The featured reader for April will be Blake More, the Point Arena Poet Laureate and an artist of multiple paths. Her work includes performance, video, media arts, painting cars and teaching. She is a longtime Mendocino Area Coordinator and poetry teacher with California Poets in the Schools, and hosts the monthly Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz event in Point Arena. She also hosts Be More Now on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino County Public Broadcasting and Cartwheels on the Sky on KGUA FM Gualala. Her most recent book is Dystopia Unplugged: Please Talk Back. Learn more about Blake at bmoreyou.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 fee, but donations are warmly appreciated.