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Poetry and Prose @ THE MINE for January

MINE gallery in Fairfax continues with its poetry and prose reading series. This month, on Sunday, January 26, at 3pm, Doreen Stock and Linda Charman will be reading selected poetry and prose.

Doreen Stock Poet, essayist, and memoir practitioner, has been exploring creative nonfiction for thirty plus years. Her first book of poems, The Politics of Splendor, was part of a New American Writers exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year. She was also ran a  small press (D’Aurora Press) as editor and publisher. The Bookcase, a memoir exploring totalitarianism and the self, was begun in Amsterdam in the eighties, and after that, Rani, describing Stock's first five-month stay in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. During seven years of travel in the nineties, she composed several collection of poems, Memorial Service, Poems of Arad among them, and the essays which eventually became, On Leaving Jerusalem: Prose of a Traveling Nature. She has currently settled in Sausalito, California, where she continues to write poetry.  A work of historical fiction, Three Tales from the Archives of Love, and a collection of poetry, In Place of Me, selected from her chapbooks and introduced by Jack Hirschman are both currently looking for a publisher. Stock will be reading from Mink in Red Square her latest collection of poems.

Linda Charman has had a long and successful career in business, both in corporate settings and in real estate. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She is currently the owner and broker of record for Vanguard Realtors, a boutique real-estate brokerage located in Santa Cruz, California. She will be reading from Mayhem, Madness and Mexico her collection of observations and letters sent to her mother while commuting from LA to Mexico City. Charman, a consultant for Weight Watchers at the time, was sent to uncover the root of the financial difficulties of the Mexico City franchise. In the wake of an embezzlement scandal, Charman ended up running the franchise for a year while looking for a replacement.

MINE GALLERY specializes in the sale of affordable local contemporary fine art, presentation of cultural events, community inspired projects and is committed to presenting new and exciting works to Marin county. For more information on Mine gallery or our poetry and prose series visit www.gallerymine.com or call (415) 755-4472

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