04/25/2026
4/25 Dane Lyn & Phil Taggart w/ Jim Connolly - Camarillo (SCIArts)
also 4/25 Laura Mullen - Camarillo Library
Saturday, April 25 - Dane Lyn & Phil Taggart w/ Jim Connolly
Studio Channel Islands Art Center
2222 Ventura Boulevard, Camarillo
host Sean Colletti & open mic starts at 3pm
Phil Taggart – Vote God and Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxVtJwRDyro
Jim Connolly – (Toyshop Ghost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7zRpdhgPqQ
also on
Saturday, April 25 - Laura Mullen
Camarillo Library starts at 3pm
4101 Las Posas Road
April is National Poetry Month. Acclaimed local poet Laura Mullen will provide a special poetry reading.
Mullen is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has published nine poetry books. Her work has been anthologized in American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, The Best American Poetry 1990 and others.
Laura Mullen on Arts in Exile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LuQVPeievY
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videos
Tim Seibles at Art City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umnnxo0HtnM
Marsha de la O at Art City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcdf-romCM0
videos from the Ventura County Poetry Festival 2026
Jeff McDaniel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHxAQNIjXpM
Lyz Merola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTadQcA_9Jw
Lynne Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMoEE30F7qk
David Oliveira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxIFvo494Vw
Mary Ann McFadden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk4fITOcmqc
Suzanne Lummis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb8UCTY6vGU
Perie Longo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auN1uS9WBvw
Felice Alexandra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHbCh89C-s
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future readers for Vita Art Center
May 3 Carol Davis and Caron Perkal
Upcoming Poetry in the Gallery TBA
UPCOMING EVENTS: Writers in the Gallery TBA
Thousand Oaks / Newbury Park readings
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1st Sunday of the month
Vita Art Center
28 West Main Street, Ventura - host: Phil Taggart
poetry first Sunday starts at 3pm
1st Wednesday of the month
Colonia Library – open mic
1500 Camino Del Sol, Oxnard
Starts at 5
2nd Wednesday of the month
Newbury Park Library live and online
2331 Borchard Road host Ron Fullerton
starts at 6
please sign-in to get the zoom link
https://libcal.tolibrary.org/event/14487120
2nd Saturday of the month
Blanchard Library
119 N 8th St, Santa Paula, CA
host Anita McLaughlin starts at noon
3rd Tuesday, of the month
– Ojai Library – 111 Ojai Avenue
Hosts: Judy Oberlander & Crystal Davis - starts at 6pm
4th Wednesday, of the month
The reading starts at 6pm live and online
Thousand Oaks Library – 1401 E. Janns Rd. Host Ron Fullerton
to register click link:
https://libcal.tolibrary.org/event/14487131
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Anacapa Review is a new online journal from the editors of Gunpowder Press. Anacapa Review will highlight individual poems that capture the sense of inspiration, insight, and craft that we look for in Gunpowder Press publications.
Anacapa Review will be published monthly. Please submit up to 3 poems of any length.
Every two months, we will have a new cycle of submissions, managed via Submittable. Submissions are open to everyone—our ideal is to publish established poets and new poets side-by-side.
https://anacapareview.com
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Ventura County Poetry Project
www.vcpoetryproject.org
AskewPoetryJournal… over 1000 videos
www.youtube.com/user/AskewPoetryJournal
Phil Taggart
www.PhilTaggartPoet.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7zRpdhgPqQ
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