BAY AREA POETS SEASONAL REVIEW 

We hereby announce the listing of San Francisco Bay Area poets' birthdays, and hope to add brief bios and contact information eventually. We'll even publish one of your poems in your birthday month if you send us one.

If you live or work in one of the 9 counties that touch the San Francisco Bay, you qualify!

Bay Area Poets' Birthdates

1/25/1948 Kit Kennedy, San Francsico. Born Morristown, New Jersey.

1/31 CB (Lyn) Follett, Sausalito. Born  New York., lived in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Marin County.

3/30 Mary Rudge, Alameda.

4/21/1942 John Oliver Simon, Berkeley. Born New York City, lived mostly in Berkeley.

5/8/1957 Rebecca Foust. Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where "I lived until age 17," then came to Stanford Law School in 1979. Has lived in Bay Area since 1982, in Ross since 1997.

6/30/1953 Jannie M. Dresser, Crockett. Born  at Fort Belvoir, Alexandria, Virginia, lived in Germany in infancy, raised in Fresno, California. East Bay Greece: Oakland/Berkeley 1979-2009.

7/27/ 1939 Marvin R. Hiemstra, San Francisco. "I was born in Pella, Iowa, a Dutch immigrant community on the windswept prairie. After two college degrees and a time in New York City and in Amsterdam, I settled in radiant San Francisco 43 years ago."

8/1/1949 Dale Jensen, Berkeley. "I was born in Oakland and have lived in Berkley most f my adult life, except for a couple of years in Toronto and a year in Santa Cruz."

 8/22 Jan Steckel, Oakland

12/3 Pireeni Sundaralingam, San Francisco

12/4/1943 Randy Fingland, Berkeley. "I had moved 18 times by the time I was 16, up and down the East Coast, the south, Canada (mother is Canadian), and finally to St. Louis where I went to High School, then college in Los Angeles. I moved to Berkeley from Chicago where I've been for 40 years."

 12/15 Connie Post, Livermore

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