Ventura/Santa Barbara Poetry Events

February 2010

By Phil Taggart

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Polly Bee's book, Scattershot, is out and published by BosieBooks.

Lettre Sauvage has a new chapbook contest.

And don't forget to mark your calendar for the Erotic Reading Invitational at the Artists Union Gallery on March 6.

Readings

Arcade Poetry Series

Carnegie Art Museum
424 South ‘C’ Street, Oxnard
Host: Jackson Wheeler
All readings start at 7pm
February 20: Gail Wronsky and Alicia Partnoy

Bell Arts Factory (friday on Saturday)

Last Saturday of the month at 7:30pm
432 N. Ventura Avenue, Ventura
Host: friday
February 27: Florence Weinberger

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
February 16: Molly Burns

Also at Artists Union Gallery

March 6 at 7 pm
The Erotic Reading Invitational
Hosts: Marsha de la O, Phil Taggart, friday Lubina

The Poetry Zone

Second Saturday, 2–4 pm
Karpeles Manuscript Museum
21 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara
Host: Suzanne Frost (805-252-1655)
February 13: Joyce LaMers

Oxnard College

4000 S. Rose Ave.
12:45 – 1:45 p.m. in LS 8 (Clock Tower Auditorium)
host: Shelley Savren
February 24: Lynne Thompson

Cal Lutheran University

7pm
60 W. Olsen Rd., Thousand Oaks (Gilbert Center on the corner of Campus Dr. and Olsen Rd.)
February 17: Sojourner Kinkaid Rolle

Santa Barbara Poetry Series

Faulkner Gallery at the Downtown Public Library (behind the SB Museum on State St.)
40 E. Anapamu Street, SB
Host: Carol DeCanio
Reading is inside the Santa Barbara Public Library at 7 pm.
The map and information is on the website: www.santabarbarapoetryseries.org
February 6: Melinda Palacio, Marsha de la O, Phil Taggart

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.
January 18

Friday Night AA Meeting followed by Open Mic

Every Friday at 6:30
A drug- and alcohol-free open mic
896 East Main Street, Ventura
805-794-9878
www.aplaceofpeace.org

On the Radio

KPFK - Poets Corner
Second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, noon-1:00
Santa Barbara 98.7 FM, LA 90.7 FM
Host: Lois P. Jones

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

Journals

Askew (Fall/Winter) #7
Ron Alexander, Richard Beban, Tree Bernstein, Child M, Kevin Clark, Jeanette Clough, Brendan Constantine, Carol DeCanio, David Dominguez, John M. FitzGerald, Dorothea Grossman, Michael Faran, Robert Hedin, Joyce LaMers, Marie Lecrivain, Gabrielle LeMay, Gerald Locklin, Michael McLaughlin, Adrianne Marcus, Enid Osborn, Claire Rawlins, Mary Kay Rummel, Dixie Salazar, F. Albert Salinas, J de Salvo, Emily Elizabeth Schulten, Patty Seyburn, Barry Spacks, Lynne Thompson, Carine Topal, Amy Uyematsu, Doris Vernon, Jan Wesley, Paul Willis, Pamela S. Wynn, Robert Wynne, Robert M. Zoschke

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, #5, #6
631 Venice Boulevard - Venice
Askew is also available at:
Bank of Books 748 Main Street - Ventura

Books, Etc.

Polly Bee's book, Scattershot, is out and published by 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 Divided Highway, published by Dancing Girl Press.
Paul Willis' Visiting Home, published by Pecan Grove Press.
Carol DeCanio's broadside, Shelter, and accordion book, Giants, published by Lettre Sauvage.
Lois Klein’s A Soldier’s Daughter, published by Turning Point Press.
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.

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
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.myspace.com/askewpoetryjournal
www.youtube.com/askewpoetryjournal
www.poetix.net