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Mar 1 Marin Poet Kathy Evans Featured March 17 At Virtual Third Thursday Poetry, by Blake More

Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry presents a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 17. This month will feature Marin poet Kathy Evans, with open mic to follow.

Kathy is the author of four collections of poetry: Imagination Comes to Breakfast, Hunger and Sorrow (which won the Small Press Poetry Prize), As The Heart is Held, and now her latest book, nominated for a Pen award, Trespassers Welcome.

A BA from Northwestern University and an MA from San Francisco State University, Kathy has taught creative writing with The California Poets in the Schools, Marin County Juvenile Hall, and the College of Marin. She also taught composition and essay at the University of San Francisco, and was poet-in-residence at The Headlands Center of the Arts and at Bennioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland and San Francisco. In addition, she is a graphic recorder for various corporate and non-profit organizations.

She loves teaching poetry as much as she loves reading and writing it, believing that is a privilege to see revealed the imagination and feelings of a child. She has an essay forthcoming from University of Iowa Press, entitled “Read Between the Lines. In her spare time she loves to swim laps. She lives in San Rafael, California, by the library.

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