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"WordTemple is one of the best reading series in the country. It creates a wonderful, invigorating, exhilarating sense of community..." |
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WordTemple On the Air!
Katherine Hastings hosts a radio show, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa's NPR affiliate KRCB 91.1 FM. Tune in on the third Wednesday of each month from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. for interviews, readings and reconstructions. To listen on iTunes go to Radio/Public/KRDB. To listen on-line, go to www.krcb.org
June 17 , 2009 7:00pm :
The poetry of Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tonight's show includes readings from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson and Open Me Carefully -- Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson; poetry by Emerson, including "Threnody," music inspired by Dickinson and Emerson poems, including Copeland's "Nature the Gentlest Mother," "Let Down the Bars, Oh Death!" and others.
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The WordTemple Poetry Series, currently held at Copperfield's Books, is Santa Rosa's first long-term, ongoing poetry reading series. Founded and hosted by poet Katherine Hastings, the series kicked off in February of 2006 with readings by Jane Hirshfield and David St. John to a standing-room only audience. Also, the first ten minutes of each evening is devoted to a local poet with a good body of work who has not yet published a book.
For information on upcoming readings, check out the Fall 2008 schedule. If you are interested in seeing the featured poets who read in our 2006-2008 seasons, check out our Past Readers page.
"It's clear that Katherine has established a reading series that's the equal of any in the country -- and better than most. Most importantly, the series has a high standard in selecting poets who are widely respected and influential."
-- Paul Hoover, The Bohemian, February 8, 2006
"What's really unique about (this series) is how she's bringing in less well-published local poets, as well as major national poets ."
-- Jane Hirshfield, Press Democrat, February 9, 2006
"Sometimes a reading series is just magic: the combination of writers, audience, organizers and location creates an irresistible alchemy and you end up with, for example, the WordTemple Poetry Series in Santa Rosa ."
-- Molly Fisk
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