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LAKE COUNTY – Lake County Poet Laureate Mary McMillan has recently published a collection of her poetry, “This Wanting,” available at Lake County bookstores, at the Lake County Arts Council Gallery in Lakeport and online at Lulu.com.
“This Wanting” is McMillan’s first collection of poems. Poems in the book include “Fisherwoman” and “Reunion,” poems she read at her inauguration in March, along with others that she has written during the last 20 years.
In the book she arranged the poems to tell the story of the trauma that initiated her journey into poetry, and the recovery she has experienced since that time.
She will sign books and talk about her poems at three locations in upcoming months. On Oct. 10, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., she will be at Catfish Books in Lakeport. On Nov. 7, from 3 p.m. to 5 pm., she will be at Watershed Books in Lakeport. On Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. she will be at Wild About Books in Clearlake. Refreshments will be served at all readings.
At 7 p.m. on Jan. 29 McMillan will be the featured reader at Writers Read, a monthly reading venue in Ukiah, at Colored Horse Studio. For more information go to www.coloredhorse.com/WritingPoetry/PoetryEvents.
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The reading will take place from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Of Schmidt's writing, Hal Z. Bennett writes, "While seldom autobiographical, like all fiction writers he draws from the passions of his own life, spinning tales of experience that were better and worse than his own. Richard's writing shows how our own struggles and griefs and joys and sorrows are merely raw materials for creating artifacts that witness the human condition and offer courage, hope and at least a few lessons for making our own lives a little better."
Please join Schmidt at Watershed Books, 305 N. Main in Lakeport, for good conversation and good refreshments.
Call 263.5787 for more information.
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