WEALTH OF IDEAS

Workshop participants during the final Saturday panel discussion by the faculty. Kate Asche, I, and William O'Daly, during the lunch break. Kate is a member of the SPC board, and Bill is the Neruda translator. I bought one of his translations, World's End. another Asche, Sigauke, O'Daly pic. I think these three photos are different, if you look closely. Workshop presenters. Front row, from left to right: Camille Dungy, Camille Norton, and Susan Kelly-DeWitt. Back: from right to left, San Francisco-based poet Matthew Zapruder and a workshop participant. Left to right: Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Matthew Zapruder, Camille Dungy, Indigo Moor, Camille Norton. This was at the end of the workshop.

The poetry reading and reception at the Sacramento Poetry headquarters Friday night marked the beginning of the Sacramento Writers' Workshop. The three readers, William O' Daly, Libby Kovacs, and Susan Kelly-DeWitt, are a talented lot. Daly is the famous translator of Pablo Neruda (he has translated eleven Neruda collecions). He read from his different translations and gave us a taste of two of his poems. He believes that after working on Neruda for twenty-five years, he is ready to focus on his own writing. William O'Daly. Libby Kovacs was married to the Pulitzer winning poet James Wright, whom she left in 1962 when she made her own expedition to San Francisco where her own writing career took off. She shared her experiences as a daughter of Greek immigrant parents and as a wife of James Wright. Libby Kovacs. Susan Kelly-DeWitt, who has been a member of the Sacramento Poetry Center since its beginning in 1979, has published eight chapbooks and one volume of poetry entitle...