Grass Valley Poet Maxima Kahn at Third Thursday Poetry • January 21
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, January 21. This month features Grass Valley poet Maxima Kahn, with open mic to follow.
Author and teacher Maxima Kahn’s debut full-length collection of poetry, Fierce Aria, has just been released by Finishing Line Press, an award-winning press based in Kentucky. About the book Kahn says, “Fierce Aria explores the process of creation and self-creation—what it means to be a human being and an artist in these challenging times. What is the role of art and art-making in that? How do we come to some sense of wholeness and acceptance in the midst of loss and hardship?”
Kahn’s work has been featured in numerous literary journals, including The Louisville Review, Wisconsin Review, Euphony, Sweet, Poem and many others, and on popular blogs such as The Creative Penn, Tiny Buddha, Positively Positive and The Startup. She has twice been nominated for Best of the Net, was a finalist for the Atlanta Review poetry contest, and has received scholarships and fellowships to the Community of Writers, the Colrain Poetry Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center.
She is a popular teacher, offering workshops in poetry, creative writing and the creative process, as well as one-on-one creative life coaching. Formerly an instructor at the University of California, Davis Extension, she has taught privately through her own business, BrilliantPlayground.com, since 2004.
The result of ten years of intense work, Fierce Aria, follows a journey of transformation as it probes into lasting questions about the human condition, art and music. Kahn is also a musician–a violinist and award-winning composer—and the presence of music is woven throughout the collection.
Acclaimed author Annie Finch says of the collection: “’I have learned to walk in the valley of my fears and losses,’ writes Maxima Kahn, and the evidence of what she has learned is all over these amazing poems.…Distinctive, honed, vulnerable, musical, courageous, honest, Maxima Kahn’s poems are fully ripened, fully considered—each one ready to drop richly into the hand like a subtly contoured fruit. Taste them.”
To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email blake@snakelyone.com.
Third Thursday Poetry Zoom made possible by the Arena Theater and continues to be supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
