<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading featuring Sonoma County’s next Poet Laureate, Dave Seter<div>Saturday July 27 from 10:00 to 10:30 AM PT.</div><div><br></div><div>There is no need to pre-register; just click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84502666878?pwd=Ry82YnFsZU4waDZyaHZxelhWL1FEZz09</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a name="_Hlk65565044" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dave Seter is an environmental engineer, poet, essayist, and the author of Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections) and Night Duty (Main Street Rag).</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> He is also an emerging translator of contemporary Lithuanian poetry. He has been named Sonoma County Poet Laureate for 2024-26. More at: </span><a href="https://www.daveseter.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px; color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://www.daveseter.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> On Instagram: @daveseter_ecopoet</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.973333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">At Henny Penny Diner</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The regulars, some grizzled, some fresh-shaven,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">hold down the counter with forearms, with elbows.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In between jokes, forks lift omelets and waffles.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The eggs are fresh, the jokes retold.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Even knowing the punchline the regulars laugh.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">How do the waitstaff refrain from rolling their eyes?</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Not just hungry for tips, they’re kind,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">knowing we all travel the same road,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the crossroads cracked asphalt and erratic gravel,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the intersection occasionally flooding,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">no joke, with backwash of the Petaluma River.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So much flow and nowhere for it to go.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The shrugged banks of the river don’t know what to say.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">But we’ll be fine, the rooster statue out front seems to reply,</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">standing guard day and night, shedding rain, shedding jokes</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">about this chicken town, while inside, the raincoats</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">are shrugged off shoulders—draped over chairs—</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">stay awhile—they seem to say.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The plates are full to the brim with omelets and waffles and—</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">if you’re a first-timer, if I can offer a suggestion—</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">try the country style potatoes—this is my place now—I say—</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">my elbows firmly planted on the counter.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Dave Seter</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: 15.693334px; font-size: 11pt; 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