Well-RED Memorial Reading for Mary Lou Taylor!

Poetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and, in many cases, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived, now located in San Jose History Park. Since the Fall of 2000, PCSJ has sponsored a series of readings by local poets throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organizationhttp://www.pcsj.org/

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Well-RED features a memorial reading honoring Mary Lou Taylor!Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!38 S 2nd St., downtown San José.To attend via Zoom, register at the following link: http://bit.ly/3XIJUNBJoin us to read your favorite Mary Lou Taylor poem!Guests include: Kevin Arnold, Sally Ashton, Linda Drew, Kathie Isaac-Luke and Stephanie PressmanStill, The Magnolia (Frog On The Moon Press) will be available.For more than 40 years, Mary Lou Taylor served Poetry Center San Jose in numerous capacities, including two terms as president. She also participated in open mic poetry readings at the Willow Glen Library and contributed to programs, events, and many fundraising activities.In 2002, with the encouragement of PCSJ members and the assistance of an attorney friend, a contract was written and accepted by the CEO of History Park, San Jose, to make Markham House the PCSJ headquarters. A historic San José landmark, the Markham House is a Victorian home where the famous poet Edwin Markham lived in the late 1800s. The house is used by PCSJ to host adult and children’s poetry workshops, poetry festivals, and open house events.Taylor was editor of the Abby Niebauer Memorial competition and served as a trustee emerita of the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University.Throughout her years of writing, she has received honors, awards, and invitations to recite. Her love of poetry becomes contagious to those who see her smile and feel her emotions as she recites from the pages of her books. She is a poet with a keen sense for molding her past experiences into well-crafted poetry.A native of Chicago, Taylor grew up in Los Angeles, a setting that inspired her first poetry collection, “The Fringes of Hollywood,” published in 2002 by Jacaranda Press. The collection recalls her time living in Tinseltown.Taylor has several poems in “The Call: An Anthology of Women Writers,” from Dragonfly Press, published in 2009. During her residency at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, she received her inspiration for writing, “Bringing Home the Moon,” published in 2015 by Aldrich Press.Photo by studiosreeVisit on Instagram @studiosree

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