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Writers Read Presents Rocco Versaci
Join Writers Read at Fallbrook Library on February 14 Featuring Rocco Versaci reading and discussing his memoir That Hidden Road Preceded by open mic for original poetry and prose Date: Tuesday,...
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On the Front Lines
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt You look in the bedroom mirror, small enough to deny self-adoration, and pull your brownish hair into a ponytail. Tight, like Mother used to do it, just the right way. You turn to...
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At Risk of Drowning
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt I love this road. Its metropolitan name, Fifth Street, belies its rural character. Just past the Rainbow Oaks—a favorite of truckers and bikers, which means good coffee, ample...
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Woman Inside a Wood Stove
By Penny Perry for my mother hissing your small door a square of black iron woman inside a garden hose spitting inside those coils and curls your coupling a circle of gold women were in boxes then...
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Book review: Goosestep by Harold Jaffe
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt While a tide of new political activists is frothing across the nation, one seasoned revolutionary is quietly practicing his decades-long resistance in Mission Hills. Harold...
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Writers Read at Fallbrook Library Presents
David Putnam on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 reading and discussing The Vanquished, a Bruno Johnson novel Preceded by open mic for original poetry and prose Date: Tuesday, March 14, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m....
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Blue Tattoo
By Ruth Nolan —The story of Olive Oatman— We took care of her, the white girl, the grandson of the last traditional chief of the Mojave Indians told the crowd in 2012, at the 13th celebration of the...
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Declaration of Defendence
By Conney D. Williams I save my tears for weddings and presidential elections while America the beneficent thrusts anthems up our spleens the pasty ballot of deprecation without representation please...
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Creative Writing Workshops Spring-Summer Schedule
Writers Read at Fallbrook Library Offers Two New Creative Writing Workshops Writing for Our Lives – April-May 2017 Women’s voices are censored—often silenced—in a multitude of spirit-crushing ways....
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Lentil Soup
By Penny Perry for Lisa A coyote calls to its kin. A rabbit shifts under porch light. Lizards, coyotes, hummingbirds, foxes—your daughter, Natalie, rescued, nursed them all. It is my turn, now, Lisa....
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Writers Read at Fallbrook Library Presents
Conney D. Williams and special guest Natalie Patterson Celebrating National Poetry Month Date: Tuesday, April 11, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Location: Fallbrook Library, 124 S Mission, Fallbrook Conney...
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Sun Dog
By Ruth Nolan All that backyard and (no) watchdog, my grass is uneasy He says he knows, he knows what it’s like to go from desert heat to the cold and back. I just returned from rainy fog in San...
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Pursuing the Dream
What You Need to Know About DACA, Immigration, and Beyond From Brave New Films In Trump’s America, it seems that no one is safe from detention and deportation, even if you have legal grounds to be in...
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Trinkle Tinkle:
Frank’s Maiden Voyage to the Senior Center By Dan McClenaghan Jolene enrolled me in a class, something about learning how to baby my ailing heart. I bitched about it, but acquiesced. The morning of...
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Oklahoma City Bombing: Speak Tenderly to the City
An annual remembrance of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995 By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Some of you have succumbed to the propagandized image of the “Muslim...
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Impressions of the USA
By Cong Tran Note: Cong Tran, or Tran Quoc Cong in Vietnamese naming convention, paid his first visit to the United States in 2007, an invited guest at the memorial service for author and Pulitzer...
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May 9, 2017, Writers Read at Fallbrook Library Presents
Wallace Tucker reading and discussing Chandra’s Cosmos: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA’s Premier X-Ray Observatory Preceded by open mic for original poetry and prose...
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