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SUMMARY:Theresa Whitehill\, Dancing with La Muerta: poems\, publication event
DESCRIPTION: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 \nZoom access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87837329387\nMeeting ID: 878 3732 9387 \nFormat: virtual\, via Zoom\n5:00: join in\, socialize\, settle in\n5:30 to 6:30: readings\n6:30: conversation \nDancing with La Muerta is a short cycle of poems by Theresa Whitehill that speak of grief and of the impetuous urge to feel fully alive and awake in the face of the loss of her husband of thirty years. Beginning with an homage to fellow Mendocino coast poet\, William “Bill” Bradd\, Whitehill touches on memories of coming of age and other rites of passage\, along with the passing of family members\, while building a slow\, sustained homage to La Muerta\, giver of the great gift\, consummate dance partner. \n* * * * * \nRoxi Power\, Santa Cruz\, California; Roxi Power is a poet\, performer\, educator\, and publisher. She teaches at UC Santa Cruz\, and has been involved in the Cascadia Poetics Lab and its annual Cascadia Poetry Festival\, where she and Theresa first met. They were two of eight co-editors of the January 2025 anthology\, Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election. https://www.satoriarts.org/roxi-power \nDevreaux Baker: Mendocino\, California; Devreaux Baker wrote the introduction to Dancing with La Muerta\, and has been a poetry colleague of Theresa Whitehill in Mendocino County from the 1980s. Her awards include the 2024 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize and the 2011 PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Mendocino County. https://devreauxbaker.org/ \nTheresa Whitehill: Theresa is a California-born poet and letterpress artist from Ukiah and St. Helena\, California. She has served as Poet Laureate of Ukiah\, and is a co-founder of Watershed Poetry Mendocino. Her poetry and letterpress broadsides are in many fine press collections\, including the John Hay Library at Brown University\, the Getty Center for the Arts\, the British Library\, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington State. https://theresawhitehill.com/ \nGreg Bem\, publisher\, Carbonation Press\, https://gregbem.com/carbonation-press-catalog/ \nCover Art\, Paula Gray\, “Prescription for Pollination\,” medical prescriptions from 1890 collaged on cradled board\, 2019\nBooks will be available from the poet\, the publisher\, and from Lulu.com on June 1\, 2025
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/dancing-with-la-muerta-launch/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:2025 Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration Reading - 50th Annual
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThere will be a potluck between readings. Please bring a dish to share. \nThis year’s event will honor Mendocino poets Gordon Black\, Sharon Doubiago\, Bill Bradd\, and Dan Roberts.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/2025-mendocino-spring-poetry-celebration/
LOCATION:JD Center\, 208 Dana Street\, Fort Bragg\, 95437\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:2025 ukiaHaiku Festival
DESCRIPTION:As the New Year approaches\, we hope you might find time to enter the 23rd ukiaHaiku Festival contest. Residents of Mendocino\, Lake\, Sonoma\, and Humboldt counties\, from kindergarten age through adult\, can enter haiku in ten different categories (two for Spanish). There is also one category open to planet Earth\, the Jane Reichhold International Award. Writing haiku\, one of the simplest and most accessible forms of poetry\, gives you a chance to capture and reflect upon being present in a special moment of experience. \n\nThere will be a celebration of winning haiku on April 27th\, 2025 at the Civic Center Council Chambers where we invite winners to attend and read their haiku. Winners will receive awards\, including gift certificates to local bookstores. We will also produce a publication of the winning haiku. \n\n\nIn recognition that the Pomo People are the original inhabitants of Mendocino County and that the name Ukiah itself is from a Pomo language\, this year\, we are making an open call to our Pomo neighbors to share haiku that are in Pomo languages or express a Pomo perspective. (These can be written in English\, Spanish and Pomo Languages\, with English translations.) \n\n\nHaiku submissions can be made on our website: www.ukiahaiku.org \n\n\nThe website also has information on writing haiku including advice from the late Jane Reichhold (a haiku scholar)\, in her videoed lesson for local teachers (see “resources” at the bottom of the website page). These resources are intended to help show what our judges are looking for in a haiku. \n\n\nIf you have any questions\, please contact Colter Jacobsen at Ukiahaikufestival@gmail.com or 415-832-0978. \nIf you prefer to submit haiku via snail mail\, there are entry forms at the Mendocino County Library in Ukiah. Or you can print a pdf from our website and send it to: \n\n\nukiaHaiku Festival\nMendocino County Library\n105 N Main St\nUkiah\, CA 95482 \n\n\nBoth online and snail mail submissions must be postmarked by February 8th. \n\n\nVisit the website for more information and to read more winning haiku from previous festivals. \nI hope you will participate with entries and come join the celebration! \n\n\nSincerely\,\nMelissa Eleftherion Carr\nUkiah Poet Laureate Emeritus 2021-2023 \n\n\nThe ukiaHaiku Festival Youth Outreach was awarded a grant by the California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by North Coast Opportunities. \n\ninstagram: @ukiahaikufestival
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/2025-ukiahaiku-festival/
LOCATION:Ukiah Civic Center\, 300 Seminary Ave\, Ukiah\, CA\, 95482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Colter Jacobsen":MAILTO:Ukiahaikufestival@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference Registration 2025
