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Women's Museum of California2730 Historic Decatur Rd
#103
San Diego, CA 92106
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Second Sunday Author Series with Aleta George
Second Sunday Author Series Women's Voices, Women's Stories with Aleta George, author of Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California's First Poet Laureate, a biography about a pioneer poet, Oakland's first public librarian, and the most popular literary ambassador in the early American West.
Tickets are $5
Aleta George is an award-winning author and journalist who writes about nature and culture in California. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and several travel anthologies. She lives north of San Francisco where water meets land and city meets farm. aletageorge.com
Reviews:
"Telling Coolbrith's story, author Aleta George offers an intriguing glimpse of fin de siècle California and the rousing, sometimes rowdy adolescence of our nation. –Gerald Haslam, professor emeritus, Sonoma State University
"In a book marked by literary grace and conviction, Aleta George presents a nuranced yet compelling portrait of a major California figure." – Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books.
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This monthly series features women writers of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and other genres who will read from or perform their work and engage in dialogues with audience members.
With the commitment to bring diverse voices and a variety of stories from local and visiting authors, the series will include both published and unpublished works from writers well known, unknown, and all the places in between. The occasional parings of multiple voices for cultural and literary resonance will add another dimension to the series, the aim of which is to celebrate the diversity of women’s voices, provide a venue for literary expression, and acknowledge the importance and validity of every woman’s story, however it is told.
The series is curated by Judy Reeves, author of Wild Women, Wild Voices.
For more information contact jareeves@mac.com.