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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Open Reading/Welcome Home Party at the Mug!
DESCRIPTION:For the first time in over a year\, Two Idiots will be Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug again. Join us. In person. We’ll be mostly hugging it out (safely! we hope!) and attempting some sort of melding of online/in person swan song for the virtual Mug that we’ve been hosting in the meantime\, while also hopefully raising a few more  dollars for the Mug itself. \nMore details to follow!
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/open-reading-welcome-home-party-at-the-mug/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kelly Gray\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Gray (she/her/hers) is a writer and educator residing on Coast Miwok land amongst the tallest and quietest trees in the world\, exactly nine miles and seven fence posts away from the ocean. Kelly’s nonfiction essay ‘The Falcon’s Cry’ was a finalist for Best of The Net in 2020 and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction by Atticus Review for ‘Coyote Story.’ Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Passages North\, Pithead Chapel\, Hobart\, MAYDAY\, Inflectionsist Review\, Under a Warm Green Linden\, The Normal School\, Barren Magazine\, Lunch Ticket and elsewhere. Her book of poetry\, ‘Instructions for an Animal Body’ (Moon Tide Press\, 2021) and her audio micro-chap ‘My Fingers are Whales and others stories of Cetology’ (Moonchild Press\, 2021) are available at writekgray.com and you can follow her ramblings about all things bird\, bone and human at @_west_of_west. \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/98654624445\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n98654624445\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kelly-gray-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Online Fundraiser for the Ugly\, featuring a couple of Idiots
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be featuring a couple of jerks—er\, Idiots tonight\, but the focus will be on the Ugly Mug itself and raising some money to help Phil\, the owner\, who has been holding down  the fort for over a year since we were last there.  \n  \n\n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/96901128703\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n96901128703\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/online-fundraiser-for-the-ugly-featuring-a-couple-of-idiots/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210714T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210714T220000
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SUMMARY:Nicole Connolly\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Connolly used to live and work in Orange County\, CA\, which she promises is mostly unlike what you see on TV. She received her MFA from Bowling Green State University\, and her work has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in such journals as Assaracus\, Pretty Owl Poetry\, Flyway\, and Big Lucks. She currently serves as Managing Editor for the poetry-centric Black Napkin Press. \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/96153395657\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n96153395657\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nicole-connolly-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210707T200000
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SUMMARY:Gigi Bella\, online!
DESCRIPTION:gigi bella // has been ranked the tenth woman poet in the world\, the two time Project X Bronx Poetry Champion as well as a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is also a National Poetry Slam Semifinalist & Champion. She has been featured on stages with Andrea Gibson\, Sabrina Benaim\, Olivia Gatwood and many others. Her work is featured on Button Poetry\, Slamfind and in a variety of literary journals. Her book\, big feelings\, is available through Game Over Books and is a Small Press Distribution Bestseller. gigibellapoetry.com \n  \n\n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/91558515109\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n91558515109\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________\n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/gigi-bella-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210630T200000
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SUMMARY:Josiah Luis Alderete\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from El Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show “The Spanglish Power Hour” aired on KPFA. He curates and hosts the Latinx reading series SPEAKING AXOLOTL in Oakland which happens every third Thursday of the month at Nomadic Press Studios. Josiah Luis Alderete’s book of poems is expected out this year from Black Freighter Press. he currently resides in the Iron Triangle in Richmond where he’s still waiting for Quetzalquatl to arrive. \n  \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/98379021977\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n98379021977\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/josiah-luis-alderete-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:hector son of hector\, online!
DESCRIPTION:hector son of hector lives in Oakland\, CA. He is the child of Mexican immigrants\, currently works in a hospital\, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret. \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/96600487114\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n96600487114\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/hector-son-of-hector-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210609T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210609T220000
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SUMMARY:Six of Nine\, A Poetic Celebration of Cunning Linguists\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Yes\, we’re (not so) secretly stuck in junior high school for life\, our maturity level forever stunted. With that in mind\, we’re holding an erotic themed poetry reading\, curated by the fantastic Stina French. More details to follow. \nSometime. \n  \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/99460858291\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n99460858291\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/six-of-nine-a-poetic-celebration-of-cunning-linguists-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T220000
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CREATED:20210526T222332Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Wynne\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Robert Wynne holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is a two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets College Award and the Poetry Super Highway online poetry contest\, as well as the recipient of The Poetry Society of Texas’ Eakin Book Award\, the Masters Poetry Prize and the Grasslands Review Editor’s Prize. He is the author of 2 full-length collections of poetry: Remembering How to Sleep (2007\, Eakin Press)\, and Museum of Parallel Art (2008\, Tebot Bach). His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines throughout North America. His work has also appeared in anthologies published by The University of Iowa\, and Black Moss Press. He lives in Burleson\, TX with his wife\, their daughter and three rambunctious dogs. \nAlong with Caron Andregg\, Robert Wynne is also the Co-Publisher/Editor of the poetry journal Cider Press Review. \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/95568390641\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n95568390641\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/robert-wynne-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T161339
CREATED:20210520T033557Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Bradpiece\, online!
