Theresa Whitehill • Poet

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2025-01-02 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-03-06 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-04-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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).

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2025-01-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-19 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-16 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.

Zida Borcich, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-01-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Cobalt Gallery, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437, United States
What country, friends, is this?
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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, is located in downtown Fort Bragg at the beautiful Cobalt Gallery, thanks to Button Quinn, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are the 2nd Sunday of the month, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, January 12, 2025, featuring Zida Borcich,* followed by open mic readings. There is a signup sheet and each poet reads for 5 minutes. 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 12th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270
*Zida Borcich
Zida Borcich is a mom, grandma, journalist, letterpress printer, graphic designer, jazz singer, and occasional poet. She lives on the Mendocino Coast of northern California. Since 2010, she has published Real Estate Magazine, a monthly that features ads and a single, locally focused story. She writes many of the stories, along with a column titled “It’s REAL.” Happiest times are spent with her daughters, grandkids, and beloved partner, and when she is not cooking, traveling, singing, or gardening, she hangs out with a big collection of cherished friends who reside in the nest of creativity, intelligence, beauty, and fun that is her community. The works in her first book of poetry, What It Seemed Then—Poems & a Fable were gathered from many years of sporadic poetry writing spells. The act of gathering these pieces into one place has been a most engaging project and she is surprised to note that, “It’s turned into a kind of inadvertent autobiography.”
FOR THE LIFE OF THE PRINTER
For twenty-seven years, the author had a letterpress print shop on Main Street in Fort Bragg, long after other techniques of printing had supposedly abandoned hand-set lead type reproduction to the Dark Ages. But no, she kept printing that way and kept finding troves of musty old type in people’s defunct hobby shops and sheds.
I walk in and the smell of old just hits me in the face.
It’s that type I bought down south, wooden cabinets
full of dusty gray metal.
These two hot, wet days, muggy, stifling,
swelled the rollers on the C&P
a full quarter inch,
And brought up the grotesque, fetid,
Oaky smell of dead type in mouse-turd cases.
They used to say that a font of ATF type
was good for the life of the printer—
This life is likely its second or third.
Despite their funk, I feel compassion for the lonely elders
Who expended their one-time sheen
on uncountable impressions.
Those letters were left alone too long in that grampa’s
Quonset hut, before the driver leaned
up against my door jamb with his,
“I gotta pickup loada type out here for ya.”
Let us join together now
In a rite of artificial resuscitation:
Let us raise those moribund figures from their little coffins,
One piece by one with our fingertips,
Place the musty relics lovingly
Beside the living ones,
And use them again, ink them up,
Put our fingers up against them,
Click them into place syllabically,
Nesting them against their long-lost brothers,
Press them chummily against the dampened stock
In an alphabetic composition once again
With meaning.

Jake Spertus, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-01-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, January 16, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Berkeley, California poet Jake Spertus.

The reading will take place at Think Visual Gallery, located at 240 Main Street in Point Arena. Doors open at 7pm, event begins at 7:15pm. Bring something to sit on, something to eat and/or drink (if you want!), your words, music and ears!! The reading will begin with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Spertus, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz.
Jake Spertus was born in Seattle in 1993. They grew up between Kansas City and a small sheep farm in Northwest Missouri, where they would disappear into the woods at chore-time. In 2011, they left Missouri for the pines and broken shore of Maine, where they went to college for math. After graduating, they pent themself up for a while in Boston working in healthcare policy research. In 2018 they escaped to California to begin a PhD in statistics at UC Berkeley.
That same year they began writing poetry as solace for a grim political present, a balm for homesickness, and a counterweight to the rationalism and rigid structure that characterized their graduate studies. They wrote for 4 years before releasing the chapbook. Millenarianism in the Spring of 2023. This past fall, they were a resident artist at the Winslow House Project in Vallejo, focusing on poetry and visual art. They have read at Medicine for Nightmares in San Francisco, at the release of Millenarianism in Berkeley, and at the Winslow House in Vallejo.
Jake’s poetry is concerned with mystery and knowledge, relationships between people and with land, the subtle hauntings of power and violence, and the presence of voids great and small. Their poems are informed by their upbringing in Missouri, as much as by their persistent wandering. The poems often express both a hunger for the imagined coziness of Home–both metaphorical and literal–and a suspicion towards the moral and existential perils of settlement. The poems are interested in how different forms of abstraction–words, numbers, images, data–contribute to our experiences and to the construction of our ideologies. They are particularly attentive to how sound, form, and imagery shape the feeling or meaning of verse.
Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.
October Drizzle
A sudden drizzle beads the leaves,
And October
Rises off to atmosphere.
You call this “Autumn”?
I hardly care. I only enjoy
How mist saturates the ferns like reverb,
And that when I touch
The wet shell of the redwood
I sense centuries of resilience.
Is this that wretched “Destiny” so many tried to seek?
Is it the unstruck seam?
The tree won’t say. Not here.
But a clear blood rushes to each leaf
And I feel what reaches back past words
And retraces long curves to the taproot:
An ancient braid of earth and ether,
Sutured through the throbbing Wound, ‘
Here now and here forever.
Jake Spertus

LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library
2025-01-18 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-15 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-15 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.
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.
Comuníquese con la biblioteca sucursal de Ukiah al 707-463-4490 o carrm@mendocinocounty.gov para obtener más información.

