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SUMMARY:Spillway Anthology\, online
DESCRIPTION:Spillway magazine is an annual publication of Tebot Bach\, Inc.\, presenting poetry\, reviews\, and articles since 1993. Susan Terris was editor from 2010 to 2017\, and now Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart are co-editors. Lynne Thompson has been the Reviews and Essays Editor since 2012. \nPublished each summer in Orange County\, California\, Spillway presents emerging and established poets of regional\, national\, and international interest including David St. John\, Barbara Hamby\, Mihaela Moscaliuc\, Richard Garcia\, and Norman Dubie. \nPoems from Spillway have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. In recent years\, poems by Eleanor Wilner\, Ilya Kaminsky\, Natalie Diaz\, and Andrea Hollander have been awarded Pushcart Prizes for poems published here\, and a poem by Sean Thomas Dougherty was published in Best American Poetry 2014. Clifford Garstang is currently (2017) listing Spillway as 16th among American literary magazines publishing poetry. \nFeatured poets will be announced by the time the reading is over\, if not sooner! \nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/92729004949 \nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cYDSc0sOMjOze9ablGe8KBnbDnxKX0e2A6a9uMDM3JU/edit?usp=sharing
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/spillway-anthology-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Show Us Your Papers Anthology Reading\, online
DESCRIPTION:“Show Us Your Papers speaks to a crisis of identity and belonging\, to an increasing sense of vulnerability amid rapid changes in the USA. While corporations wait to assign us a number\, here are 81 poets who demand full identities\, richer than those allowed by documents of every sort. Here are poems of immigration and concentration camps\, of refugees and wills\, marriage and divorce\, of lost correspondence and found parents\, of identity theft and medical charts. In an era where the databases multiply\, where politicians and tech companies sort us into endless categories\, identifying documents serve as thumbtacks. They freeze the dancing\, lurching\, rising and falling experience of our lives. The disconnect between our documents and our identities is inherent\, reductive\, frustrating\, and\, too often\, dangerous. Yet we cannot live without them. In this anthology 81 poets offer a richer sense of our lives and histories—richer than any “official paper” allows. These lyric and narrative forms demand that readers recognize our full identities: personal\, familial\, national\, and historical.” \nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link: https://wested.zoom.us/j/96048022438 \nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ur5LB5ddBNp7ccDb4Sli8ebCspTKue1bv2uFjwPd4Ws/edit?usp=sharing \nJoan Bauer\nJoan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag\, 2008). With Judith Robinson and Sankar Roy\, she co-edited the anthology\, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts and Rupa & Co\, 2005). In 2007\, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International. For some years\, she was a teacher and counselor and now divides her time between Venice\, CA and Pittsburgh \, PA where for ten years she has has co-hosted and curated the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series. Her second full-length book of poetry\, The Camera Artist\, is forthcoming from Turning Point in 2021. \nSabina Khan-Ibarra\nSabina Khan-Ibarra is a Pashtun-American writer. She has an MFA from SFSU with work published in Panoplyzine\, Anomaly Literary Journal\, Ghost Heart Literary Journal\, iO Literary\, Faithfully Feminist\, and Show us Your Papers Anthology. Sabina is a recipient of the Brainard Fellowship\, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, the Wilmer award\, and more. She is currently working on her novel\, “The Poppy Flower” and her Poetry Collection\, “Crossing Oceans and Climbing Mountains”. She’s on the Board of Directors for MuslimARC\, where she works as a Communications Director and Managing Editor. Sabina lives in Half Moon Bay\, California with her husband\, two kids\, six chickens\, and four rabbits. \nSteve Ramirez\nSteve Ramirez hosts the weekly reading series\, Two Idiots Peddling Poetry.   A former member of the Laguna Beach Slam Team\, he’s also a former organizer of the Orange County Poetry Festival and former member of the Five Penny Poets in Huntington Beach.   Publication credits include Pearl\, The Comstock Review\, Crate\, Aim for the Head (a zombie anthology) and & MultiVerse (a superhero anthology).
