Ventura / Santa Barbara Poetry Events August 2008
sum wrrrds
the Askew Poetry Journal is joining the 20th Century and has a
web representation on MySpace and YouTube. We're also in
Ventura Life at the end of the on site magazine
starting in (it says) Winter 08 (but is actually Winter 07)
Some day we may have our own website.
the urls
www.myspace.com/askewpoetryjournal
www.venturalifeandstyle.com
www.youtube.com/askewpoetryjournal
Readings
Old Town Studio Gallery - NEW READING -
(2nd Thursday of the month) at 7:30pm
2165 Ventura Blvd
Camarillo, CA 93010
(across from the elementary school)
host: Kate English
open-mic
August 14: Tim Tipton
September 11: JP Dancing Bear
This Just In--Original Poetry
First Monday of the month - 8pm
The Village Jester Restaurant & Pub
139 Ojai Ave.—Next to the Ojai Playhouse
Host: Tree Bernstein
640-8001
Artists’ Union Gallery
Every Tuesday at 7:30pm
Artists’ Union Gallery
330 South California Street, Ventura
Host: Roe Estep, (805)320-3524
Open-mic
July 29 - Sarah MacLay
August 5 - Kevin Patrick Sullivan
August 26 - Mary Pat Nally
Ventura County Government Center
County Administartion Building
800 S. Victoria - Ventura
August 7: Elijah Imlay
October 3: Joyce LaMers
October 30: tba
December 11: Shelley Savren
all readings start at 6pm
Borders - Thousand Oaks
August 12 at 7pm
125 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd.
805/497-8149
Ventura Writers Club Poetry Anthology reading:
poets to read include:Lori Anaya,Cathryn Andresen,
Kathleen Auth,Lisa Barreto,Diana Blackburn,
Danielle Brown, Greg Elliot, Sheli Ellsworth,
Barbara Piszczek, Mario Speiser, Phil Taggart,
Doris Vernon,William Vietinghoff, Paul Westefer,
Maggie Westland
Bell Arts Factory (friday on Saturday)
432 N. Ventura Avenue - Ventura
last Saturday of the month 7:30pm
host: friday
August 30: Kimberly Young
September27: Sherman Pearl
October25: John Gentry
The Poetry Zone
Second Saturday, 2–4 pm
Karpeles Manuscript Museum
21 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara
Host: Suzanne Frost 805-252-1655
open-mic
August 9: Melinda Palacio
Train of Thought p;
every Thursday at 6:30pm
856 East Thompson Blvd. Ventura
(between Ash and Kalorama, behind Kids and Families Together)
Open Mic
Favorite Poems Project
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
Soap Box Poets (closed until September)
First Sunday of the month at 3pm
Borders in the Camino Real Shopping Center
(across from Home Depot/Staples), Goleta
Host: Kathleen Roxby
Open-mic
Kava Dume
Every Wednesday except the 1st at 7:30 pm
5653 Kana Road, Agoura
Host: Miss Marissa “Con Gusto”
(818) 865-8602
Open mic
The Santa Barbara Poetry Series
at The Contemporary Arts Forum
October 4: Paul Willis and Rebecca Foust
7 - 9pm
Poetry Workshops, Classes and Panels
Peet's Coffee Ventura
Second and fourth Wednesdays, 7–9 pm
1171 S. Victoria Ave,Suite E
Ventura, CA 93003
(805) 654-9923
Ventura County Writers Club
Third Wednesday
For information, email: Cathryn Andresen, barn93012@yahoo.
com
Poemcrafters Guild
For more information send bio and sample of work to:
807 Camino Concordia – Camarillo 93010
(805) 491-3242
In Print
Paul Willis' new book of poetry, Visiting Home, published by Pecan Grove Press
Carol DeCanio' broadside, Shelter, and acordian book, Giants, published by Lettre
Sauvage
Lois Klein’s new book of poetry, A Soldier’s Daughter, published
by Turning Point Press
Bear Flag Republic, Prose Poems and Poetics from California
Editors: Christopher Buckley and Gary Young
Featuring 89 poets including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Richard Garcia,
Robert Hass, Philip Levine, Morton Marcus, Czelaw Milosoz, Diane Wakowski,
Jackson Wheeler, Marsha de la O, Perie Longo, Polly Bee,
Laurel Ann Bogen, Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Glenna Luschei,
Bill Mohr, Scotty Creeley, Phil Taggart…
INCARNATE MUSE Press is seeking poems for its second atheist poetry anthology.
Confront, question,
or deny the god of your youth, the sacred text of your culture. Express your
disbelief, disapproval,
doubt, or dismay. Looking for honest, thought-provoking poetry daring to speak
against the social norm of
belief and/or attempting to take the stigma from non-belief. Interested in nontheism
expressed positively
rather than solely in opposition to theism. Avoid gratuitous vulgarity and unfocused
anger.
We feel that atheism is often defined too narrowly and inaccurately.
Deadline: July 3 0. Up to 6 poems
SAGE TRAIL, a new contemporary poetry magazine, is launching itself monthly from
Santa Barbara, California
and Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are free online at www.sagetrail.net, and are
looking for poets to submit
their work, and hard-copy subscribers. Send us your wisdom, your penetrating
intelligence, the results of
your climb.
Contributions/submissions of any quantity, inquiries about the magazine, or mailing
list requests may be
sent year-round to sfrost@sagetrail.net or
P.O. Box 4012, Santa Barbara, California 93140. Manuscripts
sent to us cannot be returned. Please allow one to three months for us to review
your work before making
inquiries. Copyrights revert to authors upon publication. Previously published
work other than work
already published in "Willow Street" and "Central Avenue" may
also be considered. The present staff of
the magazine includes the Editor, Suzanne Frost and the Advisory Editor, Cathryn
McCracken.
Hard-copy subscriptions help to alleviate our production costs. Individual issues
are $5.00 including tax.
Yearly subscriptions are $15.
Presses and Journals
Lettre Sauvage
Signed and numbered limited editions
Broadsides
Fourth Chorale Ode from Euripides’ Hippolytus translated by Anne Carson
In the Open Field by Steven Dunn
Chapbook forthcoming
Long Portrait by Mark Irwin
Community Studio
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
www.treepress.com treebernstein@gmail.com
Hex Presse www.hexpresse.blogspot.com
Womb Poetry www.wombpoetry.com
Editor: Michelle Detorie
More Poetry Information
Poetry Matters in Santa Barbara Poetry www.venturaartistsunion.org
Language of the Soul www.poetix.net www.VenturaLife.com, www.myspace.com/askewpoetryjournal
& Askew Poetry Journal on youtube