DESCRIPTION:Registration for MCWC 2025 opens April 1! \nMCWC 2025 conference registration and contest submissions will open Tuesday\, April 1. The deadline is Monday\, June 30. \nFor more information\, visit the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference website here. \nKEY DATES\nApril 1: Conference registration and contest submissions open\nMay 1: Extended Registration (fee increases to $900)\nJune 30: Deadline for conference registration and contest submissions\nJuly 31 – August 2: In-person conference
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/mendocino-coast-writers-conference-registration-2025/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference":MAILTO:info@mcwc.org
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SUMMARY:Spirit of Place: Fundraiser Reading for Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Bill Churchill\, Georgina Marie Guardado\, Linda Noel\, Michael Riedell\, and Theresa Whitehill in a reading to benefit the anthology Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets \nFriday\, February 28\, 2025\n6:30 pm\nGrace Hudson Museum\n431 South Main Street\, Ukiah\, CA 95482 \n$10 Donation (benefits the anthology project) \nProduced by Devreaux Baker\, Poet Laureate of Mendocino County along with a group of co-editors\nFor more information: poetryanthology2@gmail.com
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/spirit-of-place-fundraiser-reading/
LOCATION:Grace Hudson Museum Community Room\, 431 South Main Street\, Ukiah\, CA\, 95482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Devreaux Baker":MAILTO:dbaker@mcn.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250120T170000
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SUMMARY:Winter in America (Again - Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:Winter in America (Again – Anthology Launch\nPoets Respond to the 2024 Election\nLaunch events and online readings\nJoin us to mark the publication of the anthology\, Winter in America (Again\, with readings from many of the contributing poets. \nSunday\, January 19\, 2025\n11 am to 1 pm\, Pacific time\nLive online Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002\nContributor Readers: allia abdullah-matta\, Brad Buchanan\, Carla Stein\, Charles Goodrich\, Chris Stroffolino\, Chyrel J. Jackson\, Cynthia Manick\, Dane Cervine\, Deborah Bacharach\, Henry Crawford\, Jennifer M Phillips\, John Maney\, Kit Robinson\, Lea Graham\, Lorin Medley\, Luther Jett\, Marc Vincenz\, Matt Trease\, Petra Kuppers\, Robert Lashley\, Rodrigo Toscano\, Theresa Whitehill\, and Zach Charles. \nMonday\, January 20\, 2025\n5 pm to 7 pm\, Pacific time\nLive online Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002\nContributor Readers: Aby Kaupang\, Angelica Recierdo\, Bill Lavender\, Cassandra Atherton\, Cynthia Hogue\, Dana Teen Lomax\, David Allen Sullivan\, David Hellman\, Dion O’Reilly\, Elizabeth Robinson\, Faith Paulsen\, Gloria Frym\, Hilary Sideris\, Jim Dott\, Joy Dubé\, Judith Hoyer\, Katie Sarah Zale\, Keisha-Gaye Anderson\, Kim D. Brandon\, Lise Breakey\, Lowell Murphree\, M.A. Nicholson\, Mark Nowak\, Matthew Cooperman\, Maxine Chernoff\, Monique Soria\, Nathalie Anderson\, Nina Burokas\, Paul E Nelson\, Paul Hoover\, Roxi Power\, Terran Campbell\, and Veronica Eldredge. \nReadings Produced by the publisher\, Carbonation Press\nhttps://gregbem.com/carbonation-press-events/\n– February 4\, 2025\, Seattle University\, Seattle\, Washington\n– February 15\, 2025 in Tuscon\, Arizona\n– March 26-27\, 2025 at the AWP in Los Angeles\, California\n– April 1\, 2025\, Satori Arts\, Santa Cruz\, California\n– More dates pending for San Francisco\, New York\, and beyond \nLead Editors:\nKatie Sarah Zale\nPaul E. Nelson \nEditorial Board:\nallia abdullah-matta\nGabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs\nRobert Lashley\nRoxi Power\nCChristy White\nTheresa Whitehill \nPoets from the United States and beyond respond to the 2024 Presidential election. The poems are rooted in a belief that the incoming administration will not relieve or heal us from our nation’s past: the destruction of the environment\, the unbridled use of power\, the pervasive narrative that Black lives do not matter\, patriarchy\, reproductive injustice for women\, silent support for the US prison-industrial complex\, and the lack of compassion for diverse gender identity\, immigrants\, the indigenous\, and unsheltered populations. The editorial team worked tirelessly for six weeks to publish this anthology before the January 20\, 2025 inauguration. \nTo order your copy of the anthology ($25 each) from Lulu\, click here: Order Anthology\nlink = https://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-wirth-and-jasper-hoffman-and-roberta-hoffman-and-greg-bem/winter-in-america-again/paperback/product-95edezw.html?q=winter+in+america+%28again&page=1&pageSize=4
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/winter-in-america-again-anthology-launch-2/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Katie Sarah Zale":MAILTO:https://katiesarahzale.com/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250121
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SUMMARY:Winter in America (Again - Publication Date
