LOBA Poetry Series
Monthly Poet Features & Open Mic
Saturday, February 18, 2023 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join Ukiah Branch Library staff as we host poetry events in-person on the 3rd Saturdays of each month at 3 pm. This free event is open to both teens & adults – all are invited to share poems in any form or style, or just listen to others.
On February 18th, we welcome Georgina Marie Guardado, Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024, and a Poets Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is the Literary Editor for The Bloom, a contributing writer for Antioch University’s Common Thread News, Interim Executive Director for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library. She serves as the Poetry Out Loud and Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Program Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council. As part of the Broken Nose Collective, an annual chapbook exchange, she created her first poetry chapbook Finding the Roots of Water in 2018 and her second chapbook Tree Speak in 2019. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Hugo House, and SF Writing Salon. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, and The Muleskinner Journal, and is forthcoming in Colossus: Freedom and Two Hawks Quarterly. She lives with her rescue dogs Kenya and Micco and her formerly feral cat Mistie, and is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript, The Length of Trauma Covets.
Please contact the Ukiah Branch Library at 707-463-4490 or carrm@mendocinocounty.org for more information.
Serie de poesía LOBA
Funciones mensuales de poeta y micrófono abierto
Sábado 18 de febrero de 2023 a las 3:00 PM al 4:00 PM
Únase al personal de la sucursal de la biblioteca de Ukiah mientras organizamos eventos de poesía en persona el tercer sábado de cada mes a las 3 p.m. Este evento gratuito está abierto tanto para adolescentes como para adultos: todos están invitados a compartir poemas en cualquier forma o estilo, o simplemente escuchar a otros.
El 18 de febrero, damos la bienvenida a Georgina Marie Guardado, poeta laureada del condado de Lake, CA para 2020-2024, y becaria de poetas laureados de la Academia de Poetas Estadounidenses. Es editora literaria de The Bloom, escritora colaboradora de Common Thread News de la Universidad de Antioch, directora ejecutiva interina de la Conferencia de escritores de la costa de Mendocino y coordinadora del programa de alfabetización de la biblioteca del condado de Lake. Se desempeña como coordinadora del programa Poetry Out Loud e Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate para el Consejo de Artes del Condado de Lake. Como parte de Broken Nose Collective, un intercambio anual de libros de capítulos, creó su primer libro de capítulos de poesía Finding the Roots of Water en 2018 y su segundo libro de capítulos Tree Speak en 2019. Recibió el apoyo de la Conferencia de Escritores de la Costa de Mendocino, Escritores del Valle de Napa ' Conferencia, Casa Hugo, y Salón de Escritura SF. Su trabajo ha aparecido en The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review y The Muleskinner Journal, y se publicará próximamente en Colossus: Freedom y Two Hawks Quarterly. Vive con sus perros de rescate Kenya y Micco y su antigua gata salvaje Mistie, y actualmente está trabajando en su poema completo, The Length of Trauma Covets.
Comuníquese con la Biblioteca Sucursal de Ukiah al 707-463-4490 o carrm@mendocinocounty.org para obtener más información.
