PHOTO by Kathee Miller 2015
Enid reads WTBWC at launch event
Chaucer's Bookstore
Books
When the Big Wind Comes
(Big Yes Press, 2015)
Poetry
[The book] begins as a road-trip to the poet's hometown and becomes a journey through childhood, a soul-wandering among elementals
--the forces that carve us, land and storm and kin. Osborn's poetry is the drone of cicada, myrrh of creosote, vault of sky--a horizon so vast that nothing interrupts it except a high tail of dust plumed up behind a lone pick-up crossing the mesa.
--Marsha de la O, author of ANTIDOTE FOR NIGHT
https://youtu.be/l7-NGzXKUJk?si=huHiOuZEKEVHt0ok
Enid reads When the Big Wind Comes at EP Foster Library, June 2015. Video by Phil Taggart, sponsored by Askew Press and the Artists' Union of Ventura.
Photo: William W. Osborn (brother)
Janet W. Osborn (mother) + Tony
Cover photo: William W. Osborn
A Bird Black as the Sun:
California Poets on Crows & Ravens (Green Poet Press, 2011)
Themed poetry anthology edited by Enid Osborn & Cynthia Anderson
In this diverse anthology, over 80 California poets hold forth on the theme of crows and ravens--offering passionate, vivid, sometimes humorous, and ever-surprising views of these common birds that live among us, but retain their mystery. Herein lies a lively exploration of the dark muse: proof that these paradoxical birds, called "black as the sun" by poet Gary Snyder, continue to fascinate.
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Co-editors Cynthia Anderson & Enid Osborn at
ABBATS launch event, Faulkner Gallery,
Santa Barbara, CA 11/11/2011