Ventura/Santa Barbara Poetry Events

May 2012

By Phil Taggart

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Readings

5x5x5x5

Sylvia White Gallery at 8pm
1783 East Main Street - Ventura
Host: John White
May 4 - Kevin Carman, Phil Taggart, Dan Kwong, Getta Novotny, sTeVe, Rachel White

Arcade Poetry Series

Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum
424 South C Street, Oxnard
Host: Jackson Wheeler
All reading start at 7pm
May 19 - Brendan Constantine, Nina Corwin
June 16 - Tim Tipton, Terry Van Vliet

Artists Union Gallery

Every Tuesday at 7:30pm
Artists Union Gallery
330 South California Street, Ventura
Host: Phil Taggart
open-mic
May 8 - Gwendolyn Alley
May 15 - Howard Smith
May 22 - Enid Osborn
May 29 - Sandra Knapp
June 5        Raindog Armstrong
June 19      Richard Newsham
June 26      Friday Lubina
July 10     Dottie Grossman and Michael Vlatkavich
July 17     Brigit Truex
July 31       Jan Stekel

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
May 3 - Andre Levi

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.

First Friday

March 2, 2012 at 8pm
John White’s 5x5x5 returns (wrrrds and…)
Featuring: Marsha de la O, Scotch Wichman, Steve Nagler, Pete Ippel and Donna Lynn Caskey
Hosted by John White
Sylvia White Gallery
1783 East Main Street - Ventura
www.ArtAdvice.comVentura

The Poetry Zone

Second Saturday, 2–4 pm
Karpeles Manuscript Museum
21 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara
Host: Suzanne Frost (805-252-1655)
May 12 - Florence Weinberger, Lee Rossi
June 9 - G Murray Thomas and Raindog
August 11 - Michael C Ford
September 8 - A Poetry Dialogue Between Carol DeCanio and Laure-Anne Bosselaar
October 13 - Lois Klein
November 10 - Ellen Kelley and Dan Gerber

Santa Maria Rhythm and Rhyme

Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Cafe Noir
1555 South Broadway - Santa Maria
Open Mic
Host: BJ Riley
everlearnmore@yahoo.com

UCSB - Santa Barbara College of Creative Theater

Old Little Theater (Building 494) 4:00 pm
May 16 - Gary Young

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

Ventura County Writers Club Meeting

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

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. theojaibubble@yahoo.com, - P.O. Box 171, Ojai, CA 93024.

The Bubble feature and literary magazine for Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties needs just a little bit of your help. We’re launching a fundraiser with the hope that 1,000 people will give $10 to assist us in moving forward. Paypal is on our website www.theojaibubble.com. The address, for checks or other correspondence, is The Bubble, P.O. Box 171, Ojai, CA 93024.

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

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