November 21, 5:30 pm, Four Eyed Frog Books
I am delighted to be reading at Four-Eyed Frog Books in Gualala on Friday, November 21st at 5:30 pm from The Fool in the Corn (Saddle Road Press, 2022) with Susan Wolbarst, author of the poetry collection It’s Over (Finishing Line Press, 2025). The bookstore is located at 39132 Ocean Drive, Gualala, 95445-1122. Here’s a bit about each of our collections; we’d love to see you.
It’s Over is a series of haunting poems powered by bare-boned immediate feeling. The narrative structure of the poems connects readers to the intensity of each moment, whether the subject matter is a naked woman running through the streets of Nazi-occupied Poland, the survivor of a suicidal jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, a mother who loves being a badass, or drinking beer in Mexico during the predictable daily downpour. The poems are propelled forward without any sense of artifice or pretense. Self-irony and understated lyricism are interspersed with evocative epiphanies, expressed in simple and direct language.
Susan Wolbarst writes in rural Gualala, CA, where she works as a reporter for a weekly newspaper. Her writing has been published in “Valley Voices,” “pioneertownlit.com,” “The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine,” “Naugatuck River Review,” “Plainsongs,” “The Christian Science Monitor” and others.
A poetry collection called “It’s Over” was published by Finishing Line Press of Georgetown, KY in September. When not reading or writing, her favorite thing is messing around in a kayak.
In The Fool in the Corn, her second collection of poems, Tania Pryputniewicz evokes the sensations and emotions of a sensitive child in a Midwestern commune, coming of age in a small town on the Russian River in California, finding herself as a poet, navigating difficult years of marriage and motherhood, and the heartbreaking loss of her own mother. The image of the Tarot Fool, wise innocent and eternal adventurer, weaves throughout the book.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Tania Pryputniewicz is the author of the poetry collection November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, 2014) Heart’s Compass Tarot (Two Fine Crows Books, 2021), and a memoir in poems, The Fool in the Corn (Saddle Road Press, 2022).
She teaches poetry and tarot-inspired writing classes at San Diego Writers, Ink, Antioch University’s Continuing Education program, and through her website. Tania grew up on the Russian River in Sonoma County but now lives in Coronado, California with her husband, two of her three children, one blue-eyed Husky, and a kitten rescue named Clementine Quill. Connect with Tania on IG @heartscompasstarot or through her website: www.taniapryputniewicz.com.
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