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SUMMARY:Kim Noriega Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:She has won the San Miguel Literary Sala Flash Nonfiction Prize and has been a finalist for both the Edna St. Vincent Millay and Joy Harjo Poetry Prizes. Her poem “Heaven\, 1963\,” was featured in former poet laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column American Life in Poetry. She is the poetry editor of The Poetry Distillery and a teaching artist with The Poetry Barn. She is a certified facilitator of the creative regeneration process and an expert consultant in family literacy through the Pacific Library Partnership. She lives in San Diego with her husband\, Ernie\, and six cats\, five of whom were once feral. \nShe will be reading from (and selling copies of) Naming the Roses. \nAbout Naming the Roses by Kim Noriega\n“‘Name Me\,’ the opener of this long-awaited collection\, is a tour de force\, it storms in with its chilling juxtaposition of romance and violence in the strong\, unapologetic voice of a woman. Kim Noriega is masterful at hitting the right tone with her uncompromising stark naming of male-on-female brutality\, using a detailed storyteller’s specificity that reaches effortlessly into collective experience. She does not shrink from beauty either\, a subtle beauty\, infused with a sense of familiarity that makes her words feel like home. Home\, from the womb to the wedding\, abuse\, suicides\, silences\, apples\, birthdays\, heirlooms\, the presence of green\, waterfalls\, horses\, tastes\, sensual detail\, all of the roses\, ‘that magical / black rain\, / ecstasy\, / a flurry of starlings.’ I only wish I could inhabit the unashamed\, unpitying\, beautiful\, warm\, defiant spirit of this book that rises off it like steam.”
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kim-noriega-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nancy Miller Gomez
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Miller Gomez grew up in Kansas\, but currently lives in Santa Cruz\, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry\, Best New Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, TriQuarterly\, The Adroit Journal\, Shenandoah\, New Ohio Review\, Rattle\, Massachusetts Review\, River Styx\, American Life in Poetry\, Verse Daily\, The Hopkins Review\, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology and her chapbook\, Punishment\, was published as part of the Rattle chapbook series. She has worked as a waitress\, a stable hand\, an attorney\, and a television producer. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison\, the Santa Cruz County Jails and the Juvenile Hall. She has a B.A. from The University of California\, San Diego\, a J.D. from the University of San Diego and a Master in Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays. Her first full-length poetry manuscript is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2024.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nancy-miller-gomez/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gahl Liberzon
DESCRIPTION:Gahl Liberzon is a writer\, educator\, and aspiring researcher in Long Beach\, California. His work has appeared in The Museum of Americana and The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks\, and he has previously taught and performed throughout southeast Michigan\, the greater Chicago area\, and the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/gahl-liberzon/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Umlas
DESCRIPTION:Alex Umlas is a Humanities teacher and poet who lives in Huntington Beach\, CA. Her full length poetry collection\, At the Table of the Unknown\, is available through Moon Tide Press.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alexandra-umlas-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dania Ayah Alkhouli
DESCRIPTION:Dania Ayah Alkhouli (a.k.a. Lady Narrator) is a Syrian Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, poet\, editor\, and author of three poetry & prose collections—the latest\, Contortionist Tongue from Moon Tide Press. Her work centers on survivorship\, feminism\, domestic violence & sexual assault\, death & grief\, religion & culture\, and her homeland\, Syria. Alkhouli has been performing her poetry for 16 years\, with her very first performance at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry in 2008. She holds a B.A. in Sociology\, an M.A. in Public Policy and Administration\, and recently completed her M.B.A. When she’s not writing\, Alkhouli manages a private investments portfolio\, while also serving as the Creative Director and Co-founder of @acountrycalledsyria\, a nonprofit traveling museum exhibiting Syria’s history and culture through digital and physical arts.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/dania-ayah-alkhouli/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gustavo Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Gustavo Hernandez is the author of the poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press) and the micro-chapbooks Form His Arms and Little Fleece (Ghost City Press). In January 2024\, Hernandez was appointed Poet Laureate of Orange County\, California. He was born in Jalisco\, Mexico and was raised in Santa Ana\, California\, where he still resides.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/gustavo-hernandez/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Humanoid