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions: Winter in America (Again \nThis is a call for poems for an anthology of work in response to the 2024 USAmerican presidential election. We are looking for words that come from thoughtful reflection and compassion for the loss we feel for ourselves and this country. (Please no screeds. No name calling. We would prefer not to publish the name of the president-elect.) This to be published by inauguration day\, January 20\, 2025. We plan a Zoom launch on January 20\, 2025\, at 1pm PST\, 4pm EST. \nDeadline for submissions was December 15\, 2024. Send up to 3 poems for consideration. Submit all poems in one document in Times New Roman 12-point font\, each poem beginning on a new page. If the poem you submit has been previously published\, please credit the publisher in your notes. No limitations on poem format and length. \nThe book title is an homage to Gil Scott-Heron’s Winter in America. This anthology is to be published by Carbonation Press. \nKatie Sarah Zale (co-editor) writes: “In 2003\, 11\,000 poets responded to Sam Hamill’s request for a poem about George W. Bush’s planned attack of Iraq. In the resulting anthology titled Poets Against the War\, Sam wrote\, ‘These are the voices of our poets; they come from every segment of society … they also celebrate our country by expounding a compassionate view of the universe. A government is a government of words\, and when those words are used to mislead\, to instill fear or to invite silence\, it is the duty of every poet to speak fearlessly and clearly.’ As a poet\, and the writer of an upcoming biography of Sam Hamill\, I ask you\, as I believe Sam would\, to write a poem ‘for the conscience of our country\,’ in response to the 2024 USAmerican presidential election.” \nSubmission form on Google docs: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-VmOgkZCr6ITjevHj-OI05G3nP5GQqIQSLNUx1KjSJHVurw/viewform?usp=sf_link
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/winter-in-america-again-publication-date/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Katie Sarah Zale":MAILTO:https://katiesarahzale.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250119T130000
DTSTAMP:20250115T230135Z
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SUMMARY:Winter in America (Again - Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:Winter in America (Again – Anthology Launch\nPoets Respond to the 2024 Election\nLaunch events and online readings\nJoin us to mark the publication of the anthology\, Winter in America (Again\, with readings from many of the contributing poets. \nSunday\, January 19\, 2025\n11 am to 1 pm\, Pacific time\nLive online Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002\nContributor Readers: allia abdullah-matta\, Brad Buchanan\, Carla Stein\, Charles Goodrich\, Chris Stroffolino\, Chyrel J. Jackson\, Cynthia Manick\, Dane Cervine\, Deborah Bacharach\, Henry Crawford\, Jennifer M Phillips\, John Maney\, Kit Robinson\, Lea Graham\, Lorin Medley\, Luther Jett\, Marc Vincenz\, Matt Trease\, Petra Kuppers\, Robert Lashley\, Rodrigo Toscano\, Theresa Whitehill\, and Zach Charles. \nMonday\, January 20\, 2025\n5 pm to 7 pm\, Pacific time\nLive online Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002\nContributor Readers: Aby Kaupang\, Angelica Recierdo\, Bill Lavender\, Cassandra Atherton\, Cynthia Hogue\, Dana Teen Lomax\, David Allen Sullivan\, David Hellman\, Dion O’Reilly\, Elizabeth Robinson\, Faith Paulsen\, Gloria Frym\, Hilary Sideris\, Jim Dott\, Joy Dubé\, Judith Hoyer\, Katie Sarah Zale\, Keisha-Gaye Anderson\, Kim D. Brandon\, Lise Breakey\, Lowell Murphree\, M.A. Nicholson\, Mark Nowak\, Matthew Cooperman\, Maxine Chernoff\, Monique Soria\, Nathalie Anderson\, Nina Burokas\, Paul E Nelson\, Paul Hoover\, Roxi Power\, Terran Campbell\, and Veronica Eldredge. \nReadings Produced by the publisher\, Carbonation Press\nhttps://gregbem.com/carbonation-press-events/\n– February 4\, 2025\, Seattle University\, Seattle\, Washington\n– February 15\, 2025 in Tuscon\, Arizona\n– March 26-27\, 2025 at the AWP in Los Angeles\, California\n– April 1\, 2025\, Satori Arts\, Santa Cruz\, California\n– More dates pending for San Francisco\, New York\, and beyond \nLead Editors:\nKatie Sarah Zale\nPaul E. Nelson \nEditorial Board:\nallia abdullah-matta\nGabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs\nRobert Lashley\nRoxi Power\nCChristy White\nTheresa Whitehill \nPoets from the United States and beyond respond to the 2024 Presidential election. The poems are rooted in a belief that the incoming administration will not relieve or heal us from our nation’s past: the destruction of the environment\, the unbridled use of power\, the pervasive narrative that Black lives do not matter\, patriarchy\, reproductive injustice for women\, silent support for the US prison-industrial complex\, and the lack of compassion for diverse gender identity\, immigrants\, the indigenous\, and unsheltered populations. The editorial team worked tirelessly for six weeks to publish this anthology before the January 20\, 2025 inauguration. \nTo order your copy of the anthology ($25 each) from Lulu\, click here: Order Anthology\nlink = https://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-wirth-and-jasper-hoffman-and-roberta-hoffman-and-greg-bem/winter-in-america-again/paperback/product-95edezw.html?q=winter+in+america+%28again&page=1&pageSize=4
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/winter-in-america-again-anthology-launch-1/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Katie Sarah Zale":MAILTO:https://katiesarahzale.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241221T200000
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SUMMARY:Solstice Poetry at Gallery Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Solstice Poetry at Gallery Bookshop\nOpen Reading: come share a poem inspired by the solstice\n6 pm\nSaturday\, December 21\, 2024\nGallery Bookshop\n319 Kasten St #270\, Mendocino\, CA 95460\nContact: Rob Hawthorn\, Events Coordinator: rob@gallerybookshop.com\nhttps://gallerybookshop.com/event/2024-12-21/gallery-bookshops-solstice-poetry \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/solstice-poetry-gallery-bookshop/
LOCATION:Gallery Bookshop\, 319 Kasten St #270\, Mendocino\, 95460\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob Hawthorn":MAILTO:rob@gallerybookshop.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241216
DTSTAMP:20241204T165427Z
