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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/bridgette-bianca/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Sonia Greenfield + Brendan Constantine
DESCRIPTION:Sonia Greenfield was born in Peekskill\, NY\, and has lived in Seattle\, San Francisco\, Los Angeles\, and most recently\, Minneapolis\, where she shares her home with her son\, husband\, and two rescue dogs. She has worked as a college professor\, bartender\, television producer\, barbershop shampoo assistant\, and once appeared as a dating show contestant. She has a deep enthusiasm for dogs\, children\, dance parties\, beaches & mountains\, detective fiction\, 80s New Wave\, fussy bourbons\, the NYT crossword puzzle and The New Yorker. An activist and political volunteer\, Greenfield has been the director of The Southern California Poetry Festival and editor of Rise Up Review. She is also a former organizer of UW-Seattle MFA Prom from 2002-2004\, because dressing fancy is fun even though most days now are spent in mom-jeans. She knows how to throw an amazing dog birthday party\, complete with peanut butter cake and the neighborhood parrots as guests\, and she can decorate a child’s birthday cake to look like a real aquarium populated with sharks. That’s four sheet cakes stacked. To-scale. Greenfield is tenderhearted and believes in the inherent goodness of humans while also understanding that they can convince themselves\, through a series of mental acrobatics\, that good is bad and vice versa. Above all\, she believes that kindness is a neutralizer for many character flaws.  \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 Poetry\, Tin House\, Best American Poetry\, Poem-a-Day\, Virginia Quarterly\, Rattle\, Prairie Schooner\, Field\, Chautauqua\, and Poetry Daily. His most recent collections are ‘Dementia\, My Darling’ (2016) from Red Hen Press and ‘Bouncy Bounce’ (2018)\, a chapbook from Blue Horse 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\, TED ED\, 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. \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/97221941139\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n97221941139\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/sonia-greenfield-brendan-constantine/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Charlotte O'Brien
DESCRIPTION:Charlotte had her first poem published in a girly teen magazine at the age of ten. She has come a long way since then via England\, Australia\, & San Francisco. Charlotte earned a BA in Creative Writing from Griffith University\, Australia and a Masters in Fine Arts in Poetry and Nonfiction from Pacific University\, Oregon. She studied poetry at Charles University through the USC program of Professional Writing and completed the Master Poetry Class at USC in 2003. Her writing has appeared online and in journals such as Apercus Quarterly\, Cider Press review\, The Lake Rises by Stockport Flats\, LA Melange and Beyond The Valley Of The Contemporary Poets Anthology\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station and Mutha Magazine.  \n​Charlotte is a former co-host for Feminist Magazine on KPFK and performer and staff writer for LitRave. She has been the featured poet at many venues throughout Southern California including the LA Times Festival of Books. Charlotte was a featured guest of Jane Crown Poetry Radio. \nShe believes that books smell almost better than her daughter’s skin. She would take looking at the moon over watching the ocean\, but prefers to do both at the same time.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/charlotte-obrien/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Theresa Davis
DESCRIPTION:Born into a family of writers and entertainers\, Theresa Davis was drawn to the arts. She has expressed her artistic abilities in several mediums. She designed and created Ebony Angels (a line of hand-crafted dolls) \, Mental Notes (hand-crafted books) and started a clothing line for children. A classroom teacher for over 20 years\, she currently teaches poetry to youth and adults in the Atlanta Area. In 2002\, Theresa joined forces with her mother and brother to form the spoken word performance group MoDaSo (Mother/ Daughter/ Son) and released two music CD’s This is for Family and The Uncivil War. She has self published several (7) collections of poetry including Rock Star Poet\,Head Games and Simon Says.   \n\n\nTheresa Davis is one of Atlanta’s best known performance poets\, giving voice to the things that you’ve been thinking but never could articulate. Theresa has gone on to forge an impressive career as a solo performer\, winning poetry slams and featuring at spoken word venues around Atlanta and the nation\, as well as leading writing and performance workshops and headlining conferences across the southeast. She is a member of The Word Diversity Collective/Art Amok and represented Atlanta as a member of the 2006 – 2010 Art Amok Slam Team. In 2009 Theresa was ranked 8th female poet in the world as a finalist in the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Theresa Davis has shared the stage with Eve Ensler\, Jane Fonda\, Pearl Cleage and Doria Roberts in The Vagina Monologues\, with Berniece Johnson Reagan (Sweet Honey in the Rock) and with Def Poet Jon Goode in their joint production of “Wish You Were Here” at 7 Stages Theater in Atlanta\, Georgia.\nIn March of 2011\, Theresa set out to compete in the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Columbus Ohio. After three days of competition\, she won\, becoming the Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion.\nIn recognition of her years of activism on behalf of Atlanta’s youth\, she was honored by the City of Atlanta with a proclamation\, declaring May 22\, “Theresa Davis Day in Atlanta”.  In July 2012\, in partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs\, Theresa released her chapbook “Simon Says”–poems about teaching with anti-bullying themes.  \nThe same year\, Theresa was named the 2012  McEver Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech University.  According to the GA Tech website: “In addition to teaching Tech students\, each visiting chair will reach into the community with a program of poetry events and workshops designed to recognize poetry for its possibilities in all our lives and to recognize those involved in the craft of writing poetry–whether accomplished\, rising\, or beginning–for the artists they are.”\nIn May 2013\, her first full collection of poems entitled “After This We Go Dark” was published by Sibling Rivalry Press. “After This We Go Dark” became an American Library Association Honoree\, and the book can now be checked out in local and college libraries around the world. Theresa spent most of 2014 on tour With Shyla Hardwick on “The Huemyn Tour”.  She was featured as the opening performance poet for the band Rising Appalachia for their 2014 national tour.\nHer second collection of poetry “Drowned: A Mermaid’s Manifesto” released in September 2016 by Sibling Rivalry Press has been awarded the honor of being on the 2017 list of All Books Georgians Should Read. \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: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16IYvNSP7_7sE1yS-R9vYZDvnUtZctcR3ClHGFpCSnoM/edit?usp=sharing\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/94989053712\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n94989053712\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\n___________________________________________________________________
