Come and learn how poetry and other accompanied art forms can work together to enhance your experience.
There will be specially selected music, visual props, and a fun video to share!
The poets will have books on hand to purchase in case you want to bring some of their words home with you.
Please RSVP by emailing contact@studiosonthepark.org
Margaret Lange is a poet, writer, singer/songwriter, and voice-over artist. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in ART/LIFE, HopeDance, the Tribune, Art Rag, the Santa Lucian, Imprints, the California Writers Club’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review, anthologies of the Redwood Writers and Coastal Dunes CWC branches, and engineering and gardening newsletters. Margaret has written and recorded numerous songs and has produced an acapella collection of traditional lullabies. Working with librivox.org, she brings public domain works to life by voicing children’s stories, poems, plays, and essays.
Margaret serves as membership chair for the Coastal Dunes branch of the California Writers Club and as an arts commissioner with Santa Barbara County. She is a member of the Santa Maria Arts Council. Previously, she developed a juried poetry reading series with the San Luis Obispo Arts Council, hosted a radio interview show featuring artists, and taught poetry workshops to students through California Poets in the Schools.
Benjamin Daniel Lawless is a friend to people and poetry. He runs Penciled In, a book design and publishing company, and has designed over 70 books since 2005, including founding a 4 issue literary journal called if&when. He wrote two collections of poetry: There is Nothing Poetic About Fish (2008) and The Last Spelling Bee (2011). His third collection, Everything Bubbles to the Surface is due to be released once he takes a breath.Kathryn de Lancellotti’s chapbook Impossible Thirst was published in 2020 (Moon Tide Press). She’s a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and a recipient of the George Hitchcock Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Thrush, Rust + Moth, The Night Heron Barks, The American Journal of Poetry, and many others. Her poetry collection Figure Study was published in 2024 (Moon Tide Press). She resides on California's Central Coast with her husband and children.
Chris Moody-Schulz has been involved in the local poetry scene for ten plus years. She has been a featured reader at the 36th and 41st Annual Poetry Festival, and reads regularly at Third Saturday Poet’s Day-In . She has led several “Writing from the Heart” yoga and poetry writing retreats, her work has been chosen several times for the Telegram Tribune April Poetry Month, and she has been published by the poetry magazine If&When. She has been selected as a contributing poet in the Ekphrastic Poetry and Beacon Art Show and was selected as a contest winner by Hospice SLO for a poem on grief and loss. Chris has written five books of poetry, her most recent one is, The Eternal Life of Trees.
Author of three collections of poetry, a chapbook of short fiction and a novel set in a Silicon Valley startup, Joan Gelfand has taught for California Poets in the Schools, The Writing Salon and the San Francisco Writer’s Conference. In January, 2024 “Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution,” published by Post Hill Press won the International Book Awards for US History and the NYC Big Book Award. Joan’s work has appeared in national and international publications including The Huffington Post, The LA Review of Books, The “J,” and The San Francisco Chronicle. Joan’s bio can be found in “Who’s Who in America.” http://joangelfand.com
