POETRY SERIES

19th Reading
10-16-11

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3rd SUNDAY 10-16-11

Malen Stroh



Malen Stroh taught English at Delta College in Stockton, CA, for 25 years. He has been retired for some time now. He has conducted poetry sessions for Elder Hostel College Alumni groups, dinner groups, and clubs. Some of his favorites are Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Service Ballads, and Old English Ballads, from humorous to serious. He frequently does interpretation with poems when he feels it will make them more interesting, particularly with Old English Ballads. He also composes and recites limericks for special occasions.








Tim Christensen








D.B. Pacini introducing Malen Stroh.


Featured Poet, Malen Stroh








A metaphor is like a simile.
Author Unknown






The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry







Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes





One must be drenched in words,
literally soaked in them,
to have the right ones form themselves
into the proper pattern at the right moment.
Hart Crane





Social/Refreshment Break


I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell.
But the time will come when people will recognize
that they are worth more than the value
of the paints used in the picture.
Vincent van Gogh




I never travel without my diary.
One must always have something sensational to read on the train.
Oscar Wilde
(The Importance of Being Earnest)



D.B. Pacini introducing Wallace Condon.




Wallace Condon




It's true that writing is a solitary occupation,
but you would be surprised at how much
companionship a group of imaginary characters
can offer once you get to know them.
Anne Tyler






D.B. Pacini introduces Jim Turner.


Jim Turner




I want to write books that unlock
the traffic jam in everybody's head.
John Updike



J. Lynn o'Flaherty




There are thousands of thoughts
lying within a man
that he does not know
till he takes up the pen and writes.
William Makepeace Thackeray



Hatch Graham




Wit should be wit, but never satire.
La Rochejacquelin


Storytelling reveals meaning without
committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt




One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul
and yet no one ever came to sit by it.
Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke
from the chimney and continue
on their way.
Vincent van Gogh



Katy Brown




Why is ‘abbreviation’ such a long word?


Americans should know the universe itself as a road,
as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
Walt Whitman






Lock up your libraries if you like,
but there is no gate, no lock,
no bolt that you can set
upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf


Keep your love of nature,
for that is the true way
to understand art more and more.
Vincent van Gogh



Taylor Graham




Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E.B. White










D.B. Pacini






Bill "Pappy" Sedgeman








Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
Henry David Thoreau


In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious
way that you are absorbing the wisdom
contained in all the books
through your skin,
without even opening them.
Mark Twain


It is only a novel... or, in short,
only some work in which the greatest
powers of the mind are displayed,
in which the most thorough
knowledge of human nature,
the happiest delineation of its varieties,
the liveliest effusions of wit and humour,
are conveyed to the world
in the best-chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey


Royelle Diamond








Wallace Condon


Jim Turner


J. Lynn o'Flaherty


Malen Stroh's flowers.



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