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5 VOL. 2, ISSUE 1 WINTER 2014 ELLEN BASS CATAMARAN CHANTAL BIZZINI ROBERT BLY BEVERLY BURCH CATAMARAN PAMELA CARROLL ROD CLARK ELIZABETH C. CREELY Literary Reader FARNAZ FATEMI CHRISTOPHER FELVER LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI FANNE FERNOW ZARIA FORMAN HANNAH FRIES TESS GALLAGHER MARGARET ELYSIA GARCIA JOSIE GRAY JANE GREGORIUS CHRISTINE HUFFARD SCOTT HUTCHINS HOWARD IKEMOTO PATRICIA SPEARS JONES STEPHEN KESSLER ANDREA LEWIS MICHAL MAHGEREFTEH RON MILHOAN NIKITA NELIN CATIE O’LEARY ANGELA AND RACHAEL WANT TO GET LISA ALLEN ORTIZ FRANK PAINO SEA TURTLES OFF THE HOOK, DO YOU? LINDA PASTAN DALE PENDELL Angela Kinsey and Rachael Harris are in love with… sea turtles. But, they’re MICAH PERKS in real trouble and need our help. Over 1.4 billion fishing hooks and other PENELOPE SCAMBLY SCHOTT gear catch hundreds of thousands of sea turtles every year. Go to Oceana. ANA MARIA SHUA org and sign up to help Angela and Rachael get sea turtles off the hook. 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This is- FOUNDING EDITOR sue triggers memories of growing up in Burlingame and SKIPPERS $5000–$9999 SHIPMATES $25–99 San Mateo, close to the cultural hub of San Francisco—a Anonymous, Carolyn Hyatt, George Newell Lynda Ackley, Jody Alexander, Andrea Amadeo, Len Anderson, gem of a world-class city. We had our proms in the big Jo Aribas, Ellen Bass, Robert & Darlene Beck, Sarah Bianco, hotels, went to the theater and museums on field trips, and NAVIGATORS $2500–$4999 Phyllis Blackburn, Kelly Blank, Dona Bourne, Bob Bradley, Hilary Bryant, Ralph Bannister, Chris, Kevin & Lauren Hashman, Jared Burton, Scott Cervine & Stephen Simon, Kathy Chetkovich, without really knowing it, absorbed the cultural trends Adrienne Momi, Peter Orr, Pat & Rowland Rebele, Julia Chiapella, Richard Chiappone, Ellen Christensen, Sandra Cohen, the city vibrated with, particularly the literary scene, as I Casey Coonerty-Protti, Linda Cover, Jeremy A. Cross, Payton Cuddy, Jane Sieberts, Rachel Wedeen was always writing, getting a $1 allowance per poem, and M. Allen Cunningham, Julie Dalrymple, Gail Dalton, Carolyn DeBoer, Allison DeLauer, Carolyn Dille, Serena Dipinto, Virginia Draper, staging my plays in the garage. MARINERS $500–$2499 Vivienne Drimmer, Carrie Euype, Peter & Donka Farkas, Cheryl Ferguson, City Lights bookstore has come to represent that ad- Steve Cannino, Vance Landis-Carey, Bob Carlson, Sara Norris Foster, Richard Friedman, Douglas Garcia, Poppy de Garmo, venturous literary spirit, not just for San Francisco, but the Angela Chestnut, Ceil Cirrillo, Allison DeLauer, Gail and James Gegnan, Cori Gerlach, Eileen P. Gilligan, Rachel Goodman, Navmar & Shirin Dinyari, Albert M. Everitt, Mary Govaars, Joslyn Gray, Rebecca Nowlin Green, Jane Gregorius, world at large. Like a catamaran sailing across the ocean, Rebecca Goldman, Angelo Grova, Maria Hagen, Hugh Groocock, Charlie Haas, Susan Hancey, Lesley Harris, Jackie Hasa, the culture of San Francisco touches lives everywhere. Hon. Fred Keeley, James Levitt, Carlos Magana, Suzanne M. Helfman, Will Henry, Brenda Hillman, Lisa Hochstein, Artists and creative writers are explorers, and with their Nion McEvoy, Dan McFadden, Julie Minnis, Noria Jablonski, Alex Kamprasert, Tina M. Kay, Raymond Keller, Steve Nightingale, Brad Sharek, Marjorie Simon, Greg Keaton, Gomer Kierkegaard, Mari Kloeppel, Rob Knight, brushes and their pens alone they are able to make grand Ralph Steinburg, Jory Post & Karen Wallace, Laura Laura, Sabrina Lawrence, Cindy Liebenthal, Mark Linder, Joe Liera, voyages forward into unknown territories, into hearts and Jim Weyerman Alberto Mancera, Tim Matthews, Michela Martini & John Andrew Todd, minds they will never see, and while they will never know David Mealy & Barbara Stevenson, Nancy Mietz, Greg Moore, RACINg CREw $100–499 Kym Morello, Amrik Nijor, John Osborn, Lisa Palm, Laura Partch, how far their creations travel, it all starts in solitude, in a Gloria Alford & Robert Sward, Michael Bardo, Jean Beebe, Cecily Person, Daniel Isaac Philips, Melina Powers, Molly