CREATED:20241126T230705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T165427Z
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SUMMARY:Winter in America (Again - Submission Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions: Winter in America (Again \nThis is a call for poems for an anthology of work in response to the 2024 USAmerican presidential election. We are looking for words that come from thoughtful reflection and compassion for the loss we feel for ourselves and this country. (Please no screeds. No name calling. We would prefer not to publish the name of the president-elect.) This to be published by inauguration day\, January 20\, 2025. We plan a Zoom launch on January 20\, 2025\, at 1pm PST\, 4pm EST. \nDeadline for submissions is December 15\, 2024. Send up to 3 poems for consideration. Submit all poems in one document in Times New Roman 12-point font\, each poem beginning on a new page. If the poem you submit has been previously published\, please credit the publisher in your notes. No limitations on poem format and length. \nThe book title is an homage to Gil Scott-Heron’s Winter in America. This anthology is to be published by Carbonation Press. \nKatie Sarah Zale (co-editor) writes: “In 2003\, 11\,000 poets responded to Sam Hamill’s request for a poem about George W. Bush’s planned attack of Iraq. In the resulting anthology titled Poets Against the War\, Sam wrote\, ‘These are the voices of our poets; they come from every segment of society … they also celebrate our country by expounding a compassionate view of the universe. A government is a government of words\, and when those words are used to mislead\, to instill fear or to invite silence\, it is the duty of every poet to speak fearlessly and clearly.’ As a poet\, and the writer of an upcoming biography of Sam Hamill\, I ask you\, as I believe Sam would\, to write a poem ‘for the conscience of our country\,’ in response to the 2024 USAmerican presidential election.” \nSubmission form on Google docs: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-VmOgkZCr6ITjevHj-OI05G3nP5GQqIQSLNUx1KjSJHVurw/viewform?usp=sf_link
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/winter-in-america-again-submission-deadline/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Katie Sarah Zale":MAILTO:https://katiesarahzale.com/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T173000
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SUMMARY:Armand Brint: Mendocino Book Company Reading
DESCRIPTION:Local Poet Armand Brint will be reading from his new collection of poems\, “Songs for the Afterlife\,” at the Mendocino Book Company on Thursday\, November 7th at 5:30 pm.\n 
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/armand-brint-mendocino-book-co/
LOCATION:Mendocino Book Company\, 102 South School Street\, Ukiah\, CA\, 95482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T173000
DTSTAMP:20240917T205620Z
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SUMMARY:Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting\, Listening Tour
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour is coming to the 1078 Gallery in Chico on Saturday\, October 19 at 3:30 pm. For venue information\, contact info@1078gallery.org. \nThe Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing\, and dreaming\, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film\, On Heavy Lifting\, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill  and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material. \nIt kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.\n \nTo learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project\, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/ \nTo see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour\, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/heavy-lifting-listening-tour-chico-1078-gallery/
LOCATION:1078 Gallery\, 1710 Park Avenue\, Chico\, CA\, 95928
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theresa Whitehill":MAILTO:poetry@coloredhorse.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241004T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241004T190000
DTSTAMP:20240918T161529Z
CREATED:20240918T161316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T161529Z
UID:3497-1728061200-1728068400@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Ten Poets Respond to Ten Artists
DESCRIPTION:Art as Poetry/Poetry as Art Project presents: Ten poets respond to ten artists\nA First Friday Poetry Event in Fort Bragg \nPoets include: Blake More\, Riantee Rand\, Devreaux Baker\, Laura Pope\, Sondra Sula\, Tia Ballantine\, Joe Smith\, Larry Felson\, Frej Barty\, Jamie Armstrong \nOctober 4th\, 2024\n5 pm\nCobalt Gallery\, 430 Main Street\, Fort Bragg CA 95437 \nPoetry written in response to each piece of art will be displayed along with the work of art. A poetry reading featuring the ten poets will occur as part of the show. \nContact: Larry Felson\, larryfelson325@gmail.com or Devreaux Baker\, dbaker@mcn.org \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/ten-poets-respond-to-ten-artists/
LOCATION:Cobalt Gallery\, 430 Main Street\, Fort Bragg\, CA\, 95437\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Larry Felson":MAILTO:larryfelson325@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240928T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240928T170000
DTSTAMP:20240827T185222Z
CREATED:20240827T185222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T185222Z
