Please Join us for a Reading
Dates: Saturday February 20, 7:30 p.m.
What: Knitting writers Jesse Loesberg and Danica Wyatt will be joined by non-knitter Peggy Kass for an evening of reading, questions and chit chat.
Where: the knit-one-one studio, 3360 Adeline Street Berkeley CA 94703.
MapNote: We had scheduled a reading in November 2008 but Jesse couldn't come. Why? Because the twins, Molly and Sam--- in the pic---- decided to come that evening. (Pretty good excuse for a no-show, huh!)
About the Writers:
Peggy Kass wrote poetry in high school, most of it bad, as she recalls, and none of it having survived decades of travel and focusing on other parts of life. In 1997 she entered Dominican College’s degree completion program and graduated in 2000. She worked as an editor, got an MA in Composition and Rhetoric with an emphasis on teaching in 2004, set up a writing program for faculty at a state university then packed it all away to travel and write full time. She works primarily in memoir and poetry because, she says, “I don’t have enough imagination to write fiction.”
Jesse Loesberg's poems have appeared in The Café Review, The Santa Barbara Review, and on the web site of Poets Against War. His essays have been published the San Francisco Chronicle and as part of the Perspectives series on KQED-FM, and his short fiction has appeared in Whistling Shade. His life as a knitter began in the cold, wet, early spring of 2001, when he couldn't stand being in the northeast for another second. He blogs about all things knitted at yarnboy.com.
Danica Wyatt attributes her skills as a knitwear designer to bad weather. She taught herself to knit during one long and snowy winter while she was a physics grad student in Ithaca, NY. She spent the next year in Northern Germany where yarn is cheap and a persistent grey drizzle starts in October and lingers until May. She has been living in the Bay Area since 2006 and has recently started machine knitting. She loves the thrill of knitting huge things out of tiny yarn at alarming speed. She owes her love for writing to a summer camp for teenage writers in her home state of Wyoming. She attended five summers as a student and returned as a teacher for three more. She primarily writes short fiction and is also working on a novel.
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