Theresa Whitehill • Poet

Fort Bragg Library Poetry Open Mic
2022-05-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-03-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-02-03 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. 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).

Rhythm Running River on KZYX Public Radio
2022-05-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-04-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-03-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-03-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-02-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-02-06 15:00 - 16:00 | 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.

Finding Light in Dark Places with Armand Brint
2022-05-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Maple Street, 809 Maple St, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Armand Brint will read poems and lead discussions related to “Finding Light in Dark Places” by creating poetry. Local artist and educator Suni Robin will help participants translate grief, loss and other “mental health” challenges into therapeutic art.
RSVP to Suni at 707 671-2765. Limit 20 people (small donation suggested). BYO sack lunch/beverage.

Stephen Kessler, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-04-28 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.
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

LOBA Poetry Series Open Mic on Zoom
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-03-31 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-02-24 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

Virtual Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry
2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Event
7 pm featured reading by a poet to be announced, followed by open mic poetry via Zoom video conference.
Virtual Point Arena 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).

YA Poets Circle: Ages 15-28
2022-04-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-03-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-02-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Event
Beginning in November, the Ukiah Branch of the County Library will be offering a new Poets Circle for teens & young adults ages 15-28. Starting November 3rd, meetings will be on the first Wednesday of the month on Zoom, from 3-4 pm.
Local Poets Laureate Melissa Eleftherion Carr (Ukiah) & Blake More (Point Arena) are excited to lead this writing group. Participants are invited to pop in to write with other teens and young adults, sharing their poems in a supportive, creative, & nurturing environment.
Email Blake (blake@arenatechcenter.org) or Melissa (carrm@mendocinocounty.org) for the Zoom link.
Sponsored by the Mendocino County Library and the Friends of the Ukiah Valley Library.

Mark McGovern, Writers Read Ukiah
2022-03-31 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.
Link to PDF of flyer for this event: https://theresawhitehill.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Mark-McGovern-flyer.pdf
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

Georgina Marie Guardado
2022-03-20 12:00 - 15:00 | Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse, 107 South Oak Street, Ukiah, CA, 95482, United States
Georgina Marie Guardado
Featured Poet, Women’s History Gala Celebration
Georgina Marie will be the featured poet at this year’s Women’s History Gala Celebration (Women: Providing Healing, Promoting Hope). The event will honor outstanding women in the community and will include a silent/live auction and featured speaker. For tickets: https://allevents.in/ukiah/womens-history-gala-celebration/200022113761018.

Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge
2022-03-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate Sidney Regelbrugge
Inaugural Reading
Sidney Regelbrugge, Mendocino County’s newly inaugurated Youth Poet Laureate, will perform a virtual reading with Ukiah Poet Laureate Melissa Eleftherion-Carr and Pt. Arena Poet Laureate Blake More. To register (Google Form): https://tinyurl.com/YPLMarch2020.

POSTPONED (Dan Essman & Theresa Whitehill)
2022-03-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Starlight Lounge, Willits Community Theatre, 37 W Van Lane, Willits, CA, 95490, United States
Dan Essman & Theresa Whitehill
Poetry at the Playhouse
NOTE: This reading has been postponed and will be rescheduled for sometime this summer or fall.
Local poets Daniel Essman and Theresa Whitehill are featured readers at Starlight Lounge, a bi-monthly poetry series at the Willits Community Theatre.
Daniel Essman is a Willits poet who for several decades co-hosted the Car Lords Poetry Series in Willits along with his wife, Robin Rule. He also has gained a following as the film reviewer for the Noyo Theatre as well as for his signature statement, “He likes his reality attenuated by the wisdom of the imagination.”
Theresa Whitehill is well known to poetry audiences in Mendocino County, and was Poet Laureate of the City of Ukiah in 2009 and 2010. In addition to writing poetry, Whitehill is a graphic designer and creator of letterpress broadsides, many of which are held in the collections of libraries and universities across the United States.
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. Audience members must show proof of vaccination upon entry and the wearing of facial coverings by the audience is recommended.

Coast Community Library: Point Arena Poet Laureate Blake More
2022-02-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Online Event
Coast Community Library presents Point Arena Poet Laureate Blake More for a Virtual Poetry Reading on Sunday, February 27 at 2 pm.
Email Branch Librarian Mellissa Hannumm for a link (info below).

