Third Tuesday Poetry Night @ Twin Lotus: Brad Buchanan, Karen Defoe, and Jim Knowles

Third Tuesday Poetry Night

Tuesday, August 19 at 6:00 pm

Brad Buchanan, Karen Defoe, and Jim Knowles

Twin Lotus Thai Restaurant – 8345 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento 

Hosted by Bob Stanley

Reading starts at 6:00, followed by open mic.                

Seating is Limited! Reservations and pre-ordering are strongly requested – please go to twinlotusthai.com to reserve your table and place your food order. 

Note that the Third Tuesday Poetry link is listed below all the Music Events and just below Two Tune Tuesdays. 

Featured poets for August 19th

Karen DeFoe holds a BA in Drama and an MA in Education, has performed with Roadside Theater Company in Germany and San Jose Music Theater, was Director of Drama for Carmichael School of Performing Arts, founded the children’s theater company Corps de Jeune, and taught English and Drama in Germany, and in both public and private schools in California. Her poems have appeared in Ink Spots: Award-Winning Flash Fiction and Poetry, More Than Enough, Tule Review, and Voices.

Jim Knowles was born in Honolulu, raised in the Diablo Valley east of San Francisco Bay, and lived more than 30 years in Silicon Valley. Jim played keyboards in jazz, rock, fusion, and blues bands while pursuing a long career as a software engineer. Jim and his wife Liza now live in Sydney, Australia, where he pursues his daily practices of tai chi, music, poetry, and art. His first book of poetry, The Beginning of Dreams, has just been published by Random Lane Press.

Brad Buchanan has been published in over 200 journals, and he has many book-length collections of poetry in print, including The Miracle Shirker (2005), Swimming the Mirror: Poems for My Daughter (2008), and Chimera (2022). Now Emeritus Professor of English at Sacramento State University, Dr. Buchanan has also published numerous scholarly articles and two academic books. In February 2015, he was diagnosed with a rare form of T-cell lymphoma, and he underwent a stem cell transplant in 2016. Currently in remission, Brad continues to write and lead writing groups in the Sacramento community.