Theresa Whitehill • Poet

LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library
2025-01-18 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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

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.

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2025-01-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-12-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-12-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-03 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-06 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
2025-01-02 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-12-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-07 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).

Solstice Poetry at Gallery Bookshop
2024-12-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Gallery Bookshop, 319 Kasten St #270, Mendocino, 95460, United States
Solstice Poetry at Gallery Bookshop
Open Reading: come share a poem inspired by the solstice
6 pm
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Gallery Bookshop
319 Kasten St #270, Mendocino, CA 95460
Contact: Rob Hawthorn, Events Coordinator: rob@gallerybookshop.com
https://gallerybookshop.com/event/2024-12-21/gallery-bookshops-solstice-poetry

December Solstice Open Mic Poetry - Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz
2024-12-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, December 19 at 7 pm, Third Thursday Poetry and Jazz will hold its annual “Open Mic Solstice Reading & Party” 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 an open mic with jazz improv; the reading will conclude with more live jazz.
Following tradition, there will be no featured poet this month, but instead all south coast literary lovers are encouraged to bring in poems to share if they are inspired to do so.
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).

Winter in America (Again - Submission Deadline
2024-12-15 | 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 is 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

Linda Noel & Jabez Churchill, Poetry At The Cobalt
2024-12-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Cobalt Gallery, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437, United States
Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Godamm,
Rainethdrop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Godamm…
–Ezra Pound
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, December 8, featuring former poets laureate Linda Noel* and Jabez Churchill** 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, December 8 at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270
*Linda Noel
Linda Noel is a Native Californian of the Koyungkowi Tribe who grew up in Willits. The former Poet Laureate of Ukiah has presented her work at various venues across the western United States and has been both a featured reader and workshop presenter at the Redwood Coast Writers Conference, the Watershed Project, The Conference of American Indians; Humboldt State University, and Santa Rosa Junior College to name a few. Her work has been published in a variety of magazines, journals and anthologies including The Dirt is Red Here, by Heyday Books. She was included in the “Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry from Native California” exhibit based on the Heyday book and coordinated by the California Exhibition Resources Alliance. The exhibit toured more than twelve museums and libraries across California, including the Grace Hudson Museum. (https://www.manifestdifferently.org/whom/linda-noel)
Lesson in Fire
My father built a good fire
He taught me to tend the fire
How to make it stand
So it could breathe
And how the flames create
Coals that turn into faces
Or eyes
Of fish swimming
Out of flames
Into gray
Rivers of ash
And how the eyes
And faces look out
At us
Burn up for us
To heat the air
That we breathe
And so into us
We swallow
All the shapes
Created in a well-tended fire
**Jabez Churchill
Former Poet Laureate of Ukiah, Jabez W., Bill, Churchill first started submitting poetry for publication in 1979, became a member of the Ina Coolbrith Poertry Circle in Berkekey, maintaining this affiliation to date. He has been a poet teacher with California Poets in the Schools since 1998, and teaches poetry at Mendocino Co, Juvenile Hall.
As a bilingual poet, he writes in English and Spanish, and he has toured Spain and Cuba with a contingency of Bay Area poets. He has also been widely featured around Mendocino County, Berkeley, San Francisco, L.A. and Vancouver B.C.
He is a single dad, but his sons now have wives and children of their own, so now he is the grandfather of five! He is an avid water person and he sails San Francisco Bay and swims with pinnapeds wherever and whenever they pop up to say hi. He wants listeners to know that he has a deep connection to the south coast of Mendocino as his great-great grandparents, John and Carrie Johnson arrived in Pt. Arena on a Norwegian lumber schooner from Oslo in the 1850’s. (https://bmoreyou.net/jabez-churchill-on-cartwheels-on-the-sky/)
The Final Measure
I have not seen
nor can I guess how it unfurls,
burnt offerings,
all that remain of last year’s leaves,
white flags
splayed across a bright and empty sky.
Perhaps in rests,
the widening interval between notes,
between breaths,
tick and tock of a dying clock
until it stops.
Perhaps in troughs
lengthening between crests
until they flatly mirror the reddened sun.
I cannot
upon these wax and feathered wings,
inheritance of my fathers,
fly unto the morrow,
what is yet
or not to come:
fire and ice,
perhaps another bloom.
Nor can my eyes,
however vigilant,
shortsighted,
see beyond the shadows
to what undoubtedly awaits,
the final measure
of yet another fleeting race
in geologic time.
I can only mark the end,
beginning of each day.
Rejoice!
marveling by night
at what is bravely written in the stars.

