Wareham School, and the Wareham Library.

Performing Elemental Portraits: Nocturnes for Two Pianos (2 performances), Muddy Cove tabernacle, Onset, MA. Festival organizer and composer, Kirk Whipple and his wife, pianist duo Marilyn Morales.

 

 Festival organizer and composer, Kirk Whipple and his wife, pianist duo Marilyn Morales and Maureen Hurley.

 Second performance of my poems for Elemental Portraits: Nocturnes for Two Pianos, composed by Kirk Whipple, and played by festival organizers and piano duo, Kirk and his wife Marilyn Morales, Muddy Cove Tabernacke, Cranberry Coast Concerts, Onset MA, 2008.

Eastern Bank performance in Warham, MA. — with Neil O'Neill. We did several performances at the Cape Cod Cranberry Coast Music Festival this August. We performed in churches, tabernacles, banks, libraries and a school.

 Reading poems to kids at the Warham Library

 Neil O'Neill, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple, Caterine and Marilyn Morales.

Elemental Portraits with Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales, Florida  May, 2004

Elemental Portraits Reading, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and Santa Rosa, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales 3/7/2014  
Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales, with special guests...
ELEMENTAL PORTRAITS: NOCTURNES FOR TWO PIANOS 20 poems

added 4/24/2016

 

• Hurricane Charley, Mile Zero, Highway One (photos)
• Confessions of an iPod Roadie
• Letter from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, journal
• Missive from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, journal

Crossroads Irish-American Festival Poetry reading Maureen Hurley, Jack Foley, Chad Sweeney, Katherine Hastings 3/5/2006

Crossroads Irish-American Festival Poetry reading, 3/5/2006
Maureen Hurley, Jack Foley, Chad Sweeney, Katherine Hastings

Elemental Portraits with Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales on ArtStreet

I performed my poems based on Elemental Portraits with composer-musicians Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales on ArtStreet, with Meredith Porte, PBS TV, WLRN, South Florida. We also performed at Florida State University

Photos by Kirk Whipple

Elemental Portraits Reading, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and Santa Rosa, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales 3/7/2014 
Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales, with special guests...

Elemental Portraits Performance, Maureen Hurley, Kirk Whipple and Marilyn Morales Cape Cod  
ELEMENTAL PORTRAITS: NOCTURNES FOR TWO PIANOS 20 poems

added 4/24/2016

• Hurricane Charley, Mile Zero, Highway One (photos)
• Confessions of an iPod Roadie
• Letter from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, journal
• Missive from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, journal

Elemental Portraits handbill

CPITS poetry readings at Barnes & Noble, in Fremont

Apr 20 at 6:30 pm
Parkmont Elementary
Poetry Reading

Join us for a wonderful evening of poetry reading by 3rd Graders from Parkmont Elementary.  Tonight will also celebrate the release of an anthology of the students poetry by the California  Poets In The Schools.

Wednesday, Apr 28 at 7:30 pm
Reading: Poet-Teacher 

Reading & Announcement of Contest Winners

The following local poets and authors from California Poets In The Schools: Maureen Hurley, Tobey Kaplan, Lindsay Knisely, Tureeda Mikell, Kristin Palm, Mara Sheade, and John Oliver Simon will be reading from their works. We will also be announcing the winners from our Adult Poetry Contest and listening to a reading of the winning poetry.