Join Ventura's literary community for this popular event. If you've never seen the Erotic Poetry Reading, now is the time to add this annual event to your calendar. If you have, we don't have to sell you on it!

“If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine
must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the
wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated
justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of
truth of death insist on singing in Greek
and saying eros, eros, eros.” - Odysseus Elytis

Poets reading include:
Alicia Morris Soto, Amber Bassett, Anita McLaughlin,
Brad Bauer, Catherine Dain, Chris Spangenberg, Christian Elder,
Christy Cantrell, Chryss Yost, Diana Raab, Edwin Donegal,
Elaine Alarcon, Ellen Reich, Enid Osborn, Felice Austin,
Fernando Salinas, Florence Weinberger, Gaby LeMay,
Geoffrey Jacques, George Yatchisin Glenna Luschei,
Jennifer Kelley, Joe Zimmerman, John Brantingham,
John M. White, Judy Oberlander, Kaiden Wilde, Kali Bennett,
Kathryn Ridall, Kevin Carman, Larry Colker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar,
Marcus Van, Mary Brown, Missy Fuego, Peg Quinn, Ricardo Means Ybarra,
Ron Alexander, Sandra Knapp, Sara Borjas, Suzanne Lummis,Tim Tipton

…and this is not an open-mic reading.