by Portia Choi | Mar 28, 2017 | news
THERE’S MORE: On April 8, Saturday, April 4:00-5:15 pm, there is a Webinar with Catherine Abbey Hodges on Writing and Revision,https://www.picatic.com/CatherineAbbeyHodgesRevision. On April 20, Thursday, 5:30pm, Don Thompson, K.C. Poet Laureate, will present his...
by Portia Choi | Mar 22, 2017 | news
Story by Giovanni Lopez with contribution by Portia Choi (Photos of Jack Hernandez by Giovanni Lopez and Juan Felipe Herrera by Blue Flower Arts) Juan Felipe Herrera, the current (and first Latino) United States Poet Laureate, will be speaking on “Surveillance,...
by Portia Choi | Mar 13, 2017 | Events, Featured Poet, Interviews, Pictures, Poems
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”38″ gal_title=”March 2017 Open Mic”] Shanna O’Brien was the featured performer at the Open Mic on March 3. The Open Mic is held at Dagny Coffee, downtown Bakersfield, every First Friday at 6:00 pm. O’Brien has...
by Portia Choi | Mar 2, 2017 | Events, Featured Poet, Interviews, Poems
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”37″ gal_title=”Valley Poets Night”] Night of Poetry at Levan Center, Bakersfield College The “movers and shakers” of poetry were together to read poems of nationally acclaimed poets at the Levan Center on February...
by Portia Choi | Feb 12, 2017 | Events
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”36″ gal_title=”Valley Poets Highlight”] Don Thompson, the first Poet Laureate of Kern County, is hosting an event on February 16, 2017 at the Norman Levan Center for the Humanities on the Bakersfield College campus....
by Portia Choi | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Poet, Features, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”35″ gal_title=”February Open Mic”] Tony O’Brien was the featured poet at First Friday Open Mic on February 3, 2017. O’Brien is also a photographer and a jazz musician. He melded his talents of being a poet...
by Portia Choi | Jan 25, 2017 | Interviews, Kern County Poet, news, Poems
Story by Portia Choi Nancy Edwards passed away on January 5, 2017. Nancy was a poet. She was also a professor of English at Bakersfield College from 1968-2009. When poets and friends of poets were informed of her passing, there was a profound sense of loss. This...
by Portia Choi | Jan 20, 2017 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”33″ gal_title=”poetry out loud 2017″] Story by Portia Choi with Contributions by Martin Chang There was a first time event in poetry for Kern County on January 18, 2017. It was the Poetry Out Loud competition in...
by Portia Choi | Jan 11, 2017 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”28″ gal_title=”day of poetry”] by Portia Choi The day was dawning when I arrived at Dagny’s Coffee at 6:55 am. The front door was locked, and there were workers inside with dim lights. When the main lights went on...
by Portia Choi | Jan 11, 2017 | Featured Poet, Pictures, Poems
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”27″ gal_title=”open mic january 2017″] story by Portia Choi On the First Friday of January 2017, the featured poets at Dagny’s Coffee were Joseph Mosconi, Barry Michael and Maryah Paige Chester. They read from their...