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/show-us-your-papers-anthology-reading-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Katya Zinn
DESCRIPTION:Katya Zinn is the self-appointed poet laureate of Chuck E. Cheese\, an aspiring woodland creature\, and amateur human being.  Winner of the 2019 Selase Williams Art as Social Activism award\,1st place in the 2019 Words Aloud poetry contest\, and ‘Bestest Teacher in the Universe’ (according to a crayon certificate in her wallet)\, her work has appeared in Underground\, The Merrimack Review\, Silver Needle\, and Zoetic Press. She graduated summa cum laude from Lesley University in 2019\, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Expressive Art Therapy and works as an arts educator for children with multiple disabilities. Katya’s greatest artistic inspiration comes from her students\, as she believes art in its purest form lives in the minds of children who still believe in magic. Her first collection of poems\, human verses\, will be released by Finishing Line Press in March 2021\, and is available for preorder in November 2020. You can find Katya on Twitter and Instagram at @zinnvisibleink\, or by performing a simple conjuring spell at the next full moon.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/katya-zinn/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:A.J. Odasso\, online
DESCRIPTION:A.J.’s most recent book of poetry is THE STING OF IT (Tolsun Books\, 2019). Their third-collection manuscript\, Things Being What They Are\, an earlier version of THE STING OF IT\, was shortlisted for the 2017 Sexton Prize. Their second collection\, The Dishonesty of Dreams\, was released in 2014 by Flipped Eye Publishing. Their debut collection with Flipped Eye\, Lost Books\, was nominated for the 2010 London New Poetry Award and was also a finalist for the 2010/2011 People’s Book Prize. A.J. Odasso’s poetry has appeared in a variety of publications\, including Sybil’s Garage\, Mythic Delirium\, Midnight Echo\, Not One of Us\, Dreams & Nightmares\, Goblin Fruit\, Strange Horizons\, Stone Telling\, Farrago’s Wainscot\, Liminality\, Battersea Review\, Barking Sycamores\, SWAMP Writing\, Belmont Story Review\, New England Review of Books\, and Rascal. Their prose has appeared in the anthologies The Hidden Youth (Crossed Genres) and Knowing Why (Autistic Self-Advocacy Network)\, as well as in the Winter 2017 and Spring 2018 issues of Pulp Literature. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and serve as Senior Poetry Editor at Strange Horizons magazine.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/a-j-odasso-online/
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SUMMARY:Kelly Grace Thomas online
DESCRIPTION:KELLY GRACE THOMAS is the winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle\, a 2018 finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award\, a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Next nominee. Boat Burned\, her first full-length collection\, is was released by YesYes Books in January 2020.  \nKelly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Best New Poets 2019\, the Los Angeles Review\, Tinderbox\, Nashville Review\, Sixth Finch\, Muzzle\, DIAGRAM and more. Kelly has received fellowships from Tin House\, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, Kenyon Review Young Writers’ and more.  \nKelly currently works to bring poetry to underserved youth as the Education and Pedagogy Advisor for Get Lit-Words Ignite. She is the co-author of Words Ignite: Explore\, Write and Perform\, Classic and Spoken Word Poetry (Literary Riot). This textbook and curriculum is currently taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District using poetry to target English intervention skills. Kelly teaches editing workshops both in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. She is currently a reader for Tinderbox Poetry Journal.  \nKelly is also a screenwriter\, Magic Little Pills\, a romantic comedy written by her and her sister\, Kat Thomas\, was recently selected for the Atlanta Comedy Film Festival. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, Omid\, and is currently working on her debut novel\, a YA thriller titled Only 10.001.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kelly-grace-thomas-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Patricia Smith online!
