POETIC LICENSE SONOMA POETRY READING

Please join me for a reading on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 7:00 pM PDT

FROM THE POETIC LICENSE SONOMA WEBSITE:

Poetic License Sonoma, a group of poets, read each quarter the through the Fourth Tuesday Zoom Poetry Series. Though often a solitary pursuit, the writing of poetry, like all artistic forms of communication, is nurtured through the collaboration and support of others. They encourage and celebrate this form of artistry in our region, and beyond, through poetry readings, like this one; the publication of their work; and a steady stream of new writing.

Our guest headliner poet is Sherrie Lovler. She is a poet and painter living in Rohnert Park, California. Since 2019, her poems have been published annually in the Redwood Writers Poetry Anthologies. Her poems have also been published in the California Writers Club collection The Smalls (2024)Reverberations III (2024), The Freedom of New Beginnings, and numerous times on Larry Robinson’s Poetry Lover’s List.  She has published two books of her paintings and poems. On Softer Ground: Paintings, Poems and Calligraphy, written, illustrated and designed by Sherrie, won “Most Outstanding Book Design of the Year” (2016) from Independent Publishers IPPY Awards. Her passion is creating abstract ink and watercolor paintings inspired by her own poetry.

The PLS poets include Steve Trenam, Jaime Zukowski, Judith Vaughn, Leo McCloskey, Joseph Cutler, and Joan Osterman.

The theme this month is Solitude.

Readings are free. Here is the Zoom address:

https://santarosa-edu.zoom.us/j/87008947878

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 From 7-8pm (PDT); 9-10PM (CDT); 10-11pm (EDT)

Meeting ID: 870 0894 7878

Poetic License Website: https://poeticlicensesonoma.com/events/

 

Inner Sanctum

 

There is a hunger
for the language of the soul—
a dialogue with the
inner workings of our being
that gets overlooked, tossed aside, lost.

This interaction is removed
from our culture,
pushed into the background
as if it doesn’t matter, or doesn’t exist.

As precious as an endangered species—
the soul is not meant to live
in the margins of our life.
It is what sustains us.

Our loneliness
is our lack of time
alone with the soul,
it is not from
being alone.

©Sherrie Lovler