Poetry for Southern California
Ventura/Santa Barbara

The Poetry Zone has moved to the Granada Bookstore. Info below.
A new word radio show:
The Library Radio Show On-air Tuesday 9:00-9:30 am on KCSB 91.9 FM.
Listen live online at http://www.kcsb.org.
Call for poetry Submissions extended: The John White Breathe Easy Project. poetry focusing on breathing. To be exhibited at the July Ventura ArtWalk submission deadline has been extended to June 15. E-mail to JohnWhiteStudio@gmail.com or pass them to John at the Thursday night readings at the EP Foster Library in Ventura.
And...
Should you ever find yourself at wit's end and in need of a poetic
intervention visit Ms Metaphor at www.AskMsMetaphor.com
29169 Heathercliff Road
Last Friday of the Month at 7 pm
To sign up call Ann Lambert 310. 457.5699
6190 La Gloria Drive - Malibu
RSVP to Ann at 310-457-2385
or ann.buxie1@verizon.net
Doors open at 7pm for mulled cider
June 1 - The catch, that moment when you are known, either seized by a memory
or even another person that suddenly enlightens you...
Featured tellers: Matteson Perry, Annie Korzen, Jaha Zainabu, Xaque Gruber,
Ellen Switkes, Food4Thought, Suzanne Whang, Margaret Medina and George Finley
Second Saturday, 4 - 6 pm.
Granada Books. 1224 State St. - Santa Barbara
Host: Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
Open Mic/Refreshments
June 8 - Tim Tipton
Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum
424 South C Street, Oxnard
Host: Jackson Wheeler
All reading start at 7pm
June 15 Amy Uyematsu and Jackson Wheeler
In the Topping Room
poetry every Thursday night at 7:30
EXCEPT the 4th Thursday
651 E. Main Street - Ventura
Host: Phil Taggart
open-mic
June 6 NO READING
June 13 Alex M Frankel
June 20 Tim Tipton
July 4 NO READING
July 11 Mary Brown
July 18 Ann Buxie
August 1 Cathryn Andresen
August 8 Larry Colker
August 15
August 29
September 12 Shelba Cole Robison
October 17 Patricia Barone
every 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
On-air Tuesday 9:00-9:30 am on KCSB 91.9 FM
Listen live online at http://www.kcsb.org
LA 90.7 Santa Barbara 98.7
2nd, 4th and 5th Wednesdays of the month, 8:30pm
host: Lois P. Jones
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/pages/Poets-Cafe-Fan-Page-KPFK-Radio-Los-Angeles-907-fm/148382908556552
Third Wednesday of the month
www.venturacountywriters.com
2nd Tuesday of the month
Pleasant Valley Senior Center,
1605 Burnley St, Camarillo
Editors: Marsha de la O, Phil Taggart and Friday Lubina
P.O. Box 559 Ventura 93002
www.askewpoetry.org
limited edition books of poetry
home of the Rowsby Woof Memorial Broadside Award treebernstein@gmail.com
www.hexpresse.blogspot.com
Editor: Michelle Detorie
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.
theojaibubble@yahoo.com, - P.O. Box 171, Ojai, CA 93024.