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Events in March 2023

  • - Don’t Just Hit SEND: On How to Avoid Common Errors in Publishing
    Don’t Just Hit SEND: On How to Avoid Common Errors in Publishing

    Don’t Just Hit SEND: On How to Avoid Common Errors in Publishing


    March 2, 2023

    First Thursdays Arts Walk

    “Don’t Just Hit Print SEND: On How to Avoid Common Errors in Publishing” with Jo Scott-Coe

    Free and open to the public. No registration required.

    Riverside Main Library, 3900 Mission Inn Blvd, Riverside, CA 92501

    Doors Open at 6:00 PM

    6:30-8:00 PM

    It happens to the best of us: We hit print, or send, and only afterwards notice a glaring error.

    Proofreading our own work is notoriously difficult. Learn some tried and true strategies that anyone can implement for getting your work print ready.

    Open readings start at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00.

    Jo Scott-Coe’s essays and stories have been published widely, for literary as well as academic audiences. Her third book, Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, is forthcoming in Fall 2023 from the University of Texas Press.

  • - "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham

    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham


    March 7, 2023

    John Brantingham Boot Camp

    “Creating a Poetry Routine”

    Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023

    7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom

    $100, four weekly meetings

    Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.

    This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)

    John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.

  • - "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham

    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham


    March 14, 2023

    John Brantingham Boot Camp

    “Creating a Poetry Routine”

    Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023

    7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom

    $100, four weekly meetings

    Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.

    This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)

    John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.

  • - "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham

    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham


    March 21, 2023

    John Brantingham Boot Camp

    “Creating a Poetry Routine”

    Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023

    7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom

    $100, four weekly meetings

    Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.

    This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)

    John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.

  • - "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham

    "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham


    March 28, 2023

    John Brantingham Boot Camp

    “Creating a Poetry Routine”

    Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023

    7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom

    $100, four weekly meetings

    Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.

    This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)

    John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.