Frederick Foote
todd boyd
andy, Charles, Cheryl, Donella, Jennifer,lynette
michelle, pat s, rose ann, Shannon, susan, vicki
Frederick
Foote
Since 2014 Frederick has published over
two- hundred stories and poems including literary, science fiction, fables, and
horror genres. Frederick has published two short story collections, For the
Sake of Soul, (2015) and, Crossroads Encounters, (2016). Frederick
hosts the Prose and Poetry Meet Up group and is a member of the INK writers
workshop and is currently preparing a short story collection manuscript
Todd Boyd
I survived as a carpenter, railroad
worker, and a social studies teacher before I retired for good, so I am no
longer tied down to the wage industrial complex tracks, like Sweet Sue, like
sweet sue used to.
I define myself as an agnostically
oriented spiritual believer in Hope and second, third, and fourth chances
because there’s no future in believing only in your own fallibility, no matter
how much attention/notoriety you get nor how smart you are.
I’ve been taken on some long rides
down life’s road and I’ve driven some too.
Nowadays I write, get to make things
up, and continue to try my literary hand as a self-published author, internet
radio host, blogging, making some visual art, hosting both writing and open mic
events, working on another novel, and enjoying whatever sports my body will let
me do.
Self-published author of one novel (Marat, Untrue Loves, four chapbooks-(Shark Poems and Caroline’s Adeline Street
and Other Poems), one book of short stories, (Allred’s Short Stories), one journal of personal history (The Election of 2012- A Year of Living
Inside the Definition of Insanity). Most of these titles can be found on
Amazon for practically nothing.
Here’s the July 27th, 2019 Featured Reading by Bethanie Humphreys and Heather Judy, Rene Marie and Jeanine Stevens
Bethanie Humphreys Heather Judy
Renee Marie Jeanine Stevens
Here are the Open Mic’ers from July 27th, 2019 Writers On the Air.
Aeisha, Carol Lynn, Gena, Jennifer, Laura, Lynette, Mike, Shannon, Susan, Tj, Tom, Todd, Vicki
Part 1 Aeisha carol lynn gena Jennifer laura lynette
Part 2 mike Shannon susan tj tom todd vicki
Bio: For more information about our July Featured Readers , Read below.
Bethanie Humphreys is a writer, editor, and
mixed-media visual artist. Her poetry, short fiction, and art have appeared in
various publications in the U.S. and U.K. including: Artemis, Nonbinary
Review, The Found Poetry Review, American River Review, and Sacramento
Voices. She
serves as board member for the
Sacramento Poetry Center
and co-curator for the SPC Art Gallery. She was Editor-in-Chief of the 2015 American
River Review, and is currently Associate Editor for Tule
Review.
She is a Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry
Workshop Alumni, has a Bachelors in Spanish from CSU, Sacramento, and a
Creative Writing Certificate in Literary Publishing from American River
College. She is also a California Certified Naturalist, and certified in the
Amherst Writer’s and Artists Method.
Her chapbook, Dendrochronology, was published by Finishing Line Press in June,
2019, and is available for $14.99.
Bethanie’s Sample Poem:
I think I dreamed we were birds
Yardstick ruler strapped
across our shoulders
feathers dyed jewel-tones
taped in streamer-fashion
along measurements
that no longer matter
Bio:
Heather Judy is a poet and artist living
in Sacramento. She earned her MFA in Poetry from Mills College in 2009. Before
attending Mills, she received her BA in English from CSU, Sacramento where she
won the 2005 Bazzanella Award for first place in poetry. Her poems have
appeared in Tule
Review, The California Quarterly, Flatmancrooked’s Thin Volume of Contemporary
Poetry, and others.
She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member, an Associate Editor and Art Director for Tule
Review, and co-curates for the Sacramento Poetry Center Art Gallery. Her
chapbook, Inosculation, was a
semi-finalist for the CutBank
Chapbook Contest in 2018.
Heather’s Sample Poem:
PUEDO BAILAR
They danced in the street, bare
breastbones, crouching,
aprons nestled low. She held her
lover, wing
lifted, right arm round lover’s
waist, palm resting in
her smallness. They danced in
blood, a banner hung
behind them: Puedo bailar. Black hightops sung
against dove stone, sandals
treading hymns. Young
heads bowed, eyes, closed, brows
together, no sin
between them. Nectar drips and
shifts, bodies glint.
They dance in sheets, bare breasts,
bones clinging,
open, nestled low, lovers folding
into wings.
Bio:
Jeanine Stevens is the author of Limberlost and Inheritor (Future Cycle Press) and Sailing on Milkweed (Cherry Grove Collections). Her latest
chapbook, Citadels, was published by
Folded Word Press, 2019. Winner of the MacGuffin Poet Hunt, The Ekphrasis
Prize, Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, and WOMR Cape Cod Community Radio
National Poetry Award. Jeanine studied poetry at U.C. Davis and California
State University, Sacramento. Poems have been published in Evansville Review, Forge, Chiron Review, Pearl, Stoneboat, Connecticut
River Review, Verse Wisconsin, The Curator and North Dakota Quarterly. She also enjoys Romanian folk dance and
working with collage. Jeanine is Professor Emeritus at American River College
having taughtAnthropology,
Psychology and Women’s Studies for thirty two years.
Jeanine’s Sample Poem:
New Delhi
She is the brick wall that
defines her,
the thin arms under the sari.
She is the madras pattern
of marigold orange and olive
green.
She is the littered ground,
the ground scattered with bricks
and refuse.
One brick is her table. She
entertains
simply. There are no spoons,
only hands to mix grains and
river water.
The street is her open window,
her furniture, the battered chair
tipped
on its side, a cupboard of sorts
for bent pans.
She is the smoke stained wall
and crouches under a large sign
in English, “Choice Shampoo.”
She is the big toe that grips the
ground.
Nearby, are bits of denim,
foreign labels, and one bright,
upright yellow pear.
Back straight, she does not
slouch,
looks directly at the camera in a
half smile.
She is the pierced diamond
carried in the side of her nose
and the red spice she holds to
mix
with her evening meal. She is
the memory of golden flocks on
hilly flanks,
the darkness of things being
burnt,
surrounded by things already
burnt.
Her only book, a book of matches,
her tablet: the wall, her pen:
bits of charcoal.
She doesn’t worry if her seeds
are not planted by the spring
equinox.
~after a photograph, National Geographic
Bethanie will have copies of her new book-Dendrochronology
Members of Writers On the Air Meetup are encouraged to RSVP (Yes or No).
Please go to writersontheair.com for more information.
Recordings made during the open mic are played on accesssacramento.org/KUBU 96.5 LP-FM radio on Mondays, 7am-8am.
The Writers On the Air Show podcast can be heard at Itunes/IConnect Podcast, either at the website or as a subscriber.