Thousand Tales Podcast

Conor Logan and his co-host, Ron Fullerton, welcome Louise Cathcart, Joan Day, and Marcia Wingard into the studio for a sit-down interview, poetry reading, and more!

Jan Wesley is our special reader for the May 11th, 2022 poetry reading at the Newbury Park library.

Elaine Alcon is the featured reader for the Ventura County Poetry Project

Ann Buxie is the featured reader for our March poetry reading of the Ventura County Poetry Project at the Newbury Park Library branch. Enjoy!

Join us for a great reading with our special guest:

David Oliveira was born in California’s San Joaquin Valley. He was a long time resident of Santa Barbara, California, where he was publisher and editor of Mille Grazie Press. He was a founding editor of Solo, a national journal of poetry, and founded the long-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series. In 2000, he was named Santa Barbara’s millennium poet laureate.



Oliveira has published widely, including two poetry collections, A Little Travel Story and As Everyone Goes, with a third forthcoming in 2022, Still Life with Coffee. His poems are featured in several important anthologies, including: How Much Earth: the Fresno Poets, which he co-edited; California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present; and The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry. He lives and writes on the banks of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Nancy-Jean Pément is from the Outaouais region of Québec where she was raised in a bi-racial, bilingual, and multicultural family.

Her poems have been published in literary magazines in the US and in Canada. Her poem, Migration, was a finalist for the 2014 Common Good Books poetry contest. In 2015, her piece, PHL>YOW, was the Editor’s Choice for Poem of the Year in ARC Poetry Magazine.

In 2018-2019, in collaboration with the California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks (CMATO) and the painter, Kevin Sloan, she curated ekphrastic poetry by local poets to accompany the exhibit A Collection of Rarities. Nancy’s poem Snowperson Wonders at What is Left of the World inspired by Kevin’s painting, The Inevitability of Warmth, was exhibited at the museum.

Most recently, her poems appear in La fille de Léonard: What québécois cultural sovereignty taught me about working with historically marginalized students, a chapter in the book, Campus Service Workers Supporting First-Generation Students published by Routledge in November 2021.

Currently, she is working on a study of racial, ethnic, political-linguistic, and citizenship identities to be published in the peer-reviewed journal, Genealogy. Nancy teaches in the Graduate School of Education at CSU Channel Islands, and in the Doctor of Education program at CLU.

The Jammers bring a Halloween Jam to remember!

The Logan brothers: Ron, Conor, Michael, and Matthew.... get together to play a jam after years.