[Thespiritexpress] Mendocino Open Poetry Mic

[dbaker at mcn.org]

Dear poets and lovers of poetry,


Please come to the Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series, October, at the 
Mendocino Art Center.

The open mic poetry series is held the last Saturday of every month at 
the Stevenson Studio at the Mendocino Art Center.

When:  October 26.  4-6 pm

Where;  Mendocino Art Center, Stevenson Studio

The reading begins with one or two featured readers, followed by a brief 
intermission and then an open mic.

Please come and share your work or the work of other poets.

The two featured poets for October are Dan Barth from Ukiah, and Karin 
Uphoff from Mendocino.

Dan Barth’s poetry, fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide 
range of publications from Ant Farm to Zam Bomba. In the late 20th and 
early 21st centuries his work appeared frequently in The Redwood Coast 
Review. He is the author of At the Corner of Vigor and Wisdom; The Day 
After Hank Williams’ Birthday; Fast Women Beautiful; Coyote Haiku and 
Ukiah Haiku. Dan was poet laureate of Ukiah from 2012 to 2014. His work 
is included in the anthology Deep Valley: Poets Laureate of Ukiah, 
2001-2018. He lives near the Russian River in Talmage with his wife Mary 
and their cat Woo.


Karin Uphoff is the author of Botanical Body Care; Herbs and Natural 
Healing for your Whole Body (2007) and numerous articles on health, 
including Words on Wellness in The Lighthouse Peddler Newspaper. 
However, poetry is the language of her heart and she has published poems 
in Noyo River Review (2015, 2024) plus Writers of the Mendocino Coast 
anthologies Hooked (2018), Erosion (2021), California Writers Club 
Literary Review 2022, and in the Lake County Bloom (2023). Recently she 
began posting her poetry on her website: www.karinuphoff.com

Looking forward to seeing you there,
Devreaux Baker
www.devreauxbaker.org