Fourth Saturdays Poetry: Nancy Lynée Woo + Ron Koertge
Join us for our June poetry reading at the Claremont Helen Renwick public library.
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Ron Koertge & Nancy Lynée Woo
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, June 27, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
A little about our featured readers:
Ron Koertge (pronounced KUR-chee) taught at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, for thirty-seven years. Now retired. Many books of poetry including Sex Object, 12 Photographs of Yellowstone, The Hired Nose, The Father Poems, The Jockey Poems, Men Under Fire, Diary Cows, Life on the Edge of the Continent, High School Dirty Poems, Making Love to Roget’s Wife (University of Arkansas Press, 1997), and Geography of the Forehead (University of Arkansas Press, 2000). 1990 N.E.A. fellowship in Literature (Poetry). 1993 California Arts Council grant (Poetry). Included in Best American Poetry, 1999. An actual Pushcart Prize winner. A short animated film made from one of his prose poems (“Negative Space”) was Oscar nominated in 2018. His most recent books are I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend and Pandora’s Kitchen, both from Red Hen Press.
Nancy Lynée Woo is an eco-centric poet, teaching artist, and community organizer based in Long Beach, California, on traditional Tongva land. Her first full-length poetry collection, I’d Rather Be Lightning (Gasher Press) is a love song to the earth celebrating what we stand to lose. She is the winner of the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins poetry prize and has received fellowships from PEN America Emerging Voices, California Creative Corps, and Writer’s Block Las Vegas, among others, with an MFA from Antioch University. She is the Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate Mentor and serves on the Arts Education Leadership Circle with LA County, and believes in the power of the arts to bring people together. Find her at nancylyneewoo.com and Instagram @fancifulnance.
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
Learn more about the Claremont Helen Renwick Library at https://www.claremontlibrary.org/
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featured Poets: Ron Koertge & Nancy Lynée Woo
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, June 27, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
All are welcome! This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
A little about our featured readers:
Ron Koertge (pronounced KUR-chee) taught at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, for thirty-seven years. Now retired. Many books of poetry including Sex Object, 12 Photographs of Yellowstone, The Hired Nose, The Father Poems, The Jockey Poems, Men Under Fire, Diary Cows, Life on the Edge of the Continent, High School Dirty Poems, Making Love to Roget’s Wife (University of Arkansas Press, 1997), and Geography of the Forehead (University of Arkansas Press, 2000). 1990 N.E.A. fellowship in Literature (Poetry). 1993 California Arts Council grant (Poetry). Included in Best American Poetry, 1999. An actual Pushcart Prize winner. A short animated film made from one of his prose poems (“Negative Space”) was Oscar nominated in 2018. His most recent books are I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend and Pandora’s Kitchen, both from Red Hen Press.
Nancy Lynée Woo is an eco-centric poet, teaching artist, and community organizer based in Long Beach, California, on traditional Tongva land. Her first full-length poetry collection, I’d Rather Be Lightning (Gasher Press) is a love song to the earth celebrating what we stand to lose. She is the winner of the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins poetry prize and has received fellowships from PEN America Emerging Voices, California Creative Corps, and Writer’s Block Las Vegas, among others, with an MFA from Antioch University. She is the Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate Mentor and serves on the Arts Education Leadership Circle with LA County, and believes in the power of the arts to bring people together. Find her at nancylyneewoo.com and Instagram @fancifulnance.
Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library.
Learn more about the Claremont Helen Renwick Library at https://www.claremontlibrary.org/
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