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Links
www.interplay.org Interplay is a spiritual practice, a way of creating art, a community-building tool, and
much more. Check out this site for the latest on classes, workshops, books, and performances
www.writingsalons.com Jane Underwood runs this San Francisco school for aspiring writers. Classes are
offered in poetry, fiction, playwriting, screenplay writing, personal essay, memoir, and more. Accessible and
affordable for working adults. New Berkeley site for East Bay folks.
www.thesunmagazine.org I know of no magazine like The Sun, funny, sad, political, spiritual, and literary
all in one breath. Readers write in every month about topics ranging from "Lipstick" to "Forgiveness" or
"Hunger." The Sun published me when I was a just-starting-out writer, and I will be eternally grateful to Sy
Safransky and the rest of the crew who work each month to put out this rough jewel.
www.ruthschwartz.com My good friend Ruth Schwartz has published four books of gorgeous,
groundbreaking poetry: Accordion Breathing and Dancing, Singular Bodies, Edgewater, and Dear Good Naked
Morning, as well as a poignant memoir, Death in Reverse. Her web site is a gold mine of good poems, as well as
links to other poetry-related sites.
www.depthhypnotherapy.com Ruth's most recent site is dedicated to her work as a depth hypnotherapist.
Check out this web site for a fresh perspective on the healing arts, and for fascinating information on shamanic
journeying.
www.ucandanc.org My friend and colleague Masankho Banda is an African dancer, storyteller, ritualist and
peacemaker. His mission is to create world peace through dance. He was honored by the Dalai Lama for his
work with children.
www.laurenari.com Lauren is a visual artist and a dear friend who created the collage that is the cover
illustration of my book, The Largest Possible Life. She works in ceramics, paint, line drawing and mixed media to
create imagery that comes fresh out of the dream world. She has recently begun working with old dictionary
pages as a way to incorporate text and image. She also likes to paint faces and bodies.
www.kailaflexer.com Kaila Flexer is an awesome violinist, composer, and magic-maker. Check out her web
site for her taste of klezmer-infused musical heaven.
www.zilbersmith.com Mike and Carla Zilbersmith are two of my oldest friends. Together, they form a
musical and familial entity that I find amazing in its artistry and endurace. Mike plays saxophone and composes,
and has been called one of the premier jazz musicians of our generation. Carla sings, acts, improvises, creates
one-woman shows, and heads up the theater department at College of Marin. They have a son, the scarily
intelligent Maclen Zilber.
www.perkis.com My friend Tim Perkis is an avant-garde improvisational musician who is making a
documentary film called Noisy People. Tim and I are also collaborating on a script for a feature film which will be
ready as soon as we can agree about the plot.
http://addonizio.home.mindspring.com I love Kim Addonizio's web site as much as I love her poems. An
intimate and accessible poet, she has recently branched out into fiction and published her first novel this year.
www.ellenbass.com Ellen is probably best known for her groundbreaking work with survivors of childhood
sexual abuse. But she is also a kick-ass, sensual, funny and profound poet. Her recent book, Mules of Love is
as nourishing as good bread.
www.atjt.com San Francisco-based A Traveling Jewish Theater has been creating theater with Jewish soul
for 26 years.
www.poetryflash.org Great reference for poetry happenings in and around Northern California.
www.cpits.org California Poets in the Schools has been putting professional poets in public school
classrooms for forty years. In these days of cutbacks when arts budgets are slashed in order to make war in
foreign countries, it is more important than ever to support programs which give young people a voice.
www.each1reach1.org Mentoring youth through theater arts. This innovative program pairs incarcerated
youth with playwright-mentors for an intense two-week stint of improvisation and play-creation. At the end of
each session, professional actors do a staged reading of the students' work.
www.rowecenter.org The Sun holds workshops once every two years at this beautiful rustic conference
center nestled in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.
www.esalen.org The Sun has been holding confereces at Esalen Institute once a year for the past three
years and I hope we continue on into infinity. Hot tubs overlooking the Pacific, yoga classes, massage, delicious
organic food, and writing workshops. Very wonderful.