Tebot Bach Poetry Readings in Huntington Beach

Carine Topal

Carine Topal, teaches in Los Angeles. Since 1982, she has anthologized the poetry of special needs children. She participated in California Poets in the Schools. She was the Poet-in-Residence for the city of Manhattan Beach and Poet-in-Education for Manhattan Beach elementary schools. In 1994, her first collection of poetry, God As Thief, was published by The Amagansett Press. Her work has appeared in Water-Stone, Caliban, The Best of the Prose Poem, Pacific Review, and many other journals throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 2004, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2005, awarded a residency at Hedgebrook, as well as a fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia.

She is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, including the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, the 2007 Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award from California Arts and Letters, with a special edition chapbook, Bed of Want, recently published by Black Zinnias. Most recently, Carine was awarded the 2008 Excellence in Arts Award from the Cultural Arts Commission of Torrance.

She moved to Jerusalem, Israel in the 1970's, where she worked with Palestinian merchants, traveling to villages and towns in the West Bank and Bethlehem. She was also employed by the Office of Assimilation, in a small town outside Jerusalem, working with Moroccan Jews. She then lived in Germany on the American army base in Heidelberg. 

Kate Buckley, Laguna Beach, has served as the Executive Vice President for Castello Cities Internet Network since 1998. Kate Buckley's poems may be seen in The Heartland Review, New Southerner, The North American Review, Slipstream, and Spillway, and in the book, Tide Pools, an Anthology of Orange County Poetry. Kate has two books forthcoming for 2008: A Wild Region: Poems & Paintings (Moon Tide Press) and a full-length book, Follow Me Down, to be released in the latter part of 2008 by Tebot Bach. She was a finalist for the 2007 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, winner of the 2007 Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing for poetry, and winner of the 2008 North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize selected by Molly Peacock. Buckley is a long standing member of Laguna Poets, founder of Women Poets of Laguna, and conducts workshops.

Multi-talented, Buckley's paintings are privately collected and have been published in journals such as The Adirondack Review and purchased by such entities as The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Board of Directors Invitation 2005). Buckley's paintings are available for purchase and she currently accepts commissions.