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Ojai Valley Poetry Association General Meeting

by Robert Peake January 5, 2009

Poetry Matters! Not long after the disappointing news that the 2009 Ojai Poetry Festival has been cancelled, a group of poets and poetry lovers in Ojai, many of them past volunteers and committee members from previous festival seasons, began organizing with the intent to bring poetry to Ojai in a new and different…

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Poetry At The Village Jester

by Robert Peake January 29, 2008

Poetry Matters! Starting this coming Monday, Tree Bernstein will host a regular poetry reading series at The Village Jester Restaurant & Pub on the first Monday of each month. The evening will start with an open mic at 8PM and a featured poet at 8:30. This coming Monday, February 4th, the series…

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2009 Ojai Poetry Festival Planning Meeting

by Robert Peake January 5, 2008

Poetry Matters! The annual planning meeting of the Ojai Poetry Festival committee will take place Tuesday, February 5th at 7:00 PM at the Ojai Public Library. The agenda will include themes, poets, format, and committee assignments for the 2009 event. Please RSVP to Jimfest [at] aol [dot] com if you are planning…

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Favorite Poem Project Coming To Ojai!

by Robert Peake August 28, 2007

Poetry Matters! On Monday, Nov. 12, The Ojai Art Center will host the first in a series of Favorite Poem Project readings. The events will feature members of the community each reading one of their favorite poems (written by someone other than themselves) and sharing the personal significance of that poem. Robert Pinsky, our…

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Outlaw Poets Riding Strong

by Robert Peake July 3, 2007

Poetry Matters! This Friday, you won’t want to miss Marsha de la O. at Bart’s Books. Her work is sonorous, strange and wonderful. Copies of her book, Black Hope – recipient of the New Issues Press Poetry Award, and now in its second printing – will be available for sale. Starts at 7PM with…

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Discount Ojai Poetry Festival Tickets

by Robert Peake May 14, 2007

Poetry Matters! Just so you know, “advance sale” tickets sold on the Ojai Poetry Festival Website come at a five dollar discount from the cost at the door – that’s five bucks off every ticket. But ticket sales online will end this Friday at 5PM.
So, all you Post readers that have been putting off…

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Poet John Kertis At Bart’s Books This Friday

by Robert Peake May 1, 2007

Poetry Matters! John Kertis, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Venice (California), will be reading at Bart’s Books this Friday following an open mic portion of the evening starting at 7PM. The theme of the evening is, “Poetry as the Voice of the Earth”, in harmony with the theme of this season’s Ojai Poetry Festival.
For…

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Poetry Festival Final Volunteer Meeting TONIGHT

by Robert Peake April 12, 2007

If you have thought about considering the possibility of thinking about volunteering for this season’s Ojai Poetry Festival, now is the time to act. Come to the final monthly volunteer meeting tonight at 7PM in the Ojai Library. Lend support to this outstanding literary event, and be sure to purchase…

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Yee-Haw For Poetry!

by Robert Peake April 2, 2007

Poetry Matters! April is National Poetry Month, and there’s a flurry of poetic activity going on in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Also, right here in Ojai, Bart’s Outlaw Poets return this Friday, April 6th. at 7 PM with an open mic and featured reader Dave Ray – owner of Bart’s Books and co-author (with…

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The Ojai Post Poetry Center

by Suza Francina March 23, 2007

this moment
a bright sliver of the moon hangs over
the dark shadowy mountains of the
valley of the moon
i stand stone still
watching the first glimmers of dawn
the quarter moon so bright it
almost looks full
the valley below so silent
like the beginning of time
no busy minds…no cars…
only the soft soft hooting of the owl

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