***Thursday, June 17 San Rafael, A reading at Open Secret Bookstore, 7 pm

***Friday, Saturday June 18, 19, Two evenings and a day in Point Reyes, CA
Poet Coleman Barks, storyteller Martin Shaw, poet Lisa Starr, and cellist David Darling will all be involved. LEAVING THE VILLAGE, FINDING THE FOREST, exploring the soul and the land in poetry, myth, and music, two evenings and a daylong workshop exploring language, landscape, and ritual. Starting with an evening performance in the sweetness of the village and ending the following evening round a fire cut out of the forest, this is a rare opportunity to join world-renowned poet and translator of Rumi, Coleman Barks, award-winning British storyteller, Martin Shaw, Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, Lisa Starr, and recent Grammy Award winning cellist, David Darling. June 18th and 19th in Toby's Feed Barn in Pt. Reyes and in the exquisite Kule Loklo Coast Miwok village on the Pt. Reyes National Seashore. For details and registration: www.ptreyesbooks.com Click on "Storytelling Event." Presented by Pt. Reyes Books and the Westcountry School of Myth and Story (Devon, England).

***Monday, June 21 Reading in Mt. Shasta, CA bookstore with Coleman Barks
This Summer Solstice, Monday, 7:30 pm, reading will be at the College of the Siskiyous Ford Theatre, in Weed, CA. "Just Show Up! A Celebration of Poetry, Song, & Summer Remembering" is a benefit for Mercy Hospice in Mt. Shasta. Admission $15. Tickets available at Village Books in Mt. Shasta, Soundpeace in Ashland, Nature's Kitchen in Yreka, Bogbean Books & Music in Redding, and at the door. For more info email: rumiinmtshasta@yahoo.com

***Saturday, June 26 An interactive workshop in San Anselmo with Lisa Starr.