Paul Cezanne’s The Turn in the Road I There are houses at a close distance. They are a town, wedges at angles. Their fronts and doors conjure paths and roads. Roof- colors question II the vegetables, many- fingered touches: dot-leaves mass into shape around fully-clothed branches and towards dying ones. Trunks curve and straighten to earth. Grasses comb the bank of the III road toward fences & mounds; the turn in the road: one step on the straight and I am drawn into the town. Alan Bern Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern’s three poetry books: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley, Fithian Press; greater distance, Lines & Faces, his fine press and publishing company with artist and printer Robert Woods, linesandfaces.com. Alan is a writer and photographer who has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and has won awards for both his poems and stories: runner up for The Raw Art Review's The John H. Kim Memorial Short Fiction Prize for his story; won a medal from SouthWest Writers for his story 'The Return of the Very Fierce Wolf of Gubbio to Assisi, 1943 CE [and now, 2013 CE].' Alan was also a finalist in the NCWN’s 2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, and he won the Littoral Press Poetry Prize in 2015. Alan performs with dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver as PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space and with musicians from Composing Together, composingtogether.org.
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June 2025
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