Theresa Whitehill • Poet

Frej Barty, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-07-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Record, 265 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
On Thursday, July 17, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Frej Barty.
The reading will take place at The Record at 265 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live music, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Barty, then an open mic with musical improv, and finally the reading concludes with a live music jam. Poets, storytellers, and musicians welcome.
Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Victor Poturica, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-07-13 17:00 - 19:00 | 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, 5–7 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, July 13, 2025, featuring Victor Poturica, 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, July 13th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2025-07-06 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-20 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.

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2025-07-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-01 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).

Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets Anthology Book Launch
2025-06-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA, 95460, United States
Join us at the Mendocino Art Center’s main gallery for book launch celebration of the anthology Spirit of Place: Mendocino County Women Poets. There will be a sign-up sheet for poets who want to read their published poem from the book.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
4–6 pm
Mendocino Art Center, Main Gallery
45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
Snacks and beverages will be provided. Books will be available for puchase to audience members.
Produced by Devreaux Baker, Poet Laureate of Mendocino County along with a group of co-editors
For more information: poetryanthology2@gmail.com

Zida Borcich, Writers Read Ukiah
2025-06-26 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, June 26, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is Zida Borcich.
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.

LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library
2025-06-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-17 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-19 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.

Diane Frank, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-06-19 19:00 - 21:00 | The Record, 265 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
On Thursday, June 19, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Diane Frank.
The reading will take place at The Record at 265 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live music, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Frank, then an open mic with musical improv, and finally the reading concludes with a live music jam. Poets, storytellers, and musicians welcome.
Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Blake More: Starlight Lounge
2025-06-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Point Arena poet Blake More is the featured reader at a poetry reading to be held on Saturday, June 14, at the Willits Community Theatre Playhouse, located at 37 West Van Lane, in Willits. The reading will begin at 7 p.m.
Blake More’s work includes performance poetry, video, murals and teaching. She is a longtime AC & teacher with California Poets in the Schools, host hosts a monthly poetry & jazz series and two radio shows. Her most recent book is DystopiaUnplugged: Please Talk Back. More info at bmoreyou.net.
An open reading will follow the featured readers. Entry by donation; suggested donation $10. However, no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Theresa Whitehill, Dancing with La Muerta: poems, publication event
2025-06-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
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
Zoom access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87837329387
Meeting ID: 878 3732 9387
Format: virtual, via Zoom
5:00: join in, socialize, settle in
5:30 to 6:30: readings
6:30: conversation
Dancing 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.
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Roxi 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
Devreaux 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/
Theresa 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/
Greg Bem, publisher, Carbonation Press, https://gregbem.com/carbonation-press-catalog/
Cover Art, Paula Gray, “Prescription for Pollination,” medical prescriptions from 1890 collaged on cradled board, 2019
Books will be available from the poet, the publisher, and from Lulu.com on June 1, 2025

Armand Brint, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-06-08 17:00 - 19:00 | 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, 5–7 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, June 8, 2025, featuring Armand Brint, 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, June 8th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270

Michael Riedell, Mendocino Poetry Series
2025-05-31 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 May 31st Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series at the Mendocino Art Center.
The May featured reader is poet Michael Riedell. 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: May 31st
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

Denise Low, Writers Read Ukiah
2025-05-29 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, May 29, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is Denise Low.
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.

2025 Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration Reading - 50th Annual
2025-05-18 12:00 - 20:00 | JD Center, 208 Dana Street, Fort Bragg, 95437, United States
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.
There will be a potluck between readings. Please bring a dish to share.
This year’s event will honor Mendocino poets Gordon Black, Sharon Doubiago, Bill Bradd, and Dan Roberts.

Scott Bird, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Record, 265 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
On Thursday, May 15, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature SF poet Scott Bird.
The reading will take place at The Record at 265 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live music, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Bird, then an open mic with musical improv, and finally the reading concludes with a live music jam. Poets, storytellers, and musicians welcome.
Scott Bird is a poet, painter and musician originally from Western Colorado, living in San Francisco. He is the co founder of the Coit Tower Poetry Club, a monthly reading series at the top of Telegraph Hill, and editor of their magazine Apocrypha. His book Twenty Two Madrigals is out from Apocrypha Press and is available for purchase at Murphy’s Tack n Feed Store in Chugwater, Wyoming. Scott works as a gardener and a California Naturalist for the Presidio in San Francisco. His forthcoming book Paradox will be out from a Lithic Press later this year.
Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

Steven Rood, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-05-11 17:00 - 19:00 | 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, 5–7 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, May 11, 2025, featuring Bay Area poet Steven Rood, 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, May 11th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270

2025 ukiaHaiku Festival
2025-04-27 | 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 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.

There 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.

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

Martin Hickell and Jamie Armstrong, Mendocino Poetry Series
2025-04-26 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 April 26th Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series at the Mendocino Art Center.
The April featured readers are poets Martin Hickell and Jamie Armstrong. 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: April 26th
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

Haiku Night, Writers Read Ukiah
2025-04-24 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, April 24, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. This will be Haiku Night, in connection with the UkiaHaiku Festival.
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.

Janferie J Stone, Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2025-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, April 17, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Janferie J Stone.
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.

Lorene Zarou Zouzounis & Tribute to Palestinian poets, Poetry At The Cobalt
2025-04-13 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, April 13, 2025, featuring Lorene Zarou Zouzounis & Tribute to Palestinian poets, 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, April 13th at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270