Jeffery Kingman Virtual Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry
2022-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Event
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7pm on Thursday, February 17, 2022. This month features Napa Poet Jeffrey Kingman, with open mic to follow.
Jeffrey Kingman lives by the Napa River in Vallejo, California. He has written several books, including the full-length poetry collection, Beyond That Hill I Gather (Finishing Line Press, 2021), which won the 2018 Eyelands Book Award (Greece) for an unpublished poetry book. Most of the poems in this book are portraits of women who are notable for their achievements. They are strong, accomplished women. While this common thread runs throughout the book, there is much variety since the women come from various walks of life—authors, musicians, artists, comedians, activists, suffragists—such as Patti Smith, Amy Schumer, Muriel Spark, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun and Sophia Duleep Singh. Each poem captures a different flavor based on the unique personality of each individual. Many of the poems convey a sense of struggle. The struggle to succeed, to be recognized, to thrive in a world dominated by men.
Kingman has one other published poetry book entitled On a Road (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Each poem in this chapbook contains words and phrases borrowed from Kerouac’s On the Road. Many phrases were changed according to his creative needs. While Kerouac’s book features speedy forward momentum, this aspect is not reflected in Kingman’s poems. Rather, it’s Kerouac’s diction that he works and plays with.
Before turning his attention to poetry, Kingman wrote a young adult novel, Moto Girl (unpublished), about a 12-year-old girl learning to ride motocross. This story is an intimate family drama about a preteen and her sister, mother and stepfather. She places her trust in the stepfather who invests his time in teaching her to ride a dirt bike. But when she suffers abuse at his hands, relationships in the family begin to disintegrate, and she must navigate a way beyond the trauma.
He also wrote one other book of fiction, Two Mountains and Other Stories (unpublished). Three of the stories were published in North American Review, SOMA Literary Review, and Schuykill Valley Journal. Like his novel, this book also features intimate family dramas, including “Monster,” about a woman’s reaction to a severely disabled man who moves in next door.
Jeffrey Kingman is the winner of the 2012 Revolution House Flash Fiction Contest, and the winner of the Red Berry Editions 2015 Broadside Contest. He has been a finalist in many contests including the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry book competition, the 2015 Blue Light Press Chapbook Competition, the 2014 Sow’s Ear Poetry Competition, and the 2013 Frost Place Chapbook Fellowship. He has been published in PANK, Crack the Spine, The Offbeat, Sparkle & Blink, lo-ball, Off Channel, Grey Sparrow, decomP, Picaroon Poetry, Visitant and others.
He has a Master’s degree in Music Composition and has played drums in rock bands most of his life.

To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please contact Blake More (info below). Third Thursday Poetry Zoom continues to be supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Three Letterpress Printers Walk into a Shed: The Renegade Letterpress Work of Felicia Rice, Theresa Whitehill, Zida Borcich
2022-02-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Partners Gallery, 45062 Ukiah Street, Mendocino, 95460, United States
Partners Gallery presents an exhibit of three guest artists taking place at the gallery in the historic Beacon Building in Mendocino in January and February 2022. The books, broadsides, and job work on display of these letterpress artists reside in the realm of book arts—a genre that encompasses all things BOOK. Each artist explores a different approach to letterpress, a medium born in the 1450s and in danger of extinction when these artists entered the field almost 50 years ago.
Felicia Rice’s collaborative artists’ books, Theresa Whitehill’s letterpress poetry broadsides, and Zida Borcich’s commercial job work embody a love of craft, a dedication to art, and a passion for communicating. As renegades, their work reflects perspectives on the radical technical, cultural, and political shifts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Exhibit runs Thursday, January 6 through Sunday, March 6, 2022
Talk by Peter Koch of Codex Foundation: Saturday, February 12, 4:30 to 5 pm
Meet the Artists: Saturday, February 12, 2022, 5 pm to 7 pm
Article: http://www.realestatemendocino.com/images/REM%20749.pdf
For a pdf of the exhibit poster: https://theresawhitehill.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/3-Letterpress-Printers-Poster-cropped.pdf
For more information, contact Partners Gallery (info below)

Waves Rolling In and Gray’s Trousers Press
2022-02-12 15:00 - 15:30 | Mendocino Art Center, 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA, 95460, United States
Waves Rolling In and Gray’s Trousers Press: An Interlude of Book Arts at the Mendocino Art Center in the mid-1980s; talk by Theresa Whitehill, head of Gray’s Trousers Press at the Mendocino Art Center from 1985–1986 on the occasion of Whitehill presenting an edition of prints entitled “Waves Rolling In” to the Art Center; Whitehill will talk about her involvement in this collaborative project with local artist Josh Pierson and her time as head of the Art Center’s letterpress studio.
For more information, contact Mendocino Art Center (info below)

The Night Before Imbolc
2022-01-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Cascadia Poetics Lab in Seattle presents a reading with Theresa Whitehill, Robert Lashley, and two other poets in honor of the night before Imbolc, a holiday dedicated to Imbolc, also called Saint Brigid’s Day, a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring, originally a pagan festival.
For more information and to request Zoom link, contact Paul Nelson, poet & event producer (info below)
Post-reading blog post review of reading:
https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2022/02/wah-whitehill-lashley/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wah-whitehill-lashley
Video recording of reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7OeP74TWVY
