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Jul. 23rd, 2008 | 07:36 am



Point Mugu State Park, July 20, 2008


toes submerged in sand
as the sea weaves its way
through beach boulders,
I feel pulled
in different directions

- Deborah P Kolodji


This is one of the tanka I will be reading at the APC Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery in Torrance on Saturday. It was written partially because of my beach trip and partially because of a Milton Zornes painting of similar rocks.

On Saturday, July 26, at 2 PM, Poets on Site, an ongoing cooperative Southern California poetic writing and performance group will present poems and music for the exhibit "Three Generations: Milford Zornes, Bill Anderson, Ron Libbrecht."

The reading will feature Pasadena and other Los Angeles area poets inspired by the exhibit.
Paul Sherman, oboe, and Rick Wilson and Asuncion Ojeda will perform on historical flutes to compliment the poems and to create interludes between them. The poems will be read as a docent style tour of the exhibit.

Participating poets are Theresa Antonia, Tom Bilicke, Denise Dumars, Sharon Hawley, Margaret Hehman-Smith, Lindy Hill, Lois P. Jones, Deborah P Kolodji, Janis Albright Lukstein, Radomir Luza, Mira N. Mataric, Ruth Nolan, Susan Rogers, Taura Scott, Mary Frances Spenser, Nancy Ellis Taylor, Maja Trochimczyk, Chris Wesley, Erika Wilk, and [info]kathleenwilson There will be a special chapbook available for purchase to commemorate the event.

APC Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery
1621 Cabrillo Ave
Torrance, CA 90501
310-328-0366

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kingfisher1031

nice pic

from: [info]kingfisher1031
date: Jul. 23rd, 2008 07:48 pm (UTC)
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Wish I was in that photo!

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Deborah P Kolodji

Re: nice pic

from: [info]dkolodji
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 05:19 pm (UTC)
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Yes, Point Magus is wonderful, isn't it?

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kingfisher1031

Re: nice pic

from: [info]kingfisher1031
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 11:11 pm (UTC)
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Point Magus or Point Mugu?

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Deborah P Kolodji

Re: nice pic

from: [info]dkolodji
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 11:24 pm (UTC)
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Point Mugu, silly me.

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Daimoku

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from: [info]inkbabies
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 06:05 am (UTC)
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you were so close to me! (I live in Ventura)

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Deborah P Kolodji

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from: [info]dkolodji
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 05:19 pm (UTC)
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Oh, I was, wasn't I? I forgot you lived in Ventura!

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snaky_poet

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from: [info]snaky_poet
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 07:05 am (UTC)
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Lovely tanka! It's been a while since my feet felt that, but you created the feeling for me all over again.

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Deborah P Kolodji

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from: [info]dkolodji
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 05:21 pm (UTC)
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Thanks!

I'm glad I brought back some beach sand memories. I love the feeling of my feet in the sand with the tide pulling on them.

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Mrs.  W

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from: [info]wicapis
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 02:31 pm (UTC)
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one of your best Tanka, Deborah. And the photograph fits your words.

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Deborah P Kolodji

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from: [info]dkolodji
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 05:21 pm (UTC)
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Thanks, Wic!

I'm glad this one spoke to you.

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Mrs.  W

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from: [info]wicapis
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 02:32 pm (UTC)
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you are one busy lady and having fun while you are at it. good for you.

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Deborah P Kolodji

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from: [info]dkolodji
date: Jul. 24th, 2008 05:22 pm (UTC)
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I believe in the idea of finding "fun" in whatever life hands you.

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Summer in the Sierras

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date: Aug. 7th, 2008 02:31 am (UTC)
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I've just finished reading Summer in the Sierras, one of the works you read for POS. There were so many fine poems that day I decided to go back and read the chapbook cover to cover. This is one of the best poems of yours I've read (I'm not used to reading your longer works). It's stellar and I hope you will submit it!

Lois

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Deborah P Kolodji

Re: Summer in the Sierras

from: [info]dkolodji
date: Aug. 7th, 2008 05:04 am (UTC)
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Thanks Lois!

I'm putting together a book manuscript and that is one of the poems I plan to include. My daughter liked it a lot, too (but then, she's in it!)

:)

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