Poet Traci Gourdine is the first of a dozen or more writers who have been invited to speak at the Senior Center this winter and spring. Kellie and her husband, Adrian, met at another UC, University of Colorado, Boulder, in a creative writing program. Kellie didn't mind moving to California but she wanted a small, quiet town with trees. I just began calling people and they gave me the names of other people and it snowballed.
People are very generous with their time and everyone agreed to do it without pay.
She is the chair of the creative writing department for the California State Summer School for the Arts. Kellie has invited fantasy writer Peter Beagle to speak sometime in February. Details are still being worked out. Kellie says she isn't quite sure what the March 19 speaker is going to talk about. Whatever the topic, columnist Bob Dunning will be speaking at the Senior Center at 1 p.m. on March 19.