INTERVIEWS, POETRY READINGS, EXHIBITIONS 2017-2025

Interview and video, Big Sur Stories with Robert Franco, https://www.bigsurstories.com

Texture: Proof of Presence, the Nancy and Steven Hauk Gallery, Pacific Grove Public Library and Celadon Arts; 10/4/24--1/4/25.

Forbidden Terrain, five poetry readings in conjunction with Texture: Proof of Presence, the Nancy and Steven Hauk Gallery, Pacific Grove Public Library, Pacific Grove, CA.

Online Interview:Ruth Bolduan and Heidi McGurrin, Richard Whitaker, host. https://www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=771 Conversations.org

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs & Heidi McGurrin | The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading | 1/10/21

https://www.galeriesaintpaul.com/Heidi McGurrin & Cynthia Bryant | The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading | 2/13/22

Heidi McGurrin - YourTown TV - host Paulette Lynch. Heidi McGurrin, poet, photographer, painter and big personality. 3/30/2019.

Guest, Poetry Reading, North Beach Library, SF, 9/8/2018

Guest Speaker, Steinbeck Library, Salinas, CA. 2017

Motivational Strips India Published McGurrin’s poetry and a video of her reading …” long jangles of silver beads…”

https://www.facebook.com/heidi.mcgurring/videos/636332204926327?

Idorvanity=25215455665336217

Invitational Reading, ‘Ol Capitol Books’ with Garland Thomspon. Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, 2019.

AFFILIATED ONLINE POETRY GROUPS

Typewriter Underground, The Dear John Show, the Order of the Burning Hand, Poetry in the Blood,the Creekside Collective, Creative Souls. Thee Creekside Collective, Illia Thompson Memoir Writers.

Contemporary Figurative Art on Facebook. Invitation from Stuart Williamson

BOOKS

of my Poetry, Prose and Imagery available in the Bookstore at Blurb.com and Amazon.

Havana Dream

http://www.blurb.com/b/2477113-havana-dream

Poetic Landscapes.

http://www.blurb.com/b/8429398-poetic-landscapes

'Poetry Woman' self published paintings

'Pillow Writer' self published paintings

'Rocky Point Murder Mysteries' Collection of Local Writers, and illustrations by Heidi McGurrin. Noir Press

'Steinbeck Country Revisted'

Collection of local Independent Photographers. Central Coast Press.

'Mosaic' self published paintings

'Coyote' Author Richard Miller, illustrations by Heidi McGurrin

2018

North Beach Library in San Francisco Tuesday May 8, 2018 at 6:30 My Poetry

2017

December 1 Steinbeck Library in Salinas Guest Speaker 4:00

Carl Cherry Center for the Art, the Maya, Mexico. Carmel by the Sea

Seasoned Writings

November 25 at 8:00 November 26 Matinee at 2:00

2018 Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium invitation to read at 'Ol Capitol Books' in Monterey

with Garland Thompson.

3/2019 Ol Capitol Books reading with Ken Weisner

Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium on line publication of my poem, 'Piano Shoes'.

Rubber Chicken Poetry Slam with Garland Thompson Wednesday nights at 7:30 in Monterey

Open Mic on first Fridays at 7:00 The Press Club on Fremont in Seaside

'Coffee with Underhill Podcast read by Todd Underhill.

Risk it baby!

Let go of the covers that

have held you

with strings that have loosened

their grip,

Wiggle and Snap.

Loosen the feathers you've

hidden for so many years,

and let your hair fly.......free.

Feathers fall and layers

of undercoat loosen,

fluffy furry hidden before

powdery dust moments

shed themselves and release

fresh coats that shine in a

brilliance unseen before.

Tiny bones, long curvatures of

delicate movements

rhythm against one another as

they swirl and twist and

swerve in their new found

flight.

Past history vanishes.

The paths twist and gather

fresh energy

as we tremble,

our wings gather strength

as our bodies slip

gracefully and yet,

hesitantly,

down the newfound slippery

path of life.

Softness of downy feathery

fluffs

gather in the night when the

stars twinkle and

fly suddenly,

while we sleep. We rest in

unknown before blankets of feathers

of endless beauty that grow

invisibly in the quietness of the

night,

giving us new possibilities,

gifts of wonder, opportunity

new chances.

Sometimes the jump over the fence

and out of the ring,

is the difference between

safety and risk.

Risk leads me elsewhere

where new colors soften the

horizon,

visions of hidden before trails

into the otherwhere appear

and hold me gently in a

warmth that relaxes my

restless mind.

birds sing their songs,

I can hear them.

I close my eyes

and find new peace.