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Humanoid (he/they/ghost) writes poems and is constantly confused. He would like to believe that the writing poetry thing helps with the being confused\, but there’s no evidence to support this. He writes in the hopes that others will feel less alone by reading his work as he feels less alone by sharing it. Jonathan has had poems in Freeze Ray\, Fight Evil With Poetry‘ first anthology\, and Shit Men Say To Me! An Anthology Challenging Toxic Masculinity. He likes making old school DIY chapbooks and has put out three so far called: I Was Never Going to be Normal\, How to Accept That Your Words Are Going to Outlive You\, and the latest one All the Light In Me. His first official chapbook This Is the Ship I Used to Be\, which explores his experiences with Borderline Personality Disorder\, was released recently through Arroyo Secco Press. Jonathan is grateful to have so many people who love him. He is glad to finally be one.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/jonathan-humanoid-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shelly Holder
DESCRIPTION:Shelly Holder is a poet from Monrovia\, CA who was a participant of the 2023-2024 Lighthouse Writer’s Poetry Collective\, where she worked on her first manuscript\, Naming the Marrow. She serves as the Associate Editor for Spillway\, as well as the chapter lead for the San Gabriel Valley branch of Women Who Submit\, an non-profit organization seeking to promote the publication of women and women identifying writers\, especially in top tier literary journals. In her non-poetry life\, she is pursuing a certificate in Library Sciences\, while trying keep her houseplants alive. Her work can be found at Iron Horse Review and Ponder Review\, among others\, which are listed in full at her website www.shellyholder.com.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/shelly-holder/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:West Coast Listen to Your Skin Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Ugly Mug Cafe for our West Coast Book Release\, Listen to Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer and Self-Love. These pieces express not just the erotic\, but the psychological and emotional truths we circle and seek in sexual and romantic realms. We’ll have readings from from several authors included in the collection.\n$4 cover fee\, cash only
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/west-coast-listen-to-your-skin-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:LeAnne Hunt
DESCRIPTION:LeAnne Hunt (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated poet living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She proofreads manuscripts for Arroyo Seco Press and has poems published in Cultural Weekly\, Spillway\, Honey & Lime\, Hybrid Harpy Review and Lullaby of Teeth: An Anthology of Southern California Poets. She publishes a blog of writing prompts and apologies at leannehunt.com.\n$4 Cover Fee\, Cash Only
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/leanne-hunt-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lisbeth Coiman
DESCRIPTION:Lisbeth Coiman is a writer and educator from Venezuela. Her debut book\, I Asked the Blue Heron: A Memoir (2017) explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. Her poetry collection\, Uprising / Alzamiento (Finishing Line Press\, 2021) Uprising / Alzamiento portrays the faces of the uprising in Venezuela’s complex political unrest and draws attention to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the once wealthy nation. Coiman lives in Los Angeles\, CA. https://lisbethcoiman.com.\n$4 Cover Fee\, Cash Only
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lisbeth-coiman-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tay Reem
DESCRIPTION:Tay Reem is a published author and poet\, born in Nigeria and raised in a small town in Maryland. Driven by the need to tell compelling stories\, Reem began her journey to authorship at just 11 years old. She sought out to create similar worlds she was so fond of reading about as a means to temporarily escape reality. Her debut book\, Tales of Woe\, was published October 2020. \nInspired by her own childhood and every day human experiences\, Reem channels her empathetic side as fuel for her work. Her academic background in psychology and previous work as a behavioral analyst\, prepared her for a universe of complicated characters portraying the light\, the grey and the dark side of humanity. Her next book is set to do just that – tell real narratives about regular people who do what any of us would do given the right circumstance. \n​Reem has been featured in several publications such as Thrive Global\, 360 magazine\, Authority magazine and A Blue Million Books. She currently resides in Orange County California where she is hard at work on her second book. On her off days\, you can usually find her on a hiking trail in the hills or off-roading in the desert.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/tay-reem/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brian Sonia Wallace
DESCRIPTION:” In 2012\, I set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and accidentally started my business: RENT Poet. \nOver 5\,000 poems later\, my book of essays\, The Poetry of Strangers\, profiles the communities I’ve written for across America\, and the desperate desire to be listened to and heard that I found. Excerpts have been published in The Guardian and Rolling Stone\, and I’ve been the official Writer in Residence for unlikely clients from Amtrak to the Mall of America. \nI now work with teams of poets to bring poetry to events\, provide educational workshops\, and advocate for the arts more broadly. RENT Poet has been featured on NPR’s How I Built This and continues to bring typewriter poetry to events. As an educator and advocate\, I’m an instructor at the UCLA Extension Writing Program and the Manager of Education for Get Lit – Words Ignite\, supporting over 100 schools and thousands of students in writing their own poetry.”
