Join us for the next edition of Poetry in the Gallery!

This month, in addition to our open mic performers, we will be featuring Jennifer Kelley (in support of her debut collection, Coming to Love My Darkest Places, Kelsay Books) and Nathan Hassall, current Malibu Poet Laureate.

Poetry in the Gallery is free to attend for all members of Studio Channel Islands, all students and all performers (including the open mic; no advanced sign-ups necessary).

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Jennifer Kelley is a poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer living in Camarillo, CA. She has been published in Spillway, Solo Novo: Psalms of Cinder and Silt, Love Letters to the Recently Departed, ASKEW. Her ekphrastic works were also included in Kevin Sloan’s Exhibition, A Collection of Rarities at CMATO in Thousand Oaks. She has appeared as the featured poet in the Malibu series Loose Lips, and throughout Ventura County, including at Jackson Wheeler’s Arcade Poetry Series, John M. White’s performance series 5X5X5, and on Tim Tipton’s Rhyme Without Reason, in addition to Artists in Exile. She blames her poetry family for her success and growth as a poet. Her chapbook, These Things Remain was published in 2005. This year, her first full-length collection Coming to Love My Darkest Places was published by Kelsay Books.

Nathan Hassall believes in poetry's transformational potential. He weaves dreams, altered states, numinous experiences, and the natural world into his work. Hassall's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Dewdrop, Arteidolia, Ghost City Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, La Piccioletta Barca, The Inflectionist Review, and more. He currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Malibu, California.To find out more, sign up up for his poetry mailing list at www.nathanhassall.com/signup and subscribe to his poetry YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@nathanhassallpoetry.