<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 class=""><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading with Jodi Hottel</span></div><div class=""><div id="ydpa697ade4yahoo_quoted_5299910836" class="ydpa697ade4yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);" class=""><div id="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" class=""><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">Saturday, June 10 </div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">from 10:00 to 10:30 AM (PDT)</div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">There is no need to pre-register.</div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">Just click this link: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85005348254?pwd=bHVWck9CaU5xbmpXRTN3ejcrdlZIdz09" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85005348254?pwd=bHVWck9CaU5xbmpXRTN3ejcrdlZIdz09</a><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></div><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><font size="4" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";">Jodi Hottel’s most recent chapbook is <i class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">Out of the Ashes</i> from Pandemonium Press. Her previous chapbooks are <i class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">Voyeur </i>from WordTech Press in 2017 and <i class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">Heart Mountain</i>, winner of the 2012 Blue Light Press Poetry </span><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: Times;">Prize</span></font><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="4" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">. Jodi’s been published in <i class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">Nimrod International,</i> <i class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630">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="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="4" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">Jodi doesn’t want to put her name in a poem</font></span></p><div class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"><br class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630"></div><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">her superpower is </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">invisibility</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she’s beige or gray</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">though eggplant</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">is her favorite vegetable </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she’s super-spontaneous</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">[not true]</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">maker of lists</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">[true] </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">invests in</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">advance planning</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">her mother’s years</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">behind barbed wire</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">is one inheritance</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">her minister-father’s </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">skepticism</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">is another</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she’s an em—</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">kind of girl</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she’s fond of </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">open books</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">and jetstream pens</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">doesn’t embrace</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">small talk</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">in a past life</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she was </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">a potato farmer</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">[true or false?] </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">now she tends</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">a modest plot</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">of tomatoes </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she’s more root</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">than blossom</font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">she’s a pebble </font></span></p><p class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630MsoNormal"><span class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="font-family: "New serif";"><font size="3" class="ydpa697ade4yiv8967897630" style="background-color: inherit;">in your warm palm</font></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div 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