Well-RED features Sally Ashton, Francesca Bell and Dion O'Reilly reading from their new books of poetry!
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
New address: 38 South Second Street, downtown San José.Come visit and celebrate the new gallery space for Works/San José!
Open mic to start the show!
Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, San José State University professor emerita, lecturer, blogger, and workshop presenter who has taught over 100 workshops. She was appointed the second Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, 2011-2013. She has collaborated with both visual artists and musicians. She is Assistant Editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press, 2018. Her work is included in many anthologies. Her poem, “4.6 Billion Years,” reprinted in The Inflectionist Review, was selected as part of the Lunar Codex project and will be sent to the south pole of the Moon in 2024. Listening to Mars, her fifth book, is now available from Cornerstone Press.
For more information, visit sallyashton.com
Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain, finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and What Small Sound, short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize, and the translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here. She is the poet laureate of Marin County, the events coordinator for the Marin Poetry Center, a translation editor at the Los Angeles Review, and the Arts Program Coordinator for the Friends of the San Quentin Prison Library.
https://www.francescabellpoet.com
Dion O’Reilly’s debut collection, Ghost Dogs (Terrapin Books 2020) was runner-up for The Catamaran Prize and shortlisted for several awards, including The Eric Hoffer Award. Her second book Sadness of the Apex Predator was published by University of Wisconsin's Cornerstone Press in February 2024. Her work appears in Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, The Sun, Rattle, Narrative, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She facilitates private workshops, hosts a podcast at The Hive Poetry Collective, and is a reader for Catamaran Literary Quarterly. She splits her time between a ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington.
https://www.dionoreilly.com/
