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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 Steven Robert Heine read by Marc Janssen
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
More than forty years ago, an unemployed cannery worker named Steven Robert Heine burst onto the publishing scene in Oregon as one of three Salem cartoonists. From 1978 to 1981 Heine became the first author to appear at the Oregon State Fair, selling his poetry books and meeting thousands of fairgoers. Eventually Heine , ...
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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 , ...
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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 , ...
Salem Poetry Project Featuring Brian Rohr
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Brian Rohr is a poet, storyteller and founder/director of The Stafford Challenge, an international poetry project encouraging over a thousand participants to write a poem every day for a year, inspired by the legendary William Stafford. His writings have appeared in a number of publications and anthologies and his debu , ...
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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
Featuring Ellen Waterston and John Martin  2024 was a banner year for poet and author Ellen Waterston who, that year, received Soapstone’s Bread and Roses Award, Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Award, and was named the eleventh Poet Laureate of Oregon. She has dedicated herself to writing and advocating for the lite , ...
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In Memory Reading Series
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Live featured poet series, with open mic. This month the feature is celebrated Oregon poet Emmett Wheatfall  Hawthorne Hideaway (Red Room performance space) 2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd. , ...
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Salem Poetry Project Featuring Poems Banned in Florida
7:00 am - 9:00 pm
In April 2024 Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stated Florida residents without children in a school district “may not object to more than one material per month.” Comforting after according to PEN America, Florida school districts have banned over 1,400 books since July 2021, though there is no way to know exa , ...
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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 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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