One Writing Life: Looking Back At Seven Decades Through Poetry, Prose and Life Story

“While I’ve never made a living as a writer, I’ve made a life—one that makes sense to me,” says Lois Requist, Benicia’s Poet Laureate. On Saturday Afternoon, October 6, Requist will read from her collection of poetry and prose writings, adding personal and social contexts that spawned and fostered her writing life.  From her strict, religious upbringing in rural Idaho to the suburbs of California during the 1960s upheaval over the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, and Women’s Liberation, Requist will share with us, how those places and movements affected her.  

The reading will be in the Dona Benicia Room at the Benicia Public Library on Saturday, October 6, at 3 p.m. The reading & reception is being co-sponsored by the Benicia-Vallejo Branch of American Association of University Women, the Benicia League of Women Voters, and Benicia Literary Arts. The public is invited.  Admission is free.