Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz

Featuring Willits Poet STEVE HELLMAN

7pm, April 18, 2024

THINK VISUAL
240 Main Street
Downtown Point Arena, CA
or via Zoom

Bring something to sit on, something to eat and/or drink, your words, music and ears!!

WILLITS POET STEVE HELLMAN TO FEATURE AT THIRD THURSDAY POETRY IN APRIL 2024
On Thursday, April 18, at 7pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature Willits poet Steve Hellman. The reading will take place at Think Visual, at 240 Main Street (next door to Roots Herbal Apothecary) in downtown Point Arena. The reading will begin with live improv jazz, followed by a featured reading with the musicians accompanying Hellman, then an open mic with jazz improv, and finally the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz. Poets, storytellers and musicians welcome.

Spontaneous spoken word poet Steve Hellman has been “blowing poems” for the past four decades, creating mainly from audience prompts and also the relevance of pure thin air. He has appeared at venues from Los Angeles to San Francisco, New York City, Boulder Colorado and Havana Cuba. He first learned the improv form in the early 1980s from the late master poet Max Schwartz.

Hellman holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He has published poetry, short stories, translations, and articles in numerous publications including Fourteen Hills Literary Journal; Griggs Anthology, City Lights Clamor of Innocence anthology; Zone: A Feminist Journal For Women and Men; and A Flame In The Heart anthology. He was a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1987 to 1992. He has taught creative writing at Mendocino College since 2006.

• Thursday, May 16 – David Partch — locallights@thesighting.com
• Thursday, June 20 – Mike Edwards — edwards_m56@yahoo.com
• Thursday, July 18 – Bob Schildgen — bob.schildgen@gmail.com —
• Thursday, August 15 – Debby Charlene Segal — debbycharlene@gmail.com
• Thursday, September 19 – Maureen Eppstein — maureenE@mcn.org

Third Thursday Poetry is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.