Jul 1

Jul 1 Third Thursday Poetry Presents S.F. Poet D. A. "Roarshock" Wilson

By Blake More

Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents Poet D. A. "Roarshock" Wilson reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, July 15. The virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry includes open mic to follow.

Roarshock is a Northern California Poet and Storyteller based in San Francisco. His work has appeared in eccentric, obscure and unknown publications, some of which he edited. His chapbook - First Hours of a Rainy Day and Other Poems - was published in 1997, and since 1998 he has been publisher and editor of ROARSHOCK PAGE, a literary street flyer. To his great delight, someone has placed issues of ROARSHOCK PAGE in the Little Maga/Zine Collection of the San Francisco Public Library.

Roarshock believes strongly in Public Libraries and other public cultural spaces, free speech and free expression, and an open online world as exemplified by projects like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive and Spoken World Online. He opposes censorship, including “cancel culture”, all bigotry and inequality, and corporate control of art and culture.

During the 2020 pandemic he sheltered at the ancestral home in historic Martinez, California, which has no ivory tower. Since he did not storm the walls of academia, he has had many mundane jobs including warehouseman, coffee roaster, editor, newspaper critic and reporter, law librarian, and for two decades coordinator in the flagship newsroom of the world’s leading commercial newswire, with his thumb on the very jugular of capitalism.

Roarshock has read live on Pirate Cat Radio and Radio Valencia in San Francisco and performed in venues as diverse as Adobe Books and the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco, and Au Chat Noir in Paris. In addition to continued composition, publication and performance of his poems, future projects include writing a multi-volume mythological High Fantasy adventure series and penning a 21st century children's book (the protagonist an anthropomorphic bear), for adults and children of all ages. The collected ROARSHOCK PAGE and many other works are on his web site, roarshock.net.

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.

NOTE: Read a poem by D.A. Wilson on page 13 of this issue of the Lighthouse Peddler.

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.