Winter in America (Again - Anthology Launch
2025-01-19 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
Winter in America (Again – Anthology Launch
Poets Respond to the 2024 Election
Launch events and online readings
Join us to mark the publication of the anthology, Winter in America (Again, with readings from many of the contributing poets.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
11 am to 1 pm, Pacific time
Live online Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002
Contributor 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.
Monday, January 20, 2025
5 pm to 7 pm, Pacific time
Live online Zoom event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002
Contributor 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.
Readings Produced by the publisher, Carbonation Press
https://gregbem.com/carbonation-press-events/
– February 4, 2025, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
– February 15, 2025 in Tuscon, Arizona
– March 26-27, 2025 at the AWP in Los Angeles, California
– April 1, 2025, Satori Arts, Santa Cruz, California
– More dates pending for San Francisco, New York, and beyond
Lead Editors:
Katie Sarah Zale
Paul E. Nelson
Editorial Board:
allia abdullah-matta
Gabriella Gutiérrez Y Muhs
Robert Lashley
Roxi Power
CChristy White
Theresa Whitehill
Poets 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.
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Winter in America (Again - Publication Date
2025-01-20 | Online Event
Call for Submissions: Winter in America (Again
This 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.
Deadline 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.
The book title is an homage to Gil Scott-Heron’s Winter in America. This anthology is to be published by Carbonation Press.
Katie 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.”
Submission form on Google docs:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-VmOgkZCr6ITjevHj-OI05G3nP5GQqIQSLNUx1KjSJHVurw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Karen Lewis and Amanda Cruise, Mendocino Poetry Series
2025-01-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA, 95460, United States
Dear Poets and lovers of poetry,
You are invited to attend the January 25th Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series at the Mendocino Art Center.
The January featured readers are poets Karen Lewis and Amanda Cruise. There is a sign-up sheet available for poets reading in the open mic following the featured readers.
Directions:
Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series
Last Saturday of the month: January 25th
Mendocino Art Center at the Stevenson Studio
Time: 4-6 pm
Format: Reading begins with featured readers in the first hour and is followed by an open mic.
Open mic poets are asked to read one or two poems no longer than five minutes total.
Featured: Karen Lewis and Amanda Cruise
Karen K. Lewis is a longtime workshop leader with California Poets in the Schools. She’s interested in spaces between here and there. Where ocean touches earth. Where mountains reach sky. Where “impossible” becomes “maybe” and where the blank page turns to art. Her work appears in anthologies and journals including Literary Mama, Minerva Rising, Iron Horse, 7×7.la and in magazines for youth. Karen’s poetry chapbook PEACE MAPS was launched in 2020 by Finishing Line Press. She is a former director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and lives near the Navarro River. More details at https://www.wordjourneys.org
Amanda Cruise is a third culture kid raised in Rome, Paris and New York City. Her poetry has appeared in the Noyo Review, Lake County Bloom, and soon in the Mendocino Women’s Poetry Anthology: Spirit of Place. Her art has been exhibited at PhotoPlace in Vermont, Praxis Gallery in Minnesota, Writers of the Mendocino Coast anthologies, as well as at galleries in Germany, the Netherlands and Thailand. Her creative path, like her life, continues to be non-linear and she likes it that way. She currently lives in Mendocino on Northern Pomo land where she wanders the land, wonders about life and drinks tea by the ocean. Photography – amandacruise.com
Sometimes she’s @wildishwoman on Instagram.
Questions Contact:
Devreaux Baker
dbaker@mcn.org
www.devreauxbaker.org

Chris Olander, Writers Read Ukiah
2025-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 | 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 30, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is Chris Olander.
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.

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2025-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Fort Bragg Library Meeting Room, 499 East Laurel Street, FORT BRAGG, CA, 95437, United States
You’re all invited to Poetry Open Mic on February 6th, 2025 at 7 pm. This monthly program is for those who wish to share poems with the library’s poetry community. Come to read or listen. You are welcome to read for about 8 minutes or 3 poems. (This event features poetry, not other forms of fiction or essays.)

Change in Zoom, there is now a passcode required, besides the Meeting ID. Zoom participants will read first. (See below.)

