Mar 1

Mar 1 Third Thursday Poetry Presents Paul Corman-Roberts

By Blake More

Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 18. This month features East Bay poet Paul Corman-Roberts, with open mic to follow.

Corman-Roberts received a double Masters degree (MA/MFA) in Poetics from the New College of California in 2003. In 2012, he founded Oakland's Beast Crawl Literary Festival which he is currently in the process of reviving after a two-year hiatus. Corman-Roberts was also the producer and host of the literary series "Passages on the Lake" and co-host/co-founder of "Babar in Exile", also based out of Oakland. He has also performed in festivals all throughout the United States.

Paul Corman-Roberts 2nd full length collection of "Bone Moon Palace" was released by Nomadic Press in the Fall of 2020. Previous collections include his full length debut "The Abomunauts Are Coming To Piss On Your Lawn" (Howling Dog Press, 2006) and the chapbook collections "NeoCommuter" (Tainted Coffee Press, 2009) "19th Street Station" (Full of Crow Chap Series, 2011) "Notes From An Orgy" (Paper Press, 2014) and "We Shoot Typewriters" (Nomadic Press, 2015.)

His poem “Sausalito” won the Out of Our Magazine poetry contest in 2010 and his short story “The Deathbed Confession of Christopher Walken” placed 2nd in subTerrain Magazine’s national fiction contest in Canada. Individual work has appeared The Rumpus, Sparkle & Blink, Brave New Word, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Otis Literary Review, Buddy, Up The Staircase, and many others. He has also served as an editor for online magazines Cherry Bleeds, Full of Crow and Red Fez where he still serves as an advisory member.

He currently teaches workshops for the Older Writer’s Lab in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library as well as the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. He also works as a substitute of the Oakland Unified School District while living in exile on the forlorn island of Alameda while remaining actively and proudly involved in raising his daughter Hannah, a sixteen-year old future theater major.

To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email blake@snakelyone.com.

Third Thursday Poetry Zoom made possible by the Arena Theater and continues to be supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Blake More

A UCLA graduate and resident of California’s Mendocino Coast since the late 90s, Blake More is an artist with many creative voices and obsessions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work embraces visual art, poetry, video, performance, costume design, teaching, functional mixed media art/life pieces and hand-painted art cars, including Star Yantra, a Mercedes SL500 painted with a metallic palette (staryantra.life). Blake’s art is often inspired by nature, geometry and the female form, and she regularly incorporates mixed-media collage and painting into her digital expressions. She also hosts two radios shows: a poet interview podcast called “Cartwheels on the Sky” and an hour long public affairs program called Women’s Voices on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino. Author of five books of poetry, her book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies (available at godmeat.com), and her chapbook Up In the Me World is available on her website. To explore more of Blake’s creative world, please visit snakelyone.com.