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/brian-sonia-wallace/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kelsey Bryan-Zwick
DESCRIPTION:Kelsey Bryan-Zwick is the author of Here Go the Knives\, a collection of poems and illustrations now available for pre-order from Moon Tide Press. These are poems that extend the delicate reach from skin to spine\, marrow to meaning\, poems that have secrets to whisper from page to reader. Secure your signed copy today with free shipping within the US.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kelsey-bryan-zwick-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marilynn Montaño
DESCRIPTION:Marilynn Montaño is a first-generation Chicana writer and artist from Santa Ana\, CA. Montaño is a proud daughter of migrant parents from Puebla\, Mexico. She is the event coordinator and bookstore manager at LibroMobile\, a bookstore & literary arts co-op in Santa Ana\, CA. Also a Crear Studio fellow. In 2019\, Montaño was named Poetic Influencer for OC Weekly’s People’s Issue. Her poetry was featured in Mujeres de Maiz\, Seeds of Resistance\, Barrio Writers anthology and The Chachalaca Review. Montaño’s journalistic work has been featured in the OC Register\, Voice of OC\, and OC Weekly. Montaño enjoys cold brew coffee\, thrifted cardigans and Sanrio.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/marilynn-montano/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hari B Khalsa
DESCRIPTION:“I started life in a small town in Central Oregon and have lived in Los Angeles for the past 45 years with my husband (and best buddy)\, where together we manage our private chiropractic practice\, write\, do artistic stuff and look forward to moving to the country where we can\, once again\, take long\, slow walks\, have a garden\, a cat and a dog. In my life\, I’ve practiced yoga\, meditation\, Improv theater\, dressage\, been a Life Coach\, and went back to school at age 52 to complete my BA in Creative Writing at Vermont College. Over the years my poems have appeared in over fifty publications. In 2009 I was honored to have my poem\, I Would Tell You\, selected for The Best of the Web 2009. My first chapbook\, Life in Two Parts was selected as a finalist in the 2009 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition and Walrus Books published a full-length book of poems Talk of Snow in 2015. \n\n\n\n\n\nMy current chapbook She Speaks to the Birds at Night While They Sleep was selected by Judge Gail Wronsky for Tebot Bach as the 2020 winner of their Clockwise Chapbook Contest. I wrote these poems in the early days and weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic\, pecking at my IPad before I drifted off to sleep at night. These 28 poems chronicle the small and large moments of a woman’s day-to-day\, a way to express what was experienced as both real and earthly\, as well as the internal\, the spirit\, the imagination that takes flight on the wings of birds.”
