| Sep. 9, 2005 |
Dedication
of Katherine's Place,Women's Shelter, south Seattle. Pesha reads her
poetry. |
| Sep. 19 |
Pesha
meets with Nick Licata and City Council. |
| Sep. 28 |
Pesha
reads poetry and gives a Memoir Workshop at Emerald Heights Retirement
Center, Redmond, WA. |
| Oct. 13 |
Yom
Kippur GLBT havurah. Pesha reads poetry and hands out bookmarks with
poems by Pesha and artwork by Rebecca Green and Leslie Shinsato. |
| Nov. 19 |
Pesha
is "Surprise guest poet:" at "My dinner with Sam Hamill" event at Fare
Start Restaurant, 1902 2nd Av.S (sponsored by P &W, WA State
Poets Association, fundraiser for Burning Word). Intro by Nick
Licata; Pesha reads her poems. |
| Dec. 2 |
Poet
Populist reading at North Seattle Community College, featuring Chrysta
Bell, Poet Populist nominee, Nancy Dahlberg, Poet Populist runnier-up
and Pesha, Poet Populist. |
| Dec. 16 |
Pesha
reads her poems with Scott Galasso and Jed Meyers in the "Take a Poem
from your Heart" series in Columbia City at Bookworm Exchange.
|
| Jan. 9, 2006 |
Pesha
reads poems at the reception after the swearing-in ceremony at City
Hall for the Mayor and City Council members. |
| Jan. 20 |
Poet
Populist reading at 3rd Place Books, N.E. Ravenna. Pesha reads with
students, Margie McCarty, Shelley Minden, Peggy Sturdivant (and Irit
Weisel, unable to attend but Pesha read one of Irit's poems
in honor of the late Rucy Mindel, a former student, to whom
the reading was dedicated). |
| Feb. 12 |
"Living
with Intention and Imagination" at Antioch College. Keynote speaker,
Gloria Burgess. Pesha read poems and led an
afternoon poetry workshop. |
| Feb. 17 |
North
Seattle Community College Reading Series. Pesha reads her poems with
Creative Writing instructor colleagues, Deborah Green, Tracy Heinlein,
and Molly Tenenbaum. |
| Feb. 23-26 |
Annual
Women of Wisdom Conference. Barbara Marx Hubbard, internationally
renowned author and
futurist, keynote speaker. Pesha, as Poet Populist, coordinated a
Poetry Wall. She read a poem during a closing ritual led by
Gloria Burgess. |
| Mar. 7 |
KUOW.
9 a.m. In honor of International Women's Day, Pesha
is interviewed by
Steve Scher along with Erica Mills, Strategic Advisor for the
Initiative
for Global
Development for Global Partnerships, and Suzanne Hakam, former
president of the Society of Women Engineers-Pacific NW section.
|
| Mar. 7 |
Women
in Science Conference in North Seattle. Pesha reads poetry and leads a
creative writing workshop. |
| Date TBA |
Pesha
will give a poetry reading and lead a creative writing workshop at WROC
(Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition). |
| Apr. 19 |
Providence
Mt. St. Vincent Assisted Living. Pesha will read her poetry and lead a
creative writing workshop. The coordinator is Chris Bravmann-Bevens,
MFA in Poetics, Naropa. |
| Apr. 29 |
Celebration
of Pesha's one-year term as Poet Populist. Central Library, Seattle,
3-4:30 p.m. One of Pesha's poems will be "Sarah and Hagar" which she
presented in Israel and Palestine. Esther Sugai, flautist and Simone la
Drumma, will accompany her. Guest poets are Judith Roche, J.T. Stewart,
and Koon Woon. |
| May 10 |
The April 29th Poet Populist Celebration televised on Seattle Channel 21. |
| May 13 |
Poet
Populist reading at Epilogue Books with Pesha and Poet Populist nominees, Irene Drennan, Poet
and Paul Hunter. |
| May 18 |
Literary
Festival at Columbia Basin College, Pasco,WA. Pesha will read her
poetry with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar. |
| May 30 |
UW
Choral Singers, directed by Dr. Geoffrey Boers, UW Choral Director,
will present Elizabeth Alexander's musical version of Pesha's
poem, "The Healing Time" (musical version re-named with first line of
poem, "Finally on my way to Yes"). Meany Hall, 7:30 p.m. |
