Carbonation Press celebrates the June 1, 2025 publication of Dancing with La Muerta: Poems, Theresa Whitehill in a Book Release Virtual Event taking place on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 5 to 7 pm with Featured Readers Roxi Power, Devreaux Baker, and Theresa Whitehill

Zoom access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87837329387
Meeting ID: 878 3732 9387

Format: virtual, via Zoom
5:00: join in, socialize, settle in
5:30 to 6:30: readings
6:30: conversation

Dancing with La Muerta is a short cycle of poems by Theresa Whitehill that speak of grief and of the impetuous urge to feel fully alive and awake in the face of the loss of her husband of thirty years. Beginning with an homage to fellow Mendocino coast poet, William “Bill” Bradd, Whitehill touches on memories of coming of age and other rites of passage, along with the passing of family members, while building a slow, sustained homage to La Muerta, giver of the great gift, consummate dance partner.

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Roxi Power, Santa Cruz, California; Roxi Power is a poet, performer, educator, and publisher. She teaches at UC Santa Cruz, and has been involved in the Cascadia Poetics Lab and its annual Cascadia Poetry Festival, where she and Theresa first met. They were two of eight co-editors of the January 2025 anthology, Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election. https://www.satoriarts.org/roxi-power

Devreaux Baker: Mendocino, California; Devreaux Baker wrote the introduction to Dancing with La Muerta, and has been a poetry colleague of Theresa Whitehill in Mendocino County from the 1980s. Her awards include the 2024 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize and the 2011 PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Mendocino County. https://devreauxbaker.org/

Theresa Whitehill: Theresa is a California-born poet and letterpress artist from Ukiah and St. Helena, California. She has served as Poet Laureate of Ukiah, and is a co-founder of Watershed Poetry Mendocino. Her poetry and letterpress broadsides are in many fine press collections, including the John Hay Library at Brown University, the Getty Center for the Arts, the British Library, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington State. https://theresawhitehill.com/

Greg Bem, publisher, Carbonation Press, https://gregbem.com/carbonation-press-catalog/

Cover Art, Paula Gray, “Prescription for Pollination,” medical prescriptions from 1890 collaged on cradled board, 2019
Books will be available from the poet, the publisher, and from Lulu.com on June 1, 2025