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Jannie Dresser A Bay Area poet with Central Valley roots who also writes freelance.

Jannie Dresser
Jannie Dresser
San Francisco Bay Area
Member since: Apr, 2009
Last login: 03/12/2010
Last update : 03/12/2010
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  • A mid-range boomer with a career working in the book trade, as editor, publisher, writer, typographer, bookseller, librarian, and as a publications manager. Also have taught English, creative writing, and mostly poetry writing in community centers, colleges, and private workshops.

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  • For the Birds

    March 12, 2010

    • In November, we moved up to the country from the busy streets of West Berkeley, and now I am lulled to sleep by fog horns on the Carquinez Straits where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers empty into the San Francisco Bay. Our home looks out on the delta and ships still trudge up the narrow strait to fill themselves with goods from the C & H Sugar plant here in Crockett, and a variety of ...
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  • Writing Out of Winter

    January 19, 2010

    • Several months have gone by and I've hardly written. What I've done instead is pack, disperse goods, gather goods, pack, contract with movers, watch my new house get ready, pack, and then move, then unpack. Unpacking occured during the holidays and visits to family. Now, it is already the new year, and I'm feeling itchy, backed-up, bloated with words that need sifting, sorting, releasing.The bear ...
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  • Working Collar Writer

    September 7, 2009

    • Throughout my life, I have written about how people support themselves. As a young woman, I set out to travel and work in every kind of job and institution in order to understand what work is. I experienced many types of work: I was an office clerk, a tally girl in a Central California fruit-packing house, a factory worker, a jail librarian, an aide in a mental hospital, a Santa's elf, a ...
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  • Overlooked, Bothered and Bitched-Out

    July 2, 2009

    • As part of my www.examiner.column on local (SF Bay Area) poets and poetry, I have had the good fortune to interview fascinating people who are overlooked by not only our mainstream media (poetry has never been on their radar) but also, and unfortunately so, by our local alternative press and poetry magazines. How many times have I seen the photos of better-known poets on the front-page of even ...
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  • Poem a Day

    June 22, 2009

    • I joined Molly Fisk's Facebook challenge group to write a poem every day for the month of June. Two years ago I set off on January 1 with the same intention, but to write a poem every day for the whole year. In both cases, I failed. There's something important to priming the pump. I have had to let go of my perfectionism to write a new poem every day. Some of the exercises have worked out. Most ...
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A two-day retreat to the Quaker Retreat Center in Ben Lomond, with a writing friend, really helped me re-set my gears for writing. (Can't) Beat a Retreat!

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