GEORGETTE HOWINGTON IS A CLOSET POET AND SHORT STORY WRITER WHO CAME
OUT THREE YEARS AGO. Her poems are published in Iodine, Sleet and
Poeming Pigeons, among others. Several poems won Honorable Mentions
at the North American Women’s Music Festival and Ina Coolbrith
POETRY CONTEST IN 2016. As a naturalist and horticulturist, her
niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters. She is a
County Coordinator and Assistant State Program Director for the
California Bluebird Recovery Program and an activist in the
conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years.
GEORGETTE IS ALSO A PUBLISHED GARDEN AND ENVIRONMENTAL WRITER.
If a Homing Pigeon Were My Lover
Fluffed and preened on the shelf
I could not help but notice
your bobbing head and piercing eyes
twisting and turning to see if I was
looking at you the way you looked at
me in that wanting way as if my
human form was a pigeon too.
How unlike me it would be to take
off into the sky, fly across the expanse
in circles feeling the wind, gliding on
our wings, not arguing about who did
not fold the laundry, or if I am too tired
to have sex tonight or being pressed
to spend time with family I don’t like
and living from moment to moment
dining on seed offerings from the keeper
moving aside to let him do all the
cleaning and arranging of our coop
while all you and I do is fly, eat, and
think about making baby pigeons…
**** Published in Poeming Pigeons, “Poems about Birds”, 2015
7 PM to 9pm Mondays (except some Holidays)
HIMALAYAN FLAVORS Restaurant 1585 University Ave. in Berkeley,
(near the corner of California) Off-street parking available in
parking lot adjacent to the restaurant.
Hosts: Jim Barnard, Jan Dedrick, Nance Wogan, Bruce Bagnell,
Jeannette DeBoine (J.D.)
Poetry Express is 15 years old this year. Thanks to all who have
featured, attended, read during open mic, and contributed to our long
run supporting poetry and poets.
Notice:
POETRY EXPRESS REGULARS WITH COMING FEATURES AT OTHER VENUES: Let us
know during our meetings or email PoetryExpress@gmail.com (or tell
Bruce at a PE session) and we will list them. Thanks.
Coming up at P.E.:
In-depth and longer listings at http://poetryexpressberkeley.com
[http://poetryexpressberkeley.com] includes pictures and sample poems.
For post corrections, etc. please email Bruce at
bagnell.bruce.a@gmail.com or contact@poetryexpressberkeley.com
Get our Tweets: @ PoetryXpressB
The short list below: BLANK SPACES DO NOT MEAN NO FEATURE, often we
have outstanding invitations and are waiting for confirmation.
8/28/2017 Georgette Howington hosted by J.D
9/4/2017 BPAC Picnic http://www.bayareapoetscoalition.org/
[http://www.bayareapoetscoalition.org/]
9/11/2017 Tureeda Mikell hosted by Jim
9/18/2017 Lenore Weiss hosted by Bruce (Need a prompt? Use some
English words that are not common anymore, examples "jargogles,"
"apricity, "monsterful," or look up some of your own -- you don't have
to use those words.)
9/25/2017 Dave Holt hosted by J.D (Need a prompt? "Skin" -- you don't
have to use that word.)
10/2/2017 hosted by Jan
10/09/2017 hosted by Jim
10/16/2017 Alan Harris hosted by Bruce (Need a prompt? "Man handle "
-- you don't have to use those words.)
10/23/2017 Melinda Clemmons hosted by J.D (Need a prompt? "fish cry"
-- you don't have to use those words. Comes from Thoreau -- "Who hears
the fishes when they cry")
10/30/2017 Maverick Night hosted by Bruce, subject TBA
11/6/2017 Charlie McCauley hosted by Jan
11/13/2017 hosted by Jim
11/20/2017 Phyllis Meshulam, hosted by Bruce
11/27/2017 Elizabeth Alford hosted by J.D. (Need a prompt? "Key" --
you don't have to use that word.)
12/4/2017 Clark Kent hosted by Jan Need a Prompt? “Superman,” or
“Comics.” you don’t have to use those exact words.
12/11/2017 hosted by Jim
12/18/2017 hosted by Bruce
12/25/2017 NO PE H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S hosted by
Upta Yu
01/01/2018 NO PE H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S hosted by
Upta Yu
01/08/2018 hosted by Jim
01/15/2018 Fred Dodsworth hosted by Bruce
01/22/2018 hosted by JD
01/29/2018 hosted by Jan
03/19/2018 Naomi Quinonez hosted by Bruce
04/16/18 Michael Hoerman hosted by Bruce
!
PLEASE NOTE that blanks in the schedule are not necessarily open and
available, often we have pending invitations waiting for confirmation
for these dates.
NOTE: FOR MUCH MORE EXTENSIVE LISTINGS AND INFO USE OUR BLOG
http://poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com/
[http://poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com/]
http://www.poetryexpressed.com/ [http://www.poetryexpressed.com/]
for our on-line Magazine, published annually, Vol 2, Spring 2017 is
out now. The magazine features selected works from our sessions plus
submissions from outside.
Poetry Express Announces Maverick nights, Poetry Contest, and Prompts.
POETRY EXPRESS IS PROUD TO FEATURE A VARIETY OF POETS ON THE FIRST
FOUR MONDAYS OF EACH MONTH. See our POETRYEXPRESSBERKELY.blogspot.com
site for the coming line-up, information, and more. All nights include
open mic before and after the FEATURES. You can also find us on
Facebook as POETRY EXPRESS BERKELEY, and
https://twitter.com/PoetryXpressB [https://twitter.com/PoetryXpressB].
If you wish to be on our email list please provide your email to one
of our hosts or email us at poetryexpress@gmail.com
· On the 5th Mondays of each month which has a 5th,
we will have Maverick Night. There are 4 such nights a year and each
will have a special focus to make it interesting.
Poems read all sessions may be selected for publication in our poetry
on-line magazine.
For more information on selection talk to the hosts.
At yearly intervals POETRY EXPRESS WILL PUBLISH OUR ON-line magazine.
http://www.poetryexpressed.com/ [http://www.poetryexpressed.com/]
We will also select an occasional submission from the larger
universe. We the poetryexpressed.com website About page for details.
POETRY EXPRESS GIVES PERMISSION TO OTHER POETRY LISTS TO SHARE THIS
announcement with their list members. Thank you for helping spread
the word about us!
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