Village Poets of Sunland Tujunga is pleased to present Terry Ehret of Petaluma, Northern California, as our Featured Poet during the Poetry Reading held on Sunday, March 28, 2021, at 4:30pm on Zoom. The Zoom links will be sent to our regular audience, and may be requested from DMHSkiles@gmail.com or Maja@MoonrisePress.com.
The reading on Zoom has been recorded and is now available on YouTube:
TERRY EHRET is a poet and teacher, and one of the founders of the innovative Sixteen Rivers Press, a hands-on publishing collective run by and for San Francisco Bay Area Poets. She earned a BA from Stanford University and an MA from San Francisco State University. She has published four collections of poetry: Lost Body (1993), Translations from the Human Language (2001), Lucky Break (2008), and Night Sky Journey (2011).
Literary awards include the National Poetry Series, California Book Award, Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award, six Pushcart Prize nominations, and an NEA Translation Fellowship. From 2004-2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches, and in the summer, she leads travel programs for writers.
https://sixteenrivers.org/authors/terry-ehret/
Mustard Bathing at Half Moon Bay
After
“let there be new flowering,”by Lucille Clifton
a Golden Shovel
First blue in weeks and the flowering
mustard sings its sweet seduction in the fields
all along the ragged Pacific edge. Grown
men
have pulled onto the shoulder of the highway, needing the tender
touch of yellow. They walk in slow time,
arms outstretched, smiling as if our long war
were over. As if all sides had won.
Come, walk the deep paths to the sun. Be
ready. Something inside want to mend.
(c) Terry Ehret
The poem has an ethereal feeling; it gives rendition to our inner voice as humans in the truest sense of the word.Something inside, indeed wants to mend ..so beautiful!
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