Within Words We Are One
In an historic first Vallejo, California will appoint two poets to serve the community side by side as co-poets laureate, Jacalyn Eyvonne and Kathleen Herrmann. Their term will begin January 1st, 2024, and they will be proclaimed at city hall at a later date.
In celebration of November’s Vallejo Art Walk and annual Vallejo Open Studios, Jean Cherie invites poets to write an ekphrastic poem to her life-size sculpture Edna & The Turtle Dove. This visual and poetic art collaboration will be held at the Temple Art Lofts Gallery in downtown Vallejo, California. Poets are invited to visit Edna and The Turtle Dove for inspiration during the Vallejo…
Poetry by the Bay Address: 51 Daniels Avenue, Vallejo, CA Website: http://www.poetrybythebay.com Host: Keith Thompson Vallejo’s longest running poetry open mic! Poetry by the Bay meets at 51 Daniels street on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 PM. Open mic format. 4 minutes per poet. Multiple rounds depending on how many folks show…
Applications are now closed. A new poet laureate will be chosen and announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned. Thank you to all that applied. The application for Vallejo Poet Laureate was due November 15th. Follow in the footsteps of Vallejo Poet Laureate – Genea Brice, D.L. Lang, Poet Laureate of Vallejo, CA, 2017-2019, and…
February 27, 2020 was the last time Poetry by the Bay met in person. It returns at 7 PM on March 22nd and every 4th Wednesday thereafter at 51 Daniels Street. Whether you can attend or not please help spread the word by posting this image on your social media. For more information visit these…
For over a decade Poetry by the Bay has provided The City of Vallejo with a FREE Spoken Word Open Mic show where thousands of poets have come and shared their work. We want to continue to be able to do this for the decades to come, but to do so we need your help….
SAY GOODBYE TO WRITER’S BLOCK AND HELLO TO THE DEEP VOICE WITH “METHOD WRITING” Beginning on Saturday morning, March 26, Vallejo writer Charles Kruger (columnist for The Rumpus and LitSeen, theatre and book reviewer, and published poet) will be debuting an online class in “Jack Grapes’ Method Writing.” Kruger’s work has received recognition in the…
Poetry by the Bay Join Vallejo Poet Laureate Jeremy Snyder for Poetry by the Bay via Zoom every Thursday night at 9 PM Pacific. All are welcome! 4 minute time limit per poet per round. Number of rounds depends on number of poets. The zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81888607048 Poetry by the Bay is the longest running…
(Covid-19) Summer by Juanita J. Martin Beaches are quiet Except the occasional Tide coming in As the sun burns its way through the atmosphere No sizzle from the grill Everyone’s inside— Dreaming of vacations they never had as pools of sweat bead guzzling water clinging to the AC or the nearest fan plugged into their…
Hair It Is By Dr. Gina Rizzo Everyone is valuable and beautiful as they are. Hair has a mind of its own. How it is born is how it’s grown. Hair is all the same. We are all working with how it came. Perms to straighten and to curl. Irons flatten and irons swirl. Shaved,…