ONE OF MY POEMS HAS WON A THIRD PRIZE!

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

MY POEM:  MIGRATION   has earned a Third Place prize in the NATIONAL AMATEUR POETRY
 COMPETITION sponsored by Eber & Wein Publishing........

MIGRATION

Whale watchers are mammals, too.
We all nurse our young,
expelled from the womb in placenta blood,
nurtured by instinct,
filled with water,
the fluid of life.
The mammals who killed mammals to near extinction,
now searching for spout and breech
to fill the camera lens.
Do the whales watch us watch them?
Do their memories forgive our killing ways?
We gaze out to sea,
braced against the ocean wind
to face forward off the Bodega Cliff edges,
that hold the onlookers
for the annual mammalian migration.

Copyright 2011
Nina Tepedino


Be sure to see the Film:  Blackfish.......which chronicles the early capture of baby Orcas in Puget Sound
for the horrible crime and profit for the Sea Worlds of the world and how some of the original hunters have been asking for forgiveness and expressing great remorse for their actions.  They are now convinced that one of the most intelligent mammals of the sea have experienced great mistreatment, death and the loss of their young whale children with screaming cries of anguish and mourning witnessed by the hunters.  You can locate this documentary film on line.  It is being shown in some theaters, but is not available for live streaming from Netflix.  

VIEW MY INTERVIEW ON WOMEN'S SPACES

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

THE INTERVIEW VIDEO CAN BE SEEN AT http://www.womensspaces.com/

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Appearing on the cable show, Women's Spaces

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Community Television, Cable 26, WOMEN'S SPACES   show with Elaine Holtz, producer with Nina

I was interviewed and taped on Friday, October 11, with an air date for November (TBA).  I will keep everyone posted  re: time and Channels access.  It was a wonderful opportunity to share my new children's  book and to answer questions about what it is like to be a creative and active eighty year-old elder in these times.  Hope you will all watch and comment.

POSTED:  SEPTEMBER 21                                                                                                                      

POEM PUBLISHED IN THE NEW 2013 VINTAGE VOICES
 ANTHOLOGY, REDWOOD WRITERS, SONOMA COUNTY.

EMANCIPATION SECTION.....PG 43

POSTCARDS OF DEATH

It was a twenty-first century event.
Images were hung on a Mississippi gallery wall
for an exhibition of black and white
photos sold for a souvenir
of anonymous faces posed in fear.
Images that were mailed as picture postcards
by lynching mobs and tourists,
who gathered to watch and wait
for the moment of entry at Death's gate,
without guilt for the innocent,
without trial by a jury,
with no one to shout:
"Set him free!  Set him free!
from the hangman's tree!"
Emancipation came too late
for those African ancestors,
thought to be less than human
by photographers, who profited 
from their postcards of death.

@2013  Nina Tepedino

Today I read this poem at the Reading Circle venue at the Sonoma County Book Festival, at the Santa Rosa Junior College


Happy Fall Equinox!! 

                                          photo by Greg Pfeiffer

September, 18, 2013

I would like to announce my new sole proprietor enterprise.......LOVEJOY  PRESS.  I will be publishing my own books for children and for my poetry.  I am currently working on a music book for young children:  "Never Too Tired For Singing"  with photos, text and notated songs, resources for the home and school setting.  

I am also creating four or five little books for children, ages 5 thru 10 that center on the character's activities and messages for helping to save our planet's  wildlife and habitats that threatened by climate change and global warming.  So, I will keep in touch with all the latest developments as they happen. 

Happy writing!!

LOCAL CHILDREN'S AUTHORS AT COPPERFIELDS

On July 31 at Copperfield's Bookstore, Santa Rosa......Children's Authors Night......a wonderful evening of questions, reading my "If You Lived In Sam's Neck"  and signing and selling.  One gentleman came up to me and said he really loved my book.  The best open reading and introduction ever.

My Photograph Won a Prize!!

My Bodega Head Ocean Waves Photo was just awarded Third Prize at the Sonoma County Fair for the "In Your Own Backyard"  contest.  Finally, after three years of entering, I have been recognized for my photography creative efforts.  It feels good.  However,  no real blue ribbons this year......just a small sticker type.  Oh, well.........