by Portia Choi | Jul 17, 2018 | Events, Pictures, Poems
By Walter Stormont Photos by Ezekiel Espanola Flora: the Yucca Plant, the Golden Poppy, the Giant Sequoia and the Kern County Larkspur. Fauna: the Roadrunner, the Kit Fox, the Golden Trout and the Honeybee. All the above are examples of plants and wildlife native to...
by Portia Choi | Nov 23, 2016 | Events, Pictures
Story by Portia Choi Photos by Greg D. Cook Don Thompson, the Kern County’s first-ever Poet Laureate, spoke at the Writers of Kern (WOK) meeting on November 19, 2016. Thompson has written about Kern County for over 50 years in his poems. He was born in Bakersfield,...
by Portia Choi | May 17, 2016 | Events, Pictures
Photos by Martin Chang In 2016, Don Thompson was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Kern County. Thompson has written poems about Kern County for fifty years. He is prolific in his publication, of over 150 journal publications and dozen books....
