Theresa Whitehill • Poet

Diane Frank Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2022-06-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Arena Market & Café, 185 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
Opens with live jazz, then featured reading with Poet Diane Frank followed by Open Mic with live jazz accompaniment.
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2022-06-05 15:00 - 16:00 | KZYX & Z, 88.1, 90.7, & 91.5 FM, 9300 HWY 128, Philo, CA, 95466, United States
Rhythm Running River poetry programming every 1st Sunday from 3 to 4 pm and every 3rd Sunday 3 to 5 pm on KZYX&Z Public Radio, 90.7, 91.5, and 88.1 FM with host Dan Roberts. Dan will be playing recordings from this year’s Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration.
For playlists, visit Rhythm Running River on Out Far Press. Stream the audio here.

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2022-06-02 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Fort Bragg Library Meeting Room, 499 East Laurel Street, FORT BRAGG, CA, 95437, United States
First Thursday Poetry Open Mic in Fort Bragg, CA has returned to meeting in person. Since the library is a crossroads and we want to reduce risk of illness, we still ask you to wear masks while you’re in the audience. Wear a sweater because we need to ventilate the room well. When you’re at podium reading poems, you won’t need a mask.
We ask that you keep your reading under 10 minutes and stick to poetry in all its variety of forms.
For more information, contact Dan Hess, Branch Librarian (info below).

Michael Riedell, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-05-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
After an absence of two years, Writers Read is happy to announce that we are ready to resume in-person readings. We will again have events on the last Thursday (usually) of each month, beginning with March 2022. We strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Indoor masking is requested except when at the podium, which will be six feet or more from the audience.
7:00 pm: featured reader
8:00 pm: open mic
Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfree@pacific.net

LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic on Zoom
2022-05-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-03-31 19:00 - 20:00 | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic Poetry on Zoom on the last Thursdays of the month at 7 pm.
Join in to read or just listen to great poetry via the Ukiah Library!
This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style.
Registration is required. Please email Melissa (she/her/they) at the Ukiah Library (details below) for the Zoom link

Kirk Lumpkin & David Partch: Starlight Lounge
2022-05-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Kirk Lumpkin & David Partch
Poetry at the Playhouse
Local poets Kirk Lumpkin and David Partch are featured readers at Starlight Lounge, a bi-monthly poetry series at the Willits Community Theatre.
An open reading will be held after the featured readers have read. Entry into the reading is by donation and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. Audience members must show proof of vaccination upon entry and the wearing of facial coverings by the audience is recommended.
Video of this event can be seen here: https://youtu.be/fd1TPbCcVT4

2022 Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration Submissions Deadline
2022-05-20 23:59 | KZYX & Z, 88.1, 90.7, & 91.5 FM, 9300 HWY 128, Philo, CA, 95466, United States
2022 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 to an email. Submissions to be broadcast on Dan Roberts’ Rhythm Running River show, KZYX Radio, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, June 2022
From Dan Roberts:
IT IS AS EASY AS SENDING A PHOTO IN AN EMAIL, REALLY!
If you do not have a smartphone, you will need to borrow one for an hour. Sincerely, the process is easy. The tricks are being in a quiet room, how you hold the phone relative to your mouth, and not moving your hand on the phone while recording (find a place where you can set the phone a foot away from your mouth without hands is best.). The other trick is to make a recording, listen to it and see where it could be better, and repeat. Then simply email it.
Most laptop computers also have built-in mics and the ability to record, that too is an option, but for most people a smartphone will be simpler and sound better. If you have a problem with the process, ask a techie friend or anyone under 30–they would love to help.
With iPhone, open app Voice Memo; with Android, open Voice Recorder. (More info further below*)
Please speak in this order: your name, and then the title, at the beginning of the poem. Within the app there is a choice to email the recording, that’s it!
The RULES – submissions must be no longer than 4 minutes! (You can see the exact length after you record it). This could be a combination of several shorter poems or just one. Avoid the 7 deadly words so that I can broadcast your work without the Puritans at the FCC pretending that they will torch the radio station in the name of decency.
Email the audio files to both Dan Roberts – outfarpress@saber.net and Gordon Black – gblack@mcn.org
DEADLINE. Please get them to Dan and Gordon by Friday, May 20, 2022
——————–
*INSTRUCTIONS FOR iPHONES-
iPhones (Apple) The Voice Memos app is often overlooked, but it offers by far the simplest way to record audio from the iPhone microphone, here’s how it works:
• Open the “Voice Memos” app located on the iPhone.
• Tap the red record button to start recording the voice or audio, when finished tap again on the same button to stop recording.
How do I record audio on my iPhone?
On iOS, the built-in Voice Memo app can capture perfectly fine audio, and you can improve it even further—just not within the app itself. Instead, head to Settings > Voice Memos > Audio Quality and change the quality to Lossless.
Read this: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/share-a-recording-ipad83364e1f/ipados
——————–
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANDROID PHONES (All but Apple)
On Android phones open the Voice Recorder and do the same thing. You can send the mp3 right from that app.
Read this-
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-record-audio-on-android

