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SUMMARY:Edwin Bodney
DESCRIPTION:Edwin Bodney is an LA native and co-host of one of the largest poetry venues in the nation\, Da Poetry Lounge. A nationally recognized poet\, he has performed his work for an array of organizations like: USC\, UCLA\, Lexus\, TV1\, All Def Digital\, and Button Poetry. \nIn 2016\, he officially published his first book titled\, A Study of Hands\, with Not A Cult Press.  \nThrough his work\, both on stage and in classrooms facilitating workshops\, he hopes to transform his community in such a way that no one forgets their joy in the midst of all their healing.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/edwin-bodney/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Resistance Reading with HanaLena Fennel\, Luivette Resto and Danielle Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:“When we look at the faces of these children\, we can’t help but see our own children’s faces\,” -Charlotte Wilner.\nJoin us for a night of poetry and fundraising\, as we stand together in protest. We will be holding live auctions to help raise funds for RAICES\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children\, families\, and refugees along the border. \nLuivette Resto\nBorn in Aguas Buenas\, Puerto Rico\, poet Luivette Resto was raised in the Bronx. The first in her family to graduate from college\, Resto earned a BA at Cornell University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, where she studied with Martín Espada. \nDanielle Mitchell\nDanielle Mitchell is the author of Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry (Tebot Bach 2017)\, selected by Gail Wronsky for the 2015 Clockwise Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of the 2015 Editor’s Prize from Mary and the 2014 Editor’s Choice Award from The Mas Tequila Review. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, New Orleans Review\, Harpur Palate\, Nailed and others. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Redlands. Danielle is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the founding director of The Poetry Lab in Long Beach\, California. \nHanaLena Fennel\nHanalena was born on a goat farm to a Jewish hippie; After that\, things got weird. She believes in the power of true geekery\, loving scifi\, fantasy\, horror\, comics and gaming without irony. Show me your geekery and I’ll show you mine.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/resistance-reading-with-hanalena-fennel-luivette-resto-and-danielle-mitchell/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Portia Bartley
DESCRIPTION:Portia Bartley is an Actress\, Poet\, Writer and Model based in Los Angeles\, CA. Born and raised in London\, England\, she has studied in New York and Los Angeles where she obtained her BFA in Acting from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Her acting work has given her Theatre credits such as Ruined and The Laramie Project. She also has been in National Commercials and TV shows such as Shea Moisture\, BET Black Girls Rock and Baskets on FX. \nHer poetry speaks on social injustice\, immigration\, race and queer identity. It has taken her to Colleges\, Theatres and workshops nationwide including UCLA\, Chapman University\, The Los Angeles LGBT Centre and many Busboys and Poets locations in the DMV area. It has also been featured on The Black And Sexy Web series “Sexless” as well as Russell Simmons’ “All Def Poetry”. \nWith her poems\, Portia strives to connect and empower. She highlights another side of being black in America – where her gender\, nationality\, sexuality and race have significantly shaped her experience. She recently completed her Land of The Free tour. Where she was promoting her book of the same name. \nLook out for Portia in the latest commercial for NYLON magazine.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/portia-bartley/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peggy Dobreer
DESCRIPTION:Peggy Dobreer is a career artist\, whose first book of poetry In The Lake of Your Bones was published by Moon Tide Press\, March 2012. She is a choreographer\, a parent\, a student of mystical traditions\, and an irrepressible curator of new combinations. Ms. Dobreer’s poetry is lyrical\, mobile\, and published in journals such as Poemeleon\, Malpais Review\, San Pedro River Review\, and Yoga Magazine. Most recent anthologies include: The Night Goes On All Night\, A Poet Is A Poet No Matter How Tall\, and Ekphrastia Gone Wild\, which also features work by Nobel Laureate\, Wislawa Szymborska. \nPeggy is co-author of 64 Ways to Practice Nonviolence: A Curriculum and Resource Guide\, Pro-Ed\, Inc. She believes that figs are the flushest fruit\, and that tango dancing is absolutely necessary.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/peggy-dobreer/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:C.C. Hannett
