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SUMMARY:Lynne Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Thompson’s newest collection\, Fretwork\, was selected by Jane Hirshfield for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and published in 2019. New work appears or is forthcoming in Pleiades\, Colorado Review\, Poetry\, and Black Renaissance Noire.Thompson is the Reviews and Essays Editor of the literary journal\, Spillway.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lynne-thompson/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daniel McGinn
DESCRIPTION:“There is no other poet on the planet like Daniel McGinn; his writing speaks with a skinless honesty. It is never overdressed and even its sorrows are strangely comforting… I envy anyone who gets to experience McGinn’s poetry for the first time.” \nRachel McKibbens: author of Blud \nDaniel McGinn\, a native of Southern California\, has been involved in the poetry scene for many years. Five of his chapbooks were included in the Laguna Poets Series. He’s given workshops at Half Off Books\, The Orange County Rescue Mission and The Poetry Lab. He competed at the Nationals with the 1996 national slam team and he’s written about local poets as a regular contributor to Next Magazine and The OC Weekly. Daniel received his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts at the age of 61 and his most recent collection of poems\, “The Moon\, My Lover\, My Mother & The Dog” was published by Moon Tide Press in 2018.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/daniel-mcginn-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kevin Ridgeway & Wendy Rainey
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Rainey’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Trailer Park Quarterly\, Nerve Cowboy\, Chiron Review\, and several other journals and anthologies. Her book\, Hollywood Church: Short Stories and Poems\, was published by Vainglory Press in 2015. She is a contributing poetry editor on Chiron Review. \nKevin Ridgeway lives and writes in Long Beach\, California. Recent work has appeared in Chiron Review\, Nerve Cowboy\, Big Hammer\, San Pedro River Review\, Trailer Park Quarterly\, Gravel Magazine\, and The Mas Tequila Review\, among others. In 2015\, his poem\, “Her Dead Husband’s Ashes\,” was awarded second place in Cultural Weekly’s annual competition\, the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize. A two-time Pushcart nominee\, Ridgeway is the author of six chapbooks of poetry. The latest\, Contents Under Pressure\, is now available from Crisis Chronicles Press.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kevin-ridgeway-wendy-rainey/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:JL Martindale
DESCRIPTION:JL Martindale is a nerdy\, writing mama who was born in Long Beach but has no recollection of that event. She spent the first half of her life in the valley (like for sure\, for sure)\, but returned to her city of birth to attend CSULB where she earned a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. JL Martindale now resides in Whittier\, California.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/jl-martindale/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Umlas
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Umlas is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet. You can find her work in Rattle\, Connotation Press\, Poetry Super Highway\, Cultural Weekly\, Foothill Journal\, and New Limestone Review\, among others. Her honors include first place in the F(r)iction Poetry Contest (2017)\, the Southeast Review’s Writer’s Regimen Contest (2017)\, the Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest (2018)\, and the Tom Park Poetry Prize from the Fox Poetry Box(2019). She serves as a reader for Palette Poetry and on the board of directors of Tebot Bach. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from California State University\, Long Beach and an M.Ed. in Cross-cultural Education. Born in Long Beach\, CA she currently lives in Huntington Beach\, CA with her husband and two daughters.  \nPhoto credit: Alexis Rhone Fancher
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alexandra-umlas/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:George Flores
DESCRIPTION:George Flores is a first generation Mex-Am poet who struggles to identify with either some days. Currently CSULB’s finest “super senior”\, studying for a Computer Science B.S. & Theatre minor. \nGeorge recognizes that all art has ever been is half apology\, half “let me explain”\, and always lost in translation. He frequently writes about love\, death\, unwarranted guilt\, and why we’re left to unknot it all. \nHis favorite word is “Thanks”\, most used is “Sorry.” \nFrom the bottom of my heart\, I am truly happy to meet you.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/george-flores/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Leddy & Bri G
DESCRIPTION:Kate Leddy\nKate Leddy is a writer and mental health activist from Portland\, Oregon. She grew up in Westchester County\, New York and still has strong opinions about bagels. Kate has featured at various venues in Portland and represented Portland at the 2018 National Poetry Slam as well as the 2018 Individual World Poetry Slam. Her first chapbook\, Homesick Season\, explores nostalgia for people\, places\, and states of mind. Kate enjoys ice cream sandwiches\, a good cleanse cry\, and excitedly pointing out the only two constellations she knows. \nBri G\nBri G is a Portland poet who is very excited to be organizing her first tour!\nStarting in Slam\, Bri has been in competitions and read on stages and festivals across Portland including Literary Arts. Her work has been published in The Rising Phoenix review. She believes deeply in accessible art\, and helps facilitate the two local Slam Poetry scenes\, as well as the occasional hosting of shows and community events in her home. She recently released her first chap book ‘There’s Room for You Here’ which touches on self love\, relationships\, and god stuff. Bri is currently studying creative writing and publishing at PSU\, until formal education breaks her spirit. Most importantly she believes in you.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kate-leddy-bri-g/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:19th Anniversary Show featuring Leigh White & Brendan Constantine!
DESCRIPTION:Help us celebrate 19 years of Idiocy with two of our favorite human beings! \nLeigh White\nLeigh White was born on the south side of Chicago. She is a prolific painter and accomplished poet in Orange County\, CA. She’s been writing and performing poetry since 1997. She pays for art supplies with a successful career in marketing\, advertising copywriting\, design and illustration. In her spare time\, she helps the homeless. \nBrendan Constantine\nBrendan Constantine was born in Los Angeles\, the second child of actors Michael Constantine and Julianna McCarthy. An ardent supporter of Southern California’s poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets\, he has served as a teacher of poetry in local schools and colleges since 1995. \nHis first collection\, ‘Letters to Guns\,’ was released in February 2009 from Red Hen Press to wide acclaim. This was followed in 2011 by ‘Birthday Girl With Possum\,’ under the performance based publisher Write Bloody\, and established Mr. Constantine as a poet equally at home on the page and the stage.  His work can be found in many of the nation’s standards\, including Best American Poetry\, Poem-a-Day\, Tin House\, Virginia Quarterly\, Rattle\, Prairie Schooner\, Field\, and Chautauqua. His most recent collections are ‘Bouncy Bouce’ (2018 Blue Horse Press) and ‘Dementia\, My Darling’ (2016 Red Hen Press). \nMr. Constantine has received support from the Getty Museum\, James Irvine Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A popular performer\, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe\, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered\, KPFK’s Poetry Cafe\, numerous podcasts\, and YouTube. He currently teaches creative writing at the Windward School. \nIn addition\, he brings poetry workshops to veterans\, hospitals\, foster care centers\, & shelters for the homeless. He is also very proud of his work with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Since 2017\, he has been working with speech pathologist Michael Biel to develop the first poetry workshop for people dealing with Aphasia. \nHis sister Thea Constantine is a novelist and teacher in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/19th-anniversary-show-featuring-leigh-white-brendan-constantine/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T200000
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SUMMARY:Tresha Haefner
DESCRIPTION:Tresha Faye Haefner is an award-winning author\, creativity coach and speaker. One of the few people to hold a Master’s degree in humanistic psychology\, with a specialization in creativity studies\, Tresha uses research-based methods to help others develop their most authentic creative abilities\, both for the sake of artistic expression\, and personal well-being. \nTresha has been an active member and teacher at California Poets in the Schools\, helped to curate the CPITS Anthology of Lesson Plans\, Poetry Crossing\, and has been a grant recipient through the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Artist-In-Residence program. \nTresha’s work has been published in several journals\, including BloodLotus\, The Cincinnati Review\, Fourth River\, Hunger Mountain\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Poet Lore\, Prairie Schooner\, and Rattle. She is the recipient of the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize\, a 2015 Pushcart nominee\, and author of two chapbooks\, The Lone Breakable Night and Take This Longing from Finishing Line Press. She continues to read widely\, attend regular readings and workshops\, and learn from every poet she meets. \nTresha has studied with innovative poets such as Kim Addonizio\, Sally Ashton\, Ellen Bass\, Gabrielle Calvacoressi\, Brendan Constantine\, Matthew Dickman\, Jack Grapes\, Suzanne Lummis\, Eloise Klein Healy\, Naomi Shihab-Nye\, and founder of the Poetry Depths Mystery School\, Kim Rosen. \nCurrently Tresha lives in Los Angeles with her husband Allen Rubinstein and two very cute kittens.  She often tells her classes that she began writing only so she could have the credentials to teach workshops to other innovative writers and poets.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/tresha_haefner/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patty Seyburn
DESCRIPTION:Patty Seyburn has published five collections of poems: Threshold Delivery\n(Finishing Line Press\, 2019)\, Perfecta (What Books Press\, Glass Table\nCollective\, 2014); Hilarity\, (New Issues Press\, 2009)\, Mechanical Cluster\n(Ohio State University Press\, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions\,\n1998). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern\nUniversity\, an MFA in Poetry from University of California\, Irvine\, and a\nPh.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is a\nprofessor at California State University\, Long Beach.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/patty-seyburn/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Telephone
DESCRIPTION:As far as we know\, this is how it works: somebody sent somebody a prompt for a poem. That person sent that poem to somebody else\, who wrote in response to it\, or used it as prompt for another poem. Then they told two friends. And they told two friends. And… \nOkay\, that’s probably not how it really works\, but we heard about this idea secondhand. \nAlso\, telephones were definitely almost maybe involved\, unless they weren’t.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/poetry-telephone/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shawnte Orion
DESCRIPTION:Shawnte Orion attended Paradise Valley Community College for one day\, but he is the author of two recent collections of poetry: The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBooks) and Faithful as the Ground (Five Oaks Press). His poems appear in The Threepenny Review\, Barrelhouse\, New York Quarterly\, Sugar House Review\, and elsewhere. He is an editor for Rinky Dink Press and he has performed in bookstores\, bars\, universities\, hair salons\, museums\, and laundromats.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/shawnte_orion/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ladies Lean Into Poetry: Sarah Thursday\, Kelsey Bryan-Zwick & Ra Avis
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Thursday\nSarah Thursday\, in addition to writing poetry\, co-hosted 2nd Mondays Poetry Party\, ran a poetry website called CadenceCollective.net\, and founded Sadie Girl Press as a way to help publish local and emerging poets and artists. She has been published in many fine journals and anthologies\, interviewed by Poetry LA\, and received a 2017 Best of the Net nomination for “To the Men who told me my Love was not enough.” Her poetry books are available at SadieGirlPress.com. Find and follow her to learn more on SarahThursday.com\, Facebook\, Twitter\, or Instagram. \nKelsey Bryan-Zwick\nKelsey Bryan-Zwick is a Spanish/English speaking SoCal poet and artist with a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in Literature/Creative Writing.  She is the author of three chapbooks\, the most recent being Watermarked (Sadie Girl Press) a hand bound edition which intermixes both her poetry and art.  Disabled with scoliosis from a young age her poems often focus on trauma\, giving heart to the antiseptic language of hospital intake forms.  A Pushcart Prize nominee\, Kelsey’s poetry appears in Incandescent Mind\, petrichor\, Like a Girl\, Lummox\, Short Poems Ain’t Got Nobody to Love\, Cadence Collective\, Eunoia Review\, and Redshift 2. \nFollow her at her brand new website: https://kelseybryanzwick.wixsite.com/poetry \nRa Avis\nRa lives and loves in Los Angeles and the internet\, where frightfully wondrous things happen. She is a once-upon-a-time inmate\, a reluctantly-optimistic widow\, an exponential storyteller\, and also basically a dinosaur. Her own story is a long one\, but the short version is she (probably) loves you. She blogs regularly at Rarasaur.com\, stop by and say hey. \n 
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/ladies-lean-into-poetry-sarah-thursday-kelsey-bryan-zwick-ra-avis/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lizzie Wann
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie Wann graduated with a BA in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego where some of her professors included Victor Hernandez Cruz\, Fanny Howe & Quincy Troupe. When she attended a spoken word performance that featured Patricia Smith\, she was hooked on mixing performance with the power in the written word. She started attending open mics around Southern California\, became the San Diego scene reporter for Next… magazine\, created her own readings & produced original shows that featured poets & musicians. She earned a spot on the 1999 Laguna Beach national slam team that competed at the National Poetry Slam in Chicago of that year\, & from there\, helped make slam poetry a San Diego fixture. She hosted one-off slams\, then co-hosted the fledgling San Diego slam\, then held at the Urban Grind\, until 2003. She also founded the Meeting Grace house concert series which ran from 2000-2008.\nHer work appears on 2 CDs (A Wing & A Prayer – nominated for Best Local Recording for the 2000 San Diego Music Awards – & A New Leaf)\, in chapbooks & in anthologies. \nShe has just released a poetry collection titled “The Hospice Bubble & Other Devastating Affirmations.” It’s available from Puna Press.  \nhttps://punapress.com/contributors/lizzie-wann/
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lizzie-wann/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:CLOSED
DESCRIPTION:Take a night off. Write some poetry. Watch some fireworks. Drink responsibly. Donate to a good cause.
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daniel Romo
DESCRIPTION:​Daniel Romo is the author of Apologies in Reverse (FutureCycle Press\, 2019)\, When Kerosene’s Involved (Mojave River Press\, 2014)\, and Romancing Gravity (Silver Birch Press\, 2013). His poetry can be found in The Los Angeles Review\, PANK\, Barrelhouse\, and elsewhere. He has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte\, and he is an Associate Poetry Editor at Backbone Press. He lives\, bench presses\, and rides his folding bike in Long Beach\, CA. \nFor more information\, visit https://www.danielromo.net
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/daniel-romo/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joel Francois
DESCRIPTION:Joel Francois is an ambitious writer and slam poet based in New York City who dreams of sharing his talent and techniques by writing music\, short stories\, television\, film\, and taking part in motivational workshops and talks. Joel writes to remedy all of the wrongs in the world and expresses his unique voice by writing his reactions to what he sees in the world.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/joel-francois/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:HanaLena Fennel
DESCRIPTION:Letters to the Leader by  HanaLena Fennel is a poetic response to the 55 Executive Orders signed by Donald J. Trump in the first year of his presidency. Unflinching in the face of reckless political forces\, this collection of intimate poems seek to illuminate the connection between the personal and the political. HanaLena Fennel’s voice weaves the surreal with acute realities about our stark political landscape. Engaging and empathetic\, this book untangles the reader’s spirit from the turmoil of a nation confronted with itself.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/hanalena-fennel/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sonia Greenfield
DESCRIPTION:Sonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill\, New York\, and her chapbook\, American Parable\, won the 2017 Autumn House Press/Coal Hill Review prize. Her first full-length collection\, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market\, won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of places\, including in the 2018 and 2010 Best American Poetry\, Antioch Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Los Angeles Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and Willow Springs. Her collection of prose poems\, Letdown\, is forthcoming in 2020 with White Pine Press as part of the Marie Alexander Series. She lives with her husband\, son\, and two rescue dogs in Hollywood where she edits the Rise Up Review and directs the Southern California Poetry Festival.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/sonia-greenfield/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190418T171138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T171138Z
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SUMMARY:Fight Evil with Poetry Anthology Reading
DESCRIPTION:A collection of poetry from a community of 30 diverse authors whose voices need to be heard. They have united under the banner of FIGHT EVIL WITH POETRY\, overlooking their differences\, that their socially charged verse would win hearts and minds to the side of truth\, justice\, and love.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/fight-evil-with-poetry-anthology-reading/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190326T151214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T151214Z
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SUMMARY:Marty McConnell
DESCRIPTION:Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing and queering the delineations between literary and oral poetry\, Marty McConnell’s work blurs the lines between autobiography and personae to comment on and illuminate what it means to live and love outside the lines in 21st century America. \nMcConnell’s second poetry collection\, “when they say you can’t go home again\, what they mean is you were never there\,” won the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2018 on Southern Indiana University Press. Her first nonfiction book\, “Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop\,” was recently published by YesYes Books. She is the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly\, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision. \nShe is the author of wine for a shotgun\, (EM Press)\, which received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards\, and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award (Publishing Triangle) and the Lambda Literary Awards. She is also a seven-time National Poetry Slam team member\, the 2012 National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) Champion\, and appeared twice on HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam.” \nMcConnell’s work has been published in numerous anthologies\, including Best American Poetry 2014; Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry; A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry; City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry; and Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Movement\, as well as journals including Bellevue Literary Review\, Willow Springs\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, Crab Orchard\, and Beloit Poetry Journal\, among many others. \nMcConnell was recently selected for a residency at Hedgebrook\, and debuted a collaborative and interactive performance experience entitled “when they say you can’t go home again\, what they mean is you were never there\,” with her wife\, installation artist Lindsey Dorr-Niro\, through a grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. \nMcConnell transplanted herself from Chicago to New York City in 1999\, after completing the first of three national tours with The Morrigan\, an all-female performance poetry troupe she co-founded. She received her MFA in creative writing/poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and for nearly a decade\, co-curated the flagship reading series of the New York City-based louderARTS Project. She returned to Chicago in 2009 to launch Vox Ferus\, an organization dedicated to empowering and energizing individuals and communities through the written and spoken word. \nShe has performed and facilitated workshops at schools and festivals around the country\, including The Dodge Poetry Festival\, Palm Beach Poetry Festival\, Wicker Park Arts Festival\, Connecticut Poetry Festival\, Cornell University\, University of Utah\, James Madison University\, Old Dominion\, University of Connecticut\, University of Arkansas\, DePaul University\, and more. She lives in Chicago\, and travels the country performing and leading workshops\, as well as coaching individuals in moving toward their best lives. For more information on her growth coaching work\, please visit www.vitalcoachings.com.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/marty-mcconnell/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190312T204218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T172122Z
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SUMMARY:Prompts + Poetry: A Celebration of 30 poems in 30 days
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate surviving another National Poetry Writing Month\, HanaLena Fennel and LeAnne Hunt will share some of the many prompts they circulated during the month\, along with a selection of readers who followed the prompts (or at least made the attempt!) with examples for each prompt.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/prompts-poetry-a-celebration-of-30-poems-in-30-days/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190222T000535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T000535Z
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SUMMARY:Judy Kronenfeld & Robbi Nester
DESCRIPTION:Judy Kronenfeld is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Bird Flying through the Banquet(FutureCycle Press\, 2017)\, Shimmer (WordTech Editions\, 2012)\, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths\, winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Award\, now available in a second edition (Antrim House Books\, 2012)\, and Shadow of Wings (Bellflower\, 1991). She has also published two chapbooks\, Disappeared Down Dark Wells and Still Falling (Inevitable Press\, 2000)\, and Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line\, 2005). A Stanford Ph.D.\, Judy has also authored a controversial critical study\, King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke\, 1998). She has taught English literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, the University of California\, Riverside\, and Purdue University. After her midlife turn back to her childhood love of writing poetry\, Judy began to teach in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California\, Riverside\, where she is now Lecturer Emerita\, having retired after 25 years. She now serves as an Associate Editor of the online journal\,Poemeleon .  \nRobbi Nester is a poet\, writer\, and teacher of writing who made the long trip out to the West Coast for graduate school and stayed there. She is the author of a chapbook of yoga poems\, Balance (White Violet\, 2012) and has published many poems\, essays\, reviews\, and interviews in publications including Poemeleon\, Inlandia\, Lummox\, Qarrtsiluni\, Jenny\, Spark 17 and 18\, Philadelphia Stories\, Annapoorna\, Northern Liberties Review\, Floyd County Moonshine\, and Caesura. She is the editor of an anthology of NPR and PBS poetry\, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It! (Ninetoes Press)\, and author of a book of poems\, A Likely Story.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/judy-kronenfeld-robbi-nester/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190312T203858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T014420Z
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SUMMARY:Alyssandra Nighswonger
DESCRIPTION:Alyssandra plays the kind of music that makes you put down your beer and think about your mother. The sweet lilt of a french song here\, a pick-the-pieces-up mantra for the broken hearted there and inspiration drawn from artists like Madeleine Peyroux\, Ray Davies\, Nick Drake and Andrew Bird. Her next release will be Nighswonger Sings Nilsson\, a 9-song tribute album to the oh so great\, Harry Nilsson! Coming later this year\, to be released on colored vinyl\, cd\, digital download and streaming.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alyssandra-nighswonger/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190107T181550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190314T175820Z
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SUMMARY:Lady Narrator
DESCRIPTION:Dania Ayah Alkhouli\, a.k.a. Lady Narrator\, is a Syrian American author\, poet and writer\, born and raised in Southern California. Alkhouli earned her B.A. in Sociology and her M.A. in Public Policy & Administration from Cal State Long Beach.  \nShe published her debut book at 19\, titled 91 at 19\, after graduating with her Bachelor’s degree. In 2017 she released her second poetry book Oceans & Flames\, a collection of poetry shedding light on her experience with\, and survival of\, domestic violence. \nHer work centers around themes of feminism\, mental health\, sexuality\, identity\, culture\, religion and her war-torn homeland\, Syria. She has been featured on Buzzfeed and Jubilee Media\, and has performed nationally at venues such as Da Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles\, House Slam in Boston\, and Busboys & Poets in D.C. \nIn 2012\, Alkhouli and her mother founded the nonprofit organization\, A Country Called Syria\, a traveling exhibition that showcases the history and culture of their country\, Syria. Their goal is to tour the exhibit nationally and eventually establish a permanent base where the community can connect even more deeply with Syria and its rich heritage and resilient people.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lady-narrator/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190211T220622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T220728Z
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SUMMARY:Collin Kelley & Steven Reigns
DESCRIPTION:Reigns was the inaugural City Poet Laureate for West Hollywood (2014-2016) and is the creator of The Gay Rub\, a collaborative project showcasing a collection of 100 rubbings from important markers of LGBTQ history. His debut poetry collection was published in 2001 and he has since published six chapbooks. Reigns organized and taught the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBT seniors and edited an anthology of their writings\, “My Life is Poetry.” His latest poetry collection is “Inheritance\,” published by Sibling Rivalry Press. www.stevenreigns.com \nCollin Kelley is the author of the American Library Association-honored poetry collection Render (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Better To Travel (Poetry Atlanta Press). Sibling Rivalry Press is also the publisher of his acclaimed Venus Trilogy of novels\, Conquering Venus\, Remain In Light and Leaving Paris. A recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award\, Deep South Festival of Writers Award and Goodreads Poetry Award\, Kelley’s poetry\, reviews\, essays and interviews have appeared in magazines\, journals and anthologies around the world. www.collinkelley.com
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/collin-kelley-steven-reigns/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190207T212515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T150457Z
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SUMMARY:Nadia Alamah
DESCRIPTION:A Lebanese Muslim American writer\, poet\, and visual artist originally from Flint\, Michigan\, Nadia debuts her poetic contributions to the Los Angeles and Orange County poetry scene with the release of her chapbook\, Yalla\, Habibi: Poems in 3arabeezi.While she usually dabbles in sci fi/fantasy/abstract prose poems\, for her\, sociopolitical identity poetry will be a first\, so she’s excited to share her experimentation with you in honor of Arab American Heritage Month. Nadia has previously self-published Awakening\, a selection of abstract prose poems from her online project Everhart’s Notebook\, & otherwise focused on creation ofcommunity-centric arts projects and workshops in Flint prior to relocating to the West Coast. Look out for bursts of energy\, impassioned speech and bits of audience-motivated improvisation. Check out her writing\, art & creative work/gradual foray into comics at https://www.nadiaalamah.com/& connect:Insta: @nadiaathellamaTwitter: @nadiaalamah
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nadia-alamah/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
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SUMMARY:Redshift Anthology Reading
