Theresa Whitehill • Poet

LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic on Zoom
2022-10-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic Poetry on Zoom on the second Thursdays of the month on Zoom, from 6-7 pm. Michelle Peñaloza will be the featured reader.
Join in to read or just listen to great poetry via the Ukiah Library!
This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style.
Registration is required. Please email Melissa (she/her/they) at the Ukiah Library (details below) for the Zoom link

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2022-10-06 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-04 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).

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2022-10-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-09-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-04 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-08-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-08-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-07-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-07-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-06-19 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 from 3 to 4 pm and every 3rd Sunday 3 to 5 pm on KZYX&Z Public Radio, 90.7, 91.5, and 88.1 FM with host Dan Roberts.
For playlists, visit Rhythm Running River on Out Far Press. Stream the audio here.

Teacher Positions Open with California Poets in the Schools
2022-10-01, 2022-09-01, 2022-08-01 | Online Event
California Poets in the Schools’ Poet-Teacher Independent Contractor Job Summary—Mendocino County
California Poets in the Schools (CalPoets) seeks independent contractors to work on a contract or freelance basis as Poet-Teachers in Mendocino County, specifically to work at high schools. CalPoets’ Poet-Teachers are professional writers who choose to give back to their communities as Poet-Teachers. They should have demonstrated experience in the literary arts and be passionate about teaching school-aged youth in public school settings. New CalPoets’ Poet-Teachers are paired with experienced mentors to prepare for classroom placement. This is a great opportunity for poets at all stages of their careers. Poet-Teachers achieve 1-5 teaching contracts per school year.
Poet-Teacher Independent Contractor Duties and Responsibilities
• Work with a Poet-Teacher mentor in preparation for classroom placement
• Teach poetry creation in various K-12 classrooms throughout Mendocino County
Poet-Teacher Independent Contractor Requirements and Qualifications
• Demonstrated experience in the literary arts with a clear focus on poetry
• Passionate about teaching school-aged youth in public school settings
• Able to prioritize and manage your own schedule
• Bi-lingual English/Spanish highly recommended
• Significant cross-cultural experience and understanding
• Able to do great work with minimal supervision
• Strong time-management, communication, and organizational skills
Perks/Compensation
• Receive $250 stipend upon completion of mentorship
• Earn at least $70 (all inclusive) per teaching hour, once placed in a classroom, or negotiate your own rates with schools
• Gain access to some local grant funding
• Receive assistance to establish contracts with schools and classroom teachers
• Join a professional network of California poets from throughout the state
• Gain access to CalPoets’ library of lesson plans, monthly meetings, annual conferences and professional development
To Apply:
Please send a resume, a brief cover letter, and up to five of your own poems (written or performed, links ok) to meg@cpits.org.

About California Poets in the Schools:
VISION
California Poets in the Schools’ vision is to enable youth in every California county to discover, cultivate and amplify their own creative voices through reading, analyzing, writing, performing and publishing poetry.
When students learn to express their creativity, imagination, and intellectual curiosity through poetry, it becomes a catalyst for learning core academic subjects, accelerating emotional development and supporting personal growth.
Our Poet-Teachers help students become adults who will bring compassion, understanding and appreciation for diverse perspectives to dialogue about issues which their communities face.
MISSION
California Poets in the Schools develops and empowers a multicultural network of independent Poet-Teachers, who bring the many benefits of poetry to youth throughout the state.
As a membership network we offer opportunities for professional development, peer learning and fundraising assistance for Poet-Teachers in California. We also cultivate relationships with school districts, foundations and arts organizations which can fund and support our members’ professional practices.
Visit www.calpoets.org for more info.

Linda Noel, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-09-29 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, September 29, at 7PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader will be Linda Noel.
Open mic session will follow the featured reading. Maximum time for each reader is six minutes.
We continue to strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Masking while indoors is also recommended.
Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfree@pacific.net
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 an anonymous local writer, Colored Horse Studios, Michael Riedell, Dan Barth, the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, the Grace Hudson Museum and donations.

CANCELED: LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic on Zoom
2022-09-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
The previously scheduled LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic Poetry on Zoom on the last Thursdays of the month at 7 pm has been canceled. We will resume in October on Oct. 10th & continue to meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month on Zoom, from 6-7 pm.
Join in to read or just listen to great poetry via the Ukiah Library!
This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style.
Registration is required. Please email Melissa (she/her/they) at the Ukiah Library (details below) for the Zoom link

John Cahn Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2022-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Arena Market & Café, 185 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
Opens with live jazz, then featured reading with Poet John Cahn followed by Open Mic with live jazz accompaniment.
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

Maya Khosla and Geri Hulse-Stephens: Starlight Lounge
2022-09-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Maya Khosla and Geri Hulse-Stephens
Poetry at the Playhouse
Maya Khosla and Geri Hulse-Stephens are featured readers at Starlight Lounge, ongoing poetry series at Willits Community Theatre, 37 West Van Lane in Willits. Date: Saturday September 10, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Open reading to follow. Masking and vaccinations recommended but not required.

