2/28 Author Talk & Poetry Reading w/ Jacksonville’s Celia Drill “The Lost World”

Join Jacksonville poet Celia Drill for this FREE reading from her latest published work of poetry — The Lost World. ” A poignant and lyrical exploration of our contemporary existence. Through a series of imagistic poems, Drill invites listeners and readers on a journey that blurs the line between the tangible and the transcendent.” In addition to this book-release program, Ms. Drill will follow this presentation with a series of workshops in March for local writers and poets.

Bio: Celia Drill has published two volumes of poetry, Body of Crimson Leaves, with Backwater Press, and Awake Through Dreams with Little Red Tree Press. Her latest collection of poetry, The Lost World, is with Atmosphere Press. Celia has her BA in English and Journalism from Humboldt State University, her MFA from San Francisco State University, and has taught creative writing at colleges and universities including Pepperdine, Humboldt State University, College of the Canyons, College of the Redwoods, Mendocino College and others, and she presently runs her own businesses, Positive Change Behavioral Inc., a California-based behavior therapy agency assisting children and teens with developmental disabilities, and Waves of Light Mystical Boutique, LLC, a metaphysical store in Venice Florida.