DESCRIPTION:C. C. Hannett is the byname of Kris Hall; a poet who writes and lives with his wife and their animals in the PNW. He is the author of the chapbooks\, Notes for Xenos Vesparum (Shotgun Wedding\, an imprint of Alice Blue Books)\, and Dillinger on the Beach (Horse Less Press). He is the former curator of the reading series Da’daedal and Ogopogo. Both series took place in Seattle\, WA and focused on showcasing interdisciplinary work. His next book\, Triune (Spuyten Duyvil)\, will be released in the Summer of 2018.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/c-c-hannett/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aman Batra
DESCRIPTION:My name is Aman (pronounced uh-mun)\, and I’m an Indian-American spoken word poet from Artesia\, CA. As the child of immigrants\, I’m untraditional in my approach. If there’s a rule\, I break it. If there’s a boundary\, I push. If there’s a pen or a microphone in front of me\, I am my most powerful and unapologetic self. I graduated from UCLA in 2014 with a degree in Creative Writing. Since then\, I have immersed myself into written and performance poetry\, competing in venues and national slams across the country. \nI was a member of UCLA’s first slam team\, and the 2016 Hollywood (DPL) Slam Team\, both of which have been catalysts in building my artist career. My work has been featured on All Def Poetry\, The Huffington Post\, Vibe\, and Bustle. I work to inspire risk-taking\, unlearning\, and freedom of expression. Whether it’s a classroom workshop\, an intimate crowd of 20 people in a coffee house\, or thousands of students at a University\, I give all of myself to every performance\, and every person I connect with.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/aman-batra/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T200000
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SUMMARY:Elmast Kozloyan
DESCRIPTION:Elmast Kozloyan is a poet trapped in limbo between magic and reality (though seldom chooses the latter). At the age of fifteen won a silver medal for poetry in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and since then has been mentoring youth poets\, was previously an editor of CSULA’s Statement Magazine (before graduating) and published in places such as Cadence Collective\, Poetry in Motion\, Pacific Review\, the East Jasmine Review and Los Angeles Times.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/elmast-kozloyan/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T200000
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SUMMARY:Alexis Rhone Fancher
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Rhone Fancher’s poem\, “when I turned fourteen\, my mother’s sister took me to lunch and said:” was chosen by Edward Hirsch for inclusion in The Best American Poetry of 2016. Her work can be found in Rattle\, Cleaver Magazine\, Slipstream\, Askew\, Plume\, Tinderbox Literary Journal\, Glass\, The Nashville Review\, Diode\, decomP\, Public Pool\, Anti-Heroin chic\, concis\, Toad\, Anomaly Literary Journal\, Blood Orange Review\, Vox Populi\, Drunk Monkeys\, First Literary Review\, Poets&Artists\, Red Flag Poetry\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Vol. 4\, cahoodaloodaling\, Literary Mama\, Trailer Park Review\, Rise Up Review\, The Fem\, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles\, Loch Raven Review\, Nerve Cowboy\, Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, Portside\, Rat’s Ass Review\, San Pedro River Review\, streetcake\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Bared\, Blink Ink\, The MacGuffin\, Ragazine\, Menacing Hedge\, 13 Myna Birds\, KYSO Flash\, Quaint Magazine\, Blotterature\, Hobart\, Blink Ink\, Carnival Literary Magazine\, Pyrene’s Fountain\, great weather for Media\, Les Femmes Folles\, Cactus Heart\, Fjords Review\, Carbon Culture Review\, Cliterature\, The Chiron Review\, Good Men Project\, rawboned\, Boyslut\, Danse Macabre\, Dirty Lit\, Femme Cat\, Fine Linen\, Gyroscope Review\, Kleft Jaw\, Lummox 4\, 5\, and 6\, Patria Letterature\, Postcards Poems and Prose\, Red Light Lit\, Spectrum\, Thank You for Swallowing\, The Nervous Breakdown\, Cafe Reader\, N.Z.\, Wherewithal\, WISH\, Deep Water Literary Journal\, Poeticdiversity\, Little Raven\, This Is Poetry: Women of the Small Presses\, Gutter Eloquence\, The Mas Tequila Review\, Broadzine!