| Doraine Poretz, poet and playwright, teaches “Writing Down the Music of Your Life”, a poetry writing series for adults, conducts monthly seminars in writing and the archetypes of the unconscious, and curates an on-going series of poetry readings at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood. As well, Ms. Poretz has taught thousands of students as poet-in-residence in various schools in California during her twenty year career. She has served on the faculty of the California Summer School for the Arts and has been a guest instructor at SCI-ARC (Southern California Institute of Architecture), where she taught poetry appreciation to college freshman. Five books of her poetry have been published, and her short stories have appeared in both Doubleday and Dutton editions. Her poems can be found in such magazines as Onthebus, Harbinger: Fiction and Poetry of Los Angeles Writers, and Grand Passion: The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. A new book of her poems, This Alchemy, is due out in the fall of 2008. Too, she has participated in the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit both in New York and Los Angeles, and her plays have been produced or developed in theatres on both coasts. |
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| FAVORITES Quotes: Do unto others as they wish.... but with imagination. ~ Marcel Duchamp May my silences become more accurate. ~Theodore Roethke |
| Nothing is ever the same as they said it was, It's what I've never seen before that I recognize ~Diane Arbus I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse |