In 2006, after moving to Ojai, California from Los Angeles, I helped redesign the Ojai Poetry Festival website. Drawing inspiration from print designs by the late Hope Frasier, I outfitted the site with a newsletter, RSS news feed, and online ticket sales system, as well as information about headliner poets and photos from past events. […]
“When the Ojai Poetry Festival in Ojai, Calif., was called off late last year, in part because of budget concerns, local poet Tree Bernstein helped form a separate group to revive the event. The original festival drew about 700 people to an amphitheater in May, and featured nationally known poets. Ms. Bernstein plans to reduce
Click to view announcement The Montgomery Street Playhouse will be hosting a benefit for the Ojai Valley Poetry Fest on Sunday, April 5th from 2?5 PM, featuring poets Polly Bee, Robert Peake, and Ellen Johnson. The playhouse is located at 309 North Montgomery Street, between Jones & Co and Soul Centered. Suggested donation is $5.
Out of the ashes of the official Ojai Poetry Festival, a group of enthusiastic local volunteers has banded together to bring a new event to Ojai: The Ojai Valley Poetry Fest on June 6th, 2009 at the Ojai Art Center. The event will feature Wanda Coleman, Frank T. Rios, Jackson Wheeler, and Marsha de la
I had the poignant duty of sending out the email newsletter announcement last night that the 2009 Ojai Poetry Festival has been cancelled. The current financial situation has affected our founders, our prospective donors, and our hopes for ticket sales considerably. So, the committee is conserving its resources in hopes of reviving the festival in
The 2007 Ojai Poetry Festival has come and gone. Whew! We started deep planning back in 2006–and the day-and-a-half of readings and discussions, as well as all the between-the-lines schmoozing and feasting–absolutely flew by. It was great to have Sandra Alcosser in town. She teaches at Pacific, and I was really impressed, during the January
