by Portia Choi | Dec 28, 2016 | Events
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”25″ gal_title=”fan forum gallery”] Story by Portia Choi The First Friday Open Mic on January 6, 2017 will feature The Bakersfield Fan Forum. The event will start at 6:00 pm at Dagny’s Coffee located...
by Portia Choi | Dec 7, 2016 | Events, Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”21″ gal_title=”Dana Gioia”] By Portia Choi, with contributions by Martin Chang Photos by Martin Chang On December 1, 2016 the California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia, was the presenter at the December Room of the...
by Portia Choi | Nov 23, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”18″ gal_title=”don at writers of kern photos by greg d. cook”] Story by Portia Choi Photos by Greg D. Cook Don Thompson, the Kern County’s first-ever Poet Laureate, spoke at the Writers of Kern (WOK) meeting on...
by Portia Choi | Nov 17, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”17″ gal_title=”fan forum gallery”] story by Portia Choi November 7, 2016 was the opening of The Bakersfield Fan Forum at the Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University Bakersfield. It is being...
by Portia Choi | Nov 10, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”November 2016″] Story by Portia Choi There was extraordinary excitement at the First Friday Open Mic on November 4. There was a standing-room only crowd. That wasn’t all. There have been...
by Portia Choi | Nov 2, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”15″ gal_title=”Open Mic oct. 2016″] These were photos taken at Dagny’s on October 7th 2016. The featured poets were Heavy Vinyl who performed their new song “Rock and Roll Beauty Queen” and between...
by Portia Choi | Oct 13, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”13″ gal_title=”Words Come to Life”] By Martin Chang “Words Come to Life” was an event held to benefit CASA and celebrate the poetry and art of Kern County. In her opening remarks Diana Ramirez,...
by Portia Choi | Sep 29, 2016 | Events, Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”9″ gal_title=”Kate Durbin”] 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...
by Portia Choi | Sep 8, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”8″ gal_title=”open mic September 2016″] 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...
by Portia Choi | Aug 31, 2016 | Events, Pictures
photos by Martin Chang [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”7″ gal_title=”Summer 2016 open mic”] 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...
