Wednesday, May 19
The Nevada County Poetry Series presents
Theresa Whitehill & Lytton Bell
7:30PM, $5 general,
seniors and students
$1 for those under 18
Refreshments and open-mic included
On Wednesday, (YES WEDNESDAY) May 19 at 7:30 p.m. the Nevada County Poetry Series continues its celebration of poetry with Theresa Whitehill and Lytton Bell. Bill Gainer Says, “National Poetry Month may be over, but we’re not done! It is time for May flowers and we have two of Northern California’s brightest to chase those rainy-day-blues away. Theresa Whitehill and Lytton Bell will be welcoming the sun – this will be a fun night!”
Theresa Whitehill was born in Sacramento and studied at UC Santa Cruz and Mills College. Since 1984 she has lived in Mendocino County, where she is well-known to local poetry audiences. In 1998 she served as Poet-in-Residence at Stags’ Leap Winery for a project that resulted in the exhibit and catalog “Napa Valley: Portrait of a Community.” Among other literary and arts journals, the American Film Institute has published Whitehill’s work. Whitehill currently serves as the city of Ukiah’s Poet Laureate. In November of 2009, Pygmy Forest Press published a collection of her poems, “A Grammar of Longing.” Her literary letterpress broadsides, many produced with her husband, artist Paulo Ferreira, are in major national collections, including the Getty Center for the Arts, Brown University’s John Hay Library, and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.
Lytton Bell is a sought after reader and has performed at many local venues: the Sacramento Poetry Center, Luna’s Cafe and The Book Collector. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals, magazines, web sites and e-zines. Bell earned a poetry scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1988, where she studied with Deb Burnham and Len Roberts. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1993. She later studied poetry with the Nevada City poet Molly Fisk. Bell is currently at work on a biography of the legendary West Coast poet B.L. Kennedy. Of Bell, Bill Gainer says, “Her work tends to tease, toy and play with the senses.”
The reading and open-mic will be videoed for presentation on Nevada County TV, channel 11.
Tickets available at the door for $5 general, seniors and students, and $1 for those under 18, refreshments and open-mic included. The show will be in the Off Center Stage (the Black Box theater, enter from Richardson Street) at the Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley, CA. For more information call (530) 432-8196 or (530) 274-8384.
Grass Valley, California 95945