Georgina Marie Guardado, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-08-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
We are happy to announce that after a summer break we will resume our last Thursday poetry series. We will meet on Thursday, August 25, at 7PM at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. The featured reader will be Lake County poet laureate Georgina Marie Guardado.
Guardado is the Poet Laureate of Lake County for 2020-2024, and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She is the Poetry Out Loud and Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Program Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council, and Literary Editor for The Bloom. She is a contributing writer for Antioch University’s Common Thread News, and the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, and Muleskinner Review, and is forthcoming in Colossus: Freedom and Two Hawks Quarterly. She lives with her rescue dogs Kenya and Micco and her formerly feral cat Mistie, and is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript, The Length of Trauma Covets.
Open mic session will follow the featured reading. Maximum time for each reader is six minutes.
We continue to strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Masking while indoors is also recommended.
Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfree@pacific.net
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 an anonymous local writer, Colored Horse Studios, Michael Riedell, Dan Barth, the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, the Grace Hudson Museum and donations.

LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic on Zoom
2022-08-25 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-07-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Ukiah Branch Library, 105 North Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic Poetry on Zoom on the last Thursdays of the month at 7 pm.
Join in to read or just listen to great poetry via the Ukiah Library!
This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style.
Registration is required. Please email Melissa (she/her/they) at the Ukiah Library (details below) for the Zoom link

Dana Teen Lomax Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2022-08-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Arena Market & Café, 185 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
Opens with live jazz, then featured reading with Poet Dana Teen Lomax followed by Open Mic with live jazz accompaniment.
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

Summer Break, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-07-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Writers Read will be taking a summer break this month.
After an absence of two years, Writers Read is happy to announce that we are ready to resume in-person readings. We will again have events on the last Thursday (usually) of each month, beginning with March 2022. We strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Indoor masking is requested except when at the podium, which will be six feet or more from the audience.
7:00 pm: featured reader
8:00 pm: open mic
Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfree@pacific.net

Melissa Elftherion-Carr Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz - hybrid event
2022-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Arena Market & Café, 185 Main Street, Point Arena, CA, 95468, United States
Opens with live jazz, then featured reading with Mendocino County Poet Laureate Melissa Elftherion-Carr followed by Open Mic with live jazz accompaniment.
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, or for more information, contact Blake More (info below).

Theresa Whitehill & Georgina Marie Guardado
2022-07-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Theresa Whitehill & Georgina Marie Guardado
Poetry at the Willits Playhouse Starlight Lounge
Local poets Theresa Whitehill and Georgina Marie Guardado are featured readers at Starlight Lounge, a bi-monthly poetry series at the Willits Community Theatre.
California poet, letterpress printer, and broadside artist Theresa Whitehill served as Poet Laureate for the city of Ukiah from 2009 through 2011 and has been involved her entire career in the production of poetry readings and literary events. In January of 2022 her poetry letterpress broadsides were featured in an exhibit at Partners Gallery in Mendocino, part of a coast-wide book arts festival instigated by Whitehill and her two co-exhibitors, Felicia Rice and Zida Borcich. She is currently working on Heavy Lifting, a collaborative artist’s book publication with Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press, forthcoming in December 2022.
Georgina Marie is the Poet Laureate of Lake County for 2020-2024, a Poets Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets, and the Literacy Program Coordinator or the Lake County Library. She is the Literary Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council, Poet in Residence for The Bloom, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, and Yellow Medicine Review.
An open reading will be held after the featured readers have read. Entry into the reading is by donation and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. The wearing of facial coverings by the audience is recommended.

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2022-07-07 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. Since the library is a crossroads and we want to reduce risk of illness, we still ask you to wear masks while you’re in the audience. Wear a sweater because we need to ventilate the room well. When you’re at podium reading poems, you won’t need a mask.
We ask that you keep your reading under 10 minutes and stick to poetry in all its variety of forms.
For more information, contact Dan Hess, Branch Librarian (info below).

Deadline for Registration: Poetry Postcard Fest (PoPo) 2022
2022-07-04 | Online Event
Poetry Postcard Fest 2022
Poetry Postcard Fest, or PoPo for short, is an international annual literary event produced by Cascadia Poetics Lab out of Seattle, in which people sign up to send 31 original poems on postcards to folks on a participation list before the end of August (31 poems because originally it was set up to send a poem/postcard a day for the month of August; it has since expanded to allow sending of poetry postcards anytime after receiving a list of postcard recipients after registering. The Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers, and has grown to include poets participating worldwide. Registration deadline for 2022 is July 4.
A little background as to why this is appearing on my poetry events calendar for Mendocino: Mendocino poet Theresa Whitehill has been involved with Cascadia Poetics Lab since 2019, when Paul Nelson came to Mendocino County to interview Mary Norbert Korte for his American Prophets series. Whitehill is currently working on a regional literary anthology, Cascadian Zen, forthcoming in spring of 2023: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2021/08/cascadian-zen-2/
For links to Nelson’s American Prophets interviews, include that of Mary: https://paulenelson.com/american-prophets-interviews/
Funds raised through PoPo benefit Cascadia Poetics Lab
To find out more: https://ppf.cascadiapoeticslab.org/how-it-works/
To register: https://ppf.cascadiapoeticslab.org/register/

Annette Makino, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-06-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Grace Hudson Museum Community Room, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
After an absence of two years, Writers Read is happy to announce that we are ready to resume in-person readings. We will again have events on the last Thursday (usually) of each month, beginning with March 2022. We strongly recommend that you do not attend unless fully vaccinated. Indoor masking is requested except when at the podium, which will be six feet or more from the audience. NOTE: this month’s event takes place on the 4th rather than last Thursday.
7:00 pm: featured reader
8:00 pm: open mic
Suggested donation: $5, Refreshments provided.
For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfree@pacific.net
