

Sat, May 11
|Arcata
Jerry Martien and the Usual Suspects
Poetry and Music
Time & Location
May 11, 2024, 8:00 PM
Arcata, 1251 9th St, Arcata, CA 95521
About the event
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
Francisco to Sitka, but he and his work have always found their home in local readings
and in poetry workshops from Petrolia to Forks of Salmon.
His poems take the natural world, forests and rivers and their inhabitants, as his
principal subject, but this reading will also take in the homeless, the rate payers and
citizens of our towns and service districts, as well as the personal issues of family,
aging, and coping with the rise of artificial intelligence.
Martien has performed for several years with Neighbor, Davidson, and LaBolle, claiming
that their music provides “the honey that helps the medicine go down.” Copies of his
books and CD’s will be available.
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