Second Sunday Readings

Judy Juanita's poetry collection, Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland, won the American Book Award 2021 from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her poem "Bling" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. Her semi-autobiographical novel, Virgin Soul, about a young woman who joins the Black Panther Party in the 60s was published by Viking in 2013. Her collection of essays, DeFacto Femin...

MARGARET STAWOWY recently edited a poetry anthology titled Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiving to be published 2022. She recently appeared on KQED with a Perspective on Caregiving that you can listen to on the KQED website, which I will post in the chat shortly. She has won awards for her poems from Beyond Baroque, Atlanta Review, and Naugatuck Riv...

Georgina Marie is the Lake County Poet Laureate for 2020-2024; the first Mexican-American and youngest to serve in this role for the county. In June 2021, she was selected as a Poets Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is the Literary Coordinator and Poetry Out Loud Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council, co-creator of the The Bloom's poetry column, and Poet in Residence...