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03/11/2026

01/02/2026

MENDOCINO COUNTY POET ZIDA BORCICH FEATURED AT JANUARY THIRD THURSDAY POETRY & JAZZ

On Thursday, January 15 at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Mendocino County poet Zida Borcich. The reading will take place at The Record at 255 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Borcich, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading concludes with more live improv jazz. Poets, storytellers and musicians are welcome.

Zida Borcich is a mom, grandma, journalist, letterpress printer, graphic designer, jazz singer, and occasional poet. She lives on the Mendocino Coast of northern California. Since 2010, she has published Real Estate Magazine, a monthly that features ads and a single, locally focused story. She writes many of the stories, along with a column titled “It’s REAL.” Before that, for twenty-seven years, she had a letterpress job shop in Fort Bragg and a card line that was sold in hundreds of stationery and paper stores nationwide.

Happiest times are spent with her daughters, grand kids, & beloved partner, and when she is not cooking, traveling, singing, or gardening, she hangs out with a collection of cherished friends who reside in the nest of creativity, intelligence, beauty, and fun that is her community. The works in this book were gathered from many years of sporadic poetry writing spells. The act of gathering these pieces into one place has been a most engaging project and she is surprised to note that, “It’s turned into a kind of inadvertent autobiography.”

Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group. Poets & Writers, Inc. has lost its small grant funding, so we are open to donations. Please DM to get info on how to donate.

12/01/2025

Third Thursday Poetry and Jazz Open Mic Solstice Reading -- 7pm, Thursday, December 18, 2025

Bring your poems, your appetite and thirst for great food, company, words and music!

07/05/2025

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06/19/2025

On Thursday, June 19 at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature SF Poet Diane Frank. The reading will take place at The Record at 255 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Frank, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading concludes with more live improv jazz.

Diane Frank is author of eight books of poems, three novels, and a photo memoir of her 400 mile trek in the Nepal Himalayas. She is also Chief Editor of Blue Light Press. While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems won the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Poetry. Diane plays cello with the College of Marin Symphony Orchestra. She teaches poetry, flash fiction and memoir workshops at San Francisco State University and Dominican University.

Her first novel, Blackberries in the Dream House, received the Chelson Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Accompanied by Erik Ievins on bass, Diane’s poetry comes especially alive. Music has always been a comfortable second language for Erik Ievins. Classically trained on cello since he was old enough to hold a bow, Erik joined professional symphony and pops orchestras while still in high school. Able to improvise harmonies, shine on a melody, or provide a strong foundation with cello or bass, he has been delighting dancers around the country. He plays cello with the College of Marin Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Golden Gate Symphony, and StringFire, for Contra, English and Scottish dances. When collaborating with poets, Erik expresses the emotions of the poem through music.

More information can be found on Diane’s website: http://www.dianefrank.net

05/12/2025

Hope you come out and share your words, song, ears at the Record this Thursday, May 15, 7pm!

This Thursday at the Record!! Open mic too! Hope to see there for Scott Bird!

SF POET SCOTT BIRD TO FEATURE AT THIRD THURSDAY POETRY & JAZZ IN MAY 2025

On Thursday, May 15 at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature SF poet Scott Bird. The reading will take place at The Record at 255 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live music, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Bird, then an open mic with musical improv, and finally the reading concludes with a live music jam. Poets, storytellers and musicians welcome.

Scott Bird is a poet, painter and musician originally from Western Colorado, living in San Francisco. He is the co founder of the Coit Tower Poetry Club, a monthly reading series at the top of Telegraph Hill, and editor of their magazine Apocrypha. His book Twenty Two Madrigals is out from Apocrypha Press and is available for purchase at Murphy’s Tack n Feed Store in Chugwater, Wyoming. Scott works as a gardener and a California Naturalist for the Presidio in San Francisco. His forthcoming book Paradox will be out from a Lithic Press later this year.


Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

05/12/2025

This Thursday at the Record!! Open mic too! Hope to see there for Scott Bird!

SF POET SCOTT BIRD TO FEATURE AT THIRD THURSDAY POETRY & JAZZ IN MAY 2025

On Thursday, May 15 at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature SF poet Scott Bird. The reading will take place at The Record at 255 Main Street in downtown Point Arena. The reading begins with live music, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Bird, then an open mic with musical improv, and finally the reading concludes with a live music jam. Poets, storytellers and musicians welcome.

Scott Bird is a poet, painter and musician originally from Western Colorado, living in San Francisco. He is the co founder of the Coit Tower Poetry Club, a monthly reading series at the top of Telegraph Hill, and editor of their magazine Apocrypha. His book Twenty Two Madrigals is out from Apocrypha Press and is available for purchase at Murphy’s Tack n Feed Store in Chugwater, Wyoming. Scott works as a gardener and a California Naturalist for the Presidio in San Francisco. His forthcoming book Paradox will be out from a Lithic Press later this year.


Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, anonymous supporters, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

02/06/2024

🎉🎉Introducing our county's shining star🌟, Mendocino County's 2024-26 Youth Poet Laureate, Frej Barty! 📚🖋️ We can't wait to see this multi-talented Mendocino High School junior's journey unfold.��🌱📖

Huge thanks to CalPoets, Urban Word NYC, Mendocino County Office of Education and the Arts Council of Mendocino County for supporting this budding talent!

Stay tuned for future announcements about Frej's Youth Poet Laureateship!

Let's continue celebrating the power of words and youth self-expression! 🎉📚 🎊🏆📝