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Book Release Reading and Celebration

  • North Bay Letterpress Arts 925-D Gravenstein Hwy. S. Sebastopol United States (map)

Three writers associated with the bookmaking, writing, & reading community at North Bay Letterpress Arts for many years will appear together for a book launch/ reading/ discussion at the printshop in Sebastopol. 

We are: John Johnson, whose poetry collection, Toss Repeat, winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize, was published early this year;

judi goldberg, whose innovative memoir Common Currency is about change & the words we use to tell the stories we do, seen in part through the lens of a fictional character named Bess, an old woman coming of age as an artist, whose memoir this is.

Eric Johnson, whose recent book, Journeymans Dues, is a memoir of working as a union carpenter in heavy construction 50 years ago.

The books are quite different externally, but we have been friends and colleagues for fifteen years – steadily discussing the aesthetics of poetry and bookmaking – and that conversation will keep going at this event as we listen to each other and reflect on our separate arts.

Sunday, July 13, 2-4pm

* FREE and open to the public
* Refreshments, readings, and great conversation served in equal measure