Poetry Club Bellingham Hosted by Ron Leatherbarrow, retired poetry professor, 4th Sat, 10-12, at a Bellingham café. Classic poetry discussed, original poetry read. Facebook Group Site: https://www.facebook.com/Poetryclubbellingham/ After taking Ron’s Intro to Poetry class Spring quarter I fell in love with this kind, intelligent, antidote-filled instructor. I’m not the only one. I organized a Saturday morningContinueContinue reading “Poetry Club”
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Event: Noisy Water
You’re invited~ Noisy Water: Poetry from Whatcom County, Washington “It is an honor to be apart of this Whatcom County anthology. The event on December 1st is one of many readings scheduled throughout the NW over the next few months. Visit the Other Mind Press web site for a full listing. Thank you Other MindContinueContinue reading “Event: Noisy Water”
Event: Get Lit
You’re invited~ Cafe Bouzingo’s “Get Lit” Featuring poet Shannon Laws 6:30 p.m. Sunday, November 22 at 1209 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, Washington. Get Lit! is Café Bouzingo’s weekly poetry show. Every Sunday, sign up starts at 6:30 p.m., join the crew at Café Bouzingo for an evening of spoken word — local and nationally renowned touring poetsContinueContinue reading “Event: Get Lit”
Event: Read-In World Peace Poets
You’re invited Musicians, poets and lovers of peace please join us for the 3rd annual Read-In! This is a FREE and public international event. Sign up today via email at worldpeacepoets@gmail.com for a five minute slot to share what peace means to you. The read in ends when the last poet speaks. A lightContinueContinue reading “Event: Read-In World Peace Poets”
Poem: low hanging
the fruit of Happy Valley decorates the trees along the walk to the bay apples blush and drop to the ground, the cherry is orange red hard-sided pears, as many as the tree has leaves, present themselves in portrait hidden under the branches, purple frost rubs off a plum’s sweet-shiny skin a blockContinueContinue reading “Poem: low hanging”
Poem: Peek-A-Boo
~For Danny & Ethan That one time we learned if we stopped seeing something—it was really gone. Then that other time when we discover that was a lie. Let me teach you peek-a-boo cover your eyes I’m gone. Uncover I’m back. How strange to be gone in a minute! A man signs aContinueContinue reading “Poem: Peek-A-Boo”
Once
Once This morning I woke up angry. Or perhaps just pissed at everything in general, which, as I write this, realize its pretty much