The featured reader for May is Denise Low, a former Poet Laureate of Kansas, and author of the recently-acclaimed House of Grace, House of Blood, (University of Arizona Press, 2024). Her essays, reviews, and poems appear widely, including recent offerings in Poetry Flash, New Letters, The Harvard Advocate, and The Nature of Our Times. Denise programs the Indigenous Voices series for The 222, an arts organization in Sonoma County, and she teaches online for Baker University, based in Kansas City. Learn more about Denise and her work at www.deniselow.net.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

There is no admission fee but donations are warmly welcome.