Literary Reader Don’T Act Now, Abundant Oceans – Filled with Turtles, Carla Crawford Dolphins and Thousand-Year-Old Corals – May Soon Only Margo Douaihy Be a Memory
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7 VOL. 2, ISSUE 3 SUMMER 2014 Kim Addonizio LOVE SEA TURTLES? CATAMARAN Terese Tse Bartholomew MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS CAN, TOO. Francesca Bell CATAMARAN Peter Neil Carroll Claire Cheney Our oceans are being pushed to the brink of irreversible Thomas Christensen collapse by destructive fishing and pollution. If we Colette Literary Reader don’t act now, abundant oceans – filled with turtles, Carla Crawford dolphins and thousand-year-old corals – may soon only Margo Douaihy be a memory. Molly Doyle Tatiana Gorbacheva Michael S. Harper David William Hill Sefla Joseph Mandy Kahn Mary Karlton Lucille Lang Day Frances Lefkowitz pushpa macfarlane Barry Masteller Aspen Matis Danae Mattes MICHAEL MOTE Ai/fe Murray Sam Nejati Melissa reeser Poulin FRAGILE Jacques Pre/vert Rose Sellery Ahmad Shamlou Paul Skenazy Gail Storey Barbara Tannenbaum Kira Taylor Jane Vandenburgh Jeanne Wagner Zach Weston SUMM Laura Williams WINTER 2014 Stephen Woodhams ER Daniella Woolf 2014 US$10 · C$11 GET INVOLVED. HELP US SAVE OUR OCEANS. EgdiZXi^c\i]Z VISIT OCEANA.ORG. CALL 1.877.7.OCEANA. LdgaYÉhDXZVch CAT7-cover-6-.indd 1 7/16/14 5:15 PM Still Different. Always Relevant. From printmaking to poetry. UC Santa Cruz is a cultural hub— presenting year-round lectures, concerts, art exhibitions, dance, and theater to our community. events.ucsc.edu creativewriting.ucsc.edu CAT7-cover-6-.indd 2 7/16/14 5:15 PM When our community thrives, we all prosper. The Wedeen Hammer Group Prosperity is about so much more than money. It’s about at Morgan Stanley living well in a community that is healthy and stable. At Rachel Wedeen, CFP® Morgan Stanley, we feel fortunate to live in a place that Senior Vice President is supported by so many worthy service organizations. Financial Advisor Their good deeds make everyone’s life richer. 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Fall under the spell of these leading ladies and femmes fatales with an exhibition of Davis’ work for The Walt Disney Studios and Disneyland Park, celebrating his ability to bring these beauties to life. waltdisney.org Marc Davis, visual development for Sleeping Beauty, ca. 1959; Collection Mike Glad; © Disney | Leading Ladies and Femmes Fatales: The Art of Marc Davis is organized by The Walt Disney Family Museum. | © The Walt Disney Family Museum® Disney Enterprises, Inc. | © 2014 The Walt Disney Family Museum, LLC | The Walt Disney Family Museum is not affiliated with Disney Enterprises, Inc. editorial note August 13 – 17, 2014 Refine your craft and delve deeper into your artistic journey in beautiful Pebble Beach. Share the legacy of others who have drawn Poetry with Kim Addonizio inspiration from a place revered for its JosephMillar natural beauty, from Robinson Jeers to Non-Fiction with John Moir John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson Jane Vandenburgh and Jack London. RaskinJonah Fiction with Gina Ochsner Out-of-Print · New Releases ElizabethMcKenzie In Pebble Beach at the Stevenson School UCSC Course Books Program features • Writing workshops (limited to 12 participants) in fiction, Course Book Orders Located on the picturesque 17-Mile Drive nonfiction, and poetry • Craft lectures from published poets and authors along the Central Coast, the Robert Louis • Publishing panel with literary agents and presses • Participant readings Stevenson School’s campus is nestled • Four nights lodging in a single or double room at the among the cypress trees of the Del Monte Stevenson school campus • Twelve meals Forest. After your intensive experience in • Nightly receptions • Limited edition commemorative broadside morning workshops, join us for afternoon • Complimentary copy of Catamaran Literary Reader excursions to explore literary landmarks and Optional Excursions places of natural beauty in Pebble Beach • John Steinbeck tour: visit the author’s home in Pacific Grove and nearby Cannery Row and Carmel. Enjoy full access to nearby • Robinson Jeers tour: visit Tor House, the poet’s home and beaches and coastal communities. Socialize stone tower at Carmel Point 204 Locust Street • Robert Louis Stevenson tour: visit the physical site of with your fellow participants at our evening Treasure Island at Point Lobos • Private events at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Winfield Santa