VEILS OF SEPARATION: Finding the Face of Oneness

veilsSATURDAY, JULY 25.  2PM – 4PM.  Sit with Rabia Erduman and participate in her fabulously vibrant expressions and explanations related to personal growth and spirituality.  Rabia has translated her inner journeys of transformation into a magical fable of her (“Babla’s”) adventures in the Forest of Life.  She blends elements of her own psyche with universal wisdom to remind us of the many possibilities of inner healing.    “Veils of Separation” is an adventure story of the heart.Continue reading “VEILS OF SEPARATION: Finding the Face of Oneness”

Book Signing: Lee A. Farrow, author of Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-1872

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Tuesday 28 July 2015, 7pm: Old Capitol Books is excited to have Professor Lee A. Farrow visiting from Auburn University at Montgomery, in Montgomery, Alabama talking about her recent publication of Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-1872.

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MONTEREY BAY POETRY CONSORTIUM PRESENTS: J.P. Dancing Bear & Simon Hunt

J.P. Dancing Bear & Simon Hunt.  Sunday, June 14, 2:00 p.m.  $5.00 Admission

J. P. Dancing Bear is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public station, KKUP and available as podcasts.  He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, most recently Cephalopodic (Glass Lyre, 2015) and Love is a Burning Building(FutureCycle Press, 2014). His work has appeared or will shortly in American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, the Cimmaron Review and elsewhere.   
 
Simon Hunt was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and raised in England and the United States.  He co-edited Renaissance Culture and the Everyday (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) and contributed an essay to that volume.  His poems have appeared in Light Quarterly, The Raintown Review, The Seventh Quarry, The Sewanee Review, and other journals—as well as in the online publications 14 X 14 and The Chimaera.  Forthcoming poems will appear in Measure and The Sewanee Review. He teaches English at Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, where he lives with his wife and two children.  He is a member of the Board of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, where he has served as a volunteer docent for more than a decade.

Theory & Philosophy Reading GroupXI: Angela Davis

Libertad_para_Angela_Davis_by_Genun23 June 2015 – 7pm: In collaboration with the Direct Action Monterey Network, this month’s Theory & Philosophy reading group is highlighting struggles against solitary confinement by featuring the writings of Angela Davis.

For this reading group, we’ll be exploring her work, Are Prisons Obsolete?

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Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Maggie Bennett

14 July 2015: Networking Aloud features Maggie Bennett, a long-time midwife in Monterey County. Our free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday.  NETWORKING ALOUD: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15-20 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work in progress, OR published, we want to hear your VOICE.Continue reading “Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Maggie Bennett”

Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Diana Y. Paul

June 9th 2015: Networking Aloud features Diana Y. Paul, author of Things Unsaid. Our free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday.  NETWORKING ALOUD: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15-20 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work in progress, OR published, we want to hear your VOICE.Continue reading “Networking Aloud! A monthly open mic: Featuring Diana Y. Paul”

Book Signing: Sally-Christine Rodgers, author of Convergence: A Journey Through French Polynesia

Saturday, May 2, 3-4pm: Sally-Christine Rodgers, the author of Convergence: A Journey Through French Polynesia, will be in store signing copies of her travel book.

Sally-Christine Rodgers Writes Eloquently About Life, Sailing, Family and Protecting Our Oceans

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Cover: Convergence: A Journey Through French Polynesia

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