Special Events
This Gem of a Forest: Photography, Perspectives, Thoughts, and Essays on the Jackson Demonstration State Forest
Online EventThe Gallery Bookshop & Book Arts Mendocino present a special online event with the Mendocino Trail Stewards celebrating the release of What Would You Call This Gem of a Forest: Photography, Perspectives, Thoughts, and Essays on the Jackson Demonstration State Forest. This event will feature presentations and readings by Chad Swimmer, Vince Taylor, Belvie Rooks,…
Coast Community Library: Point Arena Poet Laureate Blake More
Online EventCoast Community Library presents Point Arena Poet Laureate Blake More for a Virtual Poetry Reading on Sunday, February 27 at 2 pm. Email Branch Librarian Mellissa Hannumm for a link (info below).
Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge
Online EventMendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge Inaugural Reading Sidney Regelbrugge, Mendocino County's newly inaugurated Youth Poet Laureate, will perform a virtual reading with Ukiah Poet Laureate Melissa Eleftherion-Carr and Pt. Arena Poet Laureate Blake More. To register (Google Form): https://tinyurl.com/YPLMarch2020.
Georgina Marie Guardado
Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse 107 South Oak Street, Ukiah, CA, United StatesGeorgina Marie Guardado Featured Poet, Women's History Gala Celebration Georgina Marie will be the featured poet at this year's Women's History Gala Celebration (Women: Providing Healing, Promoting Hope). The event will honor outstanding women in the community and will include a silent/live auction and featured speaker. For tickets: https://allevents.in/ukiah/womens-history-gala-celebration/200022113761018.
Finding Light in Dark Places with Armand Brint
Maple Street 809 Maple St, Ukiah, CA, United StatesArmand Brint will read poems and lead discussions related to "Finding Light in Dark Places" by creating poetry. Local artist and educator Suni Robin will help participants translate grief, loss and other "mental health" challenges into therapeutic art. RSVP to Suni at 707 671-2765. Limit 20 people (small donation suggested). BYO sack lunch/beverage.
2022 ukiaHaiku Festival
Online EventHaiku revival: Famed fest returns for retrospection and renewal by Roberta Werdinger In 2002, a group of poets and poetry lovers in Ukiah, noting that their city's name was "haiku" spelled backwards, decided to hold a festival. Starting with Armand Brint, Ukiah's first Poet Laureate, as its guiding spirit, the festival grew and flourished throughout…
California Youth Poets Laureate Virtual Reading
Online EventThe National Youth Poet Laureate Program is hosting a reading of all California-based Youth Poet Laureates on Wednesday, May 18, 6pm – on Zoom. They are inviting current as well as last year’s Youth Poets Laureate to perform 1-2 poems. The California Youth Poets Laureate (the program is only two years old); the reading includes our Mendocino…
2022 Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration Submissions Deadline
KZYX & Z, 88.1, 90.7, & 91.5 FM 9300 HWY 128, Philo, CA, United States2022 Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration - 47th Anniversary, 17th Consecutive Revival Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 20, 2022 Submit up to four minutes of you reading your poetry in an audio file to Dan Roberts via email: outfarpress@saber.net and copy Gordon Black: gblack@mcn.org. Use your smartphone audio recording app, then attach the audio file generated…
Deadline for Registration: Poetry Postcard Fest (PoPo) 2022
Online EventPoetry Postcard Fest 2022 Poetry Postcard Fest, or PoPo for short, is an international annual literary event produced by Cascadia Poetics Lab out of Seattle, in which people sign up to send 31 original poems on postcards to folks on a participation list before the end of August (31 poems because originally it was set…
Teacher Positions Open with California Poets in the Schools
Online EventCalifornia Poets in the Schools’ Poet-Teacher Independent Contractor Job Summary—Mendocino County California Poets in the Schools (CalPoets) seeks independent contractors to work on a contract or freelance basis as Poet-Teachers in Mendocino County, specifically to work at high schools. CalPoets’ Poet-Teachers are professional writers who choose to give back to their communities as Poet-Teachers. They…