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/hari-b-khalsa/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Judy Kronenfeld
DESCRIPTION:Groaning and Singing is Judy Kronenfeld’s fifth full-length collection of poetry. Her four previous collections include Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle\, 2017)\, Shimmer (WordTech\, 2012)\, and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths\, (2nd ed. Antrim House\, 2012)\, winner of the Litchfield Review poetry book prize for 2007. Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review\, Cimarron Review\, Ghost Town\, New Ohio Review\, One (Jacar Press)\, Rattle\, Slant\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, Verdad\, Your Daily Poem and other journals\, and in over three dozen anthologies. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Under the Sun\, Hippocampus\, and other magazines\, and her more occasional short fiction in Literary Mama\, The Loch Raven Review\, and elsewhere. Judy is Lecturer Emerita\, Department of Creative Writing\, UC Riverside\, and an Associate Editor of Poemeleon. She and her husband have two far-flung children and four grandchildren\, and live in Riverside.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/judy-kronenfeld-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eric Morago
DESCRIPTION:Eric Morago is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominated poet who believes performance carries as much importance on the page\, as it does off. Currently he hosts a monthly reading series\, teaches writing workshops\, and serves as an associate editor for the online literary journal\, FreezeRay Poetry. Eric is the author of What We Ache For (Moon Tide Press) and Feasting on Sky (Paper Plane Pilots). He has an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach and lives in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/eric-morago/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tony Wallin-Sato
DESCRIPTION:T. William Wallin-sato is a Japanese-American who works with formerly and\ncurrently incarcerated individuals in higher education. He is also a freelance journalist covering the criminal justice system through the lens of his own incarcerated experience as well as an MFA Creative Writing student at CSULB. He can either be found near water or back alleys skipping along to harmonica notes. He studies Zen Buddhism in Northern California and has been published in Cold River Press\, Zaum\, The Adelaide Anthology\, and Susurrus. He was the winner of the Jody Stultz Award for Poetry in the 2020 edition of Toyon Literary Magazine and had his first chapbook of poems\, Hyouhakusha: Desolate Travels of a Junkie on the Road\,\npublished this summer through Cold River Press. He currently spends his time living between Humboldt County and Long Beach with his wife and two cats.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/tony-wallin-sato/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michael Cantin
DESCRIPTION:Michael Cantin sips whiskey and dreams of robots from his couch in Anaheim\, California. He has been published in Red Light Lit\, Cadance Collective\, and other publications\, as well as Moontide Press books Lullabye of Teeth and Dark Ink. One day he hopes for his own book to clutter your shelves
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/michael-cantin/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T220000
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CREATED:20220209T222638Z
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SUMMARY:LeAnne Hunt
DESCRIPTION:LeAnne Hunt (she/her) grew up in the Midwest and now lives in Orange County\, California. She is a regular at the Two Idiots Peddling Poetry reading at the Ugly Mug in Orange. She has poems published in Cultural Weekly\, Spillway\, Honey & Lime\, and Lullaby of Teeth: An Anthology of Southern California Poets. She publishes a blog of writing prompts and apologies at leannehunt.com.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/leanne-hunt/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T220000
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CREATED:20220207T024954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T024954Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah ChristianScher
DESCRIPTION:Sarah ChristianScher is a poet trapped inside the body of a biologist. Her poetry has appeared in Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror\, Like A Girl: Perspectives on Feminism\, and Short Poems Ain’t Got Nobody to Love. She has also been featured on the Silver Birch Press poetry blog\, Voicemail Poems\, and as Moon Tide Press Poet of the Month. To catch a glimpse of Sarah in her natural poetic habitat\, find her at the Two Idiots Peddling Poetry open mic in Orange\, California.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/sarah-christianscher/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T124859
CREATED:20211230T021554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211230T021554Z
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SUMMARY:Stacy Dyson
DESCRIPTION:Stacy Dyson is a Black female poet who explores/ illustrates/ illuminates the history\, self-image\, and philosophy of the Black woman. Based in San Diego\, she has performed/ workshopped in Oklahoma\, South Dakota\, New Mexico\, Massachusetts\, California\, Nebraska\, Texas and Colorado. Author of six chapbooks and five spoken word CDs. Her play FANNIE’S GIRLS: A 4-1-1 IN 5-PART ATTITUDE is a Colorado Women’s Playwriting Festival winner. Former Poet Laureate for Imagination Celebration (Colorado Springs) and the CEO/lead poet of women’s writing and performance groups DragonsWing(Colorado Springs) and Page to Stage: Women’s Voices (San Diego)\, she was a 2009 Nominee for Poet Laureate for the State of Colorado. Featured in venues all over San Diego. Currently touring with her two new collections of poetry\, LOVELY AND SUFFERING and FOLLOW ME ON THIS\, Future projects include a new play titled AUGUST 5000\, and an online women’s writing/ performance group called FIRESCRIBE.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/stacy-dyson/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220105T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220105T220000
