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Written by: Editor

Published: 13 July 2011

The following is a list of the performances – dates, times and venues.

– Saturday, July 23, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Zino’s Ristorante, 6330 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville. Reservations: 707-279-1620.

– Sunday, July 24, noon to 3 p.m.: Calistoga Inn, Sunday brunch, outdoor patio. Reservations: 707-942-4101.

– Saturday, July 30, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: With “Short Stax,” (the new instrumental soul, funk, rhythm and blues trio including Neft and two other members of Bill Noteman & the Rockets), Lake County Wine Adventure Moore Family Winery, Bottle Rock Road, Cobb.

– Saturday, July 30, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Zino’s Ristorante, 6330 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville. Reservations: 707-279-1620.

– Sunday, July 31, noon to 3 p.m.: Calistoga Inn, Sunday brunch, outdoor patio. Reservations: 707-942-4101.

– Saturday, Aug. 6, 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m.: Bill Noteman & the Rockets, first time ever, at the Sonoma County Fair.

– Sunday, Aug. 14, 6 p.m.; Short Stax are opening for blues great Robert Cray at Ukiah’s Park Concert series, 6 pm. Free.

For more information call 707-522-0283. E-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to get Neft's monthly schedule sent directly to your inbox.

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Written by: Ted Kooser

Published: 10 July 2011

Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. Photo by UNL Publications and Photography.

I don’t often mention literary forms, but of this lovely poem by Cecilia Woloch I want to suggest that the form, a villanelle, which uses a pattern of repetition, adds to the enchantment I feel in reading it. It has a kind of layering, like memory itself. Woloch lives and teaches in southern California.

My Mother's Pillow

My mother sleeps with the Bible open on her pillow;

she reads herself to sleep and wakens startled.

She listens for her heart: each breath is shallow.

For years her hands were quick with thread and needle.

She used to sew all night when we were little;

now she sleeps with the Bible on her pillow

and believes that Jesus understands her sorrow:

her children grown, their father frail and brittle;

she stitches in her heart, her breathing shallow.

Once she even slept fast, rushed tomorrow,

mornings full of sunlight, sons and daughters.

Now she sleeps alone with the Bible on her pillow

and wakes alone and feels the house is hollow,

though my father in his blue room stirs and mutters;

she listens to him breathe: each breath is shallow.

I flutter down the darkened hallway, shadow

between their dreams, my mother and my father,

asleep in rooms I pass, my breathing shallow.

I leave the Bible open on her pillow.

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2003 by Cecilia Woloch, whose most recent book of poetry is Narcissus, Tupelo Press, 2008. Reprinted from Late, by Cecilia Woloch, published by BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, 2003, by permission of Cecilia Woloch. Introduction copyright ©2011 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

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Written by: Editor

Published: 10 July 2011

The films will be shown at the grange, located at 12982 Highway 20, Clearlake Oaks.

“Laughology” will be shown at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, with an accompanying laughter yoga session. For more information visit www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2011/07/13/5428 .

At 6 p.m. Thursday, July 14, “Farmageddon” will be shown, to be followed at 8 p.m. by “First Earth.”

For more information about the films see www.hopedance.org/events/icalrepeat.detail/2011/07/14/5426.

The suggested donation is $10 for each night. No one will be turned away.