Poet Laureate

Charan Sue Wollard is currently serving her second term as poet laureate of Livermore. She graciously offered to compose a poem to commemorate Livermore Valley Opera's 20th anniversary season which begins this month with our first event this weekend, Opera in the Vineyard, and will continue to build to a larger 20th Anniversary Celebration concert and dinner event in January 2012.


Ms. Wollard's poems have appeared in publications including the Carquinez Review, The Gathering and Crow Talk. Her first book, “In My Other Life,” a collection of original poems and paintings, was released in 2010 by Richer Resources Publishing.

We thank you Charan Sue for acknowledging our community's accomplishment in stewarding and supporting an opera company for 20 years.

She attends Ellen Bass's workshop, and is a member of Poet’s Society and the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle. Her work has won numerous awards, including Grand Prize at the 2004 Poets’ Dinner. She also manages the site www.livermorelit.com.


Wollard spent 27 years as a writer and editor for various Bay Area newspapers. Now a local Realtor, she writes a weekly real estate column for The Independent.


Her LVO poem will be published in a separate post!  We thank you Charan Sue for acknowledging our community's accomplishment in stewarding and supporting an opera company for 20 years.