Remembering Linna Thomas
We lost Linna Thomas on May 31. For 52 years, she was the driving spirit behind Coalesce Book Store and Garden Chapel in Morro Bay, a fiercely independent, community-minded haven…
Poetry: Green Flash
Photo by Adel Emma The legendary green flash is real. After more than fifty years living on our coast and countless sunset viewings, I finally saw it as the last…
Golden Quill Writing Contest Opens
Cash prizes and publication await the winners of the 2025 Golden Quill writing contest, an annual competition sponsored by SLO NightWriters in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Deadline to…
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 …