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Well-RED features Dane Cervine & Donna Presson (In Person & Zoom)
Aug
12
open mic, zoom open mic, featured poet

Well-RED features Dane Cervine & Donna Presson (In Person & Zoom)

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

Open mic to start the show!

If you are unable to attend in person, we welcome you to join via Zoom! Register in advance for this event via Zoom.
Link: https://bit.ly/4k5BqdQ

Our featured poets:

Dane Cervine’s recent books of poetry include Nine Volt Nirvana (Word Poetry Press), DEEP TRAVEL – At Home in the [Burning] World (Saddle Road Press), The World Is God’s Language (Sixteen Rivers Press), Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, the Atlanta Review, Caesura, and been nominated for multiple Pushcarts. His work appears in The SUN, the Hudson Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, Pedestal Magazine, among others. Dane lives in Santa Cruz, California. Visit his website at: https://danecervine.typepad.com/
You can also find him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/dane.cervine

Donna’s interest in the arts began with dance. In the 1980’s she attended San Jose City College. There she was mentored by Jimmyle Kester, head of the thriving dance department. Eventually, Donna joined Jimmyle’s modern dance company: “Leda” where she played Sheena in the 1987 production of “Taste of Blood”. Years later, as a first time mother, Donna discovered Interplay@—a form of improvisation combining words and movement. Cynthia Winton Henry and Phil Porter founded Interplay. Both are trained theologians who have a background in liturgical dance. At Interplay, Donna met individuals at every level of experience who shared a common desire to create and participate in spontaneous movement and storytelling. Donna went on to earn her a bachelors degree in Creative Arts from San Jose State University in 1997. She completed the Interplay leadership training in 2011. Mighty Mike McGee, San Jose Poet Laureate (2018-2020), is credited with Donna’s current love of open mic. Every Thursday night, prior to Covid, Cafe Friscatti in San Jose Arts District was home to “Live Lit”. Everyone was welcome. Anyone could vent, read, act, or tell a story for 5 minutes or under. McGee and his ability to identify and appreciate everyone’s uniqueness allowed Donna to test out new ideas. She is proud to have been invited to feature at “Live Lit” in 2018.

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Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation (@MellonFdn), Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant. We also thank Brandenburg Family Foundation and Anne & Mark's Art Party for their generous giving.

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