DESCRIPTION:PATRICIA SMITH is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award\, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go\, Gotta Flow\, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson.  Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty\, Close to Death\, Big Towns Big Talk\, Life According to Motown; the children’s book Janna and the Kings and the history Africans in America\, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Baffler\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, Tin House and in Best American Poetry\, Best American Essays and Best American Mystery Stories. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/patricia-smith-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Geoff Kagan Trenchard\, online!
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Kagan Trenchard is an attorney\, educator\, and legal activist. Before transitioning to a career in the law\, they taught creative writing in high needs schools\, foster care centers\, and jails for over 10 years. Geoff is also a poet and theater artist whose work has been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry\, TEDx\, and at the Public Theater. Their first play\, In Spite of Everything\, toured internationally as part of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Their first collection of poems\, Murder Stay Murder\, is available on Penmanship Books.  \nThey received their Juris Doctorate from Hofstra School of Law in 2014. They were awarded the Charles H. Revson Law Student Public Interest Fellowship\, the Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Fellowship\, and is a recipient of awards from both the Equal Justice Works and the Public Justice Foundation. They were also awarded a Postgraduate Fellowship to serve LGBTQ asylum seekers and help train law students in the Hofstra Asylum Clinic.  \nThey continue to train attorneys on how to better serve clients who’ve experienced trauma.\nThey have presented training sessions to attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center\, New York Immigration Coalition\, Immigrant Justice Corps\, The Newark Asylum office\, and at law schools and legal service organizations throughout New York.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/geoff-kagan-trenchard-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Rich Boucher\, online
DESCRIPTION:Rich Boucher resides in Albuquerque\, New Mexico. Rich’s poems have appeared in The Nervous Breakdown\, Eighteen Seventy\, Menacing Hedge\, Drunk Monkeys and Cultural Weekly\, among others\, and has work forthcoming in Words & Whispers. Rich serves as Associate Editor for the online literary magazine BOMBFIRE. He is the author of All Of This Candy Belongs To Me\, a collection of poems published by Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Publications. Peep richboucher.bandcamp.com for more. He loves his life with his love Leann and their sweet cat Callie.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/rich-boucher-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Kathryn de Lancellotti
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn de Lancellotti’s chapbook Impossible Thirst was published with Moon Tide Press in June 2020. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a former recipient of the Cowell Press Poetry Prize and the George Hitchcock Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poems and other works have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review\, The Catamaran Literary Reader\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Quarterly West\, Cultural Weekly\, Rust + Moth\, and others. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and resides in Harmony\, California\, with her family.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kathryn-de-lancellotti/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:Lynne Thompson\, Online!
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Thompson’s newest collection\, Fretwork\, was selected by Jane Hirshfield for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and published in 2019. New work appears or is forthcoming in Pleiades\, Colorado Review\, Poetry\, and Black Renaissance Noire.Thompson is the Reviews and Essays Editor of the literary journal\, Spillway.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lynne-thompson-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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SUMMARY:20th Anniversay Reading Online!
