EXPANDING. WATER. WAYS.

Claire Blotter is a writer and director who performs poetry with movement, music and body percussion. She won the 1992 and 1993 San Francisco Performance Poetry Slams, placing second with her team in national competitions in Boston and Chicago. She has published three poetry chapbooks, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and online videos. She received two Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grants in Poetry, First Place Award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, and was a finalist for the Fischer Prize in Poetry. She has taught writing and performance poetry at San Francisco State University, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the College of Marin. She also taught and performed poetry as Poet in Residence at Worcester State University in Massachusetts. In 1981 she slipped through the veil to Bolinas where she lived for eleven years writing and directing three community theater productions with electronic music, text, and movem