Moonstone Cellars’ first ever poetry night!
We have three featured poets that will start the evening (bios below). Then the mic is open! Sign up using the form below to unleash your inner poet.
$5 minimum donation requested to support Estero Bay Kindness Coalition. They are a nonprofit organization serving those at risk of hunger on the Central Coast. They're currently delivering 3 bags of nutritious groceries to the doorsteps of 285 households, equating to 1,200+ Estero Bay neighbors a week.
Moonstone Cellars wines available by the glass and bottle.
No outside beverages please.
Kathryn de Lancellotti’s chapbook Impossible Thirst was published in 2020 (Moon Tide Press). She’s a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and a recipient of the George Hitchcock Memorial Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Thrush, Rust + Moth, The Night Heron Barks, The American Journal of Poetry, and many others. Her poetry collection Figure Study was published in 2024 (Moon Tide Press). She resides on California's Central Coast with her husband and children.
Luke Johnson is the author of Quiver (Texas Review Press), a finalist for the Jake Adam York Award, The Vassar Miller Prize, and The Levis Award; A Slow Indwelling (Harbor Editions); and Distributary (Texas Review Press 2025). Quiver was named one of four finalists for the 2024 California Book Award. Johnson was selected by Patricia Smith as a finalist for the 2024 Robert Frost Residency through Dartmouth College. You can find more of his work at Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere.
Rebecca Evans is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist and poet who writes difficult, heart-full guidebooks for survivors. She earned MFAs in both creative nonfiction and poetry from University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. Along with Tangled by Blood, she’s authored a collection-length poem, Safe Handling, and a flash essay collection, AfterBurn (Moon Tide Press). Rebecca is also the co-editor of the poetry anthology, When There Are Nine, a literary tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a co-host of the Writer-to-Writer show on Radio Boise. Rebecca is also a disabled veteran, weaving disability and military experience throughout her work. She teaches workshops through Narratively and the Boise Library System and curates monthly gatherings for writers and creators and also offers empowerment courses to high school teens in the Juvenile system. When not creating, you can find her dancing with hummingbirds in her backyard.