UID:3481-1727535600-1727542800@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Melissa Eleftherion Carr: Gutter Rainbows\, Light Jacket Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Gutter Rainbows poetry publication book launch\, Light Jacket Reading Series\nLight Jacket Reading Series\, Golden Gate Park\, SF—Saturday\, September 28 at 3 pm\nPlease contact Melissa Carr at carrm@mendocinocounty.gov for more information\nhttps://apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com/ \nMelissa Eleftherion Carr’s 2nd full-length poetry collection\, Gutter Rainbows\, is now available from Querencia Press. \nIf you have ever felt like you didn’t belong\, this book is for you. Gutter Rainbows is about moving through trauma toward transformation. It’s about growing up in Brooklyn & forming alliances with sidewalks. About being a girl on the verge of something shattering. About the fur. These tender\, gritty poems work with the language of rocks and minerals to tell a story of the relationship between women’s bodies and geological trauma\, along with the sediment of betrayal that lingers in our foundation. This book is about trusting yourself enough to claw your way out. \nYou can order Gutter Rainbows from Querencia\, add Gutter Rainbows to your To-Read shelf at Goodreads\, leave a review on Amazon\, every little bit helps a poet out!
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/melissa-eleftherion-carr-gutter-rainbows-light-jacket-series/
LOCATION:Golden Gate Park\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240923T153000
DTSTAMP:20240920T190501Z
CREATED:20240910T181436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T190501Z
UID:3487-1727100000-1727105400@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting with the LA Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Join the Digitization and Special Collections Department and the LA Public Library for a talk and reading by Felicia Rice and Theresa Whitehill\, a screening of the short film On Heavy Lifting\, and audience questions. The limited edition book Heavy Lifting\, a recent addition to the Book Arts Collection\, is the work of a multi-year project by our guests\, Felicia Rice and Theresa Whitehill. The program is part of the year-long series of events at the Library Looking at Art – The Book\, celebrating artists’ books. \nHeavy Lifting is the outcome of a close collaboration between artist/printer Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill. It began in 2019 with an exchange in which a poem sparked a drawing\, which sparked a poem\, which led to a book structure\, and then spiraled back around again. In 2020\, during their early work on the project\, Felicia lost her letterpress shop of over 40 years to a devastating mega-fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains just as the death of George Floyd trained a blazing light on the many deep-seated inequities in this country amid the global pandemic and threat of political totalitarianism. Heavy Lifting took flight despite and because of our personal and collective crises of this terrible time and tackles these issues in book form\, performance\, and dialogue in search of a tenable future. \nThis will be a Zoom presentation which will stream live on the Library’s YouTube channel. This program will be recorded.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-r8cQ7_Sk\nhttps://lapl.org/whats-on/events/heavy-lifting-rising-ashes \nTo learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project\, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/ \nTo see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour\, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/heavy-lifting-listening-tour-la-public-library/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theresa Whitehill":MAILTO:poetry@coloredhorse.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T200000
DTSTAMP:20240822T162333Z
CREATED:20240822T162333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T162333Z
UID:3472-1726770600-1726776000@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Devreaux Baker\, Toni Bernbaum\, Armand Brint\, and Larry Felson: Spirit of Place Benefit Reading
DESCRIPTION:Devreaux Baker\, Toni Bernbaum\, Armand Brint\, and Larry Felson\nBenefit Reading for Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets Anthology\nMusic by Barry Schrager \nThursday\, September 19\, 2024\n6:30 to 8 pm\nThe Sequoia Room\nNorth Coast Brewing Co.\n444 North Franklin Street\, Fort Bragg\, CA 95437\n$10 at the door\nFood and drink for purchase\nContact: Devreaux Baker\, dbaker@mcn.org
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/spirit-of-place-benefit-reading/
LOCATION:Sequoia Room\, North Coast Brewing Co.\, 444 North Franklin Street\, Fort Bragg\, CA\, 95437\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Devreaux Baker":MAILTO:dbaker@mcn.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240909T120000
DTSTAMP:20240827T184402Z
CREATED:20240827T184402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T184402Z
UID:3476-1725872400-1725883200@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Melissa Eleftherion Carr: Gutter Rainbows\, KRCB 104.9 Public Radio
DESCRIPTION:Gutter Rainbows poetry publication book launch\nKRCB 104.9 FM Public Radio\, Rohnert Park\, with Jack Crimmins & Elizabeth Herron—Monday\, September 9 at 12 pm\nhttps://norcalpublicmedia.org/\nPlease contact Melissa Carr at carrm@mendocinocounty.gov for more information\nhttps://apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com/ \nMelissa Eleftherion Carr’s 2nd full-length poetry collection\, Gutter Rainbows\, is now available from Querencia Press. \nIf you have ever felt like you didn’t belong\, this book is for you. Gutter Rainbows is about moving through trauma toward transformation. It’s about growing up in Brooklyn & forming alliances with sidewalks. About being a girl on the verge of something shattering. About the fur. These tender\, gritty poems work with the language of rocks and minerals to tell a story of the relationship between women’s bodies and geological trauma\, along with the sediment of betrayal that lingers in our foundation. This book is about trusting yourself enough to claw your way out. \nYou can order Gutter Rainbows from Querencia\, add Gutter Rainbows to your To-Read shelf at Goodreads\, leave a review on Amazon\, every little bit helps a poet out!
