Book Launch Video

What She Was Wearing

Annie Bloom’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon.

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About The Red Shoe Poet

 

Shawn Aveningo-Sanders is a globally published, award-winning poet who can’t stand the taste of coconut, eats pistachios daily and loves shoes … especially red ones! She’s a Pushcart nominee, Best of the Net nominee, co-founder of The Poetry Box press, managing editor for The Poeming Pigeon and former journal designer for VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices and visions.

She was voted Best Female Poet in 2009 in the Sacramento News & Review and awarded first place in the inaugural El Dorado County Slam Championship in April 2013. She also won first place in the Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest in 2012 and was a finalist in the Annual Benicia Love Poetry Contest in 2014.

Shawn founded and hosted the “Verse on the Vine” poetry show for two years in Folsom, CA (www.VerseOnTheVine.com) and has been a featured poet in Sacramento, Grass Valley, San Francisco, Sausalito, Seattle, Kirkland, St. Louis and Portland.

Shawn shares the creative life with her husband, Robert, in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. She is a Show-Me girl originally from Missouri who graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Maryland and is a very proud mother of Jimmy, Ashley and Nicole.

What They’re Saying…

“Widely known poet Shawn Aveningo’s work is deceptively simple, very accessible and often quite a bit of fun. Her sobriquet of “The Red Shoe Poet” reflects her love of footwear, but the mother of twin girls also writes about issues of kinship, love, introspection and familial relationships. Aveningo hosted a year-round poetry gathering in Folsom called “Verse on the Vine” and has been published extensively around the country. She is particularly know for erotic imagery and earned the title of best female poet in Sacramento in 2009.”