<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading with Jodi Hottel<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Saturday, June 10 </div><div class="">from 10:00 to 10:30 AM (PDT)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no need to pre-register.</div><div class="">Just click this link: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85005348254?pwd=bHVWck9CaU5xbmpXRTN3ejcrdlZIdz09" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85005348254?pwd=bHVWck9CaU5xbmpXRTN3ejcrdlZIdz09</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jodi Hottel’s most recent chapbook is <i class="">Out of the Ashes</i> from Pandemonium Press. Her previous chapbooks are <i class="">Voyeur </i>from WordTech Press in 2017 and <i class="">Heart Mountain</i>, winner of the 2012 Blue Light Press Poetry </span><span class="" style="font-family: Times;">Prize</span></font><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="4" class="">. Jodi’s been published in <i class="">Nimrod International,</i> <i class="">Spillway, Ekphrasis, </i>and anthologies from the University of Iowa Press, Tebot Bach, and the Marin Poetry Center, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Jodi is fortunate to live in Sonoma County, CA, where there is a vibrant poetry community.</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="4" class="">Jodi doesn’t want to put her name in a poem</font></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">her superpower is <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">invisibility<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she’s beige or gray<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">though eggplant<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">is her favorite vegetable <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she’s super-spontaneous<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">[not true]<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">maker of lists<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">[true] <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">invests in<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">advance planning<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">her mother’s years<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">behind barbed wire<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">is one inheritance<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">her minister-father’s <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">skepticism<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">is another<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she’s an em—<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">kind of girl<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she’s fond of <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">open books<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">and jetstream pens<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">doesn’t embrace<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">small talk<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">in a past life<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she was <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">a potato farmer<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">[true or false?] <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">now she tends<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">a modest plot<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">of tomatoes <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she’s more root<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">than blossom<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">she’s a pebble <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font size="3" class="">in your warm palm</font></span></p><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" 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