by Portia Choi | Mar 27, 2025 | Events, Featured Poet, Future Events, Kern County Poet, Poems
APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! APRIL 4th – 6 pm – First Friday Open Mic at Dagny’s Featuring: SAMUEL RAIN BENJAMIN – Kern County Poet Laureate “open mind open heart, the thoughts of Dark Man Blues” Sharing his latest work for the first 15-20...
by Portia Choi | Mar 12, 2025 | Events, Future Events, Poems
SPECTACULAR SATURDAY ZOOM OPEN MIC IN 3 DAYS! MARCH 15TH AT 6 PM SHARE UP TO 5 MINUTES OF YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL! RESPOND TO THIS HERE – (by email) BY SATURDAY AT 4 PM TO RECEIVE A LINK! MORE UPCOMING EVENTS: Carla Joy Martin – featured poet at Kern Valley...
by Portia Choi | Feb 22, 2025 | Events, Featured Poet, Future Events, Poems
FIRST FRIDAY OPEN MIC AT DAGNY’S – MARCH 7, 2025 AT 6 PM LisaAnn LoBasso – FEATURED POET A creative spirit who adds much to our town, hosting performances & coffee at NX cafe, LisaAnn is a poet of renown, writing sensitive verse that will...
by Portia Choi | Feb 11, 2025 | Events, Future Events, Poems
KERN POETRY’S SPECTACULAR SATURDAY – ZOOM POETRY OPEN MIC FEBRUARY 15, 2025 AT 6 PM (Pacific Time) SHARE UP TO 5 MINUTES OF YOUR ORIGINAL VERSE So much is happening in our world – Let’s hear how you’re coping! We predict our shared creativity Will bolster...
by Portia Choi | Jan 24, 2025 | Events, Featured Poet, Future Events, Poems
Free and open to the public! FIRST FRIDAY POETRY OPEN MIC – FEBRUARY 7, 2025 AT 6 PM Featuring: CATHERINE ABBEY HODGES reading poems from newly published book, Empty Me Full, accompanied by cello. Dagny’s Coffee Shop 1600 20th Street, Corner of Eye Street...
by Portia Choi | Nov 26, 2024 | Events, Features, Future Events, Poems
> DAGNY’S OPEN MIC – NEW TIME – >5 PM – 6:45 PM < – 12/6/24< NEW SPECIAL TIME! 5:00 – 6:45 pm Sign ups at 4:50 pm HOLIDAY FIRST FRIDAY OPEN MIC – AT DAGNY’S DECEMBER 6, 2024 If you like, stick around to hear an...
by Portia Choi | Nov 11, 2024 | Events, Features, Future Events, Poems
ZOOM POETRY OPEN MIC – SPECTACULAR SATURDAY November 16 – 6 PM PT – SHARE POEMS Have you written a poem that needs to breathe? Do you wish your words to take a life of their own? You have an opportunity to make your poems become ALIVE! JOIN US...
by Portia Choi | Oct 28, 2024 | Events, Interviews, Poems
Interview with Bobby Paramo, from First Friday Open Mic at Dagny’s on October 4, 2024 By: Carla Joy Martin There was a stalwart crew of poets and friends who attended this month’s Open Mic in the backroom of Dagny’s Coffee Shop. Participants were encouraged to share...
by Portia Choi | Oct 24, 2024 | Events, Future Events, Poems
FIRST FRIDAY, November 1st, 2024 AT 6 PM – OPEN MIC AT DAGNY’S Featuring Jorge Guillen with Musico Arturo Marquez about: “The Story is the Journey, the Journey is the Story” SIGN-UP AT 5:50 PM Share 5 minutes of your original poetry, songs, visual art!...
by Portia Choi | Oct 10, 2024 | Events, Features, Future Events, Poems
SPECTACULAR SATURDAY POETRY OPEN MIC ON ZOOM – OCTOBER 19, 6 – 7 PM PST ORIGINAL POEMS FOR UP TO 5 MINUTES * * * Have you been blessed by the arrival of a new poem in your mind? Have you found an old poem that surprised you, how good it is? Bring your...
