Poetry: My Temple of the Green Hills
Photo by Spencer DeMera When I’m searching for trust in the transience of everything, it comforts me to walk the green living hills in meditation, listen to the creek chanting…
Poetry: For Which It Stands
Photo by Darius Bashar I pledge allegiance to the person you believe yourself to be and to the one you see yourself becoming— that kaleidoscope of possibility. One world, many…
Poet Christopher Buckley Visits Los Osos
A free, in-person Poetry Night will be held at the Los Osos Library at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 20. “How the Universe Speaks to Us" features poets Christopher Buckley…
New Poet Laureate Wants To Meet You
SLO County poets laureate Kevin Clark and Caleb Nichols Caleb Nichols is an accessible poet. [caption id="attachment_8393" align="alignright" width="175"] Caleb Nichols[/caption] And now they (Nichols prefers the pronoun “they”)…
Poetry: Hunting for the Northern Lights Near Trefor
New SLO County Poet Laureate Caleb Nichols —Previously published in the New England Review, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2023)
Poetry: Catch
Caleb Nichols at the Inaugural Poet Laureate Reading January 24, 2025 Photo by Matthew Rabago …
Poetry: If I Lost My Home by Wildfire
Photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash (after Betsy Kahn’s Sipping Grief*) Would my sips of loss be for family photos or for our conversation gatherings in the kitchen and living…
Celebrate SLO County’s New Poet Laureate
The San Luis Obispo County Arts Council is hosting a special evening celebrating poetry, community, and the power of words on Friday, January 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at…
Poetry: Scheherazade
Scheherazade, fabled storyteller of Arabian Nights, under sentence of death, told stories with no endings. Endless new beginnings, night after night, kept her alive. But stories, for all of us,…
Poetry: To The New Year
Photo by Sheila Swayze You burst from the starting gate and though I pull on the reins, I hang on for the ride, longing for 1940's snail-pace years when I…