Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025

Our six readers are a representative sample of the Morning Monday Poets, twelve female poets from Sonoma County who meet weekly to support and critique each other’s writing. Originally formed by former Sonoma County Poet Laureate Terry Ehret, the group morphed from a class to group meetings in Poet Fran Claggett-Holland’s living room where we practiced a variety of poetic forms, free verse styles. Of late, our members take turns hosting the group in their homes and delivering presentations on major poets of the past and present from Wallace Stevens and Phillip Larken to Elizabeth Bishop and Joy Harjo. The majority of the Monday Morning Poets are published writers with pieces appearing in literary journals and anthologies. All six applying for Litcrawl have poems in Reverberations 3: A Visual Conversation, and four of the six have attracted the attention of publishers who released their poetry collections. One of the six has also released a CD of her poetic lyrics as delightful songs, backed by full musical arrangements.