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CREATED:20211230T021410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211230T021410Z
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SUMMARY:Lisbeth Coiman
DESCRIPTION:Lisbeth Coiman is a writer and educator from Venezuela. Her debut book\, I Asked the Blue Heron: A Memoir (2017) explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. Her poetry collection\, Uprising / Alzamiento (Finishing Line Press\, 2021) Uprising / Alzamiento portrays the faces of the uprising in Venezuela’s complex political unrest and draws attention to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the once wealthy nation. Coiman lives in Los Angeles\, CA. https://lisbethcoiman.com.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lisbeth-coiman/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T220000
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CREATED:20211125T185413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211125T185603Z
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SUMMARY:Nikolai Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Nikolai Garcia is all-city L.A. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles; graduated from Birmingham High School in The Valley; went to East L.A. College (where he studied Journalism and Creative Writing under Jean Stapleton and Carol Lem\, respectively); spent 12 years working in Skid Row; currently works in East Hollywood\, and has been sleeping in Compton for the last 15 years. \nHe has been published in the anthologies\, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles\, (Tia Chucha Press\, 2016)\, & Extreme: An Anthology for Social and Environmental Justice\, (Vagabond Books\, 2018)\, and in various literary journals. \n​He is a founding member of the Coleman Collective and is Assistant Editor for Dryland\, a literary arts journal based in South Central.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nikolai-garcia/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T220000
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CREATED:20210827T213857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210827T214443Z
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SUMMARY:Mariano Zaro
DESCRIPTION:Mariano Zaro is the author of six books of poetry: Decoding Sparrows (What Books\, Los Angeles)\, Padre Tierra (Olifante\, Zaragoza\, Spain)\, Tres letras/Three Letters (Walrus\, Barcelona)\, The House of Mae Rim/La casa de Mae Rim (Carayan Press\, San Francisco)\, Poems of Erosion/Poemas de la erosión (Carayan Press\, San Francisco) and Where From/Desde Donde (Bay Books). His poems have been included in the anthologies Monster Verse (Penguin Random House)\, Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque)\, The Coiled Serpent (Tía Chucha Press) and in several magazines in Spain\, Mexico and the United States. \nHis translations include Poemas de las Misiones de California by Philomene Long\, Buda en llamas by Tony Barnstone and\, in collaboration with Estíbaliz Espinosa and Amaia Gabantxo\, Cómo escribir una canción de amor by Sholeh Wolpé. \nZaro’s short stories have appeared in Portland Review\, Pinyon\, Baltimore Review\, Louisville Review and Magnapoets. He is the winner of the 2004 Roanoke Review Short Fiction Prize and the 2018 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Short Fiction Prize. \nSince 2010\, he has been hosting a series of video-interviews with prominent American poets as part of the literary project Poetry.LA. \nMariano Zaro earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Granada (Spain) and a Master’s in Literature from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He is a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College (Whittier\, California). \nMariano Zaro es autor de seis libros de poesía: Decoding Sparrows (What Books\, Los Angeles)\, Padre Tierra (Olifante\, Zaragoza\, Spain)\, Tres letras/Three Letters (Walrus\, Barcelona)\, The House of Mae Rim/La casa de Mae Rim (Carayan Press\, San Francisco)\, Poems of Erosion/Poemas de la erosión (Carayan Press\, San Francisco) y Where From/Desde Donde (Bay Books). Sus poemas han sido incluidos en las antologías Monster Verse (Penguin Random House)\, Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque)\, The Coiled Serpent (Tía Chucha Press) y en revistas literarias de España\, México y Estados Unidos. \nEntre sus traducciones destacan Poemas de las Misiones de California de Philomene Long\, Buda en Llamas de Tony Barnstone (Tucán de Virginia\, México) y Cómo escribir una canción de amor de Sholeh Wolpé (Olifante) en colaboración con Estíbaliz Espinosa y Amaia Gabanxo. \nSus cuentos han aparecido en The Portland Review\, Pinyon\, Baltimore Review\, The Louisville Review y Magnapoets. Ha ganado los premios de relato breve: The Roanoke Review Short Fiction Prize (2004) y The Martha’s Vineyard Creative Writing Institute Short Fiction Prize (2018). \nDesde 2010 lleva a cabo entrevistas con prominentes poetas americanos para el proyecto literario Poetry.LA. \nMariano Zaro es doctor en Lingüística (Universidad de Granada) y licenciado en Filología Hiapánica (Universidad de Zaragoza). En la actualidad es profesor de español en Rio Hondo Community College (Whittier\, California).