\, Bare Hands\, Luciferous\, High Coupe\, Bukowski On Wry\, Poetry Super Highway\, H_NGM_N\, The Serving House Poetry Journal\, Clean Sheets\, FRE&D\, Downer Magazine\, The Poetry Storehouse\, One Hundred Word Stories\, and elsewhere. She has been published in over forty anthologies and chapbooks\, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her photographs have been published worldwide\, including spreads in River Styx\, Blue Lyra\, Fine Linen\, Blink-Ink\, Lummox\, Rogue Agent\, HeART Online\, and the covers of The Mas Tequila Review\, The Chiron Review\, Heyday Magazine\, Nerve Cowboy\, and Witness. Since 2012\, has Alexis served as Poetry Editor of Cultural Weekly. She is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems\, (Sybaritic Press\, 2014). Her chapbook about the death of her son\, Joshua\, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies\, was published by KYSO Flash Press in October of 2015. Her latest full-length collection\, Enter Here\, was published in Spring\, 2017\, from KYSO Flash Press\, and her new chapbook\, Junkie Wife\, the story of her first\, devastating marriage\, was published in March of 2018 by Moon Tide Press. Since 2013 Alexis has been nominated for twenty Pushcart Prizes\, one Best Short Fiction award\, and four Best of the Net awards. She and her husband live and collaborate on the bluffs of San Pedro\, CA. They have a spectacular view.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alexis-rhone-fancher/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eric Howard
DESCRIPTION:California-born poet Eric Howard has spent most of his life in Los Angeles. After receiving a degree in English at Pomona College\, Eric worked as a substitute teacher while living in an illegally converted basement apartment in the neighborhood of Silver Lake. There\, he wrote Sinner. \nHe later used his retirement money to buy a house and be the live-in landlord of a bunch of misfits. This included taking part in pranks and art projects put on by the Los Angeles Cacophony Society. \nHe also obtained a master’s degree in English from California State University Los Angeles\, studying formal poetry with Henri Coulette. This allowed him to bring his punk sensibility to verse. For almost two decades\, he has worked as a magazine editor\, which has informed his poetry about office life. \nHis book\, Taliban Beach Party\, addresses 9/11 and its aftermath in the context of Los Angeles history\, beginning with satire but concluding with prophecy. The title poem describes a Cacophony event that took place at Dockweiler Beach in October 2001.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/eric-howard/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mckendy Fils-Aimé
DESCRIPTION:Mckendy Fils-Aimé is a New England based Haitian-American poet and educator. He has been an artist in residence for MassLEAP as well as the Art Alliance of Northern New Hampshire. Mckendy is a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow whose work has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review\, The Collagist\, The Journal\, Callaloo\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/mckendy-fils-aime/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:G. Murray Thomas
DESCRIPTION:G. Murray Thomas has been an active part of the SoCal poetry scene for over 20 years. He has performed throughout the L.A. area and beyond. He has two collections of poetry\, Cows On The Freeway\, and his most recent\, My Kidney Just Arrived\, published by Tebot Bach in 2011. He co-hosts 2nd Mondays Poetry Party with Sarah Thursday. \nCheck out his website: http://gmurraythomas.com.\nLive recordings: http://gmurraythomas.bandcamp.com/\nPublisher: http://www.tebotbach.org/\nHe also runs a site with all things poetry in SoCal: http://www.poetix.net/
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/g-murray-thomas/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T200000
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SUMMARY:Mindy Nettifee
DESCRIPTION:Mindy Nettifee is an award winning writer and accomplished performance poet and storyteller. She is the author of two full-length collections Sleepyhead Assassins (Moon Tide Press) and Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press)\, and a collection of essays on writing Glitter In The Blood (Write Bloody Press). Her newest collection Open Your Mouth Like a Bell is forthcoming spring 2018 on Write Bloody. She is a three time nominee for the Pushcart Prize\, a Powell’s Books Indie Press Best Seller\, and has been featured on The Moth podcast. \nShe currently produces with Portland\, Oregon’s Back Fence PDX\, hosts for The Moth\, provides writing and performance services as a principal at Free Delivery\, facilitates creative workshops around the U.S.\, and teaches the art of storytelling at Literary Arts.