A new home for poet Ana Elsner

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Poet and world citizen Ana Elsner has a new home on the world-wide-web. Her well-appointed new piece of Internet real estate is located at http://poet.instaplanet.com.
Ana's door is wide open to friends and visitors. Just bring an inquisitive mind as a house-warming gift and you will be heartily welcomed.

Ana Elsner's house is always full of expansive poetry, stimulating conversation, international flair, orchids and lit mags, a smorgasbord of mind and soul food, tasty tidbits of information about Ana's life as a poet, not to mention entertaining video.
Also, as a special treat and for the first time ever, Ana puts some of her artwork on display.

Be sure to drop by, look around Ana Elsner's new website, have a poetic glass of wine, and make a toast to Ana's continued success in the wide world of poetry.
Cheers!

"Poetry is a kind of homecoming," as poet Paul Celan put it in Der Meridian, his 1960 Georg Büchner Prize acceptance speech.

Of course Ana will sign your copy of CIPHERS OF UNCOMMON ORIGIN - Poems by Ana Elsner for you whenever you see her in person at her next public event.

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POEMS MAKE THE WORD GO ROUND (event review)

On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, the typical San Francisco fog was replaced by a torrential downpour, thanks to the capricious weather pattern known as El Niño. Despite this handicap a loyal flock of dyed-in-the-wool poetry fans made their way to the Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach to see and hear Ana Elsner perform at her poetry show which she titled POEMS MAKE THE WORD GO ROUND, a library sponsored event featuring poetry and music. They were amply rewarded with a dynamic program where Ana demonstrated the close relationship between these two forms of creative expression.

Poet Ana Elsner is not only a repeat feature at the Library, but she was also the producer and creative director of this powerful artistic dialog, choosing the voice of the oboe to complement her own voice.

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Rather than relying on the Library's graphic artist, Ana Elsner designed the poster for her show herself saying,

"I am essentially a writer, but every once in a while I enjoy dabbling in artwork."

A framed watercolor by Elsner depicting a quote from one of her poems enhanced the setting at the event.

Ana Elsner is known for her animated presentation of her poetry that never fails to captivate the audience. The selective grouping of her poems in four sets did justice to the amazing range of her poetic repertoire. Her invited musical guest, principal oboist of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Laura Griffiths matched the intensity of Elsner's poetry with a masterful delivery of oboe solos, among them works by German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann and by Benjamin Britten.

This pairing of seasoned performers made for a magical and memorable evening. A special thank you goes to the San Francisco Public Library for continuing to fund Ana Elsner's poetry programs.

See event listing at The Academy of American Poets


Find out about Ana Elsner's favorite musical instrument


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