Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to host the Book Launch Party for local author Anne I. Barrows in celebration of her inaugural collection, Our Charlotte, sixty seven poems inspired by the paintings of Charlotte Salomon, born 1917 in Berlin, died 1943 at Auschwitz, on Wednesday, November 11, at 7 p.m.

Although she created many paintings, those that survive are a self-portrait, a few sketches, and 1,325 gouache works on paper made during last year of Solomon's life. This body of work, which she called Life? or Theater? A Musical Play was completed under extreme duress, and only discovered after the war.

The poetry of Anne I. Barrows has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Barnabe Mountain Review, Psychological Perspectives, Runes, and in the anthologies Cloud View Poets and Appetite. Our Charlotte is her first book of poems.