Ventura/Santa Barbara Poetry Events

April 2009

By Phil Taggart

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Welcome to National Poetry Month. Santa Barbara Poetry Month activities are listed below the regular readings. Enjoy.

On TV

See the Askew Poetry TV show on:

OCTV (Oxnard College) - Channel 15 (Oxnard, El Rio and Port Hueneme)
Tuesday 10am, noon, 2pm, 5pm
Saturday 3pm, 10pm

Caps TV - Channel 6 (Ventura)
Sunday 3:00 pm
Wednesday 6:00 pm
Friday 10:00 pm

The Channels’ Creative Community - Channel 21 (Santa Barbara)
Will feature prominent members of the Santa Barbara community. Host David Starkey will also interview California’s Poet Laureate, Carol Muske-Dukes.

Readings

Poems from Guantanamo

7pm
The Peace Poets Ensemble
Grant Marcus, Shelley Savren, Gwendoyn Alley, Elijah Imlay, Roe Estep
A Place of Peace
896 Main St - Ventura
Host Grant Marcus (805)648-2455
April 13

Artists’ Union Gallery

Every Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Artists’ Union Gallery
330 South California Street, Ventura
Host: Roe Estep, (805)320-3524
Open-mic
April 14 - Joyce LaMers
April 21 - Enid osborn

Arcade Poetry Series

Oxnard’s Carnegie Art Museum
424 South ‘C’ Street, Oxnard
Host: Jackson Wheeler
all reading start at 7pm
April 18 - Chris Buckley and David Oliveira

Bell Arts Factory (Friday on Saturday)

432 N. Ventura Avenue, Ventura
Last Saturday of the month 7:30pm
Host: Friday
April 25 - OPEN MIC (National Poetry Month & ArtWalk)

The Poetry Zone

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

Train of Thought

Every Thursday at 6:30 pm
856 East Thompson Blvd., Ventura
(between Ash and Kalorama, behind Kids and Families Together)
Open mic

Favorite Poems Project

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.

Kava Dume

Every Wednesday except the first at 7:30 pm
5653 Kana Road, Agoura
Host: Miss Marissa “Con Gusto”
(818) 865-8602
Open mic

Oxnard College

4000 S. Rose Ave., Oxnard
Host: Shelley Savren (805-986-5800, ext. 1951)
April 1: Elena Karina Byrne

Cal State University Channel Islands

2pm
Poetry and Social Change
Host: Mary Kay Rummel
April 25

Santa Barbara Poetry Month Readings

Thurs Apr 2
“April Fool's” open mic reading
Downtown Borders, 6-7:30 pm
Host: Perie Longo

Thurs Apr 2
First Thursday Reading
Carol DeCanio
Casa Magazine
23 E Canon Perdido
Fifteen minute readings at 5:30, 6:30 & 7:30

Fri Apr 3
Jazz, Blues and Langston Hughes
8th annual Langston Hughes Tribute
Lobero Theatre Courtyard, 6 pm
Host: Sojourner Kincaid Rolle

Sat Apr 4
SB Poetry Series
Honoring SB poets with books published in 2008-09
Downtown Library Faulkner Gallery, 7-9 pm
Book Tables
Host: Carol DeCanio
Honorees: Barry Spacks, Peg Quinn, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Ellen Kelley, Paul Fericano, Glenna Luschei, Paul Willis, Lois Klein, Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Diane Raab, Mary Rose Betten

Sun Apr 5
A Patchwork of Young Poets
California Poets in the Schools Reading
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2-3 pm
Host: Christine Kravetz

Tues Apr 7
New Poet Laureate Installation
SB City Council Hall, 2 pm

Sat Apr 11
Poetry Zone: Guest poet Mary McGinnis
Karpeles Museum, 2 pm
Open mic follows
Host: Suzanne Frost

Sat Apr 11
My City, My Poem: Young Poets on Santa Barbara
Downtown library, 3 pm
Organized by Lois Klein and Janice Rorick

Wed Apr 15
Tax Relief Reading: Comic Poems, open mic
Blue Agave, 20 E. Cota St. , 5:15-6:30 pm.
Host: Chryss Yost

Thur Apr 16
The Santa Barbara Young Poets  Contest, co-sponsored by the SB Public Library System and the Independent
Downtown library Faulkner gallery. 6:30 pm

Sun Apr 19
Chasing the Flying Machine: Poets Respond to Yinka Shonibare’s Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2:00 pm
Host: Melinda Palacio

Mon Apr 20
Favorite Poem Reading - Sharing poems written by others
Blue Agave, 20 E. Cota St. 5:15-6:30 pm.
Host: Lois Klein

Tues Apr 21
Book Signing: Glenna Luschei signs Salt Lick.
Chaucer’s books, 3321 State St.
7:00 pm

Thur Apr 23
An Evening with Robert Bly
Granada Theater, 7:30 pm
Tickets & info 899-2222

Sat Apr 25
The Theme is “Trees”
Open mic reading
Natural History Museum,
Small Stone Amphitheater, 3 pm
Host: Enid Osborn

Sat Apr 25
Poetry Marathon: Featured Poets.
Contemporary Arts Forum, 7-9 pm
Host: Barry Spacks

Fri May 1
Rock and Roll Poetry
Featuring ML Lieber and others
SB City College, Fé Bland auditorium, 8 pm
Host: David Starkey
Throughout April

The Channels’ Creative Community will feature
prominent members of the community who will
read a favorite poem and discuss poetry.
Host David Starkey will also interview
California’s Poet Laureate, Carol Muske-Dukes.
on Channel 21.

