LOBA Poetry Series
Monthly Poet Features & Open Mic
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 3 PM
Join Ukiah Branch Library staff as we host poetry events in-person on the third Saturday 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 October 26, we welcome Miami poet, Jen Karetnick.
A 2024 National Poetry Series finalist, Karetnick is the author of 21 books, including 11 poetry collections. Her most recent is “Inheritance with a High Error Rate” (January 2024), the winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award. Her work has won the Sweet: Lit Poetry Prize, Tiferet Writing Contest for Poetry, Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition, Hart Crane Memorial Prize, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, among other honors, and received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Roundhouse Foundation, Wassaic Projects, Write On, Door County, Centrum, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, and elsewhere. The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in Cimarron Review, NELLE, Pleiades, Plume, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. See jkaretnick.com.
Please contact the Ukiah Branch Library at 707-463-4490 or [email protected] for more information.