DESCRIPTION:We’re happy to present a pre-taped presentation\, courtesy of Moon Tide Press\, of one of our favorite poets and people\, Jennifer Bradpiece. \n\nLULLABIES FOR END TIMES is a surreal lullaby to living\, always in the shadow of loss. The poems weave a tapestry of abstract\, personal\, and political themes. They dwell as much in the immediate as the in-between. Perhaps you are drunk on love\, death\, and gin in an alleyway. Perhaps as you hunch in the wet dark stench you hear some beautiful and sad music echoing out the drain pipe of a jazz bar. Perhaps as you drift in and out of waking\, the moment illuminates how the sacred is never far from the profane. Perhaps the notes or rhythms that find your half-drunk ears will remind you of some of these poems.\n\n\nHer book is available for purchase at www.moontidepress.com/books!\n\n \n\n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/93331263089\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n93331263089\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/jennifer-bradpiece-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T220000
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CREATED:20210509T011834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210509T011834Z
UID:1052-1621454400-1621461600@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Neil McCarthy\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Neil McCarthy grew up in West Cork in the eighties watching MacGyver and launching himself from trees on zip wires fashioned from old clothes lines. His sense of adventure followed him into his twenties when he graduated from the National University of Ireland\, Galway\, and began travelling and writing poetry soon after. He has so far featured as a guest speaker in literary festivals\, conferences\, fringe festivals etc. in Australia\, the US\, Ireland\, the Czech Republic and Austria to name a few. In this time his poems have also appeared in dozens of international journals and anthologies\, in print and online\, and have additionally been translated and published in Romania\, Serbia\, and Hungary. He now lives in Vienna where he teaches English and still climbs the odd tree whenever the chance presents itself. \n \nwww.neilmccarthypoetry.com \n \n\n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/99431220417\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n99431220417\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/neil-mccarthy-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T220000
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CREATED:20210428T053555Z
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SUMMARY:Neil Aitken\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry\, Babbage’s Dream\, a semi-finalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize\, and The Lost Country of Sight\, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. His chapbook\, Leviathan\, won the 2017 Elgin Prize for Science Fiction Poetry. Born in Vancouver\, BC\, he grew up in Saudi Arabia\, Taiwan\, and various parts of the western United States and Canada before moving to the United States for his undergraduate studies. Although trained as a computer programmer\, he left that career in 2004 to pursue creative writing and teaching. He holds both an MFA in Creative Writing from the UC Riverside and a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the USC\, as well as fellowships from Kundiman and Idyllwild. He is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and his own poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal\, American Literary Review\, The Collagist\, Crab Orchard Review\, Ninth Letter\, Southern Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. In addition to writing poetry\, he also works on literary translations of contemporary Chinese poetry and was awarded the 2011 DJS Translation Prize for his work. He wrote the libretto for Edge of a Dream\, a 22-minute opera commissioned by LA Opera and performed virtually in 2020 as part of LA Opera’s high school outreach program. After many years in southern California and four years in Portland\, Oregon\, he moved back to Canada in 2019. He currently lives in Regina\, Saskatchewan\, where he works as an online creative writing coach and manuscript editor.  Learn more about Neil and his other projects at www.neil-aitken.com. \n  \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/92743726574\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n92743726574\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/neil-aitken-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T220000
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SUMMARY:Ellyn Maybe\, online
DESCRIPTION:Ellyn Maybe has performed her poetry all over the country\, including Bumbershoot\,the Poetry Project\, the New School\, Taos Poetry Circus\, South by Southwest\, Lollapalooza\, Albuquerque Poetry Festival and Seattle Poetry Festival.  She has also read in Europe at the Bristol Poetry Festival\, on the BBC\, and in poetry slams and readings in Munich\, Frankfurt\, Hamburg and Stuttgart.  She opened the MTV Spoken Wurd Tour in Los Angeles.  In addition\, she has also read at USC\, UCLA\, CSUN and Cal State Fullerton\, among other colleges.Writer’s Digest named her one of ten poets to watch in the new millennium.  Her work has been included in many anthologies\, including Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution\, Poetry Slam\, Another City: Writing From Los Angeles\, Poetry Nation\, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and American Poetry: The Next Generation.  She was on the 1998 and 1999 Venice Beach Slam teams.  She was seen reading her work in Michael Radford’s (Il Postino) film Dancing at the Blue Iguana. \n  \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/99655604844\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n99655604844\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/ellyn-maybe-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T220000
