Interview with CB Follett and Kathy Evans by Neshama Franklin

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Marin Poets Live! (http://www.marinlibrary.org/events-and-programs/marin-poets-live) is a public access television monthly show presented by Marin County Free Library (http://www.marinlibrary.org/) and features host Neshama Franklin, who works at the Fairfax Branch Library. The show introduces local Marin poets and delves into their reasons for writing and the influence that living in Marin County has had on their poetry. In each interview, Neshama spends time eliciting background from each poet as well as offering her insights into the poems that each guest reads aloud. This interview with CB Follett and Kathy Evans aired Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 7:30pm. The monthly show appears the second Thursday of each month at 7:30pm PST. Check the Community Media Center of Marin for schedules (http://cmcm.tv/community-schedule). ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­------- CB Follett Biography CB Follett's poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies all over the world. She has received numerous awards and grants -- among them, seven poem nominations for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry; seven Pushcart nominations as an individual poet; runner-up for the Robert Winner Prize, the George Bogin Award and finalist for the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (all from the Poetry Society of America); received contest honors in the Billee Murray Denny, New Letters Prize, the Ann Stanford Prize, the Glimmer Train Poetry Contest and others, and a grant for poetry from the Marin Arts Council. . With Susan Terris, a friend and poetry colleague, Follett was publisher and co-editor of RUNES, A Review of Poetry, a themed annual 2000-2007. Follett is publisher, editor, general dogsbody of Arctos Press which has published over 20 anthologies and poetry collections. She, herself has eight collections of poems and several chapbooks. Her eighth collection, Of Gravity and Tides came out in early 2013. She was the Poet Laureate of Marin County, CA 2010-2013. While Poet Laureate, she started several programs. Among them is ROAR (Reach Out And Read) which takes poetry into senior facilities and also presents 'neighborhood' poetry read by poets of that cultural background. Locations have been The Canal area of San Rafael (Central and South American poems), Marin City Library (black poetry), West Marin (Hispanic poetry), and Falkirk, presenting (Native American poets. Another program is called Poetry Exchange Boxes. Real Estate Flyer type boxes are placed around the county stuffed with poems. Poems may taken out, put in, passed on to others. The boxes are at art centers, book stores, libraries, school classrooms and many other places. Follett is also an artist and photographer and has done several of the illustrations and covers for her books, Arctos Press books, as well as poetry book covers for other presses.. A graduate of Smith College, she lives with her husband in Sausalito, California perched between the coastal range and San Francisco Bay. Awards 2013 - Marin County Poet Laureate 2001 - National Poetry Book Award (Salmon Press) Bibliography 2013 - Of Gravity and Tides 2013 - Compass Rose 2012 - One Bird Falling 2011 - Houses 2011 - Compass Points 2009 - Poems to Red Rocks 2008 - And Freddie Was My Darling 2008 - Runaway Girl 2008 - A Cat Who Falls From a Tree Branch Will Always Claim He Meant To 2007 - Hold and Release 2007 - The Loving of Trees 2003 - Vallon Pont d'Arc 2003 - Hermit Crab 2003 - Arms 2003 - Duxbury Reef 2003 - Wheels 2002 - Nightmare Fish 2001 - At the Turning of the Light 2001 - CB Follett's Greatest Hits 1998 - Visible Bones 1996 - Bull Kelp 1995 - Gathering the Mountains 1993 - The Latitudes of Their Going ----------------------------------------­----------------------------------------­------- Kathy Evans Biography Kathy Evans, from Sausalito, is the author of three books of poetry. She has been published in many journals and west coast reviews, including the Alaska Review, the Atlantic Review, California Quarterly, Black Bear Review, Runes,The Southern Review, Oberon, and others. She teaches Creative Writing at Juvenile Hall in Marin County, at several colleges, through The California Poets-in-the-Schools program, and at UCSF in the Children's Cancer ward for Benioff Children's Hospital. Her three collections of poetry include: Imagination Comes To Breakfast, As The Heart Is Held, and Hunger and Sorrow, which was the winner of the Small Press Poetry Prize. Her current manuscript is titled: It Is The Good Darkness He Said. Awards 2006 - Small Press Poetry Prize Bibliography 2005 - Hunger and Sorrow 1997 - As the Heart is Held 1992 - Imagination Comes to Breakfast