Women in a Golden State & Friends Reading
Verbatim Books, North Park, San Diego 6:30-8p Pacific, Sunday, 16 November
Join us for a reading and celebration of the anthology Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press, 2025) hosted by Tammy Greenwood, Leslie Hodge, and special guest, editor Chryss Yost, and featuring poets Lori Anaya, Elena Katrina Byrne, Veronica Kornberg, Seretta Martin, Kathy O’Fallon, and friends Deborah Allbritain, Andrea Carter, and Melissa McKinstry.
Host of “Depth of Field” – A Poet Tree Production –
a matinee of poetry and music to reset your default
San Diego 1-3p Pacific, Sunday, 16 November 2025
Join us to mingle, nosh, and celebrate poetry and music with poets Allisa Cherry (Exodus of Sparks), Majda Gama (In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls), and Heidi Seaborn (tic tic tic) – and the musical stylings of Rebecca Matayoshi and Evan Pasternak.
Seat reservations on Eventbrite here.
Writing While Caregiving: Challenges & Strategies – A Panel Discussion for Writer-Caregivers
online, Millay House Rockland, 6:30-8p, Eastern, Thursday, 6 November 2025
The panel will bring together a diverse group of writer-caregivers to share experiences, strategies, and insights from the intersection of caregiving and creativity. This event invites writers, caregivers, and community members to explore how caregiving reshapes the creative process and how writing, in turn, can illuminate the caregiving experience.
NOTE: This event is FREE, but you need to register here in order to receive the Zoom link to the panel discussion.
In Conversation with the Landscape: a Poetry Reading with Joanna Young
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 1-2pm Eastern, Thursday, 16 October 2025
Join us for a special reading with the Millay House Writer-in-Residence Joanna Young, followed by a conversation with our 2024 inaugural resident, Melissa McKinstry.
Past & Present: in Conversation with Poets I Love
The Poets Corner Community of Poetry & Prose
online 4-5:30p Eastern, Sunday, 14 September 2025
Mark Doty, Diane Seuss, and Melissa McKinstry will be reading some of their current poems, as well as poems written in response to poets or poems that they love, and a conversation about writing, influences, and inspiration.
This event has past, and the recording of it is available here.
Host of “For a Spell” – A Poet Tree Production –
an evening of poetry and jazz to reset your default
San Diego 6-8p Pacific, Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Join us to mingle, nosh, and celebrate poetry and jazz with poets Blas Falconer (Rara Avis), Emily Hyland (Divorced Business Partners), and Zea Sandoval, and musical guests the Quincy Reyes Trio.
Alumni Programming on Behalf of the Alumni Council
Pacific University MFA in Writing Residency
Forest Grove, Oregon 10:30a-6:15p Pacific, Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Join us for an Alumni and Fifth Semester Student Prompt Luck, an Alumni Panel: Cultivating Writing Relationships–Mentorship in Many Forms, and an Alumni Reading and Book Sale.
Launch Reading
Stonecoast Review - Summer 2025 - Issue #23 - Power
online, 3:15p Eastern, Monday, 16 June 2025
Interview with Catherine-Esther Cowie, poet
Pacific Alumni Craft Talks (PACT) 2.1
online, 6-7:15p Pacific, Tuesday, 10 June 2025
archived on the PACT Desk Set on Substack
Host of “Tilt-a-Whirl”–A Poet Tree Production–
an evening of poetry and jazz to reset your default
San Diego 6:30-8p Pacific, Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Celebrate poetry and jazz with us at our inaugural Poet Tree Production with poets Nancy Miller Gomez (The House of Inconsolable Objects), Cindy Huyser (Cartography), Carly Marie DeMento, and Michael Mark (Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening Than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet) and guitarist Ben Zinn.
Poems of Place Craft Talk at the Farnsworth Art Museum
online 3-4:30p Eastern, 30 April 2025
“Poems of place contain the psychological and geographic maps we make of the worlds we know, think we know, and those we remember.”
––KC Trommer
We’ll be reading and writing poetry inspired by the current exhibit Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870-1930. The session will begin with an orientation to some of the art and artists, led by Francesca Soriano, Associate Curator of American Art, followed by a selection of poems by women whose life and work coincides with these women painters, and then a selection of poems by contemporary women poets in Maine, whose work “captures their environment.”
Participants will have the opportunity to explore how place is evoked with craft elements such as detail, image, and form. We will map the worlds we know. There will be time to write, and the option to share what you create.
Host of “The Entropy of Joy”–A Poet Tree Production–
an evening of poetry and jazz to reset your default
San Diego, 6:30-8p Pacific, Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Here’s to poetry and jazz, and the second of our quarterly Poet Tree Productions, with poets Deborah Allbritain (Osgood), Ron Salisbury (Please Write and Tell Me What I Looked Like When You Met Me), and Sonya Schneider, and the musical stylings of the The Eric Wesling Trio.