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CREATED:20210325T024313Z
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SUMMARY:Julianna McCarthy online
DESCRIPTION:Julianna McCarthy is an award winning poet based in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review\, American Journal of Poetry\, Catamaran\, Best Poem\, Nimrod\, Hole in the Head and others. Her first\, full length collection ‘Night Surgery’ will debut in April of 2021 from Blue Horse Press. \n  \n\n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/94729328248\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n94729328248\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________\n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/julianna-mccarthy-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T220000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T064329Z
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SUMMARY:Nadia Alamah online
DESCRIPTION:A Lebanese Muslim American writer and artist\, Nadia will release the first edition of her new chapbook “Baladi” here at the Ugly Mug. All proceeds will support a relief fund in the wake of Lebanon’s current economic crisis. While her writing usually dabbles in sci fi/fantasy and abstract prose poems\, this llama will occasionally explore sociopolitical identity poetry in honor of April’s Arab American Heritage Month. Nadia has previously published Yalla\, Habibi: Poems in 3arabeezi; Awakening\, a selection from her now cobwebbed project Everhart’s Notebook; and an occasional light dusting of pieces in collections including Qua and A Teenager’s Guide to Feminism. She has otherwise focused on creation of community-centric arts projects and workshops in Flint\, Michigan prior to making a home in Long Beach. \nLook out for bursts of energy\, impassioned speech and bits of audience-motivated improvisation. Please note the weather forecast appears to be cloudy with a chance of cats. Check out this llama’s writing\, art & creative work at https://www.nadiaalamah.com/ & connect on Insta: @nadiaathellama
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nadia-alamah-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T220000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lawson online
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Lawson (she/her/hers) is Denver-based writer\, teacher\, and activist. Her debut book of poetry\, Gash Atlas (forthcoming 2021)\, was selected by judge Erica Hunt for the Kore Press Institute Poetry Prize\, and her chapbook Rot Contracts appeared summer 2020 (Trouble Department).  \nRaised in the Midwest\, she holds a B.A. from Smith College\, where she was the first English student to write a creative thesis. At the University of Iowa\, her Ph.D. research examined feminism and the body politics of metaphor in 20th and 21st century literature. Turning back to creative writing following her doctorate\, she earned an M.F.A. from the University of Colorado-Boulder\, where she served as an editor for Timber Journal.  \nHer poetry and essays have appeared in The Rumpus; Dreginald; Entropy; The Fanzine; Yes\, Poetry; Cosmonauts Avenue; The Wanderer; FLAG + VOID; and elsewhere\, and her work in Dream Pop was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is currently at work on her second book project\, a portrait of bodily vulnerability at the intersection of poverty\, sex\, and trauma. \n  \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/94624563999\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n94624563999\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/jessica-lawson-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T220000
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SUMMARY:Victor Infante & Lea Deschenes online
DESCRIPTION:Victor D. Infante’s poems\, stories\, essays and articles have been published in dozens of periodicals internationally\, and he is the author of “City of Insomnia\,” from Write Bloody Publishing. At present\, he is the editor-in-chief of the online literary journal “Radius: Poetry from the Center to the Edge\,” and and an editor and music columnist for The Worcester Telegram & Gazette.\n \nLea C. Deschenes lives in Worcester\, MA and has been writing and performing for over 20 years. Her poetry has appeared online\, on stage and in print. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New England college\, is a former member of four National Poetry Slam teams and represented Worcester in the 2005 Individual World Poetry Slam. Lea received a Jacob Knight Award and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She earned Honorable Mention for Best Poetry book at the 2008 DIY Book Festival. Once\, she found a five-leaf clover during a solar eclipse.\n \n\n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/97219021374\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n97219021374\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/victor-infante-lea-deschenes-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210331T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210331T220000
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SUMMARY:June Melby
