SpeakEasy Poetry Night Every 2nd Monday of the month Join us each month for 1078 Gallery's open mic reading series. Open to all!
Upcoming sessions: Monday, May 11 Monday, June 8 Monday, July 13
6pm Doors open / sign ups 6:30pm–7:30pm Reading
Five minutes maximum per reader / Suggested donation $3
Past Events
The Blue Fields Saturday, August 16, 2025 7pm
THE BLUE FIELDS lead you across verdant pastures to the fount of a sacred spring. There you will taste a rock and roll rebirth, washed by power chords and the crack of a snare drum. Enter a sonic landscape that includes original indie/alt rock plus well-selected covers. Join Rob Davidson, Jonathan Imhoff, with Alan and Shelley Bower for a full electric musical journey guaranteed to change your night, if not your life.
and local support by Cat Depot and 33 Sunday June 15, 2025 • 6pm
Anna B. Moore Don't Pity the Desperate Saturday March 8, 2025 • 7:30 pm
Pam Houston and Ibe Liebenberg Birds at Night Book Launch & Reading Tuesday April 8, 2025 • 7:30 pm
Felicia Rice & Theresa Whitehill Heavy Lifting Listening Tour Saturday October 19, 2024 • 3:30 pm Facebook Event
The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing, and dreaming, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens with a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film,On Heavy Lifting. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill and the audience in which she alternates reading her poems with an invitation for audience members to read their own work or share brief stories in response to the themes and material. These gatherings consider what might lie beyond these difficult times by creating space to name the darkness in the belief that the first stage of recovery from grief is acknowledgement. The tour kicked off in February 2023 in Ukiah and has occurred monthly in communities impacted by the wildfires throughout northern California as far north as Seattle.
Poetry with Sarah Pape Sunday, October 27, 2024, 6-8pm Forgive the Animal, the luminous and stunning debut collection from Sarah Pape, explores rural poverty, sexual abuse and its reverberations, young motherhood, and the path back to one's self through forgiveness of the self and others. With environmental collapse, too, as both metaphor and reality, Pape's poems seek to understand a future after surviving multiple shattering events, in both the personal and collective experiences of great loss.
Fiction with Rob Davidson Thursday, December 12, 2024, 7:30pm Welcome Back to the World Book Launch Mark cares for his ailing ex-wife in his home and comes to terms with his unresolved anger and hurt; American expatriates Will and Margaret become close but platonic friends, united in their loneliness and love for Taiwan and its complexities. Heartbroken over his parents' divorce, Jon longs for a reconciliation that his father insists will never happen. Grant, smitten with Melinda, learns valuable lessons about race, tolerance, and accepting change. And the title novella, a tale of identity, faith, and betrayal, documents the long, slow process of recovery from trauma and the promise of renewal. In stories of finding life anew in ever-changing circumstances, Rob Davidson's soaring prose reminds us that hope is visible in the darkest of times.