Theresa Whitehill • Poet

Mike A'Dair Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2024-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, March 21, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Mike A’Dair.

The reading will take place at Think Visual Gallery (as well as virtually via Zoom), located at 240 Main Street in Point Arena. Doors open at 7pm, event begins at 7:15pm. BYOE (everything including a chair!). The reading will begin with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz. Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2024-03-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-03 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-07 15:00 - 17:00 | 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 and every 3rd Sunday from 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.

Hilary King, LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library
2024-03-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
LOBA POETRY SERIES
Monthly Poet Features & Open Mic

Join Ukiah Branch Library staff as we host in-person poetry events on the third Saturday of each month at 3 p.m. This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style, or just listen to others.

On March 16, 2024, we welcome poet, Hilary King. Hilary King was born and raised in Virginia. She lived in Atlanta for over 20 years before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015 with her husband, two children, dog and cat. She worked at Filoli for several years as a student field trip guide and event coordinator, and also served on her city’s arts commission. She is currently a graduate student in the San Jose State MFA Creative Writing program, where she is studying poetry and playwriting. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, SWWIM, Salamander, TAB, DMQ Review, Rogue Agent, Fourth River, Freshwater Review, and other publications. In her free time, she enjoys hiking (of course), going to the theatre, and trying to learn to tap dance.

Please contact the Ukiah Branch Library at 707-463-4490 or carrm@mendocinocounty.gov for more information.

SERIE DE POESÍA LOBA
Funciones mensuales de poeta y micrófono abierto

Únase al personal de la biblioteca sucursal de Ukiah mientras organizamos eventos de poesía en persona el tercer sábado de cada mes a las 3 p.m. Este evento gratuito está abierto tanto a adolescentes como a adultos; todos están invitados a compartir poemas en cualquier forma o estilo, o simplemente escuchar a otros.

El 16 de marzo de 2024, damos la bienvenida al poeta, Hilary King.

Comuníquese con la biblioteca sucursal de Ukiah al 707-463-4490 o carrm@mendocinocounty.gov para obtener más información.

Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference Registration 2024
2024-03-15 | Online Event
Registration for MCWC 2024 opens March 15!
MCWC 2024 conference registration and contest submissions will open Friday, March 15. The deadline is Sunday, June 30.
For more information, visit the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference website here.

Poetry At The Cobalt
2024-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Cobalt Gallery, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437, United States
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL POETS, WRITERS, READERS, AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE, YOUNG, OLD, IN BETWEEN, KNOWN, UNKNOWN, SUBMERGED, EMERGED AND EMERGING: Rhyming, free verse, expensive or expansive verse, reverses, metered, learned, unlearned, experimental—all varieties, styles and non-styles are welcome.
The reading series, Poetry At The Cobalt, formerly Poetry On The River, has relocated to the beautiful Cobalt Gallery on Main Street in downtown Fort Bragg, thanks to Button Quinn, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are now the 2nd Sunday of the month, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, March 10, featured poets (TBA) will read in the first hour, followed by open mic readings. The featured readers read for 15–20 minutes, and the open mic poets have 5 minutes each (or more depending on how many readers show up!). Please get this around far and wide, as we’d like to reach all over Mendocino County and beyond. Any suggestions or ideas you have, including other people to invite, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you Sunday, March 10, 4–6 pm, at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & and Joe Smith
510-684-8270

Starlight Lounge: Remembering Willits at Playhouse Reading, WJ Ray and Dan Hibshman
2024-03-09 19:30 - 22:30 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
WJ Ray and Dan Hibshman will be reading works that focus on Willits at an event at the Willits Community Theatre Playhouse on Saturday March 9.
Ray will be reading his long elegy on Willits, entitled “The Willits Farewell.” Hibshman will be reading two stories from his recently published book, Of a Lifetime: Stories 1963-2023.
“The Willits Farewell” is an elegy of 220 lines, nearly the same length as Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.” In the poem, Ray catalogs scores of Willits old-timers who flourished here in the second half of the last century. The poet also offers brief comments about each person, telling how they fit into the life of Willits, at least, as the poet perceived it. The cumulative effect is quite wonderful and powerful. When poet Robin Rule heard Ray read the poem in October of last year she said of the poem, “It’s a classic! You just told part of the Willits story!”
Dan Hibshman has been a resident of Mendocino County since 1969. He’s worked in the county as an English teacher, a clerk in a natural foods store, and as a librarian in the Mendocino County Law Library. He is the author of two books, Disquiet and Of a Lifetime: Stories 1963-2023. Hibshman will read two stories, “Catch” and “Lost Puppy.” The later story is set on the streets of a fictionalized Willits.
The reading begins at 7:30. Entry is by donation; however no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. An open reading will follow the featured readers. This event is sponsored by NC Financial Group, sponsor of WCT’s 2024 season.
Contact person (press only) :
Mike A’Dair, (707) 200-2462, michaeladair69@yahoo.com
The Willits Community Theatre Playhouse is located at 37 West Van Lane, a block west of Mazahar Clothing Store and a block south of Pizza To Go.

