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.

2:00pm PDT

When Poets Rule the World

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

Goldfinch

Brenda Marie Yeager, Lake County Poet Laureate 2024-2026, has gathered some of the best people imaginable to right the course of our spinning rock with their words of truth. That is, poets, of course! We are your neighbors from Lake County & Santa Rosa, who have been writing & reading together around town & online for years. Since 2021, many of us have been focused in our writing practice in The Word Circle, an online bi-monthly group led by Lake County Poet Laureate Emerita, Georgina Marie Guardado. Come listen with us to what emerges when humans speak from their fierce and tender hearts.

Speakers

Shizue Seigel

Shizue Seigel, director of Write Now! SF Bay, is a Japanese American writer and artist who explores intersections of history and culture from farm labor camps to corporate America. A VONA/Voices fellow, Jefferson Award recipient, and San Francisco resident, her eighth book is “Uncommon... Read More →

Brenda Yeager

Brenda Marie Yeager is the Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA (2024-2026). Her poetry has won several prizes, including as a finalist for the 2022 Jane Underwood Poetry Prize, judged by Sharan Strange. She is published online in Noyo Review and The Bloom and in print in the RESILIENCE... Read More →

Roy Arthur Blodgett

Roy Arthur Blodgett is a naturalist and poet currently living in Jerusalem Valley, within the ancestral homeland of the Lake Miwok. His work explores the intersections of natural and cultural history, power and privilege, ancestry, memory, and human responsibility in the cosmos. He... Read More →

Pamela Bordisso

Pamela Bordisso is a poet living in rural Kelseyville, California under massive oaks. She tends chickens, bees, vegetables, and plants for pollinators. She has been published in Last Stanza Journal, Colussus:Body, Noyo Review, Lake County Bloom, and has been heard on The Rooted In... Read More →

Beulah Vega

Beulah Vega (she/her) is a Latine writer, poet, and theatrical artist living and working in California’s Bay Area. Her poetry has been published in Seaside Gothic, Writers Resist, The Literary Nest, Sage Cigarettes, Walled Women, and Blood & Bourbon, among others. Her first book... Read More →

Georgina Marie Guardado

Georgina Marie Guardado is the Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA (2020-2024), a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. and president of the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Colossus: Freedom, and Two Hawks Quarterly... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Goldfinch 119 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Writers Group

3:30pm PDT

Stacks & Stories: Sonoma County Library Staff Share Their Craft

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

Goldfinch

By day, we navigate the world of information, helping readers find the perfect story. By night, we craft our own. Join our team of library professionals—who are also writers—as we step out of the library and into the spotlight to share our original work. After the reading, we'll host a Q&A and introduce a few writing-related library resources to support your own creative journey. Come for the stories, stay for the library insider tips!

Speakers

Bridget Hayes

Digital Literacy Specialist, Sonoma County Library

Bridget Hayes is a tech librarian and educator who specializes in helping people overcome their fear of technology. Most of her writing can be found funambulating between flash fiction and prose poetry. She loves hiking, books, traveling, tropical fruit, and wildflowers.

Terra Emerson

Teen Services Librarian, Sonoma County Library

Terra Emerson (she/her) is an emerging poet who grew up among the oak trees and manzanita of Mendocino County. As a Teen Services Librarian she gets to witness the brilliance of young people every day. Her work has been published in Ink & Marrow and Rise Up Review.

Joyce Johnson

Shelver, Sonoma County Library

Joyce Johnson PhD is a Shelver at the Sebastopol Library.  For many years she taught Sociology at SSU and SRJC, where she retired as head of the discipline. Since then, she’s driven Meals on Wheels, owned a corgi, rooted for the Warriors, learned how to weave, and been working... Read More →

Simone Kremkau

Librarian, Sonoma County Library

Simone Kremkau, a librarian at the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library, spends her days organizing knowledge and making local history accessible to all. With countless stories following her home, she cannot resist weaving past tales into present-day fiction, as though they are... Read More →

Luis Vasquez (Lalin)

Lalin has been at Sonoma County library for the past 7 years and his hometown is Guerneville.

Lars Rosager

Lars Rosager works at the Petaluma branch of the Sonoma County Library, and is active locally and online in education, music, and language arts. Currently, Lars's primary writing efforts are lyric poetry and commentary for a biweekly radio show. His inspirations often stem from the... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Goldfinch 119 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Arts Organizations