Cruz, receptions and presentations. Gallery in Carmel CA 95060 Phone/fax: 831 457-1195 at catamaranliteraryreader.com/conference Monday through Saturday REGISTER NOW from 10 am until 6 pm literary guillotine ad.indd 1 1/3/14 1:11 PM George Abend, Untitled, c. 1950, Oil on Canvas, 65 1/2” x 50 1/2” Gwynn Murrill, Twisting Cheetah, 1999/2009, Bronze, ed. 9/9, 36” x 38” x 29” David Ligare, Still Life with Bread and Wine, 2011, Oil on Canvas, 20” x 24” photo: david kingsbury Dolores between Ocean & 7th • Carmel, CA 93921 (800) 289-1950 • (831) 624-3369 • www.winfieldgallery.com editorial note PATRONS OF ART & LITERATURE LETTER FROM In nature we can witness the inevitable aspect of THE FOUNDING EDITOR change and yet trick ourselves into thinking that at least SKIPPERS $5000–$9999 SHIPMATES $25–99 the mountains are permanent—which, of course, they Carolyn Hyatt, David Kaun, George Newell, Lynda Ackley, Jody Alexander, Andrea Amadeo, Len Anderson, Jo Aribas, aren’t. We leave civilization and retreat into nature to find Pat & Rowland Rebele, Catherine Segurson, Ellen Bass, Robert & Darlene Beck, Sarah Bianco, Phyllis Blackburn, The only thing that is constant is change. Rachel Wedeen Kelly Blank, Dona Bourne, Bob Bradley, Hilary Bryant, Jared Burton, a sense of connection, and sometimes to find ourselves. Scott Cervine & Stephen Simon, Kathy Chetkovich, Julia Chiapella, —Heraclitus In this issue, Catamaran contributing editor Dan White NAVIGATORS $2500–$4999 Richard Chiappone, Ellen Christensen, Sandra Cohen, Casey Coonerty-Protti, interviews two very intrepid women, Aspen Matis and Gail Linda Cover, Jeremy A. Cross, Payton Cuddy, M. Allen Cunningham, Ralph Bannister, Albert M. Everitt, Julie Minnis, Storey, who, under different circumstances, trek all 2,650 Adrienne Momi, Peter Orr, Jane Sieberts Julie Dalrymple, Gail Dalton, Carolyn DeBoer, Allison DeLauer, Carolyn Dille, Serena Dipinto, Virginia Draper, Vivienne Drimmer, miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, Matis’s account of her jour- Carrie Euype, Peter & Donka Farkas, Cheryl Ferguson, Sara Norris Foster, ney will be published in April 2015. MARINERS $500–$2499 Richard Friedman, Douglas Garcia, Poppy de Garmo, Gail and James Gegnan, We also look to nature for inspiration. The protagonist Vance Landis-Carey, Bob Carlson, Angela Chesnut, Cori Gerlach, Eileen P. Gilligan, Rachel Goodman, Mary Govaars, Joslyn Gray, Ceil Cirrillo, Navmar & Shirin Dinyari, Maria Hagen, Rebecca Nowlin Green, Jane Gregorius, Hugh Groocock, Charlie Haas, of Paul Skenazy’s story, Still Life, gathers rocks and drift- Hon. Fred Keeley, Susan Klar, James Levitt, Susan Hancey, Lesley Harris, Jackie Hasa, Suzanne M. Helfman, Will Henry, wood and spends his remaining hours trying to reproduce Nion McEvoy, Steve Nightingale, Marjorie Simon, Brenda Hillman, Lisa Hochstein, Noria Jablonski, Alex Kamprasert, them in paintings. The young characters in Molly Doyle’s Ralph Joachim Steinburg, Jory Post & Karen Wallace, Tina M. Kay, Raymond Keller, Greg Keaton, Gomer Kierkegaard, Jim Weyerman Mari Kloeppel, Rob Knight, Laura Laura, Sabrina Lawrence, debut story, Sketches to the Arctic Tundra in October, col- Cindy Liebenthal, Mark Linder, Joe Liera, Alberto Mancera, Tim Matthews, laborate on a school project while witnessing the frailty of RACING CREW $100–499 Michela Martini & John Andrew Todd, David Mealy & Barbara Stevenson, human nature. Gloria Alford & Robert Sward, Michael Bardo, Nancy Mietz, Greg Moore, Kym Morello, Amrik Nijor, John Osborn, Jean Beebe, Dane Cervine, David Alan Chase, Lisa Palm, Laura Partch, Cecily Person, Daniel Isaac Philips, Melina Powers, onstant change is all around us: coastlines erode, There is so much more in this issue—artwork that Jean G. Cockayne, Sheila Coonerty, Beverly S. DeLauer, Molly Prentiss, Christina Quakenbush, Emily Raabe, Carolyn Rathbun, weather patterns run amok, we grow old, friends dances in sympathetic rhythm to the stories and poems, Daniella Davis, Jan Dawe, Ronald Foster, Joseph Ravertz, Scarlett Fiona Reed, Bob Rocco, Taylor Rockwell, and family pass away, and eventually so do we. essays on Chinese symbolism, the color yellow, and how Delia Gilligan, Josh Guyot, Dan Haifley, Steve Horan, Margaret Rosas, Lucie Rossi, Glenn Saltz, Christopher Sanders, C Jeanne Houston, Lillian Howan, Richard Huffman, Neil Schaefer, Sam Keck Scott, Karen Semingson, Lisa Lorainne Shwartz, What remains are the vestiges of our lives—our art, our books fill our lives. Stephen Kessler, Jennifer Knoll, Sandy Kurz, Emily Silver, Lee Slaff,