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/mindy-nettifee/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mandy Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Mandy Kahn is the author of the poetry collection Math\, Heaven\, Time. Former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser featured Kahn’s poem “At the Dorm” in his newspaper column American Life in Poetry. She frequently collaborates with composers to create new works that combine poetry and classical music and was a librettist for Yuval Sharon’s acclaimed opera Hopscotch. Kahn is coauthor\, with Aaron Rose\, of the nonfiction bookCollage Culture\, which was also released as a record with a score by No Age. She lives in Los Angeles. \nPoetry. Music. In Mandy Kahn’s wonderfully inventive and gloriously lyrical second collection\, Béla Bartók treks into remote villages to record folk songs on the world’s first phonograph\, a dying Gustav Mahler is greeted in heaven by Mozart\, Igor Stravinsky receives a letter from a music student who wonders what rules are left to break\, and Glenn Gould’s chair defends its owner against claims of eccentricity. Kahn—who also works as an opera librettist—explores the challenges and exaltations of the creative life in brilliant\, accessible poems that explode with curiosity\, incisiveness\, and awe—and that build into a lush celebration of music and making
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/mandy-kahn/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T200000
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SUMMARY:John Gardiner Memorial Reading + Jonathan Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:John Gardiner Memorial Reading\nLate last year\, Southern California lost an amazing poet and human being.  Join us for a memorial reading for the late John Gardiner\, as we read poems by\, for and about him.  Tribute readers include Leigh White\, Polina Hryn\, Ricki Mandeville and more. \nSpecial Guest Jonathan Mendoza\nWe’ll also be hosting traveling poet Jonathan Mendoza for a mini-feature this evening. \nJonathan Mendoza is a Boston-bred\, Jewish and Mexican-American poet\, youth social justice educator\, community organizer and activist. He is a National Poetry Slam champion with the House Slam of Boston\, Massachusetts\, a three-time Best Poem winner at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational\, and author of When the Crows Come under Pizza Pi Press. He is a Berklee College of Music graduate with a degree in Arts for Social Advocacy and is currently based out of San Antonio\, Texas as an immigrant rights organizer with Movimiento Cosecha. To learn more about his work\, visit MendozaPoetry.com.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/320/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180328T200000
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SUMMARY:Matt Rouse & Family!
DESCRIPTION:ATTACK OF THE FAMILY NIGHT: the Rouse Family invites you to a unique evening of song\, spoken word and comedy. Children of all ages are welcome (even Ben Trigg). Because what this poetry reading needs is a time out!!! The Rouse family is: Lois (age 10): collector of goofy faces\, basketball star\, the Secretary of Funny Walks\, autograph seeker\, asker of many questions\, hair aficionado\, hairbrush-phobic\, Bonnie(age 9): fashionista\, philosopher\, dog hugger\, head chef\, doodler on car windows\, heckler\, Daddy(Matt Rouse); designated driver\, under-qualified\, clearly outnumbered\, part time Jedi spirit\, ender of watches\, loser of keys\, master omelet maker\, amateur poet.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/matt-rouse-family/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180321T200000
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SUMMARY:Alyesha Wise
DESCRIPTION:The author of Carnival (NOT A CULT media)\, Alyesha Wise is a poet\, teaching artist & TEDx speaker from Camden\, N.J. Alyesha currently resides in Los Angeles\, Ca and is the co-founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement (S.L.A.M.) – an organization providing poetry education and extensive programming for poets. Alyesha is currently the Hollywood (Da Poetry Lounge) Slam Team head coach and served as the Los Angeles (Get Lit) Youth Slam Team co-coach from 2014-2017. A 2014 Hollywood grand slam champion\, she is also a 4-time member of the Hollywood Slam Team & a 2-time Women of the World Poetry Slam finalist. Alyesha has been featured on different platforms and publications such as Huffington Post\, Bustle\, Afropunk\, WHYY\, POPSUGAR\, Buzzfeed and more. Some relatively recent highlights include – an artistic collaboration with Codeblack Films\, Brave New Films and a feature in the Google Interstellar Project\, in conjunction with the hit film Interstellar. Co-founder of Essence Magazine\, Russell Goings\, wrote to Alyesha\, “In all\, you are awesome.”
