Upcoming Events
The Lake County Poet Laureate selection committee is proud to present the 2024-2026 Poet Laureate of Lake County, Brenda Yeager!
We are grateful for finalists Mimi Whittaker and Roy Arthur Blodgett for their impressive applications. Stay tuned for new poetry projects coming soon! Join the Lake County CA Poet Laureate | Facebook group to stay up to date on local poetry happenings.
The Word Circle
1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 pm PT
Virtual Meetings on Zoom
*The April 17, 2024 meeting is cancelled
All levels and genres welcome at no cost. Join in for free-writing and bring original work to share for feedback in a supportive, peer setting.
Email georgina.marie@hotmail.com to sign up and receive Zoom info.
New Darlings: Readings of Contemporary Poetry
Last Friday of every month, 5-6 pm PT
Virtual Meetings on Zoom
*The April 2024 meeting is cancelled
New Darlings is a poetry series created by Jennifer Mills Kerr & I in 2022 to create good conversations around a new poet each month, connecting poetry lovers around the world. In November 2023, I was joined by new cohost, Lake County poet Brenda Yeager!
We meet on the last Friday of every month to read and discuss a newly selected poet. Follow us on Eventbrite to register for events: New Darlings Eventbrite
Poetry Night at Wine in the Willows
Last Wednesday of Each Month beginning April 24, 2024, 6-8 pm Wine in the Willows 125 Park Street Lakeport, CA 95453
Poetry Night at Wine in the Willows continues! Since our December and January poetry nights were well loved and well attended, we will host them on the last Wednesday of Each Month beginning April 24, 2024, from 6-8 pm at Wine in the Willows in Lakeport. Look forward to new featured poets each month with an open mic to follow. Free to Attend, ages 21 and up.
Shut Up & Write!® Lake County
Saturday April 27, 2024, 2-4 pm Then the 1st Saturday of each month starting May 4th Wine in the Willows 125 Park St. Lakeport, CA 95453
Join us Saturday, April 27th from 2-4 pm for the second meeting of "Shut Up & Write!" a friendly, dedicated session where you get to focus on your writing in the company of other writers doing the same thing. Writers of all genres and all experience levels welcome. Free to attend--but you must reserve a seat. This is a 21+ event.
Follow us and RSVP for events via the Meetup platform HERE.
Your hosts for this event will be Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County Poet Laureate 20-24, and Cinamon Vann, nonfiction writer and founder of the Sacramento chapter of Shut Up & Write!
Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam
Thursday May 9, 2024, SF Main Library 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102
Brenda Yeager, Lake County Poet Laureate 2024-2026, and I will co-feature for San Francisco Poet Laureate 2017-2021 Kim Shuck’s monthly Poem Jam at the San Francisco Public Library’s main branch.
Spirit of Place: An Anthology of Women Poets Mendocino County
The first Anthology of Women Poets of Mendocino County, Wood, Water, Air and Fire was published in 1999. We are calling for submissions for Volume II, Spirit of Place.
Submissions are open March 1st, 2024, to June 1st, 2024.
We welcome all themes that respond to the Spirit of Place by women poets who have lived, are living or have participated in the writer’s community of where we live with poems that respond to the Spirit of Place focus.
We are accepting 1 to 3 poems, no longer than two pages per poem. Please format your poems in Times New Roman, 12 pt., single space in Word Doc and send to poetryanthology2@gmail.com
If you do not hear from us by September 15, 2024, please e-mail us at poetryanthology2@gmail.com.
Each published poet will receive a contributor’s copy.
With Gratitude,
Co-editors
Devreaux Baker, Kate Dougherty and Georgina Marie Guardado
North Bay Poetics
Tuesday June 18, 2024, 3-4 pm PT, Zoom
I’ll be a guest for North Bay Poetics, a monthly online poetry group, in June to read some new work and discuss the upcoming 2024 and 35th annual Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. An open mic will follow.
35th Annual Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference
Thurs. August 1 - Sat. August 3, 2024, Mendocino CA
The Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference is a vibrant gathering that offers Morning Workshops in a wide range of genres. Afternoons are packed with craft seminars, panels, one-on-one consultations, and open mics; and every evening offers an opportunity to enjoy the camaraderie and connection that make this conference, in the words of one participant, “life changing.”
The 2024 Conference will be held from August 1-3, 2024 in the town of Mendocino, California. General registration will open March 15, 2024. No writing sample is required to register.