Special Event Reading April 25th |
Tebot Bach Series
Additionally, Tebot Bach sponsors poetry readings and writing workshops for schools Kindergarten through college and marginalized venues such as homeless shelters, battered women's shelters, nursing homes, senior citizen daycare centers, hospitals, AIDS hospices, and correctional facilities. Participating poets include: Photographer: Bob | Lanphar Book Sales: Dee Cohen | Baker: Lori McGinn Reading Kate Buckley
Kate Buckley, a ninth generation Kentucky native, currently lives in Laguna Beach, California. She was educated at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, and has served as the Executive Vice President for Castello Cities Internet Network since 1998. Carine Topal Carine Topal, a native New Yorker, writes and teaches in Los Angeles. She moved to Jerusalem, Israel in the 1970's, where she worked with Palestinian merchants, traveling to villages and towns in the West Bank and Bethlehem. She was also employed by the Office of Assimilation, in a small town outside Jerusalem, working with Moroccan Jews. She then lived in Germany on the American army base in Heidelberg. Since 1982, she has anthologized the poetry of special needs children. She participated in the grassroots organization California Poets in the Schools. She was the Poet-in-Residence for the city of Manhattan Beach and Poet-in-Education for Manhattan Beach elementary schools. In 1994, her first collection of poetry, God As Thief, was published by The Amagansett Press. Her work has appeared in Water-Stone, Caliban, The Best of the Prose Poem, Pacific Review, and many other journals throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 2004, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2005, awarded a residency at Hedgebrook, as well as a fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2006, Carine had the good fortune of teaching poetry at the VA Hospital in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, including the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, the 2007 Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award from California Arts and Letters, with a special edition chapbook, Bed of Want, recently published by Black Zinnias. Most recently, Carine was awarded the 2008 Excellence in Arts Award from the Cultural Arts Commission of Torrance. |


