The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium welcomes you to enjoy a free evening of poetry featuring Laura Bayless, Jennifer Lagier, and Jessica Cohn on Saturday, June 14 @ 5:30 PM at the Pacific Grove Public Library, 550 Central Ave. (PG)
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Laura Bayless is privileged to live in beautiful Carmel Valley. The author of four collections of poetry, she also explores additional creativity through photography and collage, and serves as an Associate Editor of the Monterey Poetry Review. Bayless has participated in seven Women’s Voices poetry readings at the Carl Cherry Center in Carmel, as well as in multiple Women and Food poetry and art presentations across the Monterey Peninsula. She co-edited Passion for Place, stories and poems about the Carmel Rive, and her original poems have appeared in local and national publications. Bayless has been a member of the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium for many years.
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Jennifer Lagier lives a block from the Monterey stage where Janis Joplin performed and Jimi Hendrix torched his guitar. She has published twenty-four books, and her work appears in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines. Lagier taught with California Poets in the Schools and edited the Homestead Review. She currently edits the Monterey Poetry Review with Laura Bayless and Kate Avraham, and helps publicize the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium’s Second Saturday readings. Learn more about Lagier’s work at jlagier.net and on her Facebook page.
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Jessica Cohn is finding her way in the post-truth world, marking a path with rocks, ribbons, and observations in verse. The entries in her debut poetry collection Gratitude Diary follow an arc from grief and regret to illumination, from broken islands to the medicine creek. Gratitude Diary was named winner for poetry by this year's Great Northwest Book Festival. A Michigan native and longtime nonfiction writer, Cohn has made homes in Illinois, New York, and now Aptos, California, where she started her poetry practice. She facilitates a spoken-word appreciation group that meets monthly at the Capitola library. She revels in the way poems say what cannot otherwise be said. For additional information, please visit jessicacohn.net.
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Our next reading will be held on July 12, featuring Sal Salerno and Patrice Vecchione.
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The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium seeks to showcase the finest talents of the diverse Central Coast literary community, from Big Sur to Santa Cruz to the Salinas Valley and beyond. Free readings are held on the second Saturday of each month at the Pacific Grove Public Library. All are welcome. Follow us on Facebook, or contact Kent Leatham (
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