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SUMMARY:Zida Borcich\, Poetry At The Cobalt
DESCRIPTION:What country\, friends\, is this?\nAnd thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. \nTHIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL POETS\, WRITERS\, READERS\, AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE\, YOUNG\, OLD\, IN BETWEEN\, KNOWN\, UNKNOWN\, SUBMERGED\, EMERGED AND EMERGING: Rhyming\, free verse\, expensive or expansive verse\, reverses\, metered\, learned\, unlearned\, experimental—all varieties\, styles and non-styles are welcome. \nThe reading series\, Poetry At The Cobalt\, is located in downtown Fort Bragg at the beautiful Cobalt Gallery\, thanks to Button Quinn\, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are the 2nd Sunday of the month\, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday\, January 12\, 2025\, featuring Zida Borcich\,* followed by open mic readings. There is a signup sheet and each poet reads for 5 minutes.  Please get this around far and wide\, as we’d like to reach all over Mendocino County and beyond. Any suggestions or ideas you have\, including other people to invite\, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks\, and looking forward to seeing you Sunday\, January 12th at the Cobalt Gallery. \nPEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT\,\nLarry Felson & Joe Smith\n510-684-8270 \n*Zida Borcich \nZida Borcich is a mom\, grandma\, journalist\, letterpress printer\, graphic designer\, jazz singer\, and occasional poet. She lives on the Mendocino Coast of northern California. Since 2010\, she has published Real Estate Magazine\, a monthly that features ads and a single\, locally focused story. She writes many of the stories\, along with a column titled “It’s REAL.” Happiest times are spent with her daughters\, grandkids\, and beloved partner\, and when she is not cooking\, traveling\, singing\, or gardening\, she hangs out with a big collection of cherished friends who reside in the nest of creativity\, intelligence\, beauty\, and fun that is her community. The works in her first book of poetry\, What It Seemed Then—Poems & a Fable were gathered from many years of sporadic poetry writing spells. The act of gathering these pieces into one place has been a most engaging project and she is surprised to note that\, “It’s turned into a kind of inadvertent autobiography.” \nFOR THE LIFE OF THE PRINTER \nFor twenty-seven years\, the author had a letterpress print shop on Main Street in Fort Bragg\, long after other techniques of printing had supposedly abandoned hand-set lead type reproduction to the Dark Ages. But no\, she kept printing that way and kept finding troves of musty old type in people’s defunct hobby shops and sheds.\nI walk in and the smell of old just hits me in the face.\nIt’s that type I bought down south\, wooden cabinets\nfull of dusty gray metal.\nThese two hot\, wet days\, muggy\, stifling\,\nswelled the rollers on the C&P\na full quarter inch\,\nAnd brought up the grotesque\, fetid\,\nOaky smell of dead type in mouse-turd cases.\nThey used to say that a font of ATF type\nwas good for the life of the printer—\nThis life is likely its second or third.\nDespite their funk\, I feel compassion for the lonely elders\nWho expended their one-time sheen\non uncountable impressions.\nThose letters were left alone too long in that grampa’s\nQuonset hut\, before the driver leaned\nup against my door jamb with his\,\n“I gotta pickup loada type out here for ya.”\nLet us join together now\nIn a rite of artificial resuscitation:\nLet us raise those moribund figures from their little coffins\,\nOne piece by one with our fingertips\,\nPlace the musty relics lovingly\nBeside the living ones\,\nAnd use them again\, ink them up\,\nPut our fingers up against them\,\nClick them into place syllabically\,\nNesting them against their long-lost brothers\,\nPress them chummily against the dampened stock\nIn an alphabetic composition once again\nWith meaning.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/poetry-at-the-cobalt-jan-2025/
LOCATION:Cobalt Gallery\, 430 Main Street\, Fort Bragg\, CA\, 95437\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Series and Open Readings
ORGANIZER;CN="Larry Felson & Joe Smith":MAILTO:larryfelson325@gmail.com
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