Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
38 South Second Street, downtown San José.

Open mic to start the show!

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Born in Arizona, William Greenwood studied languages and social sciences, eventually receiving a degree in Philosophy from the University of California. Subsequently he joined the farm workers’ struggle for justice during early unionization. He taught literacy and organized the first producer-marketing cooperative of Mexican farm workers. This led to a career in agricultural and small business development, mainly in Latin America and the Middle East. As an aid worker on long term assignments, he lived with his family in Honduras, Bolivia, Colombia and Palestine.

He has written poetry all his adult life. In the 1970’s he cofounded Green Horse Press, dedicated to the translation and bilingual publication of poetry not yet available in English. His published work includes a translation of selections from Guatemalan poet, Arqueles Morales’, La Paz Aún No Ganada, selected for the 1971 Cuban Colección La Honda. His poetry books are Into the Center of America and

Landscape/Cityscape, published by Word Temple Press, of which Paul Vangelisti wrote, “His originality is not to be measured in terms of style and technique…but in the singular integrity of his vision…. It is a sensual, hard-bought knowledge that pervades his poetry, founded in and of the world, reinforced by the adventure of language.” His most recent publication is the chapbook, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Hope, which he describes as a reimagining of Pablo Neruda’s iconic book of almost the same name.


Renée M. Schell’s debut collection, Overtones, was published in 2022 by Tourane Poetry Press. Her poetry appears in New Verse News, Catamaran Literary Reader, Caesura, Naugatuck River Review, and many other journals and anthologies, including Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press 2025). She was lead editor for the anthology (AFTER)life: Poems and Stories of the Dead. She holds a Ph.D. in German Studies and also taught for seven years at a Title I elementary school. Renée’s work has been nominated for Best of the Net. You can find her at www.reneemschell.org

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