Grateful Conversations

Grateful Conversations is a portrait of a group of female poets from California who come together each month to hone their craft and share their verse. Known as Westside Women Writers and active as a group since 2008 they include Millicent Borges Accardi Madeleine S. Butcher Georgia Jones Davis Lois P. Jones Susan Rogers Kathi Stafford Sonya Sabanac Ambika Talwar and Maja Trochimczyk. In the words of the WWW founder Millicent Borges Accardi this is a community of women writers working together to support each other with strong attention to craft to grow as writers and as people in community. The volume includes poems written for seven workshops plus self-portraits in poetry of the nine writers. The editors are members of the group Maja Trochimczyk and Kathi Stafford.