Theresa Whitehill & Georgina Marie Guardado
Poetry at the Willits Playhouse Starlight Lounge

Local poets Theresa Whitehill and Georgina Marie Guardado are featured readers at Starlight Lounge, a bi-monthly poetry series at the Willits Community Theatre.

California poet, letterpress printer, and broadside artist Theresa Whitehill served as Poet Laureate for the city of Ukiah from 2009 through 2011 and has been involved her entire career in the production of poetry readings and literary events. In January of 2022 her poetry letterpress broadsides were featured in an exhibit at Partners Gallery in Mendocino, part of a coast-wide book arts festival instigated by Whitehill and her two co-exhibitors, Felicia Rice and Zida Borcich. She is currently working on Heavy Lifting, a collaborative artist’s book publication with Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press, forthcoming in December 2022.

Georgina Marie is the Poet Laureate of Lake County for 2020-2024, a Poets Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets, and the Literacy Program Coordinator or the Lake County Library. She is the Literary Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council, Poet in Residence for The Bloom, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, and Yellow Medicine Review.

An open reading will be held after the featured readers have read. Entry into the reading is by donation and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. The wearing of facial coverings by the audience is recommended.