Ventura County / Santa Barbara Poetry Events January 2012
sum wrrrds
Jackson Wheeler's Arcade series at the Carnegie in Oxnard
starts this month with Lance Lee and Sojourner Kinkaid-Rolle
and...
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Readings
Arcade Poetry Series
Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum
424 South C Street, Oxnard
Host: Jackson Wheeler
all reading start at 7pm
January 14 Lance Lee and Sojourner Kinkaid-Rolle
February 19 Florence Weinberger and Polly Bee
March 17 Elijah Imlay and Aram Saroyan
April 14 Harry Northup and Holly Prado
May 19 Brendan Constantine and Nina Corwin
June 16 Tim Tipton and Terry Van Vliet
Bohemian Beat Spoken Word
January 5 Mary Natwick
Bohemia Coffee House
214 West Ojai Avenue - Ojai
Host Tree Bernstein
805/640-7210
Open mic sign up at 7:15
Reading starts at 7:30
Artists Union Gallery
poetry every Tuesday at 7:30pm
330 South California Street, Ventura
Host: Phil Taggart
open-mic
www.venturaartistsunion.org
January 10 Steve Aguilar
January 17 Andre Levi
January 24 G Murray Thomas
January 31 Sam Harley
February 7 Linda Back McKay
February 14 Cary Waterman
February 21 Doris Vernon
February 28 Bruce Schmidt
March 6 Perie Longo
March 13 Carol V Davis
March 27 Joyce LaMers
also at the Artists Union Gallery
February 25 The Erotic Reading (mark your calendar)
hosts: Marsha de la O and Friday Lubina
The Poetry Zone
Second Saturday, 2 - 4 pm
Karpeles Manuscript Museum
21 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara
Host: Suzanne Frost 805-252-1655
open-mic
January 14, Teddy Macker
Mind/Body reading
February 3 at 8pm
Wall Space Gallery
113 West Ortega Street - Santa Barbara
host Ron Alexander
featured readers: Suzanne Frost, Christine Kravetz,
Phil Taggart, Mary Brown and Enid Osborn.
Santa Barbara Poetry Series
Contemporary Arts Forum
653 Paseo Nuevo - Santa Barbara
www.santabarbarapoetryseries.org <http://www.santabarbarapoetryseries.org>
February 4 Dean Rader, Jan Steckle and Elijah Imlay
reading starts at 7pm
Favorite Poem Reading
every third Monday from 5:15 - 6:30
The Blue Agave
20 E. Cota, Santa Barbara
Host: Lois Klein Open Mic:
All poets and non-poets invited to read
a favorite poem (not their own) or two
Wednesday Night Habit
Every Wednesday evening 6:00 - 8:00
Coffee Time (Near the Big 5)
245 Town Center West - Santa Maria
on Facebook Search for Wednesday Night Habit
contact: BJ Riley everlearnmore@yahoo.com
on the radio and TV
KPFK - Poets Cafe 8:30pm
LA 90.7 Santa Barbara 98.7
2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month
host: Lois P. Jones
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/pages/Poets-Cafe-Fan-Page-KPFK-Radio-Los-Angeles-907-fm/148382908556552
Poetry Workshops, Contests, Classes and Panels
Barnes and Noble - Ventura
Second and fourth Wednesdays, 7-9 pm
Ventura County Writers Club poetry workshop
Third Wednesday of the month
www.venturacountywriters.com
Ventura County Writers Club meeting
2nd Tuesday of the month
Pleasant Valley Senior Center,
1605 Burnley St, Camarillo
In Print
Elijah Imlay's new book is, Monsoon Blues
Cathryn Andresen has published her chapbook, humanNature
and "Dittybag", 47 poems in six tine y books
Mary Natwick's new book is Waking a Lover - www.spokenincense.com
Florence Weinberger's new book is Sacred Graffiti
Hope Slaughter Bryant new chapbook See You In The Funny Papers
Paul Fericano's second issue of The Broadsider, Volume 2, Series 1-17,
is now online at: http://yunews.com/broadsider.html
Carol DeCanio's broadside "Phone Booth" published by Poor Souls Press
Polly Bee's book, Scattershot, is out and published by BosieBooks
Joyce LaMers new chap book, Uncertain Slants of Light, is out
Sojourner Kinkaid-Rolle' new book Black Street is out on UCSB Press
Mary Kay Rummel's new book, Love In the End, is out on Bright Hill Press.
