JEWEL BOX POETS NO MORE

One of Poulsbo’s platforms for spoken word is disappearing.

The Jewel Box Poets’ Sunday Reading Series, which has regularly been giving poets a podium at the Jewel Box Theater since 2005, will cease, following a final session featuring writers from the Floating Bridge Press at 3 p.m. Oct. 19, 225 Iverson St. in Poulsbo.

Series organizer and local author Jenifer Lawrence said that when the series began, she’d planned to get the program up and running, and then pass along the leadership gig after about three years.

Everything mapped out, except the leadership passing thing.

When she couldn’t find someone to take over booking the poets and hosting on the monthly sessions, she decided it was time for a close.

Meanwhile, she’s still writing, and Poulsbo’s poetry heads can still get their fix on the first Saturday of every month at the Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse.

ONE LAST LOCAL SHOW FOR CESAR

Following two years of providing accessible classical guitar in concert around the Seattle area, Chile-born six-string virtuoso Cesar Medel is packing up and heading for Spain.

He’s reportedly relocating to Granada to run a Music and Arts Center.

Before he goes, he’ll be giving one last concert — 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Island Music Guild, 10598 Valley Road on Bainbridge. Tickets are $12 general, $8 for students and seniors.

Info: www.cesarmedel.com, www.islandmusic.org, www.musiccommunityresources.org.

‘WESTERN’ ICON AT EAGLE HARBOR

Ivan Doig is an icon among writers of the American West — those authors who get categorized as writing “Westerns.”

In century’s-end polls in the San Francisco Chronicle, which set out to name the best Western novels and works of non-fiction of the past century, Doig was the only living author with books in the top-12 on each list.

But the seasoned author doesn’t think of himself as a “Western” writer. The American West is just a setting.

“To me, language — the substance on the page, the poetry under the prose — is the ultimate ‘region,’ the true home, for a writer,” he writes in his online biography at www.ivandoig.com.

Doig comes to Eagle Harbor (157 Winslow Way on Bainbridge) with his new book “The Eleventh Man” — a story set in the entire theater of World War II.

Info: www.ivandoig.com, www.eagleharborbooks.com or call (206) 842-5332.