Dan Brady Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2022-05-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Arena Market & Café, 185 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
Opens with live jazz, then featured reading with SF Poet Dan Brady followed by Open Mic with live jazz accompaniment.
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

California Youth Poets Laureate Virtual Reading
2022-05-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
The 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 County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge. The National YPL program is sponsored by Urban Word and the National Youth Poet Laureate Program, as well as state partners California Poets in the Schools & Bill Graham Presents, and county partners Mendocino County Office of Education and the Arts Council of Mendocino County.
Here is the final lineup—which is incredible:
Ella Wen, Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate
Zoya Ahmed, 2020-2021 Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate
Zoe Dorado, Alameda County Youth Poet Laureate
Anna Yang, Santa Clara Youth Poet Laureate
Genesis Perez, Ventura County Youth Poet Laureate
Madeleine Hur , 2021-22 Daly City Youth Poet Laureate
Chloe Chou , 2022-23 Daly City Youth Poet Laureate
Tina Mai, Orange County Poet Laureate
Sidney Regelbrugge, Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate
Adriana Avalos, Richmond Youth Poet Laureate
Madeline Miller, Santa Barbara Youth Poet Laureate

Kundai Chikowero, Santa Barbara County Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador
To register to receive a Zoom invite, go to https://www.beyondbaroque.org/

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2022-05-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-05-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-04-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-03-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-03-06 15:00 - 16:00 | KZYX & Z, 88.1, 90.7, & 91.5 FM, 9300 HWY 128, Philo, CA, 95466, United States
Rhythm Running River poetry programming every 1st Sunday from 3 to 4 pm and every 3rd Sunday 3 to 5 pm on KZYX&Z Public Radio, 90.7, 91.5, and 88.1 FM with host Dan Roberts.
For playlists, visit Rhythm Running River on Out Far Press. Stream the audio here.

