15the Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk
September 19, 2010
11 am- 8pm
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Schedule for the Eugene Ruggles Memorial Reading
PHOENIX THEATER -- 4 pm
Host: Delia Moon
Eugene Ruggles memorial, hosted by Delia Moon, publisher of Eugene Ruggles’ The Roads of Bread: Collected Works (Petaluma River Press, 2010). Michelle Baynes, Geri DiGiorno, Sharon Doubiago, Will Holst and Carl Macki will read some of Eugene’s poems.
Eugene Ruggles, a poet of great heart best described as “a wanderer in search of the American conscience,” was born December 4, 1935 in Pontiac, Michigan and died in Petaluma, California June 3, 2004. A tireless promoter of the art of poetry and a staunch supporter of all of its practitioners, Eugene Ruggles organized hundreds of well-attended poetry readings to support the causes of youth, peace and justice he believed in so passionately. His book, The Lifeguard In The Snow (University of Pittsburgh Press Pitt Poetry Series 1977) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award in Poetry for 1978, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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