by Portia Choi | Oct 6, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
by Martin Chang Guitarist and vocalist Tomo and drummer Glenn Mattews have built a bond based on the sharing of Blues and Rock and Roll. Through this connection they create words and music that flows out of them with a unique flavor, Tomo likes to call it “just...
by Portia Choi | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
By Martin Chang Greg Stanley has been in touch with his creative side for most of his life. He paints, writes poetry, and gets a different feeling from both types of artistic expression. Stanley grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland until he was around 30. Then, in 1989,...
by Portia Choi | Sep 29, 2016 | Events, Featured Poet, Pictures
By Martin Chang Like many others in America, Kate Durbin found herself fascinated by the world of Reality television. As a poet, Durbin began to watch with a closer eye. From the way that the camera moves from Kardashian to Kardashian, to the carefully manicured...
by Portia Choi | Sep 21, 2016 | news
By Martin Chang At the Metro Galleries, the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Kern County will hold a Words Comes to Life event on October 6 from 5:30-9:30pm. CASA of Kern County calls the event “A powerful and colorful evening that will bring awareness to...
by Portia Choi | Sep 17, 2016 | Featured Poet
By Martin Chang For most of her twenty-three years, Jessica Nelson has used poetry to help her escape from the pain of a damaged life. After reading poetry for eight years, she began performing her own poetry and discovered poetry’s second of many gifts: Finality....
by Portia Choi | Sep 8, 2016 | Featured Poet
Lenora McClellan has been given the gift of writing from an early age. She describes herself as “an author poet, playwright, and a women of God.” She reads from her book “By God’s Grace” published in 2013. She said about the poetry in...
by Portia Choi | Sep 8, 2016 | Events, Pictures
On September 2, Fidel A. Martinez was the featured poet. He read from his books of poetry: Factory Lights (2013), An American Mythology (2011), Ghost Stories from the Tower of Souls (2006), and recent poems. Later on that evening, Ian Perry and Paul Clery...
by Portia Choi | Aug 31, 2016 | Events, Pictures
photos by Martin Chang In June and July of 2016 the poets of Bakersfield came to Open Mic. They had an opportunity to performs more of their poetry these two...
by Portia Choi | Aug 31, 2016 | news
Martinez will be the featured poet at the Open Mic at Dagny’s. Dagny’s is located at 1600 20th Street (corner of 20th and Eye St.) on First Friday September 2nd. Open mic Starts at 6:00pm; sign-up for open mic is 5:50pm. Fidel A. Martinez is the author of...
by Portia Choi | May 17, 2016 | Events, Pictures
Photos by Martin Chang In 2016, Don Thompson was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Kern County. Thompson has written poems about Kern County for fifty years. He is prolific in his publication, of over 150 journal publications and dozen books....