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/melissa-eleftherion-carr-gutter-rainbows-krcb/
LOCATION:KRCB 104.9 Public Radio
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Melissa Eleftherion Carr":MAILTO:carrm@mendocinocounty.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240824T210000
DTSTAMP:20240710T154742Z
CREATED:20240709T192958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T154742Z
UID:3467-1724526000-1724533200@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Devreaux Baker at the Muse
DESCRIPTION:Join us to welcome Devreaux Baker in her first feature as Poet Laureate of Mendocino County. \nDevreaux is the author of 5 books of poetry and publications in many periodicals and anthologies. She has won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award\, a Women’s Global Leadership Poetry Award\, the Fischer International Poetry Prize\, a U.S. Poets In Mexico Award\, and a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Poetry Fellowship. She has taught poetry through the California Poetry in the Schools program\, hosted numerous poetry events\, and helped edit the ground-breaking anthology of Mendocino County women poets\, Wood\, Water\, Air and Fire. \nSaturday\, August 24\, 2024\n7 pm\nThe Muse\n30 East San Francisco Ave\, Willits CA 95490 \nContact: David Partch\, david.p@thesighting.com
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/devreaux-baker-at-the-muse/
LOCATION:The Muse\, 30 East San Francisco Ave\, Willits\, CA\, 95490\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="David Partch":MAILTO:david.p@thesighting.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240824T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240824T160000
DTSTAMP:20231128T203328Z
CREATED:20231128T203328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231128T203328Z
UID:3034-1724508000-1724515200@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting\, Listening Tour
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour is coming to the Santa Cruz Public Library in Felton on Saturday\, August 24 at 2 pm. For venue information\, contact feltonlibraryfriends@gmail.com. \nThe Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing\, and dreaming\, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film\, On Heavy Lifting\, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill  and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material. \nIt kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.\n \nTo learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project\, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/ \nTo see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour\, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/felicia-rice-theresa-whitehill-heavy-lifting-listening-tour-santa-cruz-public-library/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library\, 6121 Gushee St\, Felton\, CA\, 95018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theresa Whitehill":MAILTO:poetry@coloredhorse.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240804
DTSTAMP:20240315T214945Z
CREATED:20240109T200107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T214945Z
UID:3267-1722470400-1722729599@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:MCWC 2024 will be held Thursday\, August 1 through Saturday\, August 3. \nWe are thrilled to announce our full schedule of faculty\, as well as the morning workshops and afternoon seminars for our 2024 conference taking place August 1–3\, 2024. This year\, we are happy to welcome MCWC 2024 keynote speaker\, Rachel Kushner. \nWe’re working hard to put together our in-person conference as well as regular online events\, but we need your help as we continue our Building the Future of MCWC fundraising campaign! If you have not yet contributed\, every gift matters\, no matter the size. If you are able to support our work with a donation\, please click here to donate now. \nFor more information\, visit the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference website here.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/mendocino-coast-writers-conference-2024/
LOCATION:Mendocino\, CA\, Mendocino\, CA\, 95460\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference":MAILTO:info@mcwc.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240705T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240705T160000
DTSTAMP:20240705T171847Z
CREATED:20240705T171847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240705T171847Z
UID:3457-1720188000-1720195200@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Tia Ballantine\, Mike Edwards\, Larry Felson\, and Joe Smith
DESCRIPTION:Tia Ballantine\, Mike Edwards\, Larry Felson\, and Joe Smith\nAfter Independence Poetry on the Street \nPoetry\, Story Bites and Small Tales from new books\nCome by The Bookstore in Fort Bragg for a glass of wine\, appetizers\, books and music \nContact: Larry Felson\, larryfelson325@gmail.com\, (510) 684-8270
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/after-independence-poetry-on-the-street/
LOCATION:The Bookstore\, 137 E. Laurel Street\, Fort Bragg\, CA\, 95437\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Larry Felson":MAILTO:larryfelson325@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240701
