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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
Humble Poets’ Open Mic
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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Salem Poetry Project featuring M. Ann Reed
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ann Reed taught IB English Literature, Theory of Knowledge and Theater Arts for various IB colleges overseas. Now an independent teacher/learner, she offers the Bio-Poetic Organic Unity Study of Literature in support of the Deep Ecology Movement for global and local academic students. Awarded a doctorate in Theater Art , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
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Poetry Night at McMinnville Public Library
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Since 2013 we’ve been meeting once a month in McMinnville. We start each evening with a reading from a featured poet, followed by an open mic from the audience.  In 2025, we meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 6 pm. 2025 Featured Poets Jan 9: Richard Robbins  Feb 13: Bethany Lee Mar 13: John Van Dreal Apr , ...
Word Open Mic
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Share your words in sweet community at our monthly open mic emceed by spoken word poet Jorah LaFleur. No matter your genre or form – poetry, fiction, storytelling, spoken word, or prose – you’re invited to share your work in our monthly open mic. Hear what your fellow wordsmiths have been working on and support your li , ...
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Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written
6:30 pm
An active poetry workshop entitled Petrichor’s Child: Within and the Written will be held monthly on the second Monday of every month, beginning Monday February 10th at 6.30 at Portland Arts Collective, in downtown Portland at 122 NW Couch Street. There are resources guiding our practice and a unique visual monta , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
The Studio Series Poetry Reading & Open Mic
7:00 pm
Scot Siegel is a city planner and author of four full-length books of poetry, most recently, Tender Currencies, winner of the 2024 Sally Albiso Award from Concrete Wolf-MoonPath Press, and The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2016). He has received fellowship residencies through Oregon Sta , ...
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Salem Poetry Project featuring Paint & Write the Town
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
For the past eight summers, writers have joined visual artists in creating works inspired by gardens, parks, wineries, and other locations around Salem. Several poets who have participated in these annual Paint & Write the Town events will read their favorites from among the poems they have written or started en pl , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
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Open Mic Nite at Memorial Middle School
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Memorial Middle School Poetry Club invites you to join us May 19th, at 6:30 for an evening of poetry! This free event is open to the public! Please come read and/or listen. Please bear in mind that this is happening at a middle school. Edgy is okay, but poems should be suitable for all ages…. For more info, t , ...
In Memory – Alberta Street Pub reading series
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Poetry open mic reading series, with a focus on remembering the poets who inspired and influenced us, both personally and historically. , ...
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Salem Poetry Project featuring Allisa Cherry
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Allisa Cherry, author of An Exodus of Sparks and the 2024 Wheelbarrow Books poetry prize winner, has work in journals such as The McNeese Review, TriQuarterly, and The Penn Review. Based in Portland, she teaches classes and workshops for immigrants and refugees and is a poetry editor at West Trade Review. The Salem Poe , ...
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Poetry in the Round
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A casual weekly meeting of poets and the poetry-curious started in fall 2024. We gather to share poetry—our own and others, classics to hot-off-the-press—in a comfy corner of the Coburg Commons Bookstore & Community Center. Read if you like, or just listen and enjoy. , ...
Humble Poets’ Open Mic
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Humble Poets’ Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831 N. Killingsworth , ...
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Salem Poetry Project featuring Carey Taylor and Connie Soper
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Carey Taylor is the author of Some Aid to Navigation and The Lure of Impermanence. She is the winner of the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, runner-up for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award, and has had her poems curated both nationally and internationally. She , ...
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