Jessica Cohn
@jescohn
Well, I write things. Mainly poetry these days. This link takes you to samples and reviews from my first collection, GRATITUDE DIARY, along with a way to order the book:
Next up for The Spoken Experience: the power and poetry of Lucille Clifton. Come join this community of readers who gather monthly to enjoy poems from a featured poet. We meet again on Monday, August 24, at noon in the front room of the Capitola Branch Library. Hope to see you!
6/22@noon, the Spoken Experience returns to Capitola Branch Library. This month, this community of readers takes up the poems--sounds and spirit--of translator, essayist, logger, fire lookout, crewman, carpenter, back-to-the-land Buddhist environmentalist Gary Snyder. Join us "Ah, to be alive."
The Spoken Experience returns April 27 at noon to the Capitola Branch Library (CA). The words of Arthur Sze, U.S. poet laureate, will be in focus for National Poetry Month. You're invited. You're always invited. This month marks one year for this welcoming community of readers. Join us!
Because evil has a huge platform these days, I just want to post this and wish the good humans of Artemis all the good there is. Godspeed.
Monday, March 23rd, the Spoken Experience returns to the Capitola (CA) library from noon to 1 p.m. This month, we'll read poems from Eavan Boland. There's nothing like meeting up with fellow poetry fans. Join us!
You're invited to a gathering of poetry fans at the library in Capitola, CA. The Spoken Experience meets at noon on the fourth Monday each month for a communal reading of a featured poet's work. On 2.23, we're reading Billy Collins, who doesn't hold himself out as "too good" to be humorous. Join us!
Join readers who gather at the library in Capitola, CA, for a communal reading of a featured poet's work. The Spoken Experience meets on the fourth Monday at noon. On January 26, the discussion centers on the healing poems of Joy Harjo, first Native to serve as poet laureate for the U.S. Join us!
Here's a nice way to start the week, and you're invited. You're always invited: Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience: Monday, December 22, noon to 1 p.m.@Capitola Branch Library. This month, we're going to take some time to share poems from Naomi Shihab Nye.
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month. Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1 We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us. Before I went to work on this planet I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . . from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.
As of Sunday, GRATITUDE DIARY: POEMS (Main Street Rag) is one year old. Still in the stroller.
Congrats to poets launching books or marking book birthdays. It's not easy to promote yourself--especially now. So we'll share your news in community on November 6th. Join us and meet others who might collaborate to help make your book's journey more enjoyable. Sign up NOW at saltandpoetry@gmail.com
Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience 9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee: The radio in the kitchen is stuck in the year I was born. The capitals of the world are burning. from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee
If you told me five years ago this would be me on Tuesday night, I don't know. I likely would have grimaced and changed the subject. Seems you really can change up your life.
Saturday. Post protest. To fellow readers Laura Bayless and Jennifer Lagier and the rest of Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, thank you. Have long wondered what it would feel like to read with you in your beautiful space. Was heartening, can't thank you enough.
San Francisco. June 1. Bazaar Cafe Salon. Thanks to owners Josh and Rozanne. Thanks to host, Peter Kline. Thanks to Ayelet Amittay, Fatima Jafar, Brian Komei Dempster for sharing some of your bright light with me.
😍 San Diego poetry community. Heard from three SD poets laureate on critical need to support libraries plus major insights from the rest at the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize event last night. Each poet, so different. Each poem. Felt in fighting form against AI there. TY to all. Wow.
Gratitude Diary: POEMS took first place for poetry from the Great Northwest Book Festival (and still can be ordered from Main Street Rag, I should probably add). As you were.
Glad for the chance to talk poetry on The Hive Sunday night. TY, Julie Murphy. (Show now archived on Spotify, link below) open.spotify.com/episode/0IiX...
Available at my local shops--Bookshop Santa Cruz and Two Birds Books in Pleasure Point--and online from the publisher mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/grat... Trying to get this first collection out there without using Amazon. My small press publisher is no oligarch. We'll see how it goes.
My first poetry book is now circulating in my library system and wow I wish my mom were alive
Inter / Act is a great group / venue. Glad for the chance to help keep the poetry going into 2025.
I'm buying. (Thanks to the SDPA, the guild, and all involved. Submitting can be so thankless. Then comes a day.)
Still looking for interaction here, more like what I know at FB and knew at Twitter. Looking for poets. Not sure who will see this, but hey, ended up in Seattle for the New Year. Got great fireworks photos. But this says more of what I wish for you, Dear Reader. Let 2025 lift boats. Let's.