On the 5/3/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:
Dr. Andy’s first guest is community activist and performer Denise Hoffner, who tells us about Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, a Winters Theatre production she’ll be a part of this weekend. Poet, writer, and teacher Caroline Smadja joins next to talk about thinking in multiple languages, finding community, and getting inspired. She shares two poems offering different landscapes for grief. Finally, former Poet Laureate of San Mateo County Lisa Rosenberg lets us in on her literary beginnings at UC Davis and her synthesis of science and poetry, then shares two poems drawing on that synthesis.
Denise Hoffner is a stand-up comic, writer, activist, actor, lawyer, and crossing guard. She will play Aunt Rose in the Winters Theatre production of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, May 5th through May 7th, at Green River Brewing and Taproom, 4513 Putah Creek Rd, Winters.
Caroline (pronounced Ca-ro-le-ne) Smadja is a French-born writer of North African Jewish heritage living between France and Northern California. Her stories and essays have appeared in France, the US, Canada and South Africa. Her poetry has been published in several magazines, notably CA Quarterly & in the Kurt Vonnegut Library & Museum Journal. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University and teaches literature at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Lisa Rosenberg is the author of the poetry collection A Different Physics (Red Mountain Press), as well as essays, satire, and memoir. A former space program engineer trained as a physicist, she served as the second Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, and is a frequent speaker on the confluence of arts and sciences. She has received a Leonardo Djerassi Residency, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and MOSAIC America Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in venues such as The Common, Leonardo, POETRY, The Threepenny Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology.
Lois P. Jones and William O’Daly will read at the Poetry Night Reading Series on May 18th.
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