Marin Poets Live! is a public access television monthly show presented by Marin County Free Library ([ Ссылка ]) and features host Neshama Franklin, who works at the Fairfax Library. The show introduces local Marin poets and delves into their reasons for writing and the influence that living in Marin County has had on their poetry.
In each interview, Neshama spends time eliciting background from each poet as well as offering her insights into the poems that each guest reads aloud.
This interview with Gloria Ataide Breen aired September 10, 2015 at 7:30pm.
This monthly show appears the second Thursday of each month at 7:30pm PST. Check the Community Media Center of Marin for schedules ([ Ссылка ]).
Credits:
Host: Neshama Franklin
Guest: Gloria Ataide Breen
Director: Lori Greenleaf
Cameras: Brian Jones
Technical Director: Brad Flaharty
Producers: Neshama Franklin and Brian Jones
Poet's Biography
Gloria Ataide Breen is the child of Portuguese American farmworkers who became raisin farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. After studying with Philip Levine at Fresno State, she received her BA and MA from S.F.S.U. where she studied with Kathleen Fraser and Stan Rice. In l982, the Poetry Center published “No Logic in Motion”, which won the Poetry Center award. She wrote “Learning to Read” in a 2000 chapbook.
The mother of three, married for thirty-four years, Gloria was the editor of two Marin Poetry Center anthologies and served on the board there in 2004. She has taught poetry for fifteen years, at Oliver's Books for four years, and privately.
