Join us this month as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the local writing group The Meter Maids, featuring members of the group reading their work. Open mic following featured readers. NOTE: 7 pm start time. Below is a history of the Meter Maids: What began as a sharing of poetry between two women who …
The Park John Freeman Simply to Know its Name Robert Aquinas McNally Felon Reginald Betts Everyday Mojo Songs of …
Song of the San Joaquin will accept poems through September 15. You can find out more at their website: https://www.chaparralpoets.org/SSJ.html. This issue honors poet Nancee Maya who passed away earlier this year. There will be a special section dedication section including some of Nancee's work and also some poems about Nancee. If you would like to …
Melchor Sahagun III will be hosting Poetry Night at the Queen Bean on Tuesday, September 15th starting at 6 pm, via the Zoom platform. (Links to the event will be furnished on Facebook a little later this month). The reading will be devoted exclusively to open mic readers, so drop by and read and/or listen to …
The Letter: Writing Resistance in Epistolary Poems ...while also helping save the post office Join Stella Beratlis in this free online workshop on writing truth to power via epistolary poems. Epistolary poems, from the Latin "epistula" for "letter," are, quite literally, poems that read as letters. We will read examples of epistolary poems and generate …
Join host Stella Beratlis in our monthly reading + open mic series. This month we are excited to feature Eliot Schain, author of THE DISTANT SHORE, and Patrick Cahill, author of THE MACHINERY OF SLEEP. Patrick Cahill’s prose and poems have appeared in over forty journals, including TriQuarterly, Volt, Poets Eleven, the Irish magazine Into …
