Clara Bellino

Cotati Poetry Series Clara Bellino emerged from France to become an important contributor to the American music scene, with a style she describes as "pop jazz with a 60's Euro twist". Clara sings originals in English, French and Spanish. Clara has been playing shows,showcases and benefits all over the West Coast. Jeanne Lupton, writer and poet, hosts Poetry at Frank Bette in Alameda twice a month. She has published a tanka book and a few tanka booklets, and is well published internationally in tanka journals. She also writes memoir and does solo performance and storytelling. She enjoys reading on open mics and featuring at bay area venues and is happy to be here today. Connie Post is a San Franciso Bay Area Poet who has been writing poetry for over twenty years. She is dedicated also to the cause of autism and furthering education & understanding on the experience of raising a child with autism. http://poetrypost.com Ka'lane Raposa: "While serving a 10 year prison term for crimes that should have resulted in a sentence of 223 years to octuple life, I coauthored "Seven Diamonds and a Monkey". It is the 'true crime novel' about the man who shot Richard Allen Davis. In the midst of writing. "Seven Diamonds..." I was the recipient of the 2010 PEN Award for prison writing in the category of Memoir and also earned my degree as a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Specialist."