by Portia Choi | Sep 8, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”8″ gal_title=”open mic September 2016″] On September 2, Fidel A. Martinez was the featured poet. He read from his books of poetry: Factory Lights (2013), An American Mythology (2011), Ghost Stories from the...
by Portia Choi | Aug 31, 2016 | Events, Pictures
photos by Martin Chang [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”7″ gal_title=”Summer 2016 open mic”] In June and July of 2016 the poets of Bakersfield came to Open Mic. They had an opportunity to performs more of their poetry these two...
by Portia Choi | May 17, 2016 | Events, Pictures
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”6″ gal_title=”donlaurate”] 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...
