Ventura County May Poetry Events: Erotica, Joy Manesiotis, plus AP and students too!
While April is National Poetry Month, this May there’s some great poetry readings to catch in Ventura County!
Tomorrow, Thursday, May 11 at 7:30pm in the EP Foster Library Topping Room (651 E. Main Street, Ventura), join Ventura County Poet Laureate Phil Taggart as he hosts a featured reading by Joy Manesiotis followed by an open mic with readings by local luminaries as well as poets in training and others including my Ventura College Composition students.
Expect the unexpected! I tell my students they can find poetry anywhere. They could submit anything they chose to that they’d written this semester but they can read what they want Thursday night. Above is the cover that Brandon Elliott designed using the title that the students generated and voted for and an image submitted by Maria Sheldon that she took in her photography this semester.
Featured poet is Univ of Redlands prof Joy Manesiotis
by Joy Manesiotis
its silky outline, but I will be undone
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calls in the morning’s suffusion of light—once, and again. I wish only
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and its blessing. Now empty of the bird’s call, the air
stalls, refuses to lighten. The bird will not call the morning
into being. I would be wrapped in the warm silk
of that regard, for once clear and without reproach. An atonal humming—
its uncertain vibration—fills my torso, no plush comfort.
by Joy Manesiotis*
not the cobbled lane, curving tight
between blinding white walls on the island.
Rough tan block, the house yellowish
against the blue sky, a wood porch, capped
by brick tiles, the porch leaning against the road,
the grape arbor before it, tangled and sweet.
This is where the sadness lies, on this
road, in its jagged curve, in the pattern
woven by the vines and cast onto the smooth white,
crushed stones, ground to a fine dust, a powder
finer than the mist that rises
up the mountain in the mornings,
through the fig orchards, ghosting the olive trees.
There’s also a new 6pm Wednesday poetry series starting in Newbury Park at the library 2331 Borchard Road hosted by Ken Jones: May 3 and June 7.
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