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...
by Portia Choi | Aug 10, 2015 | Featured Poet, Interviews
In this text interview we discussed with Don Thompson his favorite moments as a writer and his advice to other writers. Then we discuss his Historical Narrative poem Local Color. Portia Choi: Don, what were your most interesting moments as a poet? Don...
by Portia Choi | Aug 8, 2015 | Featured Poet
Above watch Don Thompson read his poems that describe the beauty of Kern County. For the first featured poet, we honor Don Thompson who has been publishing since the early 1960’s with several books and chapbooks since 2000. He was born in Bakersfield, California, and...
