Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2019
Reflection. Resistance. Reckoning. Resurrection.
edited by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Release November 15, 2019
First Book Launch
Friday, November 15, 2019
6:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Venue: Red Hen Press
1540 Lincoln Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
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¨The Pasadena Rose Poets are “unobtrusive pause creators.” We use our words to allow humanity to pause and breathe deeply. Poetry leaves its mark—not always visible—but imprinted on us and our audience in ways that we may never know. We are a chorus of voices stretched across cultures. Poetry gifts us with a third eye and ear that slows us down to look and see, to hear murmurs and whispers that get under our skin and live in our heads until we let the words land on the page. We fly, soar as time, space and freedom joins us.
An NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, grant to the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division created the winds of change that established The Pasadena Rose Poets in 2016. Nine published poets were chosen to initiate a lunchtime poetry reading program at the Pasadena Senior Center. A second program was held in the Pasadena Council Chambers. We are also know as “Citizen Poets,” who initiated and continue to read at City Council meetings since 2017. As Mayor Terry Tornek remarked at one of the Council meetings, I believe that because of the poetry readings, the meetings are more civil.¨--Gerda Govine Ituarte
An NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, grant to the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division created the winds of change that established The Pasadena Rose Poets in 2016. Nine published poets were chosen to initiate a lunchtime poetry reading program at the Pasadena Senior Center. A second program was held in the Pasadena Council Chambers. We are also know as “Citizen Poets,” who initiated and continue to read at City Council meetings since 2017. As Mayor Terry Tornek remarked at one of the Council meetings, I believe that because of the poetry readings, the meetings are more civil.¨--Gerda Govine Ituarte
The Pasadena Rose Poets:
Teresa Mei Chuc, Mel Donalson, Kate Gale, Damian Gonzalez, Hazel Clayton Harrison, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Shahé Mankerian, Toni Mosley, Carla Sameth, and Annette Wong.
Teresa Mei Chuc, Mel Donalson, Kate Gale, Damian Gonzalez, Hazel Clayton Harrison, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Shahé Mankerian, Toni Mosley, Carla Sameth, and Annette Wong.
Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2019 is available at the following libraries and bookstore:
Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena
