Judy Bebelaar
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Judy Bebelaar

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Judy Bebelaar taught for 37 years in San Francisco public high schools. Her most recent publication is a collection of poetry, "Sky Holding Fall." To quote Thomas Centolella, Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, "When Judy says, 'how can any of us/say the ways/we are changed,' she means changed by irrefutable mortality and its ravages. And yet "Sky Holding Fall" is one long lyrical saying - let's call it testimony - to how we survive those changes: through cherishable memory, through the felicity of simple pleasures, and most of all through the love of everything that is still here to be loved. As well as this welcome reminder: 'sometimes,' she says, 'it is possible/ to make our own miracles.'" A non-fiction book, “And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown,” by Bebelaar and fellow teacher Ron Cabral, is about the teenagers they knew who were sent to Jonestown in 1977. The book has won 10 honors and awards since publication. As a teacher, Bebelaar invited many poets into her classroom including Al Young, devorah major, and Juan Felipe Herrera. She published her student's work in their own anthologies and in a prize-winning multicultural literary/art calendar. Her students won many awards, including eight from Scholastic Magazine on the national level. Bebelaar’s poetry has also won awards. Her poetry has been published in a chapbook, "Walking Across the Pacific," in more than 50 literary journals and in 7 anthologies, including “The Widow’s Handbook" and "California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology." Organizations California Poets in the Schools Squaw Valley Community of Writers Bay Area Writing Project
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