Barry Spack's new book, Food for the Journey,is out on Cherry Grove Press.
Kim Young's new chapbook, Divided Highway, published by Dancing Girl Press.
Paul Willis' new book of poetry, Visiting Home, published by Pecan Grove Press
Lois Kleinís new book of poetry, A Soldierís Daughter, published
by Turning Point Press
Carol DeCanio' broadside, Shelter, and accordion book, Giants
printed by Lettre Sauvage.
Presses and Journals
Askew Poetry Journal
Editors: Marsha de la O, Phil Taggart and Friday Lubina
P.O. Box 559 Ventura 93002
www.askewpoetry.org
Poets featured in Askew issue 11 (Fall 2011 / Winter 2012)
Sylvia Alcon, Ron Alexander, Cynthia Atkins, Michael Bailey,
Tree Bernstein, Barbara Blatt, John Brantingham, Tif Yen Bui,
T.L. Cabrera, Brendan Constantine, Robert Copeland, Fran Davis,
Michael Faran, Jerry Garcia, Dan Gerber, Dorothea Grossman,
Mary Hanford, Eloise Klein Healy, George Hitchcock,
Sandra Cannaday Knapp, James Ph. Kotsybar, Joyce LaMers,
Gerald Locklin, Sarah Maclay, Maia, Holaday Mason, Stanley M Noah,
Peg Quinn, John Ridland, Bruce Schmidt, Jane Schneider,
Patty Seyburn, Marjorie Simon, Alicia Morris Soto, Barry Spacks,
Henrietta Sparks, Scott Struman, Patti Sullivan, Doris Vernon,
Ruth Weiss, Ken Wienchus, Chryss Yost
Lettre Sauvage
Signed and numbered limited editions
Learn about letterpress and book arts in a creative, fine art
publishing center; lessons,
workshops and studio rental available beneath the oaks in Santa Paula.
www.lettresauvage.com
info@lettresauvage.com -- 805.794.0167
TreeHouse Press
limited edition books of poetry
home of the Rowsby Woof Memorial Broadside Award treebernstein@gmail.com
Hex Presse www.hexpresse.blogspot.com
Editor: Michelle Detorie
The Bubble, a feature and literary magazine, is published quarterly by
Nancy Gross. It began as The Ojai Bubble, and is now floating beyond
Ojai's borders into more places in Ventura County and Santa Barbara County.
The magazine has several original journalistic features in each issue,
as well as creative writing, including poetry and narratives or short stories.
There have been one to five poems in each volume. Poets who have been
featured include Robert Peake, Paul Fericano, Carol DeCanio, akka b.,
Josh Evans, John Dillon, Jeff Kustal and Nancy Gross. There is no specific
guideline for submitting except submit!! to either theojaibubble@yahoo.com,
or P.O. Box 171, Ojai, CA 93024. But realize we cannot publish everything
we receive. The issues are themed and probable themes for the next 12 months
are Wind and Water, Relationships, Youth and Age, and The British Invasion.
Not necessarily in that order. The website, www.theojaibubble.com, tells
where the magazine may be purchased. Some locations in Ventura are Bank of
Books, The Refill Shoppe, Auto Scrubber Car Wash on Thompson, The Cottage
on Main and McConnell's Ice Cream. Locations in Ojai include Bart's Books,
Attitude Adjustment, The Farmer and The Cook, Made in Ojai, Java & Joe,
Coffee Connection, Ojai Beverage Company, Ojai Spring Car Wash, Fred's Tire
Man, and more. The Somis Nut House in Somis and two locations in Santa
Paula: The Santa Paula Inn and the Santa Paula Art Museum gift shop, just
began carrying The Bubble. In Carpinteria it can be found at Curious Cup, a
childrens' book store, and Pacific Coast Café. In Santa Barbara, The Eagle Inn
in West Beach currently carries The Bubble.
More Poetry Information
www.sbpoetry.net www.venturaartistsunion.org www.askewpoetry.org
Language of the Soul www.poetix.net www.poetryflash.org
www.santabarbarapoetryseries.org