DTSTAMP:20240605T180134Z
CREATED:20240305T184440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T180134Z
UID:3344-1719705600-1719791999@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Spirit of Place: submissions close for new anthology of Mendocino County women poets
DESCRIPTION:Last day for submissions! \nThe first Anthology of Women Poets of Mendocino County\, Wood\, Water\, Air and Fire was published in 1999. We are calling for submissions for Volume II\, Spirit of Place. \nSubmissions are open March 1st\, 2024 to June 30th 2024 (extended from June 1st). \nWe welcome all themes that respond to the Spirit of Place by women poets who have lived\, are living or have participated in the writer’s community of where we live with poems that respond to the Spirit of Place focus. \nWe are accepting 1 to 3 poems\, no longer than two pages per poem. Please format your poems in Times New Roman\, 12 pt.\, single space in Word Doc and send to poetryanthology2@gmail.com \nIf you do not have access to the internet you can send hard copies to:\nSpirit of Place\nPost Office Box 287\nMendocino\, California 95460 \nIf you do not hear from us by September 15\, 2024 please e-mail us at\npoetryanthology2@gmail.com \nEach published poet will receive a contributor’s copy. \nWith Gratitude\,\nCo-editors\nDevreaux Baker\, Kate Dougherty and Georgina Marie Guardado
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/spirit-of-place-submissions-close/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Devreaux Baker":MAILTO:dbaker@mcn.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240701
DTSTAMP:20240109T200801Z
CREATED:20240109T200801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T200801Z
UID:3272-1719705600-1719791999@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference 2024 Conference Registration Deadline
DESCRIPTION:June 30 is the deadline for conference registration and contest submissions for MCWC 2024. \nFor more information\, visit the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference website here.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/mendocino-coast-writers-conference-2024-registration-deadline/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference":MAILTO:info@mcwc.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240617
DTSTAMP:20240605T190629Z
CREATED:20240403T003048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T190629Z
UID:3395-1718496000-1718582399@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:2024 Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration Reading
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration\, the 49th anniversary and 19th consecutive revival\, will take place on Sunday\, June 16\, 2024 at the Matheson Performing Arts Center at Mendocino High School in Mendocino. Readings will take place at 1 pm and 6 pm. \nDevreaux Baker has been appointed as Mendocino County’s inaugural Poet Laureate and will be celebrated during the afternoon and evening readings.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/2024-mendocino-spring-poetry-celebration/
LOCATION:Matheson Performing Arts Center\, Mendocino High School\, 45096 Cahto St\, Mendocino\, CA\, 95460\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240609T140000
DTSTAMP:20240523T171725Z
CREATED:20240508T164353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T171725Z
UID:3405-1717941600-1717941600@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Phannarai Inkun
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, June 9th at 2 pm\, Felicia Rice’s Currents exhibit will host a poetry reading featuring Mendocino Coast Writers Conference Short Fiction Award winner Phannarai Inkun. \nCurrents Exhibit Dates: Saturday\, June 8 to Sunday\, June 9\, 2024\nExhibit Hours: 11 to 4 pm \nThere is also a reception for the exhibit on Saturday\, June 8 from 5–8 pm as part of Second Saturday in Mendocino. \nStatement from artist Felicia Rice on the exhibit:\nMy parents were active members of a vibrant arts community here in Mendocino when I was a summer kid going to their classes at the Mendocino Arts Center. I graduated from Mendocino High in the early 70s as the area was flooding with young people eager to build a new vibrant community. I have returned to town after 50 years to discover that the arts have taken a backseat to commerce. I miss seeing the arts celebrated all over town\, in every nook and cranny\, particularly on Main Street. So I thought I’d scratch that itch of mine.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/phannarai-inkun/
LOCATION:Ad Hoc Mendocino Legal\, 45160 Main Street\, Mendocino\, CA\, 95460\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240604T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240604T100000
DTSTAMP:20240605T190429Z
CREATED:20240605T190429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T190429Z
UID:3429-1717491600-1717495200@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Devreaux Baker - Poet Laureate Presentation to Mendocino County Board of Supervisors
DESCRIPTION:Devreaux Baker has been announced as Mendocino County’s first Poet Laureate. \nThe new Poet Laureate will be formally acknowledged at the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday\, June 4\, 2024 at 9 am.
