{"product_id":"expanding-water-ways","title":"EXPANDING. WATER. WAYS.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClaire Blotter\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and director who performs poetry with movement, music and body percussion. She won the 1992 and 1993 San Francisco Performance Poetry Slams, placing second with her team in national competitions in Boston and Chicago. She has published three poetry chapbooks, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and online videos. She received two Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grants in Poetry, First Place Award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, and was a finalist for the Fischer Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has taught writing and performance poetry at San Francisco State University, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the College of Marin. She also taught and performed poetry as Poet in Residence at Worcester State University in Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1981 she slipped through the veil to Bolinas where she lived for eleven years writing and directing three community theater productions with electronic music, text, and movement. She founded and directed the Bolinas Guerilla Theater Troupe and edited the Hearsay News. She curated a four-month art exhibit of life size sets\/altars to the orishas Oya, Elegba, Oshun, and Yemaya\/Olokun, inviting guests to move through the spaces sensing the unique powers of each archetype.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer poetry videos were included in two Chicago Poetry Video Festivals and the Chicago Art Institute Archives. Her award-winning video documentary \u003cem\u003eWake-Up Call: Saving The Songbirds,\u003c\/em\u003e about the decline of migratory songbirds, has been screened at eleven film festivals, including the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe lives in Mill Valley, California, and teaches poetry writing and performing in the California Poets in the Schools and Poetry Out Loud Programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 90 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (March 26, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAward:\u003cbr\u003e2025 Fischer Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublicity:\u003cbr\u003eWaterway Walk and Reading, Workshop, and Poetry Reading with Yosemite Gateway Art Center\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44462962278503,"sku":"zgy1787287059070","price":12.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/1601\/0087\/files\/expanding-water-ways_1.png?v=1787287064","url":"https:\/\/urbanstepfashion.shop\/products\/expanding-water-ways","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}