Listen to Connie Post!

Connie Post served as the Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, from 2005–2009. During her term she created two popular reading series, “Wine and Words” and “Ravenswood,” and developed a youth poetry critique group that met every month for four years. She also runs the popular reading series “The Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series” in Crockett, CA.

Connie has written seven books of poetry. Her most recent, “And When the Sun Drops” (Finishing Line Press) is all about her adult son with profound autism. Her work has also appeared in myriad journals and magazines, both in print and online, including: The Aurorean, Blood Root Literary Magazine, Barnwood International, Calyx, Blue Fifth Review, Kalliope, Comstock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Karamu, Caesura, Chiron Review, DMQ Review, Dogwood, Main Street Rag, The Dirty Napkin, Psychic Meatloaf, Pirene’s Fountain, Monterey Poetry Review, Slipstream, The Toronto Quarterly, The Tule Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Wild Goose Poetry Review and The Great American Poetry Show.

Her awards and recognition include three Pushcart Prize nominations, second prize in the Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest in 2011, the 2009 Caesura Poetry Award from the Poetry Center of San Jose, and the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize (Spring 2009). She was a finalist in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 in the Muriel Craft Bailey Awards for the Comstock Review, and was a finalist in the 2008 Lois Cranston Memorial Awards where her poem was placed in the top five by Ursula Le Guin.