The First Tuesday poets are celebrating with Windows & Skylights, the third in a series of anthologies that gather up the best poems from these readings to print and put in your hands. Meeting at the Library since 2002, it is an amorphous group from the city, from the countryside, from San Francisco to Fairfield, Danville to Santa Rosa; a group which eddies and flows like the tides that meet next to Benicia at the junction of the Sacramento River, San Pablo and San Francisco Bays. From youngsters still in high school to gray haired retirees, 30-something professionals and artists to the local handyman hero, their poetry resides in this book to entertain and perhaps awaken you to perspectives that are new and refreshing. Fire and ice, puppies and chocolate are sensual descriptions that we can easily relate to our own experiences. So how does one use words to effect a similar recall, the same intensely personal feeling? This third anthology from the Benicia First Tuesday poets, Windows & Skylights will open to give you that experience. From the very first poem in the book: Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct, One Resides in My Living Room to the final Concert, the pages in this anthology will delight, entertain, and take you ... to 'your' there.
The poets are Tamra Jane Amato, Frances Anderson-Jackson, Peter Bray, Suzanne Bruce, Chuck Conner, Carole Dwinell, Joel Fallon, John Goory, Ronna Leon, Juanita J. Martin, Michael Merris, Debralee Pagan, Don Peery, Jeanne Powell, John Robert Pray, Maria Rosales, Sherry Sheehan, Robert Shelby, Elaine Starkman, and Maryanne Leslie Villaraza-Saulsbury.
