The Cobb Mountain Artists will present the event in the banquet room at the Rob Roy Golf Course, 16451 Golf Road.

It will open with a wine and cheese reception from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12.

The cost is $10 per person, with all proceeds to benefit the Cobb Elementary School Art Program.

The art event will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14.

Lake County artists and craftspeople will offer beautiful, original handmade fine art and gift items for your viewing and buying pleasure.

A percentage of profits will be donated to local elementary school art programs.

For more information, please contact Alana at 707-494-6285 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. Photo by UNL Publications and Photography.

During our more than four years of publishing this column we’ve shown you a number of poems about motherhood. Here’s another, beautifully observed by Liz Rosenberg, who lives in New York State.

I Leave Her Weeping

I leave her weeping in her barred little bed,

her warm hand clutching at my hand,

but she doesn’t want a kiss, or to hug the dog goodnight —

she keeps crying mommy, uhhh, mommy,

with her lovely crumpled face

like a golden piece of paper I am throwing away.

We have been playing for hours,

and now we need to stop, and she does not want

to. She is counting on me to lower the boom

that is her heavy body, and settle her down.

I rub her ribcage, I arrange the blankets around her hips.

Downstairs are lethal phonecalls I have to answer.

Friends

dying, I need to call.

My daughter may be weeping all my tears,

I only know

that even this young

and lying on her side,

her head uplifted like a cupped tulip,

sometimes she needs to cry.

Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org),

publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of

Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2009 by Donal Heffernan, whose most recent book of poetry is

“Duets of Motion,” Lone Oak Press, 2001. Poem reprinted by permission of Donal Heffernan.

Introduction copyright ©2010 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

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Showings are planned for 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22; Saturday, Oct. 23; Friday, Oct. 29; Saturday, Oct. 30; Friday, Nov. 5; and Saturday, Nov. 6; and midnight shows will take place on three Saturdays – Oct. 23, Oct. 30 and Nov. 6.

The venue will be the Little Theater at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin St., Lakeport.

The original production of the musical, written by Richard O'Brien, made its debut in 1974 at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles and moved on to Broadway in 1975.

Then came the movie, which has become one of the top box office earners of all time, with many people seeing the film time and again.

The Lake County Theater Co. will not admit anyone under age 18 without a parent.

VIP tickets, which include down front couch seating, a specialty program and “goodie bag” (featuring squirt guns and other items for audience participation cost $25; reserved seating, $20; general seating $15.

There is a $2 discount for seniors, Lake County Theater Co. members and students, and those who come in costume.

VIP, reserved and general tickets are available in Lakeport at Catfish Books, 707-263-4454, and at The Game Shop, 707-262-5824.

General seating tickets are available at Griffin Furniture in Clearlake, 707-994-2112, and the Shannon Ridge tasting room in Clearlake Oaks, 707-998-5686.

Everybody will be talking about “The Rocky Horror Show” in Lake County for years to come. Don't miss it.

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Coyote Film Festival will present “Coming to Light,” a film by Anne Makepeace, in two screenings on Saturday, Oct. 16.

There will be a 1:30 p.m. matinée and a 7:30 p.m. screening at the at Cartwright (Calpine) Geothermal Visitors Center, 15500 Central Park Road, Middletown.

The cost is $10 at door for adults, $5 for children 16 and under.

“Coming to Light” tells the dramatic story of Edward S. Curtis, a complicated, passionate, self-educated pioneer and visionary artist who set out in 1900 to document traditional Indian life before it was gone.

He created an astonishing body of work; thousands of wax recordings, a full-length motion picture with Kwakiutl people, 20 volumes of text and 40,000 photographs.

“A beautifully crafted epic,” David Anson of Newsweek said.

“Abundant, Odyssean, told with impressive sensitivity,” said Todd McCarthy of Variety.

“Coming to Light” explores the often controversial nature of Curtis’ romantic images and the meaning they have for Native Americans today.

In the documentary, Hopi, Navajo, Cupig, Blackfeet, Piegan, Crow, Suquamish, Kwakiutl and Gros Ventre people, descendants of Curtis’ photographic subjects, tell stories about the people in the pictures and describe ways in which they are using the photographs to revive their own traditions in the modern world.

Though not highlighted in the film, Curtis came to Lake County in 1923 and documented the indigenous Pomo. His images include portraits, clothing, ornaments, basketry and other aspects of native life in these very lands. He recorded the oral traditions and creation stories as well.

You will see the tapestries of Sheila O’Hara, internationally acclaimed fiber artist. Sheila will be on hand for the afternoon matinée to discuss her translation of Curtis photos to a fiber medium and we get to see these beautiful tapestries that capture the nobility of Curtis’ subjects through the deft hand of O’Hara. The tapestries will be up through the evening screening.

There is plenty of parking, large restrooms, refreshments for sale and a great time.

Coyote Film Festival is the fundraising arm of EcoArts of Lake County, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing visual art opportunities to the residents and visitors of Lake County, Calif.

Contact Karen Turcotte at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.