Three Visiting US Writers' For Galway Museum

galway | arts and media | press release Wednesday April 30, 2008 16:47 by Fred Johnston - Western Writers' Centre, Galway westernwriters at eircom dot net 34 Nuns Island Galway 091.533594

Prominent writers on Irish tour

Three prominent US women poets willl read from their work, courtesy of the Western Writers Centre, at Galway City Museum tomorrow, Wednesday, May 1st.

Kathleen Flowers

Three visiting American poets will read for the Western Writers’ Centre at Galway City Museum on Thursday, May 1st, at 1.05pm. Admission is €3. They are currently on a brief readings’ tour of Ireland.

Amber Coverdale Sumrall was born in California and has lived in Santa Cruz County since 1972. She has edited or co-edited thirteen anthologies including Storming Heaven’s Gate: Spiritual Writings by Women. She leads Write to the Heart workshops: journal, poetry, and editing, and writing retreats at The Hermitage in Big Sur, St. Francis Retreat in San Juan Bautista, Mission San Antonio in Jolon and in Ireland. For twenty years she has co-produced In Celebration of the Muse, an annual literary event featuring Santa Cruz women writers. Her second collection of poems, Refuge, was published in 2007 by Hummingbird Press. Her first book of poems, Litany of Wings, was published in 1998 and one of the poems was read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Alamanac.

Kathleen Flowers is a bilingual educator in Santa Cruz, California. Her poems have been published in Harvest from the Emerald Orchard, Good Times, The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004, Porter Gulch Review, The Matrix, and Moments in the Journey. Her first poetry chapbook, Call It Gladness, is the recipient of the 2008 In Celebration of the Muse chapbook award.

Alanna Alter has been published in several Monterey Bay area literary journals and anthologies. She has read many times locally in Santa Cruz and in the Bay area. She is working on a manuscript for her first collection of poems.

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