Aug 1

Aug 1 Oakland Poet Cassandra Dallett • A Virtual Performance At Third Thursday Poetry

The Arena Theater and Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry present a virtual Third Thursday Zoom Poetry reading at 7:00pm on Thursday, August 20. This month features Oakland poet Cassandra Dallett (aka the badass bookworm), with open mic to follow.

Cassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in Sparkle and Blink, Great Weather for Media, Sensitive Skin, The Oakland Review, and The East Bay Review among many others. Cassandra reads often around the Bay Area, and she hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six, is a facilitator at MOWW, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast, and co-hosts and curates the quarterly reading series Moon Drop Productions as well as The Badass Bookworms Lit Loft.

Her first full-length book of poetry "Wet Reckless" (Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015, she authored five chapbooks, one of them, "On Sunday, A Finch" (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection, "Collapse", also on Nomadic Press, also nominated for a CA Book Award.

For links and more check out cassandradallett.me and look for the Forthcoming A Pretty Little Wilderness from Be About It Press.

To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email blake@snakelyone.com. NOTE: A sample of Cassandra Dallett's poetry is on page 16.

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Third Thursday Poetry Zoom made possible by the Arena Theater and continues to be supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Blake More

A UCLA graduate and resident of California’s Mendocino Coast since the late 90s, Blake More is an artist with many creative voices and obsessions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work embraces visual art, poetry, video, performance, costume design, teaching, functional mixed media art/life pieces and hand-painted art cars, including Star Yantra, a Mercedes SL500 painted with a metallic palette (staryantra.life). Blake’s art is often inspired by nature, geometry and the female form, and she regularly incorporates mixed-media collage and painting into her digital expressions. She also hosts two radios shows: a poet interview podcast called “Cartwheels on the Sky” and an hour long public affairs program called Women’s Voices on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino. Author of five books of poetry, her book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies (available at godmeat.com), and her chapbook Up In the Me World is available on her website. To explore more of Blake’s creative world, please visit snakelyone.com.