Thanks to Everyone Who Attended ruthFest!
We’d like to thank everyone who joined us on Saturday for ruthFest: Celebrating ruth weiss at 90, and the Women of the Beat Generation, and especially everyone who performed or presented:
- Kim Shuck
- San Francisco Poet Laureate, reading from her own work.
- Agneta Falk
- Reading the poetry of Denise Levertov, and her own work.
- Cathy Cassady
- Gave a presentation on the life and work of Carolyn Cassady.
- Melody Miller
- Sneak Peek of ruth weiss: the beat goddess, her documentary currently in production, with Q&A.
- Marilyn Kriegel
- Reading her own poetry, and introducing ruth weiss.
- ruth weiss
- Gave a wonderful performance with her band
Doug O’Connor (bass)
Rent Romus (saxophone)
Hal Davis (percussion) - Brenda Knight
- Presentation “Memory Babes”—a talk on the women of the Beat Generation.
- Stephanie Heath
- Presentation “Enduring Lessons: What the women of the Beat Generation taught me about being a mother and artist.”
- Nicole Henares
- Reading the poetry of Elise Cowen, and her own piece, “Removing the Bullet With Butterfly Wings, The World is Not a Vampire: On Reading Kerouac’s On the Road in the #MeToo Era”
- Mary Norbert Körte
- Reading from her poetry.
- Joanna McClure
- Reading from her poetry.
- Panel Discussion
- A discussion with Mary Norbert Körte and Brenda Knight, moderated by Estelle Cimino.