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Sunday Circle 9:00 am
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Three well-known Marin poets will read from their works in a special service called “The Church of Poetry.” Poets Joan Baranow, Joe Zaccardi, and Diane Frank will each read pieces they consider inspirational, as part of the regular liturgy. Pianist Milton Wong will perform between the readings.
Joan Baranow is the author of six poetry books. Her collection, Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, won the 2021 Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, JAMA, and elsewhere. A member of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Community of Writers, she founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Dominican University of California.
Joseph Zaccardi was born at Columbus Hospital at 4am. He writes, “as my mom was giving me life, the doctor asked her what she was going to name me; she asked the doctor what his first name was, and he said Joseph; just then, according to my mom, there was a huge crack of lightning and thunder and she took it as a sign, and she told the doctor she was going to name me Joseph.” Zaccardi was appointed as poet laureate of Marin County in 2013. His sixth book of poems, Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, was published in 2023.
Diane Frank is author of eight books of poems, two novels, and a photo memoir of her 400 mile trek in the Nepal Himalayas. While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems won the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Poetry. She is editor of Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here. Diane plays cello in the Golden Gate Symphony and collaborated with Matt Arnerich to create an orchestral suite based on her poem, “Tree of Life.” Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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