This Saturday: Women’s poetry

One last thing for women’s day:

“World Poetry and the Fed­er­a­tion of Aus­tralian Writers are com­mit­ted to research, curate and pub­li­cise through their extens­ive net­works to present the monthly poetry@fedsquare event between 2–4PM on the second Sat­urday of every month.

In honor of Inter­na­tional Women’s Day, the pro­gram on 10 March 2007 will con­sist of an all-women event, with two fea­ture poets, one fea­ture trans­lator, and up to 10 open read­ings of five minutes each.

The 13 read­ers will present poetry in Eng­lish, and in the fol­low­ing seven lan­guages: Cam­bod­ian, Greek, Hun­garian, Italian, Polish, Viet­namese, and Wath­aurong, which is the ances­tral lan­guage of Abori­gines from the Geelong District.

FEATURE POETS

Julie Jose: Julie was born in the West­ern dis­trict and her mob comes from Gun­ditj­mara, up War­rnam­bool way but she has lived in Wath­aurong coun­try, Geelong for over 20 years and is a Wath­aurong Com­munity woman. Julie is cur­rently work­ing on the reclam­a­tion and teach­ing of the Wath­aurong language.

Carla Sari: Italian by birth and edu­ca­tion, Carla has been writ­ing poetry in Eng­lish for the last 15 years. Her poems have been pub­lished in numer­ous lit­er­ary magazines and antho­lo­gies. For the past few years she has become inter­ested in short poetry such as Haiku and Tanka. She has been pub­lished in six coun­tries and has won first and second prizes and numer­ous awards.

OPEN READERS:

Susan Hawthorne, Kalyan Ky, Ros­anne Ber­sten, Kon­stand­ina Dounis, Pina Carey, Judy Bar­tosy, Pat­rizia Burley, Halinka Rubin, Chi Vu, Anna Sidor Gobaira, and Dimity Feifer.”

And yes, that’s me in there. Come along if you can. I’d love to see you there. I’ll also have books for sale.