LOBA Poetry Series
Monthly Poet Features & Open Mic
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 3 PM
Join Ukiah Branch Library staff as we host poetry events in-person on the third Saturday of each month at 3 p.m. This free event is open to both teens and adults. All are invited to share poems in any form or style or just listen to others. On October 26, we welcome Miami poet, Jen Karetnick.
A 2024 National Poetry Series finalist, Karetnick is the author of 21 books, including 11 poetry collections. Her most recent is “Inheritance with a High Error Rate” (January 2024), the winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award. Her work has won the Sweet: Lit Poetry Prize, Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Roundhouse Foundation, Wassaic Projects, Write On, Door County, Centrum, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, and elsewhere. The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in Cimarron Review, NELLE, Pleiades, Plume, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. See jkaretnick.com.
Please contact the Ukiah Branch Library at 707-463-4490 or carrm@mendocinocounty.gov for more information.
Serie de Poesía LOBA
Aparencias de Poeta Mensuales y Micrófono Abierto
Sábado 26 de octubre de 2024 a las 3 PM
Únase al personal de la biblioteca de Ukiah mientras organizamos eventos de poesía en persona el tercer sábado de casa mes a las 3:00 p.m. Este evento gratuito está abierto para adolescentes y adultos: todos están invitados a compartir poemas en cualquier forma o estilo, o simplemente escuchar a otros. El 26 de octubre de 2024, damos la bienvenida a la poeta de Miami, Jen Karetnick.
Finalista de la Serie Nacional de Poesía de 2024, Karetnick es autora de 21 libros, incluidas 11 colecciones de poesía. Su obra más reciente es Inheritance with a High Error Rate (enero de 2024), ganadora del premio Cider Press Review Book Award de 2022. Su obra ha ganado el premio Sweet: Lit Poetry Prize, el concurso de poesía Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, el concurso Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, el premio Hart Crane Memorial Prize y el premio Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, entre otros honores, y recibió el apoyo del Vermont Studio Center, Roundhouse Foundation, Wassaic Projects, Write On, Door County, Centrum, Artists in Residence in the Everglades y otros lugares. Es cofundadora y editora ejecutiva de SWWIM Every Day y tiene trabajos recientes o futuros en Cimarron Review, NELLE, Pleiades, Plume, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, South Dakota Review y otros lugares. Ver jkaretnick.com.
Para más información, consulte www.mendolibrary.org o comuniquese con la biblioteca de Ukiah al 707-463-4490