2022 ukiaHaiku Festival
2022-05-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Online Event
Haiku 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 the years, becoming internationally known. Now the event returns, in time for its 20-year anniversary, in an in-person celebration on Sunday, May 15, from 2 to 4 p.m., in the Public Room and Wild Gardens at the Grace Hudson Museum.
The ukiaHaiku Festival was in quarantine the first year of the pandemic and appeared only in virtual form the year after, but haiku itself and its many writers and fans emerged intact. As people picked themselves up and dusted themselves off from the strains and separations of the COVID-19 pandemic era, this new form of the ukiaHaiku Fest was dreamed up. The organizers decided not to hold a contest this year, but to treat the event as a retrospective celebration, with former and current Poets Laureate reading their favorite selections from both adult and youth categories, as well as adding one of their own. An open mic reading will follow, with sign-ups starting at 2 p.m. (Children and young adults are invited to attend and read, and bilingual haiku is welcome.) Shakuhachi flute, an ancient Japanese musical form, will be performed by Ron Nadeau. Entertainment from SPACE, Higher Ground, and the Haikuleles (AKA the Uke Tones) will be provided. An arts & crafts booth, a special presentation by award-winning haiku poet and artist Annette Makino, and energetic MCing from former Poet Laureate Michael Riedell completes the picture.
The late and much-loved Susan Sparrow, a key organizer of earlier UkiaHaiku Fests and other local literary events, saw the festival as “uniquely Ukiahan.” Brint, also an award-winning haiku poet, comments: “In many ways, this 20th anniversary celebration is a tribute to internationally acclaimed haiku author and Mendocino Coast resident Jane Reichhold (1937-2016). Jane served as an unofficial mentor to the festival, and also judged the International category of haiku submissions. It’s thanks to Jane that local organizers, judges and many participants learned the finer points of haiku.”
A haiku is a three-line poem that captures a fleeting moment and a quiet impression which can often go unremarked on in our busy lives. The poems resemble little word blossoms, compact and bursting with life. Originating in Japan, haiku draw attention to the passing seasons and to everyday human encounters without comment or embellishment. “Think of it as a mental snapshot, as seeing the haiku moment in your mind,” Dan Barth, another former Poet Laureate of Ukiah, explains. Traditionally written in a 17-syllable format of 5-7-5, the haiku form has been stretched and reinterpreted in recent times as it enters new countries, languages, and situations.
To find out more, email carrm@mendocinocounty.org or visit the ukiaHaiku website at http://ukiahaiku.org.
Masking and social distancing at this event is recommended. Part of the Festival will be held outside to facilitate this.
The 20th anniversary ukiaHaiku Fest is sponsored by the City of Ukiah.

Finding Light in Dark Places with Armand Brint
2022-05-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Maple Street, 809 Maple St, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Armand 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.

Stephen Kessler, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States

Virtual Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry
2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Event
7 pm featured reading by a poet to be announced, followed by open mic poetry via Zoom video conference.
Virtual Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

YA Poets Circle: Ages 15-28
2022-04-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Event
Beginning in November, the Ukiah Branch of the County Library will be offering a new Poets Circle for teens & young adults ages 15-28. Starting November 3rd, meetings will be on the first Wednesday of the month on Zoom, from 3-4 pm.
Local Poets Laureate Melissa Eleftherion Carr (Ukiah) & Blake More (Point Arena) are excited to lead this writing group. Participants are invited to pop in to write with other teens and young adults, sharing their poems in a supportive, creative, & nurturing environment.
Email Blake (blake@arenatechcenter.org) or Melissa (carrm@mendocinocounty.org) for the Zoom link.
Sponsored by the Mendocino County Library and the Friends of the Ukiah Valley Library.

Mark McGovern, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-03-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
After an absence of two years, Writers Read is happy to announce that we are ready to resume in-person readings. We will again have events on the last Thursday (usually) of each month, beginning with March 2022. We strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Indoor masking is requested except when at the podium, which will be six feet or more from the audience.
Link to PDF of flyer for this event: https://theresawhitehill.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mark-McGovern-flyer.pdf
7:00 pm: featured reader
8:00 pm: open mic
Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfree@pacific.net

Georgina Marie Guardado
2022-03-20 12:00 - 15:00 | Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse, 107 South Oak Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Georgina 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.

Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge
2022-03-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Mendocino 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.

POSTPONED (Dan Essman & Theresa Whitehill)
2022-03-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Dan Essman & Theresa Whitehill
Poetry at the Playhouse
NOTE: This reading has been postponed and will be rescheduled for sometime this summer or fall.
Local poets Daniel Essman and Theresa Whitehill are featured readers at Starlight Lounge, a bi-monthly poetry series at the Willits Community Theatre.
Daniel Essman is a Willits poet who for several decades co-hosted the Car Lords Poetry Series in Willits along with his wife, Robin Rule. He also has gained a following as the film reviewer for the Noyo Theatre as well as for his signature statement, “He likes his reality attenuated by the wisdom of the imagination.”
Theresa Whitehill is well known to poetry audiences in Mendocino County, and was Poet Laureate of the City of Ukiah in 2009 and 2010. In addition to writing poetry, Whitehill is a graphic designer and creator of letterpress broadsides, many of which are held in the collections of libraries and universities across the United States.
An open reading will be held after the featured readers have read. Entry into the reading is by donation and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. Audience members must show proof of vaccination upon entry and the wearing of facial coverings by the audience is recommended.