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2024-03-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-01 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. You can also attend this event via Zoom.
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.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Dan Hess, Branch Librarian (info in Organizer section below).

Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting, Listening Tour
2024-03-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Institute of the Arts & Sciences, 100 Panetta Ave., Santa Cruz, 95060
The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour is coming to the Institute of the Arts & Sciences (IAS), University of California at Santa Cruz on Sunday, March 3 at 3 pm. For venue information, contact ias@ucsc.edu.
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 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.
It kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.

To learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/
To see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour

Art in Motion Community Open Mic
2024-03-01 17:00 - 19:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Art in Motion Community Open Mic at the Grace Hudson Museum.
Bring your guitar and a song, your voice on its own, a poem, short story, or even a painting to fill our gallery with art.
All participants can sign up at the event for their 10 minute slot. All ages welcome for this family-friendly event.
Artist/Singer/Songwriter Margo Wilson (of Covelo) is our special guest host!
Free admission!

Spirit of Place: call for submissions to new anthology of Mendocino County women poets
2024-03-01 | CA
Call for Submissions
The 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.
Submissions are open March 1st, 2024 to June 1st 2024.
We 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.
We 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
If you do not have access to the internet you can send hard copies to:
Spirit of Place
Post Office Box 287
Mendocino, California 95460
If you do not hear from us by September 15, 2024 please e-mail us at
poetryanthology2@gmail.com
Each published poet will receive a contributor’s copy.
With Gratitude,
Co-editors
Devreaux Baker, Kate Dougherty and Georgina Marie Guardado

Brenda Yaeger and Jessyca Lytle, Writers Read Ukiah
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Writers Read Ukiah last Thursday poetry series will meet on Thursday, February 29, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured readers will be Brenda Yaeger and Jessyca Lytle of Lake County.
Open mic session will follow the featured reading. Maximum time for each reader is six minutes. Event will end at 9 PM.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfreeriedell@gmail.com
Writers Read happens on the last Thursday of almost every month and has been happening in Ukiah since 1999. This reading series is sponsored by Colored Horse Studios, Michael Riedell, Dan Barth, the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, the Grace Hudson Museum and donations. Since the start of 2023, donations have not been keeping up with expenses. Please consider a one-time or once-a-year larger than usual donation to help us keep this reading series going. Contact Michael—innisfreeriedell @gmail.com—if you can help. Thanks.

Nominations Close for Poet Laureate of Mendocino County
2024-02-29 | Online Event
Step 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 honorary position in which the Poet Laureate will serve for a term of 2 years. The Poet Laureate would be expected to appear at some public functions, and hopefully engage with not only the poetry community but the broader literary, Arts, political, and educational communities. How the Poet Laureate will do this will be defined by that person’s own creative process. For more information on how to apply or nominate for this position go to http://mendocinopoetlaureate.mymcn.org. (If you do not have access to the internet you can send snail mail to: Mendocino County Poet Laureate Program, P.O. Box 67, Willits, CA, 95490.) Anyone living in Mendocino County can nominate a potential Poet Laureate and a poet can nominate herself or himself. Some of you may not know that we already have a Youth Poet Laureate in Mendocino County. The Poet Laureate Committee believes that Mendocino County also deserves to have an adult Poet Laureate and that the establishment of this position will help enhance the art of poetry making here and inspire all of our citizens about the value and joy of creative literary expression.

LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library
2024-02-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic at the Ukiah Public Library is on the third Saturdays of the month, from 3-4 pm. This month’s featured is to be announced.
Join in to read or just listen to great poetry at the Ukiah Library!
This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style.
Please email Melissa (she/her/they) at the Ukiah Library (details below) for more information.

Joe Smith and Larry Felson Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2024-02-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, February 15, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Joe Smith and Larry Felson.