Prentiss, atamaran left shore in November of 2012 from quiet moment of inspiration. Dane Cervine, David Alan Chase, Jean G. Cockayne, Christina Quakenbush, Emily Raabe, Carolyn Rathbun, Joseph Ravertz, our harbor in Santa Cruz with ambitions to sail So, enjoy navigating our pages however you like. You Sheila Coonerty, Sandy Curtz, Beverly S. DeLauer, Scarlett Fiona Reed, Bob Rocco, Taylor Rockwell, Margaret Rosas, Daniella Davis, Jan Dawe, Ronald Foster, Lucie Rossi, Glenn Saltz, Christopher Sanders, Neil Schaefer, C around the world and explore new ports and can take a green journey if you love nature or a blue jour- Delia Gilligan, Josh Guyot, Dan Haifley, Steve Horan, Sam Keck Scott, Karen Semingson, Lisa Lorainne Shwartz, Emily Silver, harbors. Like all voyagers we took our home along with ney if you love freedom or a pink journey to visit artistic Jeanne Houston, Lillian Howan, Richard Huffman, Lee Slaff, Ed Smiley, Anne Marie Sorcinelli, Roz Spafford, Kimber Spooner, us in our hearts; that place we embark from informs our inspiration, but look out… we will offer you portals into Stephen Kessler, Jennifer Knoll, Sandy Kurtz, Anne Stafford-Wade, Melanie Stone, Caroline Stevenson, Alice Straughn, Mark Mesiti-Miller & Donna Murphy, Joanna Miller, Malin Sullivan, Cynthia Sulots, Nicole Taylor, Nikki Thompson, experience and we are never far from it. worlds you don’t usually explore. Whether it is poetry, fic- Frances Viray Mollerus, Jeffrey Pollock, Alice Powers, Victoria Thranow, Peggy Townsend, Annette Varady, Susan Vaughn, We explore these connections in the stories we pub- tion, nonfiction, or art… stay open to the adventure. Beth Regardz, Eileen Savin, Stephanie Schriver, Larry Viera, Pamela Vincent, Drew Wallacker, Kathleen Wartner, lish in Catamaran. In every issue we tap into our own Paul Skenazy, Judy Stabile, Kristi Starn, Silvia Ulrich, Laurea Watson, Joni Watts, Ken Weisner, Amity Westcott, Krista Whalen, Susanna Waddell, Steve Woodhams Jill Wolfson, Sholeh Wolpe, Jocelyn Wyatt, Kristina Young West Coast literary and artistic history. As the world grows Bon voyage! smaller, becoming a global community, it seems our local —Catherine Segurson culture appears less foreign, and readers and writers from all over relate to our themes. COMMUNITY SUPPORT In this issue of Catamaran, we sail from the Bay Area For Literature & the Arts to explore the ocean floor off the coast of Indonesia; study the churches and cathedrals of the British Isles and the Art Bar and Cafe Michelangelo Gallery Santa Cruz Writes continent, and then return to the west with a trek in the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County Middlearth Editions Seascape Sports Club Sierra. We cover the art of stained glass, the creative spirit Artists on Art National Steinbeck Center Soif Restaurant and Wine Bar of California’s iconoclastic architect, Frank Gehry, and Bookshop Santa Cruz NextSpace Tannery Arts Center the life of San Francisco poet, publisher, and painter, Book Club of California O’Neill Sea Odyssey Tannery World Dance Center Lawrence Ferlinghetti. You’ll find the work of visual art- Bonnie Doon Winery and Marine Labs University of California, Santa Cruz ists from Santa Cruz, Paris, and Ireland; learn about the Capitola Book Cafe Phren-Z Ventana Vineyards mating habits of the octopi, take a tour of the famed Win- Gilligan’s Gourmet Catering Poetry Santa Cruz Ventana Wilderness Alliance chester Mystery House with Harry Houdini, and dive into Cima Collina Winery R. Blitzer Gallery Vabmedia pastels of the roiling ocean threatening the Maldives, the Hallcrest Vineyards Santa Cruz Museum The Wedeen Karwick Group lowest place on earth, soon to be swallowed by the inevi- Hauk Fine Arts of Art and History Wild Thyme Catering table rise in sea levels due to global warming. LiVBLUE Santa Cruz County Bank Winfield Gallery CATAMARAN 9 editorial note Catamaran Literary Reader (ISSN art 2168-7226) is published quarterly by Catamaran Literary Reader, Zaria Forman . Maldives #4 12 a California 501(c)3 Nonprofit CATAMARAN Corporation. 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