Half Moon Bay Poet Diane Moomey Featured August 19 At Virtual Third Thursday Poetry
By Blake More
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents a virtual Zoom Poetry reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, August 19. This month features Half Moon Bay poet Diane Moomey, with open mic to follow.
Diane Lee Moomey has lived and wandered around the United States and Canada and now lives in Half Moon Bay, California, where she co-hosts a monthly poetry series, “Coastside Poetry”. A regular reader at Bay Area poetry venues, she has had work published in The MacGuffin, Light, PoetryMagazine.com, Mezzo Cammin, PoeTalk, The Sand Hill Review, California Poetry Quarterly, Caesura and Red Wheelbarrow, and been nominated for a Pushcart prize.
In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020, Moomey won prizes and Honorable Mentions from the Ina Coolbrith Circle and the Soul Making Keats Literary Contests. Her newest poetry collection, "Make For Higher Ground", is scheduled to be published later this year by Barefoot Muse Press. (https://www.pw.org/content/diane_moomey)
Through Foothill College’s Community Based Program, Diane offers enrichment classes in Poetry Appreciation and Memoir/Storytelling. She is also a watercolorist and collage artist, an experience that both seeds and is seeded by, her poetic imagery. Visit her at www.dianeleemoomeyart.com.
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.
