https://bottlecap.press/products/untiwg
Wil Gibson Personal Website
Redwood Reworded
Redwood Poetry Festival
https://www.theepitomegallery.com/redwood-poetry-festival
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/arts-scene/redwood-poetry-festival-takes-the-stage-30843770/
https://ticketstripe.com/poetryattheeaglehouse
Swimming With Elephants Publications
What makes me feel________?
What makes me feel________?
March 19th, 2026 – Brewery Arts Center
Title:
Finding Hope and Purpose in the Wild West
Story:
In the before time of Covid shaking things up immensely.
I had a glorious opportunity thrown at me.
Tech rehearsal very near to show run.
Across town a touring poet was visiting with ties to a place I had lived and a familiar faith.
I realized where I really wanted to be during a rehearsal for the last play I ever did.
I reached out to him knowing I wouldn’t be able to meet up with him in person on this go around.
What I learned:
Honor your prior commitments.
If someone is put on your heart, reach out to them.
Make people feel welcome to be in the same space.
As best you can, be patient with the timing of everything.
Long view potential outruns short term satisfaction.
Even our inspirational characters and heroes are human beings too.
Poem:
On Each of These Lists (A love poem)
What poetry means to me:
Poetry is my first love. It has been with me wherever I’ve lived, whatever I’ve done and however I’ve been. It is my social commentary, method of community building and service, personal catharsis and way of building bridges. It is my meditation, my craft and my prayer. It is the best way I know how to enjoy getting lost, be present and return home. Poetry is my purpose and how I help to create and foster hope.
Question for the audience:
What is your poetry?
Erica Miriam Fabri is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her first book, Dialect of a Skirt, published by Hanging Loose Press (2010), was a finalist for the 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize and included on the list for: The Best Books of 2010 at About.com; and the bestseller lists for Small Press Distribution and the Poetry Foundation. Her second book, Morphology, (2025) was the winner of the Write Bloody Publishing Jack McCarthy book award.
Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies and she has worked on projects as a writer, editor, and performance director for The New York Knicks, Urban Word NYC, HBO, and Nickelodeon Television. Her poetry has been featured in multi-media formats for short films and television commercial programming.
She has been awarded a writer’s residency at the Omega Institute and has been a featured and/or visiting poet and performer for numerous art festivals and outreach programs including drug rehabilitation centers, prisons and hospitals.
She teaches Performance Poetry and Fiction at Pace University, as well as Essay Writing at College of Staten Island for the City University of New York (CUNY). She is also a Freelance Photographer, a New Yorker, and a Mama.
MERCHANDISE STORE:
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ORDER “MORPHOLOGY” POETRY BOOK:
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ARTIST WEBSITE:
Quotes about Poet Laureate
https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/poet-laureate-quotes
Poet Laureate – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_laureate
Poet Laureate History
https://www.britannica.com/art/poet-laureate
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/history/explore-our-history/poets-corner/poet-laureates
https://poetryarchive.org/news/learn-about-the-history-of-poet-laureates/
https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/about-the-position/
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/poet-laureate
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/06/19/so-whats-poet-laureate-anyway
https://www.palatinate.org.uk/a-brief-history-of-the-poet-laureate/
City of Reno Nevada Poet Laureate
https://www.reno.gov/community/arts-culture/reno-poet-laureate
https://publicartarchive.org/collections/City-of-Reno-Poet-Laureate
Nevada State Poet Laureate
DOUBLE FEATURE:
Kathleen Florence & Rich Ferguson
w/ Co-Host Eric Morago of Moon Tide Press
Plus 15 Open Mic Slots
Thanks so much for doing an interview with The Spoken Views Radio Show!
Please expect to perform / read a poem or two during our time together.
Below are the questions you can expect to answer during our interview.
I’ll ask you follow up questions to create a truly custom interview, but we’ll start here:
What’s your process? How do you literally write a poem?
Why do you make art? What effect do you hope it has on the audience?
What inspires you to write? What might you encounter that would make you want to write?
What sort of events have you participated in or exhibited your poetry at that you felt were memorable?
What are some common topics or subjects of your writing?
What have been the best parts of being Poet Laureate?
What doors opened to you or what things did you get involved in because of the title stand out to you? What advice would you give the next poet Laureate?
Have you been to a workshop that you found particularly interesting? What was the prompt?
SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS 