Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry Series

Blake More hosts the Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry reading in person & on zoom at 7pm on the dates below.

Thursday, October 20 – Marilyn “Motherbear” Scott

Through the shadowed window of Halloween, Samhain and Dia de los Muertoos, Albion Poet:

Marylyn Motherbear Scott
the Poet Priestess, will offer a ritual of poetry.
with live music

7:30 pm, Thursday
(music at 7)
October 20, 2022

for our last time at Arena Market Cafe

185 Main Street, Point Arena, CA

Marylyn Motherbear Scott, who writes memoir, poems, poetic narration, and theatre review.  A founding member & editor for the online journal Coreopsis, she is published by Cauldron Press; Bantam Press, Skinner Press, Coreopsis, Green Egg, and WMC Anthologies and regularly features in readings around Northern California.

She is also published in Edward Searl’s anthology, Beyond Absence (2006), in Hill/Baker/Starhawk’s Circle Round (1998), Annette White Parks’ anthology of women writers, Word Weavers, The Dragonslayer’s Daughter and a book of poetry, Love’s Journey. She is currently focusing on gathering and writing her memoirs, Ohm. Sweet Mystery as well as on a non-fiction book, In Your Own Rite. She began writing reviews for the Brookline Times in the late 50’s. Today, her reviews and other writing can be seen in the local Press.

Motherbear also has a long history of non-violent protest and demonstration for Peace and she was on the creative edge of the Psychedelic Revolution in the early 60’s, the Harvard days of Alpert and Leary, journeyed to the Bay Area in 1967, the Summer of Love, with husband and first two (of six) children. Connecting with the Stanford Writing Group, later known as Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, she taught theatre, creative writing and dance at Peninsula School in Menlo Park.

She the four youngest of her six kids went on the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in 1986, from California to Washington, DC. During this time, she wrote and produced an original dance/theater piece, seventeen verses of Haiku. Titled Sadako’s Dance of the Thousand Crane it was performed in town squares and church basements, at Notre Dame, Kent State; and later, in Europe, Russia, and Czechoslovakia. Her continued activism for peace and the environment brought both her theatrical and poetical presence to rallies, demonstrations and venues along the peace path. More information about Marylyn “Motherbear” Scott, can be found via her website: MagickalCauldorn.org

Thursday, November 17 – Thomas Roberdeau

Thursday, December 15 (open mic solstice)

To watch or participate as an open mic reader, please email blake@snakelyone.com

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.