Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025: Full Schedule

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

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2:00pm PDT

Blue Moon Poetry Collective

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Sebastopol Center For the Arts

The Blue Moon Salon is a group of Sebastopol poets who have been meeting weekly for over ten years to write, read, and critique our poems. We strongly believe in making poetry accessible within our community and have been readers for a number of different groups.

Speakers

Fran Clagget

Fran Claggett-Holland, founder of the Blue Moon Collective of active poets, has six books of poems published along with a dozen or so books for teachers and students. She loves Sonoma County and is inspired by its rich artistic and dog-loving community.

Amrita Skye Blaine

owner, Berkana Publications

Amrita Skye Blaine develops themes of impermanence, aging, disability, and spiritual awakening. Her poems have been accepted by Braided Way Magazine, The Penwood Review, One Art, and many other literary journals. Her poetry collection "strange grace—the ending season" is available... Read More →

Robin Gabbert

Robin Gabbert has poems in state, national, and international poetry anthologies. Her poem Invisible was a finalist in the 2024 San Francisco Writers Conference Competition. Her chapbook of ekphrastic poetry — The Clandestine Life of Paintings, in Poems was published in November... Read More →

Betty Les

Betty Les is a poet and zoologist, exploring everyday observations and experiences through a lens of science, mystery and connection. Betty was chosen as a Redwood Writers Award of Merit poet in 2018 and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2023. Her chapbook Just Enough to See... Read More →

Linda Stamps

Linda Stamps established careers in law, journalism, and higher education. She worked on staff at the Mendocino Beacon and the Fort Bragg Advocate News. She wrote for the Time Warner publication, Out in All Directions, an LGBTQ history and almanac. Her writing has been published in... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Sebastopol Center For the Arts 282 S High St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Poetry

5:00pm PDT

Marin Poetry Center

Saturday May 17, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Pax Wines

The Marin Poetry Center has been in existence since 1981. Part of its multifaceted mission is to promote the reading and writing of poetry in Marin County. This year, the Board wishes represent MPC at the Sebastopol Litcrawl by sending some of its members to read.

Speakers

David Booth

David Booth is a high school humanities teacher and a poet who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty years. Tell Me Please, What’s the Matter is his second book of poems. Simi Press published his debut collection Too Bright to See in 2021. Booth serves... Read More →

Francesca Bell

Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain, finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Julie Suk Award, and What Small Sound, finalist for the Julie Suk Award and recipient of an honorable mention for the Eric Hoffer Award, and the translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever... Read More →

Judy Bertelsen

Judy Bertelsen has been writing poetry pretty much all of her life. She grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley and made her way to Berkeley as an undergraduate. A number of her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, including the Seneca Review, the Community... Read More →

Linda Michel-Cassidy

Small press outreach, Interviews, Why There Are Words

Linda Michel-Cassidy’s writing has appeared in Rattle, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Tahoma Review, December, Catamaran, and elsewhere. Her story collection, When We Were Hardcore, from EastOver Press is coming out in early 2025. She is senior reviews and hybrid/collaboration editor... Read More →

Sandy Cross

Membership chair and social secretary, Marin Poetry Center

Sandy Cross has been on the Board of the Marin Poetry Center for several years. In the spring of 2023, she earned my MFA in poetry at St Mary’s College of California, where she worked with Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder and Ada Limon. Sandy lives in Stinson Beach, between the... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Pax Wines 6780 McKinley St #170, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Poetry

5:00pm PDT

Members of the Marin Poetry Center

Saturday May 17, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Sebastopol Center For the Arts

Speakers

LeeAnn Pickrell

LeeAnn Pickrell’s debut collection is Gathering the Pieces of Days (Unsolicited Press, 2025). Her work has appeared in a variety of online and print journals, including One Art, Atlanta Review, and Unbroken. LeeAnn’s chapbook Punctuated was published by Bottlecap Press in 2024... Read More →

J Livingston

J. Livingston is a Mill Valley-based sculptor and poet. He co-leads the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Poetry Group. His poetry and visual artwork reflect his decades-long fascination with light and shadow (literal and metaphorical) and with the indistinct realm where pattern and... Read More →

Jodi

Jodi Hottel’s recent chapbook is Out of the Ashes from Pandemonium Press. Previous chapbooks are Voyeur from WordTech Press in 2017 and Heart Mountain, winner of the 2012 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize. Jodi’s been published in numerous journals and anthologies, and her work’s... Read More →

Cathryn Shea

Cathryn Shea's second poetry collection is “Ghost Matinee” (Unsolicited Press, 2025), following her debut collection “Genealogy Lesson for the Laity.” Cathryn's poetry has appeared in Rust + Moth, Poet Lore, Quiddity, Gargoyle, and widely elsewhere. Cathryn served as editor... Read More →

Clare Blotter

Claire Blotter's new poetry collection, EXPANDING.WATER.WAYS., is about U.S. wetlands threatened by a 2023 Supreme Court decision. Her work has been published in Rattle, Spillway, Lilith, the San Francisco Chronicle, The West Marin Review and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Sebastopol Center For the Arts 282 S High St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Poetry