Books & Barns

Come here Manjula Martin and Jaques Rancourt read from their work as a part of the summer reading series known as Books & Barns. The theme is Body, and these two writers will not disappoint.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED, but free! Books & Barns is thrilled to be hosted by West County Community Farm, and depedning on the weather, we will either be in the barn or out under the old oak tree. Please bring a picnic, a blanket, or camping chair to sit on. Registartion is for your car- the parking lot can only hold 25 cars, so please carpool, walk, or bike in. Please be aware that the bathroom is a well apointed porta-potty. You know, we do it country style.

*To manage parking, registration is required. To allow the most folks to be able to attend and enjoy this community event, please only register once you are sure you can attend.

Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of the books Brocken Spectre (Editors' Choice Award from Alice James Books and a Julie Suk Award finalist) and Novena(Winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, Pleiades Press), as well as the chapbook In the Time of PrEP (Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Chapbook series). A recipient of the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a residency from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, his poems have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Raised in rural Maine, he splits his time between San Francisco and Guerneville.

Manjula Martin’s memoir, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, is a national bestseller. She is coauthor of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, which won the 2020 American Horticultural Society Book Award. Martin edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, and she was managing editor of the National Magazine Award–winning literary journal Zoetrope: All-Story. She grew up in Santa Cruz and spent many subsequent decades living in urban ecosystems. She now lives among the redwoods of western Sonoma County.

Host or Publisher West County Herb Company