DESCRIPTION:Help us celebrate 20 years of Idiocy\, online. More info… um… soon.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/20th-anniversay-reading-online/
LOCATION:Online!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200819T200000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey McDaniel
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of five books of poetry\, most recently Holiday in the Islands of Grief. Other books include Chapel of Inadvertent Joy\, The Endarkenment\, The Splinter Factory\, The Forgiveness Parade\, and Alibi School. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including Best American Poetry. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship\, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in the Hudson Valley.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/jeffrey-mcdaniel/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chestina Craig
DESCRIPTION:Chestina Craig (she/her) lives on the California coast with her cat. Her work has been published by The Rising Phoenix Review\, Sea Foam Mag\, Button Poetry and others. She has presented her work at The Presidents Commission on The Status of Women\, The Young Women’s Empowerment Conference\, and more. She has a degree in Marine Biology\, loves to meld science and art\, and sometimes pets sharks or hangs out with octopi. She hopes that one day she will only be required to wear gauzy clothing\, study the ocean\, and get paid to have too many feelings. Her chapbook “body of water” came out October 2017 with Sadie Girl Press.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/chestina-craig/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kelly Grace Thomas
DESCRIPTION:KELLY GRACE THOMAS is the winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle\, a 2018 finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award\, a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Next nominee. Boat Burned\, her first full-length collection\, is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2020. \nKelly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Best New Poets 2019\, the Los Angeles Review\, Tinderbox\, Nashville Review\, Sixth Finch\, Muzzle\, DIAGRAM and more. Kelly has received fellowships from Tin House\, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, Kenyon Review Young Writers’ and more. \nKelly currently works to bring poetry to underserved youth as the Education and Pedagogy Advisor for Get Lit-Words Ignite. She is the co-author of Words Ignite: Explore\, Write and Perform\, Classic and Spoken Word Poetry (Literary Riot). This textbook and curriculum is currently taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District using poetry to target English intervention skills. Kelly teaches editing workshops both in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. She is currently a reader for Tinderbox Poetry Journal. \nKelly is also a screenwriter\, Magic Little Pills\, a romantic comedy written by her and her sister\, Kat Thomas\, was recently selected for the Atlanta Comedy Film Festival. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, Omid\, and is currently working on her debut novel\, a YA thriller titled Only 10.001.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kelly-grace-thomas/
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 five previous books of poetry\, most recently Padre Tierra (Olifante\, Zaragoza\, Spain). His poems are included in anthologies and literary journals in the USA\, Mexico and Spain. He has translated into Spanish the American poets Philomene Long\, Tony Barnstone and Sholeh Wolpé. In 2018\, he received the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fiction Prize. Zaro hosts a series of video-interviews with prominent poets as part of the literary project Poetry.LA. He is a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College (Whittier\, CA). \n“Pick up this book and inhabit Mariano Zaro’s world: his boyhood in a Spanish village\, hanging plums in strings from the ceiling with his father\, the farmer\, the inverted heart shape of a hole in a woman’s face\, the way the boy needed and was given permission to look\, and brought to bear that same humane and unsparing gaze on himself and his own desires\, on intimacy and estrangement\, on Spain and California. In Decoding Sparrows\, Mariano Zaro renders coming of age and hunger in spare and luminous language\, an almost crystalline austerity— each word resonant\, each word steadfast. Zaro illuminates\, he limns his poems in longing.”\n—Marsha de la O\, author of Every Ravening Thing \n“These poems are written in the erotics of the everyday\, as if the overflowing sensuality of Cavafy had a love-child with the chaste and restrained style of Raymond Carver. It is like a casting call for a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. And it is real. And it is magical.”\n—Tony Barnstone\, author of Pulp Sonnets
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/mariano-zaro/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lady Narrator-Online Feature
