LOBA POETRY SERIES
Monthly Poet Features & Open Mic
Saturday, June 21th from 3-4 PM
Join Ukiah Branch Library staff as we host poetry events in person on the third Saturdays of each month at 3 p.m. This free event is open to both teens and adults. All are invited to share poems in any form or style or just listen to others. On June 21, 2025, we welcome Connie Post.
Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Comstock Review, Cutthroat Magazine River Styx, 2 River, The American Journal of Poetry, Spoon River Poetry Review, SlipStream, Pedestal Magazine, Mom Egg Review, and Verse Daily. Her awards include the Crab Creek Review Award, Liakoura Award, The Prick of the Spindle Poetry Contest, and the Caesura Award. Her work has appeared in over fifteen anthologies. She has been short-listed for the Lois Cranston Memorial Prize, The Muriel Craft Bailey Awards, the I-70 Review Gary Gildner Award, and the Sweet Lit Poetry Awards.
Connie has three full length collections and three chapbooks. Her first book Floodwater won the Lyrebird Award (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and her second full length Prime Meridian was also published by Glass Lyre Press. Her two 2023 collections include Between Twilight (New York Quarterly Books) and Broken Metronome (Glass Lyre Press). Between Twilight was a finalist for the Best Book Awards and the International Book Awards. Broken Metronome has earned six awards, including winner for a poetry chapbook in the American Fiction Awards, and was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.
Please contact the Ukiah Branch Library at 707-463-4490 or
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SERIE DE POESÍA LOBA
Aparencias de Poeta Mensuales y Micrófono Abierto
Sábado 21 de junio de 3 a 4 PM
Únase al personal de la biblioteca de Ukiah mientras organizamos eventos de poesía en persona el tercer sábado de casa mes a las 3:00 p.m. Este evento gratuito está abierto para adolesentes y adultos: todos están invitados a compartir poemas en cualquier forma o estilo, o simplemente escuchar a otros. El 21 de junio, le damos la bienvenida a Connie Post.
Connie Post fue la primera poeta laureada de Livermore, California. Su obra ha aparecido en Calyx, Comstock Review, Cutthroat Magazine, River Styx, 2 River, The American Journal of Poetry, Spoon River Poetry Review, SlipStream, Pedestal Magazine, Mom Egg Review y Verse Daily. Entre sus premios se incluyen el premio Crab Creek Review, el premio Liakoura, el concurso de poesía The Prick of the Spindle y el premio Caesura. Su obra ha aparecido en más de quince antologías. Ha sido preseleccionada para el Premio Lois Cranston Memorial, los Premios Muriel Craft Bailey, el Premio Gary Gildner de I-70 Review y los Premios Sweet Lit Poetry.
Connie tiene tres colecciones y tres libros de poemas. Su primer libro, Floodwater, ganó el Premio Lyrebird (Glass Lyre Press, 2014), y su segundo libro, Prime Meridian, también fue publicado por Glass Lyre Press. Sus dos colecciones de 2023 incluyen Between Twilight (New York Quarterly Books) y Broken Metronome (Glass Lyre Press). Between Twilight fue finalista de los Premios al Mejor Libro y de los Premios Internacionales del Libro. Broken Metronome ha ganado seis premios, incluyendo el premio al mejor libro de poesía en los Premios de Ficción Americana y fue finalista de los Premios del Libro Eric Hoffer.
Para más información, consulte www.mendolibrary.org o llame la biblioteca de Ukiah al 707-463-4490.
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