Author and Poet
Shelley Savren
(who led a writing workshop at SBFOL’s Annual Meeting last year)
will read from her new book
The Wild Shine of Oranges
at A Place of Peace
2021 Sperry Ave., Suite 22, Ventura
805.794.9878
Friday, November 15, 7:00 p.m.
Reception and Booksigning to Follow
In The Wild Shine of Oranges, Shelley Savren finds the neglected, incarcerated 
and sick, and explores the perils of family, and a daughter coming into her own. These frank, tightly-crafted narratives recount the sounds of protest and are testament to lives lost and shared, where, in moments of mercy, “there are no shadows.” —Dorianne Laux
These poems describe historical change and global issues in personal narrative and familial experience in a way that makes history easy to understand. Foods, concentration camps, culture, love and loss abound in these poems and are treated with an affection and kindness seldom achieved in poetry. —Jimmy Santiago Baca
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