The reading will take place at Think Visual Gallery (as well as virtually via Zoom), located at 240 Main Street in Point Arena. Doors open at 7pm, event begins at 7:15pm. BYOE (everything including a chair!). The reading will begin with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz. Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference 2024 Scholarship and Master Class Application Deadline
2024-02-15 | Online Event
February 15 is the deadline for scholarship and Master Class applications for MCWC 2024.
We are pleased to offer a range of scholarships to make our conference accessible to writers from diverse backgrounds and to reward writing of outstanding merit.
We are also now accepting applications for our 2024 Master Class. This Year’s Master Class will focus on the novel in three stages: inspiration, first draft and revision and will be led by prolific author, Francesca Lia Block.
For more information, visit the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference website here.

Poetry At The Cobalt
2024-02-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Cobalt Gallery, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437, United States
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL POETS, WRITERS, READERS, AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE, YOUNG, OLD, IN BETWEEN, KNOWN, UNKNOWN, SUBMERGED, EMERGED AND EMERGING: Rhyming, free verse, expensive or expansive verse, reverses, metered, learned, unlearned, experimental—all varieties, styles and non-styles are welcome.
The reading series, Poetry At The Cobalt, formerly Poetry On The River, has relocated to the beautiful Cobalt Gallery on Main Street in downtown Fort Bragg, thanks to Button Quinn, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are now the 2nd Sunday of the month, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, February 11, featured poets (TBA) will read in the first hour, followed by open mic readings. The featured readers read for 15–20 minutes, and the open mic poets have 5 minutes each (or more depending on how many readers show up!). Please get this around far and wide, as we’d like to reach all over Mendocino County and beyond. Any suggestions or ideas you have, including other people to invite, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you Sunday, February 11, 4–6 pm, at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & and Joe Smith
510-684-8270

2024 ukiaHaiku Festival - Submission Deadline
2024-02-08 | Ukiah Civic Center, 300 Seminary Ave, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
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.

There 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.

In 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.)

Haiku submissions can be made on our website: www.ukiahaiku.org

The 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.

If you have any questions, please contact Colter Jacobsen at Ukiahaikufestival@gmail.com or 415-832-0978.
If 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:

ukiaHaiku Festival
Mendocino County Library
105 N Main St
Ukiah, CA 95482

Both online and snail mail submissions must be postmarked by February 8th.

Visit the website for more information and to read more winning haiku from previous festivals.
I hope you will participate with entries and come join the celebration!

Sincerely,
Melissa Eleftherion Carr
Ukiah Poet Laureate Emeritus 2021-2023

The 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.

instagram: @ukiahaikufestival

Nominations Open for Poet Laureate of Mendocino County
2024-01-30 | Online Event

Mendocino Poetry Series
2024-01-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA, 95460, United States
A new poetry reading series on the coast:
Mendocino Poetry Series
Featured readers (to be announced) with open mic
Last Saturday of each month
4 to 6 pm
Barth Studio at the Mendocino Art Center
45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
Format: live, in person
Contact: Devreaux Baker, dbaker@mcn.org
Devreaux Baker will be producing a new reading series in Mendocino on the last Saturday of each month beginning Saturday, January 27, 2024. Anyone who is interested in being added to her mailing list in order to receive announcements of future readings should contact her directly at dbaker@mcn.org.

Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill: Heavy Lifting at the M.K. Contemporary Art Gallery
2024-01-27 - 2024-03-24 | M.K. Contemporary Art Gallery, 703 Front Street, Santa Cruz, 95060, United States
Heavy 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 and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour will be coming to Santa Cruz during this exhibition. The tour will come to the Institute of the Arts & Sciences (IAS), University of California at Santa Cruz on Sunday, March 3 at 3 pm. For venue information, contact ias@ucsc.edu.
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 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.
It kicks off in March 2023 in Caspar and will occur monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California in 2023.

To learn more about the entire Heavy Lifting Project, see https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/
To see the full lineup of events for the Heavy Listening Tour, see: https://theresawhitehill.com/books-broadsides/heavy-lifting/#About-Tour

Writers Read Ukiah
2024-01-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Writers Read Ukiah last Thursday poetry series will meet on Thursday, January 25, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is to be announced.
Open mic session will follow the featured reading. Maximum time for each reader is six minutes. Event will end at 9 PM.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfreeriedell@gmail.com
Writers Read happens on the last Thursday of almost every month and has been happening in Ukiah since 1999. This reading series is sponsored by Colored Horse Studios, Michael Riedell, Dan Barth, the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, the Grace Hudson Museum and donations. Since the start of 2023, donations have not been keeping up with expenses. Please consider a one-time or once-a-year larger than usual donation to help us keep this reading series going. Contact Michael—innisfreeriedell @gmail.com—if you can help. Thanks.

