Healdsburg Literary Guild Presents: Jonah Raskin at the Third Sunday Salon

The Third Sunday Salon, an ongoing program of the non-profit Healdsburg Literary Guild, meets the third Sunday of each month and features open mic and a featured literary presenter.

Jonah Raskin will read from his latest book of poetry, Rock 'n' Roll Women: Portraits of a Generation. He will be accompanied by his friend Timothy Williams on kettle drums.

Raskin has been writing poetry since the 1950s, when he went to high school, played football, and listened to rock ‘n’ roll – like the Beat Generation writers, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg whom he admired and aimed to imitate.

He is the author of American Scream, a biography of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. He has also published six poetry chapbooks: More Poems, Better Poems; Bone Love; Public Spaces, Private Faces; Auras; Jonah Raskins' Greatest Hits; and Letters to a Lover.

He lives in Santa Rosa, California.

Open Mic sign-ups begin at 1:30 p.m.