by Portia Choi | Dec 21, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”23″ gal_title=”ara shirinyan”] photos by Greg D. Cook story by Portia Choi Ara Shirinyan was the last guest poet of the Bakersfield Fan Forum at California State University Bakersfield (CSUB) Todd Madigan...
by Portia Choi | Dec 14, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”22″ gal_title=”open mic december 2016″] The Open Mic for December 2016 featured Yaritza I. Castro. Castro has been an active member of the poetry community and has performed at the Open Mic several times. She read...
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 30, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”19″ gal_title=”Yaritza Featured”] Story by Portia Choi Photos by Martin Chang Yaritza I. Castro is another poet who found a place to express her writing at First Friday Open Mic at Dagny’s Coffee. She started...
by Portia Choi | Oct 27, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”14″ gal_title=”Mateo featured”] Mateo Lara performs his poems regularly at the First Friday Open Mic at Dagny’s for over a year. He has recently published his first collection of poetry, “Keta-Miha and Other Poems.”...
by Portia Choi | Oct 6, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”11″ gal_title=”heavy vinyl”] 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...
by Portia Choi | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured Poet, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”10″ gal_title=”Greg Stanley”] 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....
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 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...