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/mariano-zaro-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eric Morago Birthday Bash!
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate Eric Morongo’s 60th birthday at the Ugly Mug! With special guest via zoom (we hope!)\, cake\, and other party shenanigans! \nEric Morago is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominated poet who believes performance carries as much importance on the page\, as it does off. Currently he hosts a monthly reading series\, teaches writing workshops\, and serves as an associate editor for the online literary journal\, FreezeRay Poetry. Eric is the author of What We Ache For (Moon Tide Press) and Feasting on Sky (Paper Plane Pilots). He has an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach and lives in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/eric-morago-birthday-bash/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T200000
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SUMMARY:Kesley Bryan-Zwick\, mini chapbook launch with special guest Danielle Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:We’re proud to host one of our favorite poets as they debut their mini-chapbook\, Bone Water\, from Blanket Sea Press\, along with an opening set from their special guest\, Danielle Mitchell. \nKelsey Bryan-Zwick (she/they) is a queer\, disabled\, bilingual\, poet and a columnist for Los Angeles Poet Society.  Disabled with scoliosis at a young age\, her poems often focus on trauma\, shedding light on this isolating experience.  She is a Lead Collaborating Fellow of The Poetry Lab\, founder of the micro-press BindYourOwnBooks\, and her poems can be found in Spillway\, Trailer Park Quarterly\, Cholla Needles\, Rise Up Review\, and Redshift.  Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net nominated\, her forthcoming microchapbook\, Bone Water (Blanket Sea Press\, October 2021) and her first full-length poetry collection\, Here Go the Knives (Moon Tide Press\, Feb. 2022)\, focus on her decades surviving with scoliosis.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kesley-bryan-zwick-mini-chapbook-launch-with-special-guest-danielle-mitchell/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steven Reigns
DESCRIPTION:Steven Reigns is a poet\, educator and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks\, he has edited four anthologies\, and authored the collections Inheritance and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat. His newest collection A Quilt for David will be out by City Lights in September and is the product of ten years of research. \nReigns created the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBT seniors\, lectured and taught workshops around the country to queer youth and people living with HIV. He is touring The Gay Rub\, an exhibition of rubbings from LGBT landmarks\, facilitates the monthly Lambda Lit Book Club\, and is at work on a new collection of poetry.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/steven-reigns/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T220000
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SUMMARY:(Rescheduled) Alexis Rhone Fancher
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Rhone Fancher tears the plain brown wrapper off erotica. She refuses to play safe\, strips away pretense\, intent on exposing the fragility\, angst and longing lurking just below the sexual surface. EROTIC features poems and flash never before seen in any collection\, as well as gems from Rhone Fancher’s first two erotic offerings\, How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen & other heart stab poems (2014) and Enter Here (2017). It includes the infamous “Sister Poems\,” all together for the first time. With her “take no prisoners” attitude\, Rhone Fancher spares no one\, least of all herself. As she’s quoted in The Fem: “I write about women like me\, women who own their sexuality and take responsibility for their choices. It may seem I’m writing about sex\, but really\, I’m writing about power. Who has it. How to get it. How to wield it. How to keep it.” Come along with the author as she careens through her checkered past. Enjoy her misadventures. Cop a feel. Have a laugh. But reader beware: Alexis Rhone Fancher’s wry confessional may do more than lubricate your libido. It just might steal your heart.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alexis-rhone-fancher-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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