Topic: First Thursdays Poetry Open Mic at Fort Bragg Library
Time: Feb 6, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Open Mic for those who wish to share poems with the library’s poetry community. Come to read or listen. You are welcome to read for about 8 minutes or 3 poems. (This event features poetry, not other forms of fiction or essays.)
Every month on the First Thu, 10 occurrence(s)
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Laura Pope and Noyo High School Students, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Cobalt Gallery, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437, United States
Super-Soul Reading
“Why, what’s the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
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, is located in downtown Fort Bragg at the beautiful Cobalt Gallery, thanks to Button Quinn, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are the 2nd Sunday of the month, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, February 9, 2025, featuring Laura Pope, and Noyo High School students, followed by open mic readings. There is a signup sheet and each poet reads for 5 minutes. 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 9th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270
BIO OF LAURA POPE
Laura Pope has been an artist, mother, and reasonably decent human on the Mendocino coast for 26 years. Her art path has traveled through wood working, jewelry making, painting, mixed-media sculpture, poetry and music. Laura exhibited in the Laguna Sawdust Festival and the Laguna Beach Festival of Art for 20 years. Finding herself in the company of several astoundingly deep, brilliant poets, she discovered that writing poetry is contagious. She has presented poetry in interviews on KZYX and KMUD. Her paintings are currently on display at The Bookstore on Larel street in Fort Bragg.
Tribe
It’s the moment when’
Mom tells you she’s marrying the boyfriend
who touches your breasts
when she’s not around
Dad loses his job
in a town, a county
where there are no more jobs
You learn your husband
has the worst kind of cancer
Or the lump is in your breast
For millions
this moment is happening
now
The boy at the cash register
The woman waiting for the bus
The man who always sits alone
We all feel so alone
in our heads
yet our bones are all humming
the same half-remembered tune
roared ecstatically by a sun
billions of years ago
Take a step to the right
we are all tugged along
They say if a single atom was removed
the universe would collapse
You are the atom at the center
holding us all together
You are the gift
we’ve been waiting for
If your husband is hurting you
take a step to the left
then another
until you are surrounded by people
who smile when they see you,
If someone wants to hurt you
they circle around you
like a herd of mama elephants
protecting the young
You are the gift
You are the gift
You are the gift
we’ve been waiting for
Noyo High Students will present poems in connection with the exhibit of their artwork, currently on display at the Cobalt Gallery.

Bill Churchill, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, February 20, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Bill Churchill.
The reading will take place at Think Visual Gallery, located at 240 Main Street in Point Arena. Doors open at 7pm, event begins at 7:15pm. Bring something to sit on, something to eat and/or drink (if you want!), your words, music and ears!! 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, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Thomas Roberdeau and Scott Croghan, Mendocino Poetry Series
2025-02-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA, 95460, United States
Dear Poets and lovers of poetry,
You are invited to attend the February 22nd Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series at the Mendocino Art Center.
The February featured readers are poets Thomas Roberdeau and Scott Croghan. There is a sign-up sheet available for poets reading in the open mic following the featured readers.
Directions:
Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series
Last Saturday of the month: February 22nd
Mendocino Art Center at the Stevenson Studio
Time: 4-6 pm
Format: Reading begins with featured readers in the first hour and is followed by an open mic.
Open mic poets are asked to read one or two poems no longer than five minutes total.
Questions Contact:
Devreaux Baker
dbaker@mcn.org
www.devreauxbaker.org

Larry Felson, Writers Read Ukiah
2025-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | 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 27, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is Larry Felson.
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.

Spirit of Place: Fundraiser Reading for Anthology
2025-02-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
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
Friday, February 28, 2025
6:30 pm
Grace Hudson Museum
431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA 95482
$10 Donation (benefits the anthology project)
Produced by Devreaux Baker, Poet Laureate of Mendocino County along with a group of co-editors
For more information: poetryanthology2@gmail.com

Open Mic Celebration of International Women’s Day, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-03-09 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, is located in downtown Fort Bragg at the beautiful Cobalt Gallery, thanks to Button Quinn, artist and gallery owner who has graciously made the space available to us. The readings are the 2nd Sunday of the month, 4–6 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, March 9, 2025, and will be an open mic Celebration of International Women’s Day. There is a signup sheet and each poet reads for 5 minutes. 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 9th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270

Theresa Whitehill, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-03-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, March 20, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Theresa Whitehill.
The reading will take place at Think Visual Gallery, located at 240 Main Street in Point Arena. Doors open at 7pm, event begins at 7:15pm. Bring something to sit on, something to eat and/or drink (if you want!), your words, music and ears!! 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, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Devreaux Baker, Writers Read Ukiah
2025-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 | 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, March 27, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is Devreaux Baker.
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.

Ed Balldinger and David Parch, Mendocino Poetry Series
2025-03-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA, 95460, United States
Dear Poets and lovers of poetry,
You are invited to attend the March 29th Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series at the Mendocino Art Center.
The March featured readers are poets Ed Balldinger and David Parch. There is a sign-up sheet available for poets reading in the open mic following the featured readers.
Directions:
Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series
Last Saturday of the month: March 29th
Mendocino Art Center at the Stevenson Studio
Time: 4-6 pm
Format: Reading begins with featured readers in the first hour and is followed by an open mic.
Open mic poets are asked to read one or two poems no longer than five minutes total.
Questions Contact:
Devreaux Baker
dbaker@mcn.org
www.devreauxbaker.org

Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference Registration 2025
2025-04-01 | Online Event
Registration for MCWC 2025 opens April 1!
MCWC 2025 conference registration and contest submissions will open Tuesday, April 1. The deadline is Monday, June 30.
For more information, visit the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference website here.
KEY DATES
April 1: Conference registration and contest submissions open
May 1: Extended Registration (fee increases to $900)
June 30: Deadline for conference registration and contest submissions
July 31 – August 2: In-person conference
