Treasured local poet Jerry Martien has teamed up with Fred Neighbor, Mike LaBolle and Gary Davidson, aka The Usual Suspects for an evening of music and poetry at the Arcata Playhouse. Few events are more likely to capture the glory of a certain era of our beloved home, as only its best chorus can unite […]
Jerry Martien
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Home at Last
The central illusion of human existence is the idea of the individual. A singular will operating at odds, instead of at one with, collective humanity and the living world at large. One place this grand fraudulence is most obvious is in traffic jams, where huge numbers of “autonomous” persons, each operating an automobile, finds themselves […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, May 21
Poet and local treasure Jerry Martien is getting together with some friends to, among other things, honor the life of former Humboldt resident, songwriter and master picker, Thad Beckman, who died in January. The show will be held at the Arcata Playhouse at 7 p.m., and the first set of music and poetry will be […]
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Timelines
Last weekend, I decided to do something I occasionally find myself driven to with the same blind intensity of purpose that steers a spawning salmonid: I rewatched a favorite movie. Not just any movie, but one I consider to be perfect from the score to the atmosphere to the acting, just a wholly enjoyable experience. […]
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End-of-Summer Joy and Goat Cheese
When I turn the wall calendar to the September page, I go into denial about the approaching end of summer. At the farmers market, I continue purchasing summer produce until the last day it’s available. Preserving produce also helps keep summer alive in the kitchen. For example, in the recipe I am sharing here, the […]
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Clair de Lune
Well, this was quite a weekend, let me tell you. Apparently there was something called a Pisces Moon on Saturday, which is supposed to turn people like myself who have a birthday between Feb. 19 and March 20 into wicked and fantastic werewolves. Or so I am told; honestly I’m so checked out on the […]
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We’re All Land Artists Now
Moon-shaped pools, underground flows and springs long-buried by sand inspired the poems, paintings and vessels in Jerry Martien and Becky Evans’ new exhibition at Piante Gallery (and the gallery’s final show before closing), Water and Power. Evans explained that she and Martien both grew up in Southern California near Los Angeles, where water and power […]
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Anniversaries
One of the promises I made at the end of December was to spend the coming year with less of a dense layer between myself and you the reader. I have heard from some of you — and I thank you all for the feedback. As I have mentioned here before, I was a resident […]