CANCELED: Devreaux Baker, Writers Read Ukiah
2024-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Due to predicted stormy weather, the November Writers Read event described below has been canceled. Devreaux Baker’s reading has been rescheduled to Thursday, March 27, 2025.
Writers Read Ukiah last Thursday poetry series will meet on third Thursday this month, November 21, due to the Thanksgiving holiday (to be confirmed). The reading will take place 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.

Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2024-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, November 21, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will take place (featured reader to be announced).

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).

Poetry At The Cobalt
2024-11-10 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, 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, 5–7 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, November 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, November 10, 5–7 pm, at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270

Armand Brint: Mendocino Book Company Reading
2024-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Mendocino Book Company, 102 South School Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Local Poet Armand Brint will be reading from his new collection of poems, “Songs for the Afterlife,” at the Mendocino Book Company on Thursday, November 7th at 5:30 pm.

Lin Marie de Vincent, Writers Read Ukiah
2024-10-31 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, October 31, at 7 PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader is Lin Marie de Vincent.
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.

Karin Uphoff & Dan Barth Mendocino Poetry Series
2024-10-26 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 will be Karin Uphoff and Dan Barth, along 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, Listening Tour
2024-10-19 15:30 - 17:30 | 1078 Gallery, 1710 Park Avenue, Chico, CA, 95928
The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour is coming to the 1078 Gallery in Chico on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pm. For venue information, contact info@1078gallery.org.
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

Jen Karetnick, LOBA Poetry Series at the Ukiah Library Presents
2024-10-19 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.
On October 19, 2024, we welcome poet, Jen Karetnick.
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 19 de octubre de 2024, damos la bienvenida al poeta, Jen Karetnick.
Comuníquese con la biblioteca sucursal de Ukiah al 707-463-4490 o carrm@mendocinocounty.gov para obtener más información.

Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2024-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Think Visual Gallery, 240 Main Street, Point Arena, 95468, United States
On Thursday, October 17, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will take place (featured reader to be announced).

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).

Poetry At The Cobalt
2024-10-13 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, 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, 5–7 pm. The next reading at the Cobalt Gallery will be Sunday, October 13, 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, October 13, 5–7 pm, at the Cobalt Gallery.
PEGASUS SOARS NO MATTER WHAT,
Larry Felson & Joe Smith
510-684-8270

Armand Brint: Starlight Lounge
2024-10-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Armand Brint is the featured reader at a poetry reading to be held on Saturday, October 12, at the Willits Community Theatre Playhouse, located at 37 West Van Lane, in Willits. The reading will begin at 7 p.m.
Brint is the author of seven collections of poetry and one volume on the art and craft of writing poems. Armand was the City of Ukiah’s first Poet Laureate. His poems have appeared in anthologies, literary journals, online publications and have been recorded for the radio. His poems have also been set to music. Armand has taught poetry and creative writing at colleges, universities and arts programs. He is also a founding member of the Ukiahaiku Festival and a recipient of a Jane Reichhold International Haiku Award. Armand’s latest collection, “Songs for the Afterlife,” has just been released by Secret Goldfish Press.
Writing about his own work, Brint wrote, “Armand is a story teller; so his poems are typically narrative…with a twist. The twist is the use of extended metaphors that tend to reinforce the poem’s resonance and meaning. He often employs humor and playfulness as essential elements. And he strives to make the poems both personal and universal—that is to say, relatable. Armand believes that a poem is not complete until it finds a reader. And to that end, he stresses accessibility. His intent is always to welcome the reader into the poem. Armand’s poems are often based on quirky personal experiences and interactions, and are often set in Mendocino County.”
An open reading will follow the featured reader. Entry by donation; suggested donation $10. However, no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
