Outta the Blue Poetry Event

August 6, 2011 4-6pm
$10 General Public, $5 Roseville Arts Members

William O’Daly

A resident of the Sierra Nevada foothills, O’Daly is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. His published works include eight books of the late and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, and a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry for Still Another Day and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he has worked as a literary and technical editor, a college professor, and an instructional designer; his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. He is a board member of Poets Against War and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press. With co-author Han-ping Chin, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, based on the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Patricia Lynn Reilly

Reilly, who lives in Auburn, is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, and is a theologian, and author of four popular works of non-fiction. She has taken her place as the leading proponent of Embodied Feminism in the women’s empowerment movement. Yet even her most devoted readers will be surprised by the intimacy of the selections in Words Made Flesh, the first anthology of her writings. Here, through poetry and prose, Patricia shares the personal story, the “fleshiness” beneath her public persona as feminist theologian and writer. Sensual, comedic, poignant, evocative, Patricia also is a photographer. At the poetry reading, Patricia's poetry and photographs will dance together in a celebration of resilience, originality, and joy.

Both poets will sign and sell books following the reading.

For more information contact John Bowman at 916-751-9189 or john.bowman58@gmail.com.