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/theresa-davis/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Danny Solis
DESCRIPTION:Danny Solis is a Poetry Slam Champion on multiple levels including eight city championships\, two regional championships\, Southwestern and Southeastern\, two national championships and two international championships both team and individual. \nSolis was one of three American poets chosen by the U.S. State Department to go to Nepal and Botswana to perform\, teach and organize poetry slam with local artists. Solis has served as a poetry event organizer\, MC and curator most recently as the Director of the Day of the Dead Poets Slam\, which was started in 2014. In 2005 in Albuquerque\, New Mexico Solis was the Director of the National Poetry Slam\, the largest performance poetry event in the world. \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: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1srlr9tHI0phHe5b9YOaF6dF7_ff5DYJd5mr__SOoJ-Y/edit?usp=sharing\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/99506998980\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n99506998980\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/danny-solis/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Leah Noble Davidson
DESCRIPTION:Leah Noble Davidson has a curious kiddo and a bouncy Bernese Mountain Dog. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. Poetic Scientifica is her first book of poetry; DOOR is her second. She’s busy making art in all her free time. \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: https://docs.google.com/…/1BeKKk28v5X2BL24iXzav../edit…\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/93111722824\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n93111722824\nZoom DOWNLOADS are available here:\nhttps://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting\n  \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___________________________________________________________________\nHello everyone\,
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/leah-noble-davidson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T220000
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Huang grew up in America and China. She is a VONA\, Tin House\, Watering Hole\, and Pink Door fellow. She’s received a lot of institutional support\, including awards from the Academy of American Poets\, the Library of Congress\, Scholastic Arts & Writers\, YoungArts\, and more. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out of print. She has an MFA from NYU. \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: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BeKKk28v5X2BL24iXzavny-0dCoCLJxy2ngb0Zlpo10/edit?usp=sharing\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/96327866519\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is\n96327866519\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 
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/nancy-huang-2/
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SUMMARY:Tony Brown
DESCRIPTION:Tony Brown has been writing for over 50 years\, and publishing and performing his work for over 40. \nA seven-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best Of The Net nominee\, he has traveled the country\, slammed for the Worcester Poets’ Asylum\, and organized and hosted many readings and reading series. \nHis most recent eBooks and publications can be found through his Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/TonyBrown). \nHis daily poetry blog is available at http://radioactiveart.blog . He resides in Worcester\, MA. \n\nTony most commonly performs his poetry with The Duende Project in collaboration with Steven Lanning-Cafaro on electric bass and classical guitar\, Christopher Lawton on guitar\, and Chris O’Donnell on drums; They have released six collections of their work\, available on all the usual online streaming and download outlets. \nMore information can be found at their Website: http://theduendeproject.com
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/tony-brown/
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SUMMARY:Devin Devine
DESCRIPTION:Devin Devine is a queer writer and performer living in Portland\, Oregon. They have self-published several works\, with their most recent being a collection of poems ‘Fuck Your Darlings.’ Their work ruminates in memory and centers around their experiences with sexuality\, addiction\, love\, loss\, and the very literal hunger that keeps them at night. Find out more at www.devindevine.me 
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/devin-devine/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:B-bye 2020 Open Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please\, join us as we say goodbye to smoldering remains of 2020. Raise your voice\, or just one finger at the heap of ashes left behind. \nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11_qLJIvNuCEn-wg2igj5H0j774NtSYeaCIvo_Bkq3Ds/edit?usp=sharing\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/95272431120\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is 95272431120\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
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/b-bye-2020-open-reading/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Ho-ho-holiday Open Reading
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Quarantine Edition of our reading online. Whatever you celebrate\, however you celebrate it\, and with whomever you’re celebrating it in your fallout shelter\, celebrate it with us virtually.\n \nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12IJoWxzyWZgm19KQcgLmCffsk8GfJDRx96KtVO7zGHs/edit?usp=sharing\nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/91322179153\nThe meeting ID\, should you join on a PHONE app is 91322179153\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 
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/ho-ho-holiday-open-reading/
LOCATION:Online!
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