Book Tour and Speaking Events

To schedule events, book signings, readings and interviews, email Diane Frank at GeishaPoet@aol.com. All times are for the local time zone.

Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading

Diane Frank reads with Maria Chavez, Accompanied by Anthony Wright on Harp

Frank Bette Center for the Arts
1601 Paru (corner of Lincoln)
Alameda, CA 94501

Check out their website for more info. http://www.frankbettecenter.org/

Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 12:00 noon

Petaluma Poetry Walk

Diane Frank reads new and selected poems, accompanied by Anthony Wright on Harp.

Jungle Vibes
236 Petaluma Boulevard North,
Petaluma, CA

Program includes:

Fionna Perkins opens The Walk with a few poems, Eileen Malone and Mimi Albert doing a conjoined "Once in India" reading, (with raga), Diane Frank with Anthony Wright on Harp, Nina Lindsay with Music by The Abolitionists

For more information and listings of all readers:
geri-digiorno.petaluma360.com

Friday, October 5, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.

House Concert

Featuring Sharon Bousquet Singer, Songwriter. Poet Diane Frank opens with Anthony Wright Poetry and Harp Collaboration

New and selected poems

Location:

Chez Diane
3600 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Phone: 415-440-8668

Sharon Bousquet's new CD, Temple, was recorded and mixed in Austin, Texas at MoonHouse Studio with multi-intrumentalist Chris Gage at the helm. The first track is a lush and open rendition of Nick Drake's "Northern Sky", with minimalist support from piano, bass and drums. This leaves plenty of room for Sharon's gift of a voice to take hold of the spotlight and not let it go.

"Sharon Bousquet does everything with sultry grace. She has considerable prowess on acoustic guitar, yet puts her instrument down to belt out electrifying numbers like the gospel-tinged Temple. Bousquet has the substance to rise to the top."
– R. Patt, Metro Santa.

We're across the street from the Exploratorium. Send an E-mail to GeishaPoet@aol.com for directions. You can park at the end of the block or in one of the lots for the Exploratorium and Palace of Fine Arts.

For more information: www.sharonbousquet.com

 

 

 

DIANE FRANK, M.A. Creative Writing, SFSU

Diane is an award winning poet and Pushcart Award nominated. Of her 5 collections of poems, her most recent is Entering the Word Temple (1st World Library 2006). She is published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her first novel, Blackberries in the Dream House, (1st World Library), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The novel is the forbidden love story of a geisha and introduces a new voice in magical realism.