Ventura/Santa Barbara Poetry Events

January 2012

By Phil Taggart

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Jackson Wheeler's Arcade series at the Carnegie in Oxnard starts this month with Lance Lee and Sojourner Kinkaid-Rolle.

Should you ever find yourself at wit’s end and in need of a poetic intervention visit Ms Metaphor at www.AskMsMetaphor.com.

Readings

Arcade Poetry Series

Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum
424 South C Street, Oxnard
Host: Jackson Wheeler
All reading start at 7pm
January 14 Lance Lee and Sojourner Kinkaid-Rolle

Bohemian Beat Spoken Word

Bohemia Coffee House
214 West Ojai Avenue - Ojai
Host Tree Bernstein
805-640-7210
Open mic sign up at 7:15
Reading starts at 7:30
January 5 Mary Natwick

Artists Union Gallery

Poetry every Tuesday at 7:30pm
Artists Union Gallery
330 South California Street, Ventura
Host: Phil Taggart
open-mic
January  10 Steve Aguilar
January  17 Andre Levi
January  24 G. Murray Thomas
January  31 Sam Harley

Also at the Artists Union Gallery

February 25 The Erotic Reading
hosts:  Marsha de la O and Friday Lubina
$5 donation benefits the Artists Union Gallery

Favorite Poem Reading

Third Monday from 5:15 – 6:30
The Blue Agave
20 E. Cota, Santa Barbara
Host: Lois Klein
Open Mic: All poets and non-poets invited to read  a favorite poem (not their own) or two.

The Poetry Zone

Second Saturday, 2–4 pm
Karpeles Manuscript Museum
21 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara
Host: Suzanne Frost (805-252-1655)
January 14 Teddy Macker

Wednesday Night Habit

Every Wednesday evening 6:00 - 8:00
Coffee Time (Near the Big 5)
245 Town Center West, Santa Maria
Facebook: Search for Wednesday Night Habit
Contact: BJ Riley everlearnmore@yahoo.com

On the Radio

KPFK - Poets Cafe
Second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, 8:30 pm
Santa Barbara 98.7 FM, LA 90.7 FM
Host: Lois P. Jones
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/pages/Poets-Cafe-Fan-Page-KPFK-Radio-Los-Angeles-907-fm/148382908556552

Poetry Workshops, Classes and Panels

Ventura County Writers Club Workshop

Third Wednesday
For information, email Cathryn Andresen, barn93012@yahoo.com

Ventura County Writers Club Meeting

 2nd Tuesday of the month, 7 pm
Pleasant Valley Senior Center
1605 Burnley St, Camarillo

Barnes and Noble - Ventura

Second and fourth Wednesdays, 7-9 pm

In Print

Journals

Askew Poetry Journal

Askew #11 is out. Poets featured in this issue are Sylvia Alcon, Ron Alexander, Cynthia Atkins, Michael Bailey, Tree Bernstein, Barbara Blatt, John Brantingham, Tif Yen Bui, T.L. Cabrera, Brendan Constantine, Robert Copeland, Fran Davis, Michael Faran, Jerry Garcia, Dan Gerber, Dorothea Grossman, Mary Hanford, Eloise Klein Healy, George Hitchcock, Sandra Cannaday Knapp, James Ph. Kotsybar, Joyce LaMers, Gerald Locklin, Sarah Maclay, Maia, Holaday Mason, Stanley M Noah, Peg Quinn, John Ridland, Bruce Schmidt, Jane Schneider, Patty Seyburn, Marjorie Simon, Alicia Morris Soto, Barry Spacks, Henrietta Sparks, Scott Struman, Patti Sullivan, Doris Vernon, Ruth Weiss, Ken Wienchus, Chryss Yost.

Editors: Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart and friday lubina
P.O. Box 559 Ventura 93002
ptagga@aol.com

The Bubble

The Bubble, a feature and literary magazine, is published quarterly by Nancy Gross. It began as The Ojai Bubble, and is now floating beyond Ojai's borders into more places in Ventura County and Santa Barbara County. The magazine has several original journalistic features in each issue, as well as creative writing, including poetry and narratives or short stories. There have been one to five poems in each volume. Poets who have been featured include Robert Peake, Paul Fericano, Carol DeCanio, akka b., Josh Evans, John Dillon, Jeff Kustal and Nancy Gross.

There is no specific guideline for submitting except submit!! to either theojaibubble@yahoo.com, or P.O. Box 171, Ojai, CA 93024. But realize we cannot publish everything we receive. The issues are themed and probable themes for the next 12 months are Wind and Water, Relationships, Youth and Age, and The British Invasion. Not necessarily in that order.

The website, www.theojaibubble.com, tells  where the magazine may be purchased. Some locations in Ventura are Bank of  Books, The Refill Shoppe, Auto Scrubber Car Wash on Thompson, The Cottage on Main and McConnell's Ice Cream. Locations in Ojai include Bart's Books, Attitude Adjustment, The Farmer and The Cook, Made in Ojai, Java & Joe, Coffee Connection, Ojai Beverage Company, Ojai Spring Car Wash, Fred's Tire Man, and more. The Somis Nut House in Somis and two locations in Santa Paula: The Santa Paula Inn and the Santa Paula Art Museum gift shop, just began carrying The Bubble. In Carpinteria it can be found at Curious Cup, a  childrens' book store, and Pacific Coast Café. In Santa Barbara, The Eagle Inn in West Beach currently carries The Bubble.

Books, Etc.

Elijah Imlay's new book is Monsoon Blues.
Cathryn Andresen has published her chapbook, humanNature, and Dittybag, 47 poems in six tiny books
Mary Natwick's new book is Waking a Lover,  www.spokenincense.com
Florence Weinberger's new book is Sacred Graffiti.
Hope Slaughter Bryant's new chapbook is See You In The Funny Papers.
Polly Bee's book Scattershot is out on BosieBooks.
Joyce LaMers chapbook Uncertain Slants of Light is out.
Sojourner Kinkaid-Rolle's Black Street is out on UCSB Press.
Mary Kay Rummel's Love In the End is out on Bright Hill Press.
Barry Spack's Food for the Journey is out on Cherry Grove Press.
Kim Young's chapbook Divided Highway is out on Dancing Girl Press.
Paul Willis' Visiting Home is out on Pecan Grove Press.
Carol DeCanio's broadside Phone Booth is out on Poor Souls Press.
Carol DeCanio's broadside Shelter and accordion book Giants are out on Lettre Sauvage.
Lois Klein’s A Soldier’s Daughter is out on Turning Point Press.
Paul Fericano's second issue of The Broadsider, Volume 2, Series 1-17, is now online at http://yunews.com/broadsider.html

Presses and Journals

Lettre Sauvage

• Signed and numbered limited editions

• Broadsides by Anne Carson, Steven Dunn

• Community Studio - Learn about letterpress and book arts in a creative, fine art publishing center; lessons, workshops and studio rental available beneath the oaks in Santa Paula. info@lettresauvage.com, 805.794.0167

TreeHouse Press

• Limited edition books of poetry

• Home of the Rowsby Woof Memorial Broadside Award

• treebernstein@gmail.com

Hex Presse

 

Womb Poetry

Editor: Michelle Detorie

More Poetry Information

Poetry Matters in Santa Barbara Poetry
www.venturaartistsunion.org
Language of the Soul
Askew Poetry Journal
www.poetix.net