One last thing for women’s day:
“World Poetry and the Federation of Australian Writers are committed to research, curate and publicise through their extensive networks to present the monthly poetry@fedsquare event between 2-4PM on the second Saturday of every month.
In honor of International Women’s Day, the program on 10 March 2007 will consist of an all-women event, with two feature poets, one feature translator, and up to 10 open readings of five minutes each.
The 13 readers will present poetry in English, and in the following seven languages: Cambodian, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Vietnamese, and Wathaurong, which is the ancestral language of Aborigines from the Geelong District.
FEATURE POETS
Julie Jose: Julie was born in the Western district and her mob comes from Gunditjmara, up Warrnambool way but she has lived in Wathaurong country, Geelong for over 20 years and is a Wathaurong Community woman. Julie is currently working on the reclamation and teaching of the Wathaurong language.
Carla Sari: Italian by birth and education, Carla has been writing poetry in English for the last 15 years. Her poems have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. For the past few years she has become interested in short poetry such as Haiku and Tanka. She has been published in six countries and has won first and second prizes and numerous awards.
OPEN READERS:
Susan Hawthorne, Kalyan Ky, Rosanne Bersten, Konstandina Dounis, Pina Carey, Judy Bartosy, Patrizia Burley, Halinka Rubin, Chi Vu, Anna Sidor Gobaira, and Dimity Feifer.”
And yes, that’s me in there. Come along if you can. I’d love to see you there. I’ll also have books for sale.