Poetry of the Sierra Foothills Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Arts and Culture El Dorado

(DIAMOND SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA) June 18, 2022 — On Saturday, June 25, join Poetry of the Sierra Foothills for a free poetry reading and open mic event at Lovebirds. Featured poets are Janet Rodriguez and Zheyla Henriksen. Bring your favorite poem, or one you’ve written yourself to read at the open mic, which follows the featured poets’ presentation.

Saturday, June 25, at 2:00 pm
Love Birds Coffee & Tea Co.
4181 Hwy 49, Suite 100
Diamond Springs, CA 95619


Janet Rodriguez is an author, teacher, and editor living in Northern California. She is the author of the family memoir, Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations (forthcoming from Prickly Pear Press in June of 2022). In the United States, her work has appeared in Hobart, Pangyrus, Eclectica, The Rumpus, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, American River Review, and Calaveras Station. She is the winner of the Bazanella Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Literary Insight for Work in Translation Award, both from CSU Sacramento in 2017. Her short stories, essays, and poetry usually deal with themes involving morality in faith communities and the mixed-race experience in a culturally binary world. Follow her on Twitter @brazenprincess 

Janet Rodriguez


Zheyla Henriksen is an Ecuadorian, poet, researcher and artist, who currently resides in the United States. In 1967, in Ecuador, she received third place for the poem Fantasías in Los Primeros Juegos Florales Estudiantiles. She participated in the first Encounter of the Feminist Poets in Ecuador. Zheyla has participated in different poetry recitals in Ecuador, the United States, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Panama, and Ecuador. In 2008, her book of poems, Poemas dispersos was published which included the collection of poetry called Poemas del Cuerpo which was one of the seven finalists in the 2004 Concurso Internacional de Poesía Erótica in Gijón, Spain.

Zheyla Henriksen