4 Women Reading Women

Press Release
A Women's History Month literary event in Ukiah
4 Women Reading Women, March 18, 2011, 7 pm, Grace Hudson Museum

To commemorate Women’s History Month, 4 local women writers will celebrate the works and contributions of various women writers of their choice. Donna Kerr, Mary Norbert Körte, Linda Noel, and Theresa Whitehill will offer a reading Friday, March 18, 7pm at the Grace Hudson Museum.

The 4 women come from varied backgrounds, including
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- Körte, who received a post graduate degree in Silver Latin; she studied and hung out with some of the great Beat Poets, including Lew Welch and William Everson, before relocating to the Noyo River basin where she has resided for nearly 40 years

- Kerr, a librarian for Mendocino County for twenty years who channels the words of Dorothy Wordsworth and has published 2 poetry chapbooks and been a keynote speaker at the UkiaHaiku Festival

- Noel, who is a Koyungkowi California Native who grew up in Willits, where she discovered poetry while a student at Willits High School; she has been published in anthologies and journals and served as Ukiah Poet Laureate 2006-200
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- Whitehill, who is a graphic designer and letterpress printer; her latest book, A Grammar of Longing, was released in 2009 by Pygmy Forest Press; her poetry broadsides and commissioned poetry hang in university libraries throughout the country; she is the current Ukiah Poet Laureate.

The women have made their own selections of the writers they wish to present including personal favorites, those who have inspired them or a larger following through their writings, and women who have had a profound impact on not only the literary world but society and culture, including: Anne Sexton, Joy Harjo, Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, Muriel Rukeyser, Sharon Olds, Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich and Leslie Silko.

Light refreshments will be offered following the reading which is free of charge with donations welcomed.

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