DESCRIPTION:We’re experimenting this week with our first online-only feature. We’ll be rescheduling her for a live reading again when we’re back at the Mug but for now. \nSIGN UP to read via Google Sheets here:\nhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fk2yfUxWLDuR7Xy9OyXlvCR6M8jDb87uizfHUQxs68g/edit?usp=sharing \nJOIN US online at the Zoom event via this link:\nhttps://wested.zoom.us/j/97012346919 \nDania Ayah Alkhouli (a.k.a. Lady Narrator) is a Syrian writer\, blogger\, poet\, editor\, and author\, born and raised in Southern California. Alkhouli earned her B.A. in Sociology and her M.A. in Public Policy & Administration from Cal State Long Beach. She published her debut book at 19\, titled 91 at 19. In 2017 she released her second poetry book\, Oceans & Flames\, a collection of poetry shedding light on her experience with\, and survival of\, domestic violence. Her work has also been featured in four anthologies. Alkhouli’s work centers on feminism\, mental health\, sexuality\, identity\, culture\, religion\, her war-torn homeland\, Syria\, and on grief\, loss\, and death. She has been featured on Buzzfeed and Jubilee Media\, and has performed across national venues such as Da Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles\, House Slam in Boston\, and Busboys & Poets in D.C. In 2012\, Alkhouli and her mother founded the nonprofit organization\, A Country Called Syria\, a traveling exhibition showcasing the history and culture of their country. Their goal is to tour the exhibit nationwide and eventually establish a permanent base in SoCal where the community can connect even more deeply with Syria and its rich heritage. This will include the launch of their project to collect and archive the oral histories of locally resettled Syrian refugees in Southern California. You can read her blog at www.ladynarrator.blogspot.com
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lady-narrator-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:CLOSED/Rescheduled
DESCRIPTION:See homepage for more information but we’re going dark for a few weeks to be safe. We will be rescheduling all featured readers from this period.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/scott-ferry/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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SUMMARY:CLOSED/Rescheduled
DESCRIPTION:See homepage for more information but we’re going dark for a few weeks to be safe. We will be rescheduling all featured readers from this period.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/closed-rescheduled-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200325T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200325T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20200314T050552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T051047Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSED/Rescheduled
DESCRIPTION:See homepage for more information but we’re going dark for a few weeks to be safe. We will be rescheduling all featured readers from this period.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/closed-rescheduled/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191229T044523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T030223Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSED/Rescheduled
DESCRIPTION:See homepage for more information but we’re going dark for a few weeks to be safe. We will be rescheduling all featured readers from this period. \nIn the meantime\, we’re attempting to add an online reading. Check below for more details and to join us (hopefully!): \n \n[zoom_api_link meeting_id=”614-572-1830″ link_only=”no”]
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/donny-jackson/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191229T032003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200305T173741Z
UID:759-1583956800-1583964000@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Marc Cid
DESCRIPTION:Marc Cid is The Final Boss of Poetry\, and known for his acerbic absurdism\, soft hands\, and general air of pious humility. He also writes short stories when his friends dare him to.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/marc-cid-2/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20200214T000147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T001308Z
UID:821-1582747200-1582754400@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Matt Sedillo
DESCRIPTION:Matt Sedillo is a Chicano poet\, writer\, creative director\, and public intellectual called “the poet laureate of the struggle” by Dr. Paul Ortiz and “the best political poet in America” by investigative journalist Greg Palast. He has been featured in over 90 colleges and universities including the University of Cambridge\, countless cultural institutions\, including Casa De Las Americas and been various media outlets including the Associated Press\, The Los Angeles Times and C-Span.  \nHe is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona California and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass published by FlowerSong Books. 
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/matt-sedillo/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191229T031902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T000110Z
UID:757-1582142400-1582149600@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Frankie Drayus
DESCRIPTION:Frankie Drayus lives for the feel of words in her mouth. She has recent work in Crowsswinds Literary Journal and past poems and short-shorts in Passager (Honorable Mention)\, Permafrost\, Poet Lore\, POOL\, Prime Number\, Barrow Street\, poemeleon\, Ninth Letter\, Third Coast\, diode\, ART/LIFE (which also published a piece of her collage art)\, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from NYU where she was poetry editor for Washington Square Review. Her manuscripts have been finalists for the National Poetry Series (twice)\, the Walt Whitman Award\, the May Swenson Poetry Prize\, and Marsh Hawk Press. She is a past co-director of the poetry nonprofit Valley Contemporary Poets\, a multiyear co-curator of T HE T H I R D A R E A\, and a proud repeat survivor of the 3:15 Experiment. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/frankie-drayus/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20200121T035211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200121T051919Z
