Margaretta K. Mitchell and Seymour Warkov are to be married Oct. 28. Judge Tara M. Flanagan of the Alameda County Superior Court is to officiate at the bride’s home in Berkeley, Calif.
The bride, a photographer, and the groom, a poet, met in 1998 through a college classmate of Ms. Mitchell, who had met Mr. Warkov through yet another friend, on Block Island, in Rhode Island. A connection was suggested, and Mr. Warkov called Ms. Mitchell after he had returned to California, and asked her to lunch. The couple has since collaborated, and together produced a book of photography and poetry, “Island Dreams” (Elysian Editions, 2017).
Ms. Mitchell, 83, is the author of “Recollections: Ten Women of Photography” (Viking, 1979), ”The Face of Poetry” (University of California, Berkeley Press, 2005) and other volumes of her work. Her photographs are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography and other museums. She graduated from Smith College and received a master’s degree in visual studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
She is the daughter of late Margaretta Rice Kuhlthau and the late Conrad W. Kuhlthau, who lived in New Brunswick, N.J.
Mr. Warkov, 88, is known as Sim. He is the author of “Thin Soils: Poems” (Ice-Blue Press, 2009) and “Reaching” (Ice-Blue Press, 2006) and other books of poetry. He retired as a sociology professor at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He graduated from the New School for Social Research and received a doctoral degree in sociology from Yale.
He is a son of the late Rose Warkov and the late Mendel Warkov, who lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The bride was a widow and the groom was a widower.
