After a short summer hiatus, Poetry in the Gallery returns! Join us for another fantastic event of poetry and creativity.

This month will be featuring Caron Perkal and Elaine Alarcon.

As always, there will be an open mic. Poets who would like to perform can sign up on the day and will have a maximum of five minutes (if you have shorter poems, please feel free to do more than one). Tickets are free for all students, members of the gallery and performers. So, if you plan to read on the open mic, please reserve a free ticket, since you will count as a performer. General admission is a suggested $10 donation. If you would like to attend but cannot afford the donation, please contact sean[at]studiochannelislands.org for options of financial support.

Caron Perkal grew up in Pacific Palisades. She is a fifth-generation Los Angeleno. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. After enjoying a decades-long career as an Art Director in advertising, Caron is now retired. She is a member of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective. Her poems have been published in the anthology Twelve Los Angeles Poets, Chiron Review and San Pedro River Review.

Elaine Alarcon is not limited to one genre. She writes plays, fiction, nonfiction, scholarly essays, and poetry. Her poems, short stories and book reviews have appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Denver Now, Askew, Spillway, Orbis, Solo Novo, Solo Voyage, eMerge!, Salt, Flapper Press, Canyon Chronicle, The Topanga Messenger, Ironwood, Words OutLoud UK and Blue Light Press's, PANDEMIC PUZZLE POEMS. She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry, and Finishing Line Press will publish her chapbook, SOLAR MUSIC, in February. She has been a script reader for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and also the Rubicon Theatre. She has written ten-minute plays, with one of them read by professional actors for a nonpublic reading at the ETC in Santa Barbara. She recently completed a longer play about Lorca.

She has graduate degrees in Creative Writing and Modern Literature from the University of Denver and has lectured widely on the artists and writers of the Early 20th Century for Oxnard College. She is also a Paul Bowles scholar and written about his connections as a composer and fiction writer, to Lorca. Last, she credits the wonderful Tri-County Poetry community for her development as a poet.