Valentine’s Day Poetry Reading:

Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium at Old Capitol Books

559 Tyler Street

Monterey (between Pearl and Munras)

$5 admission

I will be reading with Doren Robbins:

Doren Robbins’s poetry has appeared in a wide variety of journals, including The American Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Sulphur, and several other periodicals. His books include Driving Face Down (awarded the 2001 Blue Lynx Prize from Eastern Washington UP); My Piece of the Puzzle from Eastern Washington UP (awarded the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award). His current collection, Twin Extra, has been nominated for the 2015 The National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Foothill College, where he is a three-time recipient of the Foothill College Honors Society Appreciation Award for his teaching. He will read from his new collection, Twin Extra, and a variety of poems from his published works.

Jesse Goodman has been producing benefit concerts for the Henry Miller Memorial Library since he brought Patti Smith there in 2004. The past few years he has been bringing poets in as the opening acts of these shows, which as you can imagine, pleases us here in the Republik of poets to no end. This year he is bringing in legendary San Francisco poet, David Meltzer to open for Pink Martini in this year’s benefit on December 8th at the Golden State Theatre in Monterey, California. Get your tickets baby, they’re going fast . . . So, to honor Jesse’s mad genius we are featuring his story as well as poems by David Meltzer and his wife, the poet Julie Rogers. Scroll down for his story, but first: the poets. Enjoy. Read More >