UID:778-1581537600-1581544800@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Valentina Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Valentina is a 25-year-old queer writer based out of Los Angeles County with a soft spot for game nights\, hot chocolate\, and rainy days. Her work is a vulnerable evolution\, a personal reflection of a life dedicated to unlearning and healing. Through her writing\, Valentina explores the ways trauma\, identity\, and love not only intersect but also speak to each other\, frequently and compassionately\, if we allow them to. Her work has also been published in several presses including Cadence Collective\, Rising Phoenix Press\, and ProTem Magazine.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/valentina-thompson/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191229T044127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191229T052047Z
UID:755-1580932800-1580940000@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Ra Avis
DESCRIPTION:Ra lives and loves in Los Angeles and the internet\, where frightfully wondrous things happen. She is a once-upon-a-time inmate\, a reluctantly-optimistic widow\, an exponential storyteller\, and also basically a dinosaur. Her own story is a long one\, but the short version is she (probably) loves you. She blogs regularly at Rarasaur.com\, stop by and say hey.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/ra-avis/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20200103T055536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T055838Z
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SUMMARY:Raundi Kai Moore-Kondo
DESCRIPTION:Raundi Kai Moore-Kondo grew up in sunny Southern California praying for white Christmases and daydreaming about the perfect snowman. Her loving parents wisely forbade her from leaving the front yard and chasing after the first snow flurry that fell from the sky. Eventually\, she hit the road\, met her fair share of snowmen\, became a poet\, and this is the book she built. Raundi grew up to be so many things she dreamed of becoming: Including a wife\, mother\, teacher\, rock star\, fiction writer\, publisher\, singer/songwriter\, author of Let The Ends Spill Over Your Lips\, and Founder of For the Love of Words Creative Writing Workshops & Small Press. When she isn’t pushing poetry on people she is bassist for the bands Hurt & the Heartbeat and Daisy Unchained. www.TheLoveOfWords.com
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/raundi-kai-moore-kondo/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191016T224309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191130T195252Z
UID:721-1579723200-1579730400@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Alexandria Espinoza
DESCRIPTION:Alexandria Espinoza is a first generation Chicana feminist poet based in Los Angeles. \n \nShe began writing in 2014 and completed the Community Literature Initiative poetry program at USC in 2017. \n \nIn 2017 she competed in the Size if Up amateur womyn’s poetry slam and published her first book of poetry\, Adventure of the Unicorn. \n \nShe has shared her work through readings and performances all across the Southern California.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/alexandria-espinoza/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191009T204806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200111T011607Z
UID:714-1579118400-1579125600@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Build-A-Feature
DESCRIPTION:Get ready\, this is going to get weird. Tonight\, we’re going to take volunteers\, and run a poetic experiment. We’ll present a series of prompts (with a dash of audience participation)\, and create a feature before your very eyes! \nMuahahahaha!!! \nWe encourage everyone to take part\, so bring writing materials\, though we’ll still be hosting our regular open mic as well.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/build-a-feature/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191130T195720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191130T195820Z
UID:750-1578513600-1578520800@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:Terri Nicum
DESCRIPTION:Terri Niccum is a former journalist and special education teacher. She lives in Southern California where she continues to advocate for children with special needs. Her poetry has appeared in Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror (Moon Tide Press); in the Incandescent Mind anthologies\, Volume 2 and Selfish Work (Sadie Girl Press)\, and in the Poeming Pigeon anthologies\, In the Garden and Love Poems. Her work has also been featured in Nimrod International Journal; Poetry LA; Cadence Collective; Literary Orphans; The Maine Review; 1932 Quarterly Review; Oberon Review 2018; Lummox Anthology No. 8; Literary Orphans; Angel City Review; and Pretty Owl Poetry. \nHer first chapbook\, Looking Snow in the Eye\, was released by Finishing Line Press. A second chapbook\, Dead Letter Box\, was published this fall and is available for sale from Moon Tide Press (https://www.moontidepress.com). \nNiccum is married to singer-songwriter Bob Niccum. The coulple regularly jam with The Others\, an eclectic musical ensemble. Niccum vows to continue scribbling and squawking well into her dotage.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/terri-nicum/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200101T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T223016
CREATED:20191026T000944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T000944Z
UID:710-1577865600-1577898000@poetryidiots.com
SUMMARY:CLOSED-Happy New Year!
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year! We won’t be here on the first day of the year. We’ll be sleeping it off\, or trying to make bail. Perhaps both. See you next week!
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/closed-happy-new-year/
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