If you were around in 1987 and old enough to have MTV as your soundtrack, you will remember the images vividly. A skeleton resembling Jerry Garcia perched on a stool, performing to a crowd of living beings. The other members of the Grateful Dead in a similar state. A dog makes off with Micke…

Marc Zegans has written seven collections of poems. A reviewer for the poetry and film platform Liberated Words, he also regularly gets involved in collaborative projects, be it his work with filmmakers (films based on his poems appear regularly at festivals around the world) or his Ghost Bo…

Book festivals are often specific to a place.

“Hallelujah Town… Liberation and Ecstasy.” That’s the full title of the upcoming afternoon of poetry and music at Henry Miller Memorial Library, which brings four California poets – led by Jerome Dunn, aka jerry the priest – to the literary destination in Big Sur. They will read their works,…

Being aware that April is National Poetry Month is one thing, but keeping up with all the poetry events in Monterey County this month requires quite a bit of stamina. For example, the two biggest multi-day celebrations are coming up: The nine-day-long International Poetry Week 2026, which st…