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/devreaux-baker-poet-laureate-presentation-to-mendocino-county-board-of-supervisors/
LOCATION:Supervisors Chambers\, 501 Low Gap Road\, Ukiah\, CA\, 95482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240519T170000
DTSTAMP:20240521T180236Z
CREATED:20230810T175840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T180236Z
UID:2985-1716130800-1716138000@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Chico event\, Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting\, Listening Tour
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour in Chico\, originally scheduled at the 1078 Gallery in Chico on Sunday\, May 19 at 3 pm has been postponed until October 2024; a new date will be available soon. To check the latest tour dates\, see the Moving Parts Press website: https://movingpartspress.com/publications/heavy-lifting-listening-tour/. \nThe Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing\, and dreaming\, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film\, On Heavy Lifting\, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill  and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material. \nIt kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.\n \nTo learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project\, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/ \nTo see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour\, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/felicia-rice-theresa-whitehill-heavy-lifting-listening-tour-chico/
LOCATION:1078 Gallery\, 1710 Park Avenue\, Chico\, CA\, 95928
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theresa Whitehill":MAILTO:poetry@coloredhorse.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240502
DTSTAMP:20240305T184257Z
CREATED:20240305T184257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240305T184257Z
UID:3342-1714521600-1714607999@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:Spirit of Place: call for submissions to new anthology of Mendocino County women poets
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions \nThe first Anthology of Women Poets of Mendocino County\, Wood\, Water\, Air and Fire was published in 1999. We are calling for submissions for Volume II\, Spirit of Place. \nSubmissions are open March 1st\, 2024 to June 1st 2024. \nWe welcome all themes that respond to the Spirit of Place by women poets who have lived\, are living or have participated in the writer’s community of where we live with poems that respond to the Spirit of Place focus. \nWe are accepting 1 to 3 poems\, no longer than two pages per poem. Please format your poems in Times New Roman\, 12 pt.\, single space in Word Doc and send to poetryanthology2@gmail.com \nIf you do not have access to the internet you can send hard copies to:\nSpirit of Place\nPost Office Box 287\nMendocino\, California 95460 \nIf you do not hear from us by September 15\, 2024 please e-mail us at\npoetryanthology2@gmail.com \nEach published poet will receive a contributor’s copy. \nWith Gratitude\,\nCo-editors\nDevreaux Baker\, Kate Dougherty and Georgina Marie Guardado
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/spirit-of-place-submissions-open-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Devreaux Baker":MAILTO:dbaker@mcn.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240429
DTSTAMP:20231222T190830Z
CREATED:20231222T190429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231222T190830Z
UID:3218-1714262400-1714348799@theresawhitehill.com
SUMMARY:2024 ukiaHaiku Festival
DESCRIPTION:As the New Year approaches\, we hope you might find time to enter the 22nd ukiaHaiku Festival contest. Residents of Mendocino\, Lake\, Sonoma\, and Humboldt counties\, from kindergarten age through adult\, can enter haiku in ten different categories (two for Spanish). There is also one category open to planet Earth\, the Jane Reichhold International Award. Writing haiku\, one of the simplest and most accessible forms of poetry\, gives you a chance to capture and reflect upon being present in a special moment of experience. \n\nThere will be a celebration of winning haiku on April 28th\, 2024 at the Civic Center Council Chambers where we invite winners to attend and read their haiku. Winners will receive awards\, including gift certificates to local bookstores. We will also produce a publication of the winning haiku. \n\n\nIn recognition that the Pomo People are the original inhabitants of Mendocino County and that the name Ukiah itself is from a Pomo language\, this year\, we are making an open call to our Pomo neighbors to share haiku that are in Pomo languages or express a Pomo perspective. (These can be written in English\, Spanish and Pomo Languages\, with English translations.) \n\n\nHaiku submissions can be made on our website: www.ukiahaiku.org \n\n\nThe website also has information on writing haiku including advice from the late Jane Reichhold (a haiku scholar)\, in her videoed lesson for local teachers (see “resources” at the bottom of the website page). These resources are intended to help show what our judges are looking for in a haiku. \n\n\nIf you have any questions\, please contact Colter Jacobsen at Ukiahaikufestival@gmail.com or 415-832-0978. \nIf you prefer to submit haiku via snail mail\, there are entry forms at the Mendocino County Library in Ukiah. Or you can print a pdf from our website and send it to: \n\n\nukiaHaiku Festival\nMendocino County Library\n105 N Main St\nUkiah\, CA 95482 \n\n\nBoth online and snail mail submissions must be postmarked by February 8th. \n\n\nVisit the website for more information and to read more winning haiku from previous festivals. \nI hope you will participate with entries and come join the celebration! \n\n\nSincerely\,\nMelissa Eleftherion Carr\nUkiah Poet Laureate Emeritus 2021-2023 \n\n\nThe ukiaHaiku Festival Youth Outreach was awarded a grant by the California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by North Coast Opportunities. \n\ninstagram: @ukiahaikufestival
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/2024-ukiahaiku-festival/
LOCATION:Ukiah Civic Center\, 300 Seminary Ave\, Ukiah\, CA\, 95482\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Colter Jacobsen":MAILTO:Ukiahaikufestival@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting\, Listening Tour
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour is coming to The White Barn in St. Helena on Sunday\, April 21 at 4 pm. For venue information\, contact info@thewhitebarn.org. \nThe Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing\, and dreaming\, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film\, On Heavy Lifting\, that accompanies the book. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill  and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material. \nIt kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.\n \nTo learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project\, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/ \nTo see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour\, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour
URL:https://theresawhitehill.com/event/felicia-rice-theresa-whitehill-heavy-lifting-listening-tour-saint-helena/
LOCATION:The White Barn\, 2727 Sulphur Springs Avenue\, St. Helena\, CA\, 94574\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theresa Whitehill":MAILTO:poetry@coloredhorse.com
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