Special Events
Linda Noel & Georgina Marie Guardado: The 222 @ 222 Healdsburg Ave
The 222 222 Healdsburg Avenue, HealdsburgIndigenous Voices Series Georgina Marie Guardado is Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024, the first Mexican American to serve in this role, and she also has Mojave descent. The Academy of American Poets awarded her a Poets Laureate Fellow. She is the literary editor for The Bloom, a contributing writer for Antioch University’s…
Dedan Gills: 29 Best Poetry Books of 2023
Dedan Gills I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song Dedan Gills (August 21, 1945–December 20, 2015) is co-author, with Belvie Rooks, of I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song, which has been selected as one of the 29 best poetry books by Speechify…
Seventh Cascadian Poetry Festival
Hugo House 1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, United StatesCascadia Poetics Lab in Seattle presents the 7th Cascadia Poetry Festival. This event runs from Friday, October 6 through Sunday, October 8 from 9 am to 5 pm and will feature the launch of Cascadian Zen Volume I. The featured poets at the festival are Brenda Hillman and Andrew Schelling. The other participating poets are…
Seventh Cascadian Poetry Festival: Bioregional Typography
Clearcutting of languages and cultures has been widespread in Cascadia, just like the clearcutting of forests. Even so, this remains a rich and highly varied landscape, geologically, biologically, and linguistically. Cascadian Zen: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now is an anthology of pieces written and spoken in English, but many languages and writing systems are present…
Not JUST Cowboy Poetry at Emandal
Emandal - A Farm on a River 16500 Hearst P.O. Road, Willits, CA, United StatesWe're hosting our "Not JUST Cowboy Poetry" event on October 14, 2023, at Emandal. Poet, story-teller, songster, Andy Hedges, from Texas will be here, along with Sourdough Slim and Robert Armstrong, Old-Time Cowboy Poets and Musicians. Along with the concert/readings/storytellings..... we have an Apple Pie Throwdown (the chance to win an engraved rolling pin)..... Art…
Dedan Gills: 29 Best Poetry Books of 2023
Dedan Gills I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song Dedan Gills (August 21, 1945–December 20, 2015) is co-author, with Belvie Rooks, of I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song, which has been selected as one of the 29 best poetry books by Speechify…
Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting, Listening Tour
North Bay Letterpress Arts 925-d Gravenstein Highway South, Sebastopol, CA, United StatesThe Heavy Lifting Listening Tour is coming to North Bay Letterpress Arts in Sebastopol on Saturday, November 11 at 2 pm. For venue information, contact Andrew Mecum, Director, at info@northbayletterpressarts.org. The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing, and dreaming, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the…
Dedan Gills: 29 Best Poetry Books of 2023
Dedan Gills I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song Dedan Gills (August 21, 1945–December 20, 2015) is co-author, with Belvie Rooks, of I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart: A Poetic Love Song, which has been selected as one of the 29 best poetry books by Speechify…
Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting at the M.K. Contemporary Art Gallery
M.K. Contemporary Art Gallery 703 Front Street, Santa Cruz, United StatesHeavy Lifting will be part of the exhibit Selections: Rydell Visual Arts Fellows 2006-2021 at the M.K. Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition runs from Saturday, January 27, 2024 through Sunday, March 24, 2024. The curators of the exhibit are Melissa Kreisa and Rose Sellery. This exhibit is in partnership with Community Foundation Santa Cruz County…
Nominations Open for Poet Laureate of Mendocino County
Online EventStep Forward to Nominate or Be the First Poet Laureate of Mendocino County The Mendocino County Poet Laureate Committee is currently seeking nominations for the first Poet Laureate of Mendocino County. The deadline for nominations is February 29th. Nominees will need to submit applications in March and be interviewed in April. This is an official…