This year's Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration, the 50th anniversary and 20th consecutive revival, will take place on Sunday, May, 2025 at the JD Center, 208 Dana Street, in Fort Bragg, CA. Readings will take place at 1 pm and 6 pm. Sign-ups open one hour before each reading. There will be a potluck between readings.…

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…

Join us at the Mendocino Art Center's main gallery for book launch celebration of the anthology Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets. There will be a sign-up sheet for poets who want to read their published poem from the book. Saturday, June 28, 2025 4–6 pm Mendocino Art Center, Main Gallery 45200 Little Lake…

Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election A Hybrid Reading Featuring Readers from the Anthology The readers — some of whom are editors and editorial board members for the book as well as contributors — include Greg Bem, Francisco Dominguez, Lara Gularte, Lorin Medley, Paul Nelson, William O’Daly, Roxi Power, Beverly Parayno, Theresa…

In the underground sanctuary of the Spirit House, welcomed by music and poetry, we will watch the movie, The Last Ecstatic Days, followed by a communion of kirtan, poetry, meditation, and sharing. Join Aditi Sethi, Jay Brown, and Kim Rosen for a life-changing and potentially death changing evening, a portrait of what it means to…

Join poet Kim Rosen at the Spirit House for an immersive alchemy of poetry, music, movement, guided explorations, writing, and sharing, as we open into all that arises as we turn towards aging, death, and letting go. This event will take place on Saturday, August 16, from 1–5 pm at Spirit House Center, 16550 Franklin…

Join us at The Record in Point Arena on Thursday, October 2nd. All poets are invited to come and share their work from Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets Anthology. Open mic to follow. Reading begins at 6 pm, at The Record, 265 Main Street, Point Arena.