Jack Crimmins, LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library
2024-01-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
LOBA POETRY SERIES
Monthly Poet Features & Open Mic

Join Ukiah Branch Library staff as we host in-person poetry events on the third Saturday of each month at 3 p.m. This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style, or just listen to others.

On Jan. 20, 2024, we welcome Sonoma County poet, Jack Crimmins. Crimmins is the author of four books of poetry; “Kit Fox Blues,” “The Rust Life,” “Dancing In The Sun Room,” and his recently published “The Edge Of Rain” (www.littoralpress.com). Crimmins’ poems are concerned with people, landscape, and spirit. He has worked for many years as a licensed psychotherapist and lives in Sonoma County. Please contact the Ukiah Branch Library at 707-463-4490 or carrm@mendocinocounty.gov for more information.

SERIE DE POESÍA LOBA
Funciones mensuales de poeta y micrófono abierto

Únase al personal de la biblioteca sucursal de Ukiah mientras organizamos eventos de poesía en persona el tercer sábado de cada mes a las 3 p.m. Este evento gratuito está abierto tanto a adolescentes como a adultos; todos están invitados a compartir poemas en cualquier forma o estilo, o simplemente escuchar a otros.

El 20 de enero de 2024, damos la bienvenida al poeta del condado de Sonoma, Jack Crimmins. Crimmins es autor de cuatro libros de poesía; Kit Fox Blues, The Rust Life, Dancing In The Sun Room y su recientemente publicado The Edge Of Rain (www.littoralpress.com). Los poemas de 2 Crimmins se ocupan de las personas, el paisaje y el espíritu. Ha trabajado durante muchos años como psicoterapeuta autorizado y vive en el condado de Sonoma. Comuníquese con la biblioteca sucursal de Ukiah al 707-463-4490 o carrm@mendocinocounty.gov para obtener más información.

Sidney Regelbrugge Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2024-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, January 18, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Mendocino Youth Poet Laureate and PAHS senior Sidney Regelbrugge.

On Thursday, January 18, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Point Arena High School Senior and outgoing Mendocino Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Michele Regelbrugge. The reading will take place at Think Visual, at 240 Main Street (next door to Roots Apothecary). The reading will begin with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading with Sidney Michele Regelbrugge, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz.
Born and raised in Gualala, California, Sidney Michele Regelbrugge has released her first collection of poetry: Questions Asked in the Midst of Midnight. Currently a at Point Arena High School, Sidney has plans to continue writing and plans to help mentor the new poet laureate when they are chosen in January 2024.
Sidney loves spending time with her family, hiking with her dogs, playing volleyball and softball, and writing poetry! She published her first and only book (so far), Questions Asked in the Midst of Midnight, at 17!
Sidney says, “I hope those who choose to read this book find comfort in the blunt honesty, and poetic vocabulary depicting the events and things, we truly aren’t supposed to say or think! My book is filled with the life of a teenage girl, struggling and succeeding through the journey of growing up, and all the adventures within my first 17 years! I hope my book makes you laugh, gasp, cry, and maybe just maybe you find some solace and understanding, that you are not alone. I have filled this book with honesty, to help all those who feel as if their emotions are not enough or too much; so yes say all the things you aren’t supposed to say, I said!”
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below). Zoom room may or may not be working. Email Blake to find out why. Hoping it will work at the new venue!

Poetry At The Cobalt
2024-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Cobalt Gallery, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437, United States
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL POETS, WRITERS, READERS, AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE, YOUNG, OLD, IN BETWEEN, KNOWN, UNKNOWN, SUBMERGED, EMERGED AND EMERGING: Rhyming, free verse, expensive or expansive verse, reverses, metered, learned, unlearned, experimental—all varieties, styles and non-styles are welcome. Let’s ring-in, wing-in, sing-in, ting-a-ling, ding-a-ling, word-sling-in 2024!
The reading series, Poetry At The Cobalt, formerly Poetry On The River, has relocated to the beautiful Cobalt Gallery on Main Street in downtown Fort Bragg, thanks to Button Quinn, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are now the 2nd Sunday of the month, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, January 14, and will be an open mic reading. There is a signup sheet and each poet reads for 5 minutes, followed by a break, and then another round. Please get this around far and wide, as we’d like to reach all over Mendocino County and beyond. Any suggestions or ideas you have, including other people to invite, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you Sunday, January 14, 4–6 pm, at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & and Joe Smith
510-684-8270
