A ‘Muse-ing’ evening with Rivertown Poets

Rivertown Poets: A Muse-ing Mondays holds its next reading on Monday, Feb. 2 at Aqus Café Foundry Wharf, 189 H St.

This month’s reading will feature Petaluma poets Terry Ehret and Nancy Long, followed by an open microphone.

Ehret is a poet and teacher, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press, a publishing collective run by and for San Francisco Bay Area Poets. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently “Night Sky Journey” from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series, California Book Award, Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award and five Pushcart Prize nominations.

Ehret teaches writing in Sonoma County, and in the summers, she leads writing-travel workshops in Ireland and Wales. From 2004 to 2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County.

Long is a writer, director, producer and performer and has her masters degree in social work. She hosted the Livewire Literary Salon and has published numerous short stories and plays. Recently, her piece “A Dance I Call Love,” won first prize and was performed by Petaluma Readers Theatre in February 2010.

Her play, “Some People Find Their God” received acceptance at an off-Broadway theatre festival in New York City, Canada, Dominican University and at the Ross Valley RAW Festival.

Long also created two 5-Minute Street Play Festivals in 2009 sponsored by the Arts Council of Sonoma County and has reviewed numerous plays for ForAllEvents.com. She has also worked as theatre production manager (and as director and performer) for Dominican University’s One Act Play Festival. Presently, she is producer for the Petaluma Readers Theatre and House Manager for Cinnabar Theater; volunteers for the annual Petaluma Poetry Walk and V-Day Petaluma. She was selected to read at the 2014 Petaluma Poetry Walk.

Rivertown Poets was designed to unite seasoned poets and amateurs in the spirit of mutual enjoyment and celebration of the spoken word.

Listeners are invited to attend the free event and bring a poem or two to share during the open mic.

Open mic signups begin at 6:30 p.m.

The series continues on the first Monday of each month at 6:40 p.m.

For more information on Rivertown Poets, contact host Sandra Anfang at wrdpntr51@gmail.com or visit facebook.com/River townPoetsAMuseingMon days.