California Poetry Readings: Bookends to a Spectacular Vacation

Pre-reading dinner in Venice Beach, California. Left to right: Charlotte Innes, Catherine Chandler, Timothy Steele, Frank Osen, Kevin Durkin, Leslie Monsour and Bruce McBirney.

I was fortunate to have been invited to read my poetry with Timothy Steele and Kevin Durkin at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California, on September 27 and with Lee Slonimsky and George Higgins at First Wednesday Formal in Albany (north of San Francisco) on October 1, and in-between the gorgeous land- and seascapes of the Pacific Coast Highway -- staying overnight on Moonstone Beach in Cambria and in Santa Cruz.

Cathy on the walkway at Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California

Big Sur, California, photo by Catherine Chandler, September 29, 2014

Special thanks to Richard Modiano of Beyond Baroque, Charlotte Innes who organized the reading, and to David Rosenthal of First Wednesday Formal.