[Thespiritexpress] Mendocino Poetry Series January 25th/ Mendocino Art Center

[dbaker at mcn.org]

Dear Poets and lovers of poetry,
You are invited to attend the January 25th Mendocino Open Mic Poetry 
Series at the Mendocino Art Center.
The January featured readers are poets Karen Lewis and Amanda Cruise. 
There is a sign-up sheet available for poets reading in the open mic 
following the featured readers.

Directions:

Mendocino Open Mic Poetry Series
Last Saturday of the month: January 25th
Mendocino Art Center at the Stevenson Studio
Time: 4-6 pm
Format: Reading begins with featured readers in the first hour and is 
followed by an open mic.
Open mic poets are asked to read one or two poems no longer than five 
minutes total.


Featured: Karen Lewis and Amanda Cruise


Karen K. Lewis is a longtime workshop leader with California Poets in 
the Schools. She's interested in spaces between here and there. Where 
ocean touches earth. Where mountains reach sky. Where “impossible” 
becomes “maybe” and where the blank page turns to art. Her work appears 
in anthologies and journals including Literary Mama, Minerva Rising, 
Iron Horse, 7x7.la and in magazines for youth. Karen's poetry chapbook 
PEACE MAPS was launched in 2020 by Finishing Line Press. She is a former 
director of the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, and lives near the 
Navarro River. More details at https://www.wordjourneys.org



Amanda Cruise is a third culture kid raised in Rome, Paris and New York 
City. Her poetry has appeared in the Noyo Review, Lake County Bloom, and 
soon in the Mendocino Women's Poetry Anthology: Spirit of Place. Her art 
has been exhibited at PhotoPlace in Vermont, Praxis Gallery in 
Minnesota, Writers of the Mendocino Coast anthologies, as well as at 
galleries in Germany, the Netherlands and Thailand. Her creative path, 
like her life, continues to be non-linear and she likes it that way. She 
currently lives in Mendocino on Northern Pomo land where she wanders the 
land, wonders about life and drinks tea by the ocean. Photography – 
amandacruise.com
Sometimes she’s @wildishwoman on Instagram.


Questions Contact:

Devreaux Baker
dbaker at mcn.org
www.devreauxbaker.org