Chaucer’s Books will display poems by Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureates and students from schools in the California poets in the Schools program. Organized by Carol DeCanio.

Previews

Arcade Poetry Series

May 16: Elijah Imlay and Leilani Hall
June 20: Kim Young and Dorothy Barresi

Bell Arts Factory (friday on Saturday)

May 30: Marsha de la O
June 27: Phil Taggart
July 25: Jaimes Palacio
August 29: Florence Weinberger
September 26: Polly Bee
October 24: Tree Bernstein

Poetry Workshops, Classes and Panels

Ventura County Writers Club

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

Poemcrafters Guild

For more information send bio and sample of work to:
807 Camino Concordia – Camarillo 93010
(805) 491-3242

Barnes and Noble - Ventura

Second and fourth Wednesdays, 7-9 pm

In Print

Mary Kay Rummel's new book, Love In the End, is out on Bright Hill Press.

Barry Spack's new book, Food for the Journey, is out on Cherry Grove Press.

Kim Young's new chapbook, Divided Highway, published by Dancing Girl Press.

Paul Willis' new book of poetry, Visiting Home, published by Pecan Grove Press.

Carol DeCanio's broadside, Shelter, and accordion book, Giants, published by Lettre Sauvage.

Lois Klein’s new book of poetry, A Soldier’s Daughter, published by Turning Point Press.

Askew #5 is out
in this issue: Dorothy Barresi, Michael Bauer, Polly Bee, Christopher Buckley, Joan E. Day, Carol DeCanio, Katherine Drabek, Adam Ferrari, francEyE, Dan Gerber, Melissa Grossman, Eunice Kingsley, Joyce LaMers, James Lenfestey, Roseann Lloyd, Gerald Locklin, Holaday Mason, Elnora McNaughton, Barbara Mor, Harry E. Northup, David Oliveira, Sharon Patterson, David Peacock, Sherman Pearl, John Ridland, David Rigsbee, Vivian Rowe, Shelley Savren, Mary Kolada Scott, Thomas R. Smith, Dian Sousa, Charles Harper Webb, Florence Weinberger, Maggie Westland, Chryss Yost

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

Beyond Baroque in Venice is now carrying Askew #2, #3, #4
631 Venice Boulevard - Venice
Askew is also available at:
Bank of Books 748 Main Street - Ventura

Quintessence, An Anthology, published by VCWC Press
included are: Lori Anaya, Cathryn Andresen, Kathleen Auth,Diana Blackburn, Michael Faran, Melissa Grossman, Joyce LaMers, Phil Taggart, Doris Vernon, Maggie Westland, Dallas Woodburn.

Bear Flag Republic, Prose Poems and Poetics from California, Editors: Christopher Buckley and Gary Young, featuring 89 poets including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Richard Garcia, Robert Hass, Philip Levine, Morton Marcus, Czelaw Milosoz, Diane Wakowski, Jackson Wheeler, Marsha de la O, Perie Longo, Polly Bee, Laurel Ann Bogen, Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Glenna Luschei,Bill Mohr, Scotty Creeley, Phil Taggart

SAGE TRAIL

SAGE TRAIL, a new contemporary poetry magazine, is launching itself monthly from Santa Barbara, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are free online at , and are looking for poets to submit their work, and hard-copy subscribers. Send us your wisdom, your penetrating intelligence, the results of your climb.

 Contributions/submissions of any quantity, inquiries about the magazine, or mailing list requests may be sent year-round to sfrost@sagetrail.net or P.O. Box 4012, Santa Barbara, California 93140. Manuscripts sent to us cannot be returned. Please allow one to three months for us to review your work before making inquiries. Copyrights revert to authors upon publication. Previously published work other than work already published in "Willow Street" and "Central Avenue" may also be considered. The present staff of the magazine includes the Editor, Suzanne Frost and the Advisory Editor,  Cathryn McCracken. Hard-copy subscriptions help to alleviate our production costs. Individual issues are $5.00 including tax. Yearly subscriptions are $15.

Presses and Journals

Lettre Sauvage

• Signed and numbered limited editions

• Broadsides

• Fourth Chorale Ode from Euripides’ Hippolytus translated by Anne Carson

• In the Open Field by Steven Dunn

• Long Portrait, chapbook by Mark Irwin

• 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
www.myspace.com/askewpoetryjournal
www.youtube.com/askewpoetryjournal