Featured Reader: Helene Simkin Jara

Helene Simkin Jara is an actor, director, writer and teacher. She has been published in Porter Gulch Review, Mindprints, Nerve Cowboy, La Revista. In 2003 she won best prose in Porter Gulch Review for her story, “Josefina,” again in 2009 for her play “FUBMc,” and again in 2007 for her monologue, “Vat Means Rad?” She has twice been a finalist for Glimmertrain and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007 for her poem, “The Difference.” She has recently self-published her first book, Because I Had To, a collection of prose, poetry, monologues, and plays.

Watch Helene Simkin Jara’s performance of her monologue “Vat Means Rad?” during the March 2, 2013 In Celebration of the Muse @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5QfTxLne4.

There will aslo be open mic for writers who want to read their own original work. Readers usually have up to five minutes. Sign-ups are at 2:15 p.m. and priority is given to people who did not read the previoius month.

Limited parking is available behind the library via the Bagelry parking lot on Soquel Drive.