Jerry Martien and the Usual Suspects

Poet Jerry Martien returns to Arcata Playhouse on Saturday, May 11 with musicians

Fred Neighbor, Gary Davidson, and Mike LaBolle. Martien will read poems from new

and old collections, drawing on half a century of life and performance in Humboldt

County venues.

“It’s become a kind of ritual,” he says from his home in Elk River. “Poetry reports on the

state of the bioregion.” Martien has read up and down the Pacific coast, from San