New poetry anthology features nearly 100 women poets in Mendocino County

MENDOCINO CO., 6/12/25 — Twenty-seven years ago, three women put together an anthology of poetry by Mendocino County women poets called “Wood, Water, Air and Fire“. One of the members of that team, Devreaux Baker, is now the poet laureate of Mendocino County. Baker has now realized her dream of producing a second volume of poems by women, “Spirit of Place.” 

The new anthology, edited by Baker, Kate Dougherty, Maureen Eppstein, Georgina Marie Guardado, Karen Lewis, and Blake More, features nearly 100 women poets. For many, this is the first time their writing has been published.