Writers Read Ukiah last Thursday poetry series will meet on Thursday, September 28, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader will be Santa Rosa poet Robin Gabbert.

Robin has poems in multiple Redwood Writers Anthologies, California Writers Club Literary Reviews and “The Best Haiku” 2022 International. Her book Diary of a Mad Poet came out in 2020, and a book of ekphrastic poetry—The Clandestine Life of Paintings in Poems—in 2022. Her haiku and tanka appear in Burro in My Kitchen, published by Blue Light Press in 2022, and two of her poems are being published by Moonstone Arts summer 2023. Robin lives in California’s Sonoma County wine country with her husband Con and pup Hamish.

Robin’s reading will include a power point presentation about ekphrastic poetry—poems that respond to works of art.

Open mic session will follow the featured reading. Maximum time for each reader is six minutes. Event will end at 9 PM.

We continue to strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Masking while indoors is also recommended.

Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfreeriedell@gmail.com

Next month:

Thursday, October 26: Theresa Whitehill and Felicia Rice will be featured as part of the Publication Listening Tour for their book Heavy Lifting. (This is the rescheduling of their reading that had to be canceled in February due to snow.) The Grace Hudson Museum will also have a pop-up exhibit in connection with this reading. Check the museum website for details: https://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/

Writers Read happens on the last Thursday of almost every month and has been happening in Ukiah since 1999. This reading series is sponsored by Colored Horse Studios, Michael Riedell, Dan Barth, the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, the Grace Hudson Museum and donations. Since the start of 2023, donations have not been keeping up with expenses. Please consider a one-time or once-a-year larger than usual donation to help us keep this reading series going. Contact Michael—innisfreeriedell@gmail.com—if you can help. Thanks.