DESCRIPTION:June Melby is a writer\, comedian\, poet\, and performance artist. 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 June grew up\, and her family lived and worked for thirty years. \nWith a band or as a solo artist\, she has performed all over the world\, including the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; Mission Creek\, Iowa City; Bumbershoot\, Seattle; as well as London\, Munich\, Hamburg\, and Amsterdam. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Utne Reader\, LAWeekly\, and journals including Versal and Forklift Ohio among others. Winner of the children’s poetry slam at the Edinburgh Poetry Festival. \nAs a comedian she appeared on Roe Rogan’s Full Frontal Comedy (Showtime).  She is the green alien named “Bang” in Warner Brothers blockbuster “Space Jam\,” starring Michael Jordan. \nJune got her MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa.  Currently she lives in a log cabin in the woods with her husband and 60 acres of trees. \n  \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/97599247304\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n97599247304\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/june-melby-2/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210324T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210324T220000
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SUMMARY:Mindy Nettifee
DESCRIPTION:Mindy Nettifee\, PhD is an award-winning poet\, storyteller\, artist educator\, and depth somatic practitioner. She is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Sleepyhead Assassins (Moon Tide Press)\, Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press)\, and Open Your Mouth Like a Bell (Write Bloody Press) as well as a collection of essays on writing Glitter In The Blood – A Poet’s Manifesto for Better\, Braver Writing (Write Bloody Press). She is a three time nominee for the Pushcart Prize\, a Powell’s Books Indie Press Best Seller\, and she co-edited the anthology Courage – Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls (Write Bloody Press). \nShe has performed and taught in  hundreds of venues\, colleges and universities across America and Europe\, competed in five National Poetry Slams\, opened for indie rock act the Cold War Kids\, headlined national poetry tours The Last Nerve\, The Whirlwind Company and The Poetry Revival\, and was featured in the critically acclaimed poetry concert documentary The Drums Inside Your Chest. Her stories have been featured on The Moth podcast. \nShe is the director of the creative services firm Free Delivery\, where she coaches writers and speakers\, facilitates master creativity and performance workshops\, and consults on live event production for corporations and nonprofit community organizations alike. Mindy served for 8 years as executive director of the nonprofit poetry organization Write Now Poetry Society\, which she co-founded with actress and author Amber Tamblyn in 2007. Write Now’s mission is simply to build the audience for great contemporary poetry. With Write Now\, she curated poetry events for The Getty Museum\, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission\, GirlFest\, the Mission Creek Festival\, and others. She currently produces and collaborates with BackFence PDX\, The Moth\, and Literary Arts in Portland\, Oregon. \nShe holds a doctorate in Depth Psychology with a specialization Somatic Studies. Her doctoral research investigates the sensory capacities of the voice and the role they play in trauma healing and integration. She is a practicing Somatic Movement educator and practitioner\, training in the trauma resolution modality Somatic Experiencing.  \nWhat others have to say about Mindy’s writing: \n“Mindy Nettifee’s poetry is the linguistic orgasm we’ve all been waiting for.” – BUST Magazine \n“With detail to craft combined with her already brutal\, and important\, revelations\, Nettifee’s writing and Write Bloody Press books are a welcome\, important vehicle in poetry for some time to come.” – Chicago Sun Times \n“When… Mindy Nettifee speaks…you’re powerless—you have no choice but to raise your wine glass high over your osmosis head and join her pledge of allegiance to graphic truth. Her poems have the grace of cursive letters and the guts of a truck driver.” – District Weekly \n  \nJoin us online at: https://wested.zoom.us/j/96165307818 \nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is: 96165307818
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/mindy-nettifee-2/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Bridgette Bianca
DESCRIPTION:bridgette bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Howard University and her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Otis College of Art & Design. bridgette bianca has performed her poetry all around Southern California\, including features at The World Stage\, the Southern California Poetry Festival\, Los Angeles Lit Crawl\, the Table Lit\, LitFest Pasadena\, Rapp Saloon\, La Palabra\, and the un::fade::able Reading Series. She was most recently published on CulturalWeekly.com and in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. She is one half of the literary curating team\, Making Room for Black Women\, with Sanura Williams of My Lit Box and co-host of the quarterly reading series at the Women’s Center of Creative Work with Nina Rota. bridgette bianca’s work as a writer and an educator seeks to serve the people and moments most forget or ignore. Her first book of poetry\, be/trouble\, was just released by Writ Large Press in 2020. \nFind her on social media at @bridgettebianca on Instagram\, @thebridgebianca on Twitter\, and Bridgette Bianca on Facebook. \n___________________________________________________________________ \nWe will be meeting via Zoom. You will need to install Zoom onto either your computer or phone.\nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here: google sign up sheet\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/97220730037\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n97220730037\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\nKeep up to date on the COVID-19 outbreak and learn more about how to protect yourself. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/…/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx\n___________________________________________________________________
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