REadings:In the Blood: Poetry About Family with Margaret Stawowy, Fred Dodsworth, Kevin Dublin, Kathryn Jordan, Robin Michel, and Gabrielle Rilleau. Come hear poems about the shared human experience of family. Whether of our choosing or not, families impact every facet of our lives. Poets will read about the nuances and complexities of this most basic social unit from harmony to dysfunction, and all experiences in between. Books will be available for purchase. Date: Saturday, April 20, 2024 Time: 4:30 - 6:30 PM Where: Sausalito Books by the Bay, 100 Bay Street, Sausalito California, 415-887-9967. Limited free bookstore parking but plenty of public parking adjacent to the bookstore. Refreshments will be served. Also:February 2024
Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiving is a book club pick for Aging and Amazing, a non-profit that is committed to older adults and strengthening their networks. Partnering with AlzAuthors, who provided the book choices, you can sign up and receive information for all book club picks, including Storms of the Inland Sea by going here. When: Tuesday, April 30th, 7:00 PM Eastern via Zoom. September 2022 Kelsay Books is publishing Margaret Stawowy's chapbook, Walking Backward, to be released in 2023. A series of thirty-one narrative persona poems about Margaret's mother, Walking Backward explores the unalterable trajectories of family history, DNA, and biological and adoptive families. Margaret Stawowy and Jim Cokas produced an anthology of poetry titled Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiving to be released by Shanti Arts on October 11, 2022. Like us at Storms of the Inland Sea on Facebook and chrysalispoem on Instagram. Read our glowing review on Kirkus. Sign up for our book launch at Dominican University, Edgehill Mansion, 75 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, California on October 22, 2022. Listen to Margaret's interview with Dr. David Feldman on KPFA on September 5, 2022. April 2022 Voetica, a website of poetry spoken, is now featuring recordings of poems from Keeper of the Pond as well as forthcoming chapbook, Walking Backward. Check it out here: September 17, 2021 A KQED Perspective on caregiving was aired. Listen here. March 2020 Poem "In Utero" won 2nd Place in the 2019 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. February 18, 2019 "How You Know Your Aging Mother Needs Help" was published in Postcard Poems and Prose: https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/how-you-know-your-aging-mother-needs-help-by-margaret-stawowy/ November 15, 2018
Naugatuck River Review's 10th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest named Margaret Stawowy's poem "Halfway to Hell" as a finalist. It will appear in the Winter/Spring 2019 issue. Alison Joseph judged. November 13, 2018
Margaret Stawowy read a poem before Marin Board of Supervisors, Marin County Civic Center, Board Chambers. May 27, 2018
Margaret Stawowy is the featured poet in Women's Voices for Change Poetry Sunday column by Rebecca Foust. August 21, 2017 August 19, 2017
Margaret Stawowy is featured in MarinIJ article: Marin skywatchers pumped up for solar eclipse August 18, 2017
Marin Poets Live! has released "Interview with Margaret Stawowy" on the Marin County Free Library YouTube channel. This interview with Margaret Stawowy originally aired on Thursday, October 13th, 2016 at 7:30pm .March 7, 2015
Margaret Stawowy is featured in MarinIJ article: Preschoolers get ahead of STEAM learning with new library program. |
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