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Poetry Night At Gathering is every 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. Following Featured poet is Open Mic .
Gathering has Artist Openings
Fellow Artists would you like to show and sell your art at
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Gathering Book Club:
Meets 1st Thursday
at 7 pm.
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Gathering is sponsoring a donation drive for A Women’s Place. Our drive for donations is extended to May31. We have a basket set up to collect your donations. Also a portion from the proceeds of Melanie Eyth’s new poetry collection, New Day Wishes, benefits A Woman's Place.
CORINNE-VALERIE MARIN
CORINNE-VALERIE MARIN, a UCLA graduate and California native, relocated from California to Chslfont, PA, five years ago be near her daughter and young grandchildren. An oil painter, watercolorist, former serigrapher, and published poet, she has had a solo exhibit on the top floor of The Kirkeby Center, Westwood, CA, and was awarded an honorarium from the City of Santa Monica.
Then, she shelved her artist vocation until she had raised her only child, taught elementary school and earned a retirement pension. She now has her own studio detached from her pastoral Peace Valley home. She has had solo exhibits at the Mainstreet, Doylestown, Starbucks; The Corner Bakery, and several group shows, including The Doylestown Market Place indoor courtyard.
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Her current paintings focus on the joy of Nature, in an impressionistic style, often impasto, thickly textured oil paintings.
Her poetry can be found in FM Quarterly poetry journals; hot-off-the-press, The Soul's Bright Home, an anthology edited by Melanie Eyth, and, imminently, When Awoken, Sing, her own collection, also edited by Melanie Eyth...available at Gathering, Doylestown Book Store, and Amazon.com.
Corinne-Valerie is taking a break from Gathering.
Corinne-Valerie Marin
CORINNE-VALERIE MARIN, a UCLA graduate and California native, relocated from California five years ago be near her daughter and young grandchildren. An oil painter, watercolorist, former serigrapher, and published poet, she has had a solo exhibit on the top floor of The Kirkeby Center, Westwood, CA, and was awarded an honorarium from the City of Santa Monica. Then, she shelved her artist vocation until she had raised her only child, taught elementary school and earned a retirement pension. She now has her own studio detached from her pastoral Peace Valley home. She has had solo exhibits at Main Street Marketplace, Doylestown, Starbucks, The Corner Bakery, and several group shows.
Her current paintings focus on the joy of Nature, in an impressionistic style, often thickly textured impasto oil paintings.
Her poetry can be found in FM Quarterly poetry journals; The Soul's Bright Home, an anthology edited by Melanie Eyth, and, When Awoken, Sing, her own collection, also edited by Melanie Eyth...available at Gathering Art Gallery, The Doylestown Bookshop, and Amazon.com.
2024 Corinne-Valerie Marin, was published in Bucks Herald May 30 2024. Her poem is “Spring in May”.
Previously published: When Awoken Sing, Amazon.com; Gathering Gallery, Doylestown Corinne-Valerie Marin has published two anthologies, When Awoken Sing, and Clear Skies Ahead, and FM Poetry quarterly journals, on Amazon.com and in Gathering Gallery, Doylestown. She also paints and gardens since retiring from bilingual teaching in California. She moved here for her daughter and grandchildren.
Poet's Corner
Spring in May
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2024 12:19 am
Corinne-Valerie Marin
Chalfont, Pennsylvania
To rest beneath a canopy of sky
Dappled by euphoric blossoms
Pink as dawn and fragile
To think of nothing more than whence
Originates the panoply of enveloping scents
Compelling as vanilla to one bereft
Of one scintilla of sweetness
To see no more than palettes of pinks
Reds greens and skyward blue
And every pastel rainbow hue
Mesmerized to close my eyes
Still see with eyes wide shut
The satin of the softly wispy skies
The overladen drooping crabapple tree
Dropping a carpet of petals beneath its
Rounded motherly arms that reach
For every child that reaches upward
That embraces every child that steps into it
To be in pinkest of pink places
Face to face with blossom kisses
To breathe in and in and in and exhale
As slowly as the taste of honey
Melts into the mouth
This is Spring in May!