Putney Public Library Writers Salon featuring Diane Frank, Mary Kay Rummel, and Prartho Sereno via Zoom

Putney Public Library Writers Salon featuring Diane Frank, Mary Kay Rummel, and Prartho Sereno via Zoom
Tuesday, March 25th at 6:30pm at
(link: https://tinyurl.com/5996rjvd or on at putneylibrary.org on Calendar)
Putney Public Library Writers Salon is a Zoom series that brings writers across the country together with an enthusiastic audience.

Toni Ortner, the host of this series, has had 33 books published by small presses. The most recent is The Girl in the Yellow Dress by Kelsay Books. In 2025 Passing Through by Deerbrook Editions and The Van Gogh Notebook by the Dancing Girl Press will be published. She was Vice President of Write Action Inc. for many years and taught in the English Department of the University of Connecticut. Her work can be found at toniortner.com
Diane Frank is a poet, musician, author of eight books of poems, three novels, and a photo memoir of her 400-mile trek in the Nepalese Himalayas. She is the editor of Blue Light Press. While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems won the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. Diane plays the cello with the College of Marin Symphony Orchestra. She teaches poetry, flash fiction, and memoir workshops at San Francisco State University and Dominican University.
Mary Kay Rummel’s 10th book of poetry, titled Little River of Amazement, was recently published by Blue Light Press and explores the meaning of different stages of life. Previous books won awards form New Rivers Press, Bright Hill Press and Blue Light Press. She is professor emerita from the University of Minnesota and taught at the California State University, Channel Islands. She divides her time between St. Paul, MN and Venrura, CA where she was Poet Laureate.
Prartho Sereno’s most recent collection, Starfall in the Temple, was published by Blue Light Press in the Fall of 2023. Her four other full-length books- Indian Rope Trick, Elephant Raga, Call from Paris, and her illustrated Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives of Kitchen Utensils, won national prizes. Poet Laureate Emerita of Marin County (2015- 2017), MFA from Syracuse University(2013) and Radio Disney Super Teacher(2005), she was a Poet in the Schools for 21 years and currently teaches The Poetry Pilgrimage: Poem Making as a Spiritual Practice online. https://www.prarthosereno.com