Julaina Kleist, CWC Tri-Valley member, was selected by the Downtown Oakland Senior Center to emcee at the December 9th anthology launch. In addition to Julaina, Tri-Valley readers were Sheila Bali and Neva (Janie) Hodges. Jan Davies and Linda Todd were among the hundreds of listeners at this fifth annual event. Fourteen Tri-Valley members published …
Jacqueline Bardsley won third place for her poem “Adam” in the Beginnings & Ending category of the 85th Bay Area Annual Poet’s Dinner contest. She also received honorable mention in Poets’ Choice for “Midsummer Eve.” LaDonna Fehlberg‘s “Poetically Speaking” was a winning poem for “Wine Still Life,” a porcelain painting by artist Eugenia Zobel in …
Alice Kight stepped into the winners circle for Too Early haiku contest Monday, October 4, 2010. Marilyn Slade and Violet Carr Moore were runners-up. Read Alice’s poetry in online and printed editions of Contra Costa Valley Times and Tri-Valley Herald. View Marilyn and Vi’s submissions in Bay Area News Group online at http://www.insidebayarea.com.
Alice Kight is a winner in Bay Area News Groups Cinquains don’t sink our scribes contest. Look for her gardening cinquain poem in the August 2, 2010, Time Out section of printed and online editions. Entries from runners-up Chris Alesso and Marilyn Slade are in online editions.
Marilyn Slade and Violet Carr Moore, winners in Summer Travel at the Speed of Haiku contest, were published July 5, 2010, in the Contra Costa Times, Tri-Valley Herald, and affiliated Bay Area News Group newspapers. In addition, Marilyn’s poem “I am a Proud Raisin,” won the Alameda County Fair theme award.
Marilyn Slade’s Pet Peeve haiku was published in the June 7, 2010 printed editions of The Tri-Valley Herald and Contra Costa Times/Valley Times. The online edition can be viewed at www.InsideBayArea.com/haiku.
Marilyn Slade is a winner in the Bay Area News Rabbit Haiku contest. Her poem appeared in printed editions of the Contra Costa Times, Tri-Valley Herald and other affiliated newspapers. Marilyn’s poetry is available online at http://www.insidebayarea.com/.
At the Alameda County Fair Marilyn Slade won the Theme Award for “Sunflower in Her Hair,” the Silver Award for “Food Fight at the Fair” and Honorable Mention for “Crouching Spider.”
Marilyn Slade’s haiku was published by Bay Area News Group’s School’s Out Haiku You contest in the Contra Costa Times, Valley Times and online at InsideBayArea.com.
