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SUMMARY:Jake Spertus\, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, January 16\, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Berkeley\, California poet Jake Spertus.\n \nThe reading will take place at Think Visual Gallery\, located at 240 Main Street in Point Arena. Doors open at 7pm\, event begins at 7:15pm. Bring something to sit on\, something to eat and/or drink (if you want!)\, your words\, music and ears!! The reading will begin with live improv jazz\, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Spertus\, then an open mic with jazz improv\, and finally the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz. \nJake Spertus was born in Seattle in 1993. They grew up between Kansas City and a small sheep farm in Northwest Missouri\, where they would disappear into the woods at chore-time. In 2011\, they left Missouri for the pines and broken shore of Maine\, where they went to college for math. After graduating\, they pent themself up for a while in Boston working in healthcare policy research. In 2018 they escaped to California to begin a PhD in statistics at UC Berkeley. \nThat same year they began writing poetry as solace for a grim political present\, a balm for homesickness\, and a counterweight to the rationalism and rigid structure that characterized their graduate studies. They wrote for 4 years before releasing the chapbook. Millenarianism in the Spring of 2023. This past fall\, they were a resident artist at the Winslow House Project in Vallejo\, focusing on poetry and visual art. They have read at Medicine for Nightmares in San Francisco\, at the release of Millenarianism in Berkeley\, and at the Winslow House in Vallejo. \nJake’s poetry is concerned with mystery and knowledge\, relationships between people and with land\, the subtle hauntings of power and violence\, and the presence of voids great and small. Their poems are informed by their upbringing in Missouri\, as much as by their persistent wandering. The poems often express both a hunger for the imagined coziness of Home–both metaphorical and literal–and a suspicion towards the moral and existential perils of settlement. The poems are interested in how different forms of abstraction–words\, numbers\, images\, data–contribute to our experiences and to the construction of our ideologies. They are particularly attentive to how sound\, form\, and imagery shape the feeling or meaning of verse. \nThird Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group\, anonymous supporters\, and Poets & Writers\, Inc. \nOctober Drizzle \nA sudden drizzle beads the leaves\,\nAnd October\nRises off to atmosphere. \nYou call this “Autumn”?\nI hardly care. I only enjoy\nHow mist saturates the ferns like reverb\, \nAnd that when I touch\nThe wet shell of the redwood\nI sense centuries of resilience. \nIs this that wretched “Destiny” so many tried to seek?\nIs it the unstruck seam?\nThe tree won’t say. Not here. \nBut a clear blood rushes to each leaf\nAnd I feel what reaches back past words\nAnd retraces long curves to the taproot: \nAn ancient braid of earth and ether\,\nSutured through the throbbing Wound\, ‘\nHere now and here forever. \nJake Spertus
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/point-arena-third-thursday-poetry-jazz-01-2025/
LOCATION:Think Visual Gallery\, 240 Main Street\, Point Arena\, 95468\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Series and Open Readings
ORGANIZER;CN="Blake More":MAILTO:blake@snakelyone.com
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