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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200401T200000
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DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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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:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191130T195720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191130T195820Z
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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
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T000944Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191225T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191225T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191026T000832Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSED-Ho ho ho!
DESCRIPTION:Yeah\, so… we aren’t going to be here. We suggest you find another way to spend the night. Delivering presents? Sleeping off a hangover? Drink some egg nog. Whatever you do\, don’t blame the Ugly Mug.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/closed-ho-ho-ho/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191218T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191218T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191026T000712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T000712Z
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SUMMARY:Ugly Mug Holiday Party!
DESCRIPTION:Happy Holidays! For our last gathering of the year\, we’ll be getting together to enjoy each other’s company. No reading\, just a party. Hang out\, talk to some of your favorite people (without a microphone!)\, and spread some non-denominational cheer.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/ugly-mug-holiday-party/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191009T204424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T004840Z
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SUMMARY:James Kelly
DESCRIPTION:James Kelly is\, in fact\, a carbon-based life form. Your suspicion is understandable\, though. He gets that a lot.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/james-kelly/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191009T204347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191130T195055Z
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SUMMARY:Cindy Rinne & Bory Thach
DESCRIPTION:“Letters Under Rock” Poetry Performance collects from many landscapes and faith traditions: Morocco\, Ireland\, the Sahara\, India\, Japan\, Cambodia\, etc. Animism\, Angels\, Tibetan Buddhism\, Hinduism\, Desert Mothers\, Saints\, etc. There are rituals\, ghosts\, forest spirits\, rebirth\, mollusk that tells a story\, dragon\, heron\, swan. This story reaches across time and space told in love letters left under a rock of an orphan Wanderer and a Nomad. \nCindy Rinne creates fiber art and writes in San Bernardino\, CA. She was Poet in Residence for the Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum\, Los Angeles\, CA. She has created fiber art for over 30 years\, exhibiting internationally. Cindy collaborates in Performance Poetry using her own costume creations based on her books. A Pushcart nominee. Cindy is the author of several books: Letters Under Rock with Bory Thach\, (Elyssar Press)\, Moon of Many Petals (Cholla Needles Press)\, and others. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in: Anti-Herion Chic\, Unpsychology Magazine\, MORIA\, several anthologies\, and others. www.fiberverse.com \nBory Thach was born in a refugee camp located on the border between Thailand and Cambodia.  His family immigrated to the United States when he was four years old.  He served in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  He has an MFA from California State University San Bernardino. Fiction and creative nonfiction fall under the art of storytelling\, while poetry for him is more of a study of language\, an art form in itself. His work appeared or is forthcoming in: Pacific Review\, Urban Ivy\, Arteidolia\, and Sand Canyon Review.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/cindy-rinne-bory-thach/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191127T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191127T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191026T000525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T000525Z
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SUMMARY:Open Reading
DESCRIPTION:On the day before Thanksgiving\, we give thanks to our open readers\, with an open reading! Bring some poems\, hang out and be part of the feature!
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/open-reading/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20190821T180548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190821T180548Z
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SUMMARY:Christian Lozada and Steven Hendrix
DESCRIPTION:Christian Lozada and Steven Hendrix met while working at Borders Books. They ran the pop up bookstore and reading series Read On Till Morning in San Pedro. After years of sharing the same space to write\, they realized they were writing about similar themes. They recently published a full length poetry collection together Leave With More Than You Came With. In the words of Mark Twain\, “No two poets have ever written with a deeper understanding of humanity in the same book at the same time.” (He may not have said these words in this particular order nor all at the same time\, but he definitely said all these words). Christian and Steven currently live in the rival cities of San Pedro and San Francisco.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/christian-lozada-and-steven-hendrix/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20190806T224227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T222651Z
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SUMMARY:Kelsey Bryan-Zwick
DESCRIPTION:A 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, Kelsey Bryan-Zwick is a Spanish/English speaking poet and artist from Long Beach\, California. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz with a B.A in Literature/Creative Writing\, she is the author of three chapbooks that intermix her art and poetry\, the most recent being Watermarked (Sadie Girl Press). Disabled with scoliosis from a young age\, her poems often focus on trauma\, giving heart to the antiseptic language of hospital intake forms. A Pushcart Prize nominee\, Kelsey’s poems appear or are soon to appear in petrichor\, Cholla Needles\, Rise Up Review\, Redshift\, Writing In A Woman’s Voice\, Lummox\, Right Hand Pointing\, Incandescent Mind\, The New Verse News\, and more. www.kelseybryanzwick.wixsite.com/poetry
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/kelsey-bryan-zwick/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20190806T224141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191026T000342Z
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SUMMARY:King Daddy
DESCRIPTION:King Daddy is a father\, grandfather\, hedonist and bookworm\, who seeks to dwell in the now. A lifelong resident of the San Gabriel Valley\, he dabbles in nudism and Buddhism and revels in primitive\, acoustic Blues. He sometimes writes poems in black notebooks and has been a member of the performance poetry troupe Poets in Distress since the days when pot had seeds and women had pubic hair. He is virtually unpublished and has won no awards or prizes.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/king-daddy/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20191016T223830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T172853Z
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SUMMARY:Ugly Mug Halloween Party/Dead Poet Slam!
DESCRIPTION:It’s Halloween Eve\, so we’re getting together for a Dead Poet’s Party! Come hang out\, haunt the Mug\, read some poetry\, and rumor has it there will be a Dead Poet Slam!
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/ugly-mug-halloween-party-dead-poet-slam/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T002030
CREATED:20190806T223111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T172410Z
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SUMMARY:Lois Chapin
DESCRIPTION:Lois Chapin is an award-winning poet (National League of American Pen Woman) who has been published in many literary anthologies. She is a member of the Los Angeles Writers and Poets Collective. Chapin is a writer and therapist in California who spends her down time racing outrigger canoes on the Pacific Ocean.
URL:https://poetryidiots.com/event/lois-chapin/
LOCATION:The Ugly Mug\, 261 N. Glassell Street\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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