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alyesha-wise/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:June Melby
DESCRIPTION:June Melby is an author and a performer\, a former standup comedian\, and slam poet. Her memoir My Family and Other Hazards (Holt 2014) was on the New York Times Bestseller list and won the Midwest Connections Award. It tells the story of the retro 1950s miniature golf course where her family lived and waited on tourists who roamed their backyard. \nHer work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Utne Reader\, LAWeekly\, and journals including Versal and Forklift Ohio.She loves to travel and has performed in cities all over the world\, from Los Angeles\, to London\, Munich\, Hamburg\, and Amsterdam. She teaches creative writing at a number of residencies and conferences. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa\, and then moved to a log cabin in the woods where she lives with her husband and a 20 pound cat named Ferdinand Magellan.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/june-melby/
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SUMMARY:Judy Kronenfeld
DESCRIPTION:Judy Kronenfeld is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle\, 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 .
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daniel McGinn
DESCRIPTION:About Daniel McGinn’s latest book\, The Moon\, My Lover\, My Mother & The Dog:\nbook coverLike the Beatles\, these poems aren’t afraid to talk to girls. They aren’t afraid to talk to dogs\, or kids\, or the Moon\, or the dying\, or even the dead. Believe it or not\, they aren’t even afraid to talk on the phone. Each poem in this collection speaks directly to me with landline clarity. They harken to the bravest side of us all. Wakening the part that isn’t afraid to look love in the eye and listen without flinching. \nDaniel McGinn makes pain beautiful\, again. His soothing voice tells us it’s good to feel. It’s good to cry. It is good to love. It is good to love until it hurts. It’s okay to feel helpless or hopeless; Nothing lasts forever. He teaches us to never give up on anyone\, not even ourselves. Everyday we have breath in our lungs and a poodle in our lap is another day to get to know someone better and understand something more fully. Most poets use their best lies to tell the only truth they can stomach. Daniel McGinn wields a flagrant truth in every word: conveying a breadth and depth of experience that feels personal and universal. The old adage “you can’t make this stuff up\,” comes to mind at every line break. Daniel is an omniscient and trust worthy narrator\, laying bare his loves and his life—Every poem is a confessional. Every poem unconditionally forgives and redeems. And the poet in him is born again; each poem feels fresh as the first\, but at the same time treated with care and frankness\, as if it might be his last chance to impart all he knows before you have to hang up the phone. \nDear reader\, you will become old friends with this profound collection. It will time and time\, again remind you of how perfectly imperfect you and everyone you’ve ever met is. It will put everything in perspective like a good family reunion might. It will become the big brother you’ve always wished you had. \n  \n–Raundi Moore-Kondo-Founder of For The Love of Words Writing Collective
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sarah Miller
DESCRIPTION:When told to calm down\, Sarah Elizabeth Miller becomes a mouthy saloon girl. The rest of the time she’s a fairly nice lady. She has an MFA in Fiction from CSU\, Long Beach where she spent a few years indulging her desire to write pretty sentences she enjoys reading aloud. Her biggest claim to fame use to be making the list of the top 25 in Glimmer Train’s December 2008 Fiction Open\, but in 2016 Arroyo Seco Press was kind enough to publish her very first chapbook\, Transitory Myth. Her poetry has also been published in Tears in the Fence\, Bank-Heavy Press\, Bender\, SheilaNa-Gig\, and Rip Rap–at least two of these are now defunct\, and she hopes she had nothing to do with that.
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang
DESCRIPTION:Nancy grew up in America and China. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a Regents Arts & Humanities Award finalist\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Vinyl\, Bodega Magazine\, TRACK//FOUR\, Winter Tangerine Review\, The Shade Journal\, and others. She has received fellowships from Voices/VONA and Tin House. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nancy-huang/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cindy Rinne
DESCRIPTION:BREATHE IN DAISY\, BREATHE OUT STONES (2017) is Cindy Rinne’s third full collection of surreal poems. The poet-artist invites us into an introspective space\, calling us to look outward through the lens of beauty and suffering. She explores the fragility of our words\, our bodies\, our lives\, and our death. Whether unearthing a carved oracle bone\, listening to a night messenger\, or walking on stilts\, the experience of this poetry is fluid and raw. Through the emotions of loss\, acceptance\, forgiveness\, relationships\, courage\, destiny\, and love the identities of many cultures and seasons of life are portrayed. \nThe twenty-eight poems in this collection stitch a tale that interlaces ancient mythology with science fiction. The story we embark upon in these pages is one that is particularly feminine. \nSkillfully woven together\, we encounter figures both mystical and ordinary\, ranging from Native tribes and Zen practices to a futuristic self-healing robot. These poems bring together several disparate narrative threads and from them\, reconcile an intricate whole. \nMOON OF MANY PETALS (2018) is Cindy Rinne’s second novel in verse based in Manazanar\, CA and Sendai\, Japan. Over 30 full-color images of her fiber art illustrate the story.  \nThat day my father\,\nTakumi\, painted deer\nand plum design\nwith ink on kimono silk. \nHis hand steady\,\nhe was determined\nto practice the Yuzen\ndyeing method\nin America\nwhile my mother\, Mio\,\nembroidered in gold. \nCindy Rinne’s book\, Moon of Many Petals\, transports the reader to the bitter days and lonely nights of Manzanar. Her research and attention to detail serve to create mystical\, yet earthy\, vignettes of a family that has been torn from the sea that they love\, and forced into a harsh and unforgiving captivity that never fully sets them free. I will share this powerful book with my students\, and read it over and over again for myself. – Diane Adams\, author of Love Is  \nCindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino\, CA. She brings myth to life in contemporary context. Cindy is the author of Moon of Many Petals (Cholla Needles Press)\, Listen to the Codex (Yak Press)\, Breathe In Daisy\, Breathe Out Stones (FutureCycle Press)\, Quiet Lantern (Turning Point)\, spider with wings (Jamii Publishing)\, and she co-authored Speaking Through Sediment with Michael Cooper (ELJ Publications). Cindy is a founding member of PoetrIE\, an Inland Empire based literary community and a finalist for the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry book competition. Her poems appeared or are forthcoming in: Birds Piled Loosely\, CircleShow\, Home Planet News\, Outlook Springs\, The Wild Word (Berlin)\, Storyscape Journal\, Cholla Needles\, and others. www.fiberverse.com
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Danielle Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Mitchell is the author of Makes the Daughter-in-Law Cry (Tebot Bach 2017)\, selected by Gail Wronsky for the 2015 Clockwise Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of the 2015 Editor’s Prize from Mary and the 2014 Editor’s Choice Award from The Mas Tequila Review. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, New Orleans Review\, Harpur Palate\, Nailed and others. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Redlands. Danielle is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the founding director of The Poetry Lab in Long Beach\, California.
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Humanoid
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Humanoid is constantly confused. He likes both dogs and cats and doesn’t really know what to put in a bio. He wasn’t sure whether or not to write this in third person. He mostly writes about his experiences with mental illlness and how that affects his life. He started writing because he felt alone a lot of what he experienced. He started sharing because he realized this was true of others as well. Through the good and the bad he tries to find humor in the absurdity of existence and enjoy the moments that he has through writing\, reading\, and the friends he has made along the way.
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maxine Chernoff
DESCRIPTION:Maxine Chernoff’s most recent book is CAMERA (2017 Subito Press)\, her 16th collection of poems. Her previous volume\, HERE\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, as were 2 of her 6 works of fiction. Her book of stories Signs of Devotion was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. In 2013 she won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 the PEN USA Translation Award for a co-translation of the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin. She is former editor of New American Writing and professor and former chair of the Dept of Creative Writing at SFSU. She has taught in Exeter\, England\, Prague\, and St Petersburg\, Russia\, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016.
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LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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