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Sightings

 

Jackie is out and about teaching, making poetry, reading and publishing 

Teaching

Teaching poetry to kids during the 2020 academic year
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Brooks Elementary School, Windsor - grades 4 - 5

Miwok Elementary School, Petaluma - grades 3-6
Valley of the Moon Children's Home, Santa Rosa - ages 6-18

Making Poetry

Traveling with words, paper, pencils and glue

April 13, 2019 - Sonoma County Poetry Festival  - An Interactive Poetry-Making Booth
12:00 - 5:00p .p.m. at Chimera Arts, Sebastopol, CA 
 
August 24, 2018 - Healdsburg Art After Dark - An Interactive Poetry-Making Booth
6:00 - 9:30 p.m. on the square in Healdsburg, CA 
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December 30th, 2017 - The Poetry of Landscape - An Interactive Writing Workshop
10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Suggested for ages 12+, including adults. Register here - (free)

Steamer Landing Park, 6 Copeland Ave., Petaluma, CA 

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October 19, 2017 - LandPaths Pop-Up Camp 
Rancho Mark West
Santa Rosa, CA
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July 24-28, 2017 - Where Art & Words Collide:  Summer Art Camp
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Sebastopol, CA
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June 23, 2017 -     Student Poetry Workshops in the Sculpture Garden
Marijke's Grove, Paradise Ridge Winery
Santa Rosa, CA
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May 19-21, 2017 - Maker Faire, Bay Area
Event Center, San Mateo, CA
Poetry Crossing Booth
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April 1, 2017     - Sierra Poetry Festival
Grass Valley, CA
Reading locally with others
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Watch Jackie reading at Gertrude Stein Salon in Lone Pine, CA
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Reading

May 4, 2020 - Rivertown Poets - AMuseing Mondays
6:15 - 8:30 p.m. - Aqus Cafe, Petaluma, CA
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December 12, 2019 - Friends House - Poetry Plus Series 
7:15 - 8:30 p.m. - Friends House, Santa Rosa, CA
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November 10, 2019 - Rising from the Ashes with Maya Khosla,  Sonoma County Poet Laureate
7:15 - 8:30 p.m. - Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
 
August 6, 2019 - Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show 
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - The Dance Palace Church, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
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January 13, 2019 - The Legacy Project (by Maya Khosla, Sonoma County Poet Laureate)
2:00 - 5:30 p.m. - Pepperwood Preserve, 2130 Pepperwood Preserve Rd, Santa Rosa, CA
 
September 28, 2018 - 100,000 Poets for Change
Time tbd - Healdsburg Art After Dark, Healdsburg, CA
 
September 16, 2018 - Petaluma Poetry Walk
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - River Front Cafe, 224 B Street,  Petaluma, CA
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August 7, Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
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July 14, 2018 - Poetry in the Parks at Armstrong Grove
Guerneville, CA 
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June 3, 2018 - Sitting Room Birthday Celebration & Anthology Launch
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Cotati, CA
 
April 28, 2018 - Poetry Reading for Students and CalPoets Teachers
2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Santa Rosa Public Library, Santa Rosa, CA
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April 15, 2018 - Favorite Poems Project
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sonoma County CA
 
Feb. 24, 2018 - Delta Kappa Gamma - Founder's Day Luncheon Keynote 
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Woodland, CA
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Feb. 8, 2018 - An Evening with Dana Gioia & Student Poets
Windsor High School, Windsor, CA
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Dec. 1, 2017 -     A Firestorm of Words
6:00 p.m. at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
 
Nov.  12, 2017 -     Rising from the Ashes
1:00 p.m. at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
 
Sept. 28, 2017 -     Marin Poetry Center - 50th Anniversary Anthology Launch
7:30 p.m. at the Falkirk Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael, CA
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Sept. 22, 2017 -    100,000 Poets for Change - Art After Dark
7:00 p.m. on the Square in Healdsburg, CA
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Sept. 16,  2017 -   CalPoets Retreat - Public Reading
7:00 p.m. Gertrude Stein Salon, Main Street, Lone Pine, CA
 
August 22, 2017 - Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Poetry Show
7:00 p.m. at the Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd., Novato, CA
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April 28, 2017 -    An Evening of Children's Poetry with Kathleen Winter, emcee
Students from Miwok Language Academy, Roseland Elementary and other local schools
6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa, CA
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April  9, 2017 -     Favorite Poems Project with Larry Robinson, emcee
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
                             
Find my most recent work in these publications
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Publishing 

2019 California Quarterly (summer issue)- From Fire, Love Rises: Stories Shared from t

Three poems: "After Sorrows", "Blessing for the Laguna de Santa Rosa", "Faith"

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Exhibition - From Fire, Love Rises: Stories Shared from the Artist Community

September 29, 2018 to January 6, 2019 - Sonoma Valley Art Museum

Sonoma, Ca

 

2018 Marin Poetry Center Anthology

"Ignoring the Call"

 

2018 Sitting Room Anthology

Everyone Likes a Good Fairy Tale - "After the Holidays"

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2018 Fire Anthology published by Sonoma State University Writing Center

Dear Sonoma - "Indestructible Memories (after the Tubbs Fire – Oct. 9, 2017)"

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2017 Marin Poetry Center Anthology

Getting the News - "Dream Farm Road, Inverness, California"

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2016 Squaw Valley Community of Writers Anthology

Written Here  - "Ignoring the Call" and "With Our Own Hands"

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2017 California Poets in the Schools Anthology

Singing the Feathers of Freedom  -  "With Our Own Hands"

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2017 Sitting Room Anthology

The Need to Read: My Best Literary Friend - "Slipping the Knot"

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2016 California Poets in the Schools Anthology

Where Animals Move Like Planets - "How to Stop the Old Conversation"

          

2016 Sitting Room Anthology

Marriage: In Literature and Life - "When It All Goes Up in Smoke"

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2015 California Poets in the Schools Anthology

My Mouth The Galaxy - "A Weed Muses on Her Life"

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