19/04/2025
Saturday, April 19 – Mary Ann McFadden - Blanchard Library * & @ the Piano Kitchen – Crow, Marsha de la O, Friday Gretchen, Geoffrey Jacques, Phil Taggart and more… Carpenteria
Saturday, April 19 @ the Piano Kitchen ( has moved to Carpentaria )
- 4185 Carpinteria Ave. Unit 3, Carpinteria
Poetry and Music – Friday Gretchen, Year of the Crow, Geoffrey Jacques, Hal Onserud, Sean Colletti, Tracy Hui, Marsha de la O, Crow Daughter, Jim Connolly, Phil Taggart… (watercolor kits provided)
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Saturday, April 19 – Mary Ann McFadden and Open Mic
Blanchard Library
119 N 8th St, Santa Paula, CA
host Anita McLaughlin starts at noon
Mary Ann McFadden - “The Way Corn Grows” and “Goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhBgVm04u80
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Wednesday, April 23 - Elizabeth Kuelbs and open mic
The reading starts at 6pm live and online
Thousand Oaks Library – 1401 E. Janns Rd. Host Ron Fullerton
Reserve a zoom box
ZOOMERS: Time to register with the new link:
https://libcal.tolibrary.org/event/14487131
Elizabeth Kuelbs - What to do After Climate Week,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLZ-_8k6o-w
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Saturday, April 26 KALI BENNETT, GALE NAYLOR and open mic
Poetry at the Gallery Studio Channel Islands Art Center
2222 Ventura Boulevard, Camarillo,
host Sean Colletti starts at 3pm
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Sunday, April 27 open mic: The State of Our Souls and Our Nation
Special Gathering to Share Poems and Ideas
– EP Foster Library live and online starts at 3pm
651 E. Main St. Ventura, CA - host: Phil Taggart
starts at 3pm - the zoom thingie open’s at 2:30 California time
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9607501600
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Glenna Luschei has passed (Between Two Rivers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prO4AwnvGQ
be careful out there (move fast/break things)… and now what
Phil Taggart – Vote God and Goods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxVtJwRDyro
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future readers for EP Foster Library
May 4 Mary Kay Rummel & Juan Luzuriaga
June 29 Elizabeth Torres, Chris Buckley and Michael Torres
July 13 The Venice Collective
Marjorie Becker, Jeanette Clough, Dina Hardy, Paul Lieber,
Sarah Maclay, Holaday Mason, Jim Natal, Brenda Yates, Mariano Zaro
Thousand Oaks / Newbury Park readings
May 14 - Newbury Park (we're back after tax season!): Elya Braden and Jon Pearson
May 28 - T.O.: Jeannette Clough
June 11 - Newbury Park: Art + Poetry Event featuring artist Charles Magallanes. Write a poem inspired by Charles' paintings and read it in the open mic.
June 25 - T.O.: Caleigh Tupy
Santa Barbara readings
GUESS WHO’S IN TOWN, Friday MAY 2nd
James Crews & Rosemerry Trommer
at the SB Library.
Blue Whale Wed. MAY 14, 5:30PM
Mary Kay Rummel & Mary Ann McFadden
Unity of Santa Barbara Chapel
227 E. Arrellaga Street
Blue Whale, WED. JULY 9th, at 5:30
Pam Davis and Amy Michelson
Blue Whale Wed. September 10, 5:30PM
Chris Buckley & Phil Taggart
Unity of Santa Barbara Chapel
227 E. Arrellaga Street
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1st Sunday of the month
– EP Foster Library live and online
651 E. Main St. Ventura, CA - host: Phil Taggart
poetry first Sunday starts at 3pm
- the zoom thingie open’s at 2:30 California time
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9607501600
2nd Wednesday of the month
Newbury Park Library live and online
2331 Borchard Road host Ron Fullerton
starts at 6
please sign-in to get the zoom link
https://libcal.tolibrary.org/event/12621402
2nd Saturday of the month
Blanchard Library
119 N 8th St, Santa Paula, CA
host Anita McLaughlin starts at noon
3rd Tuesday, of the month
– Ojai Library – 111 Ojai Avenue
Hosts: Judy Oberlander & Crystal Davis - starts at 6pm
4th Wednesday, of the month
The reading starts at 6pm live and online
Thousand Oaks Library – 1401 E. Janns Rd. Host Ron Fullerton
Reserve a zoom box
please sign-in to get the zoom link
https://libcal.tolibrary.org/event/12218726
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Anacapa Review is a new online journal from the editors of Gunpowder Press. Anacapa Review will highlight individual poems that capture the sense of inspiration, insight, and craft that we look for in Gunpowder Press publications.
Anacapa Review will be published monthly. Please submit up to 3 poems of any length
Every two months, we will have a new cycle of submissions, managed via Submittable. Submissions are open to everyone—our ideal is to publish established poets and new poets side-by-side.
https://anacapareview.com
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Ventura County Poetry Project
www.vcpoetryproject.org
AskewPoetryJournal… over 1000 videos
www.youtube.com/user/AskewPoetryJournal
Phil Taggart
www.PhilTaggartPoet.com
