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 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 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 | 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 21, 2016 | news
By Martin Chang At the Metro Galleries, the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Kern County will hold a Words Comes to Life event on October 6 from 5:30-9:30pm. CASA of Kern County calls the event “A powerful and colorful evening that will bring awareness to...
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....