DESCRIPTION:Redshift 1 is the new anthology from Arroyo Seco Press. This first edition is mostly composed of the poets who have or will publish with Arroyo Seco Press in their chapbook series. \nRedshift is inspired by the expanding universe. As objects move out in the expanding universe the light shifts toward longer wavelengths moving toward the red end of the color spectrum.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/redshift-anthology-reading/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190327T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190327T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190106T034235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T192731Z
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SUMMARY:Donna Hilbert
DESCRIPTION:Donna Hilbert was born in the Red River Valley of Oklahoma near the Texas border\, but has spent most of her life in Southern California. She is a graduate of California State University\, Long Beach. Her latest book is “Gravity: New & Selected Poems\,” Tebot Bach\, 2018. The Green Season\, World Parade Books\, is now available in a new\, expanded second edition. Other books include Traveler in Paradise: New and Selected Poems\, PEARL Editions\, 2004; Transforming Matter\, PEARL 2000; Feathers and Dust\, Deep Red and Mansions\, all from Event Horizon Press. In 1994 she won the Staple First Edition writing award resulting in the publication in England of the short story collection\, Women who Make Money and the Men Who Love Them. Her Greatest Hits chapbook\, which includes her most anthologized poems from 1989-2000\, is available from Pudding House. She has often traveled to England to give readings and workshops and has served as Vice President for Programs of PEN Center USA West. Her work is the subject of the short film “Grief Becomes Me\,” by director Christine Fugate\, which was shown as a work-in-progress at the Kentucky Women Writer’s Conference in March of 2005\, and is included in the now completed Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story\, the documentary about her life and work. She is listed in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. Hilbert’s work is widely anthologized\, most recently in Poetry of Presence\, Grayson Books\, 2017.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/donna-hilbert/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T054237
CREATED:20190107T173258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T173258Z
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SUMMARY:Richard Garcia & Katherine Williams
DESCRIPTION:Richard Garcia\nRichard Garcia was born in San Francisco in 1941 and began writing in his teens. After publishing his chap book\, Selected Poems\, in 1972\, he stopped writing for a number of years until an encouraging letter from Octavio Paz convinced him to return to writing. In 1978 he published a bilingual book for children\, My Aunt Otilia’s Spirits\, and University of Pittsburgh Press published The Flying Garcias in 1991. He earned the MFA degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College Writers’ Program in 1994\, during which time his first collection\, The Flying Garcias\, was published by University of Pittsburgh. His third volume of poetry with BOA Editions\, The Chair\, was chosen by Poetry Magazine editor Don Share as the best book of 2015. The Other Odyssey won the 2012 American Poetry Journal Book Prize\, and his seventh volume\, Porridge\, was chosen by Tom Lombardo for the 2016 Press 53 Prize.. \nRichard’s publication credits include Ploughshares\, The Georgia Review\, and the Colorado Review\, and among his distinctions are the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Poetry\, the Georgia Poetry Circuit\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. For twelve years he was Poet-in-residence at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles\, where he conducted workshops in art and poetry for young inpatients. Richard teaches creative writing in the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA program\, as well as privately throughout the United States.  He makes his home on James Island\, South Carolina with his wife\, Katherine Williams\, and their dog Max.  \nKatherine Williams\nKatherine Williams\, a native Southerner\, was born into the Navy and spent her teens and twenties in Charleston SC\, where she hung on to literature for dear life. She majored in French at the College of Charleston\, learned to surf\, screen T-shirts and movies\, and do science. In 1996 she moved Los Angeles\, where she worked in biomedical research at UCLA\, surfed occasionally\, and began writing poems. \nShe is now back on James Island SC with her husband\, poet Richard Garcia\, and their cattle-dog\, Max. A community arts advocate\, she has served on the board of The Poetry Society of SC since 2005\, where she established their Warrior Poets Series; was founding chairman of James Island Arts Council;and is the program director for Poetry at McLeod. \nRetired now from medical research\, she dabbles in environmental science\, surfing\, website and textile design\, art collecting\, classical cello\, and the garden. 
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/richard-garcia-katherine-williams/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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