Poets Night

Poets Night at Sunnyvale Library
Monday, April 17, 2017, 6:00pm
Features: Charlotte Muse, Riley O’Connell, and Kim Johnson
open mic follows with host Bill Cozzini

Sunnyvale Public Library
665 W Olive Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Free and open to the public

Charlotte Muse received both her MA and MFA from San Francisco State, where she taught poetry. Her most recent books include Violin (Blurb Books, 2013), a series of poems illustrated by the artist Joyce Savre, and A Story Also Grows (a Main Street Rag Editor’s Selection. A handmade letterpress edition by the Chester Creek Press is in both the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress rare book collections.) Her website is at www.charlottemuse.net.

An avid writer since the first grade, Riley O’Connell served briefly as Denver’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate before attending Santa Clara University, where she founded both The Bronco Slam & Jam (a quarterly poetry slam/music open mic) and SCU’s first national CUPSI team during her studies in English and Communication.

Kim Johnson has been a member of several Bay Area slam teams and toured the US many times, performing at slam venues, clubs, colleges, festivals and performing arts centers. In 2009 she was an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, and in 2010 completed her first European poetry tour with performances in Germany, Spain, Austria and the Netherlands. She has been a poet mentor for Youth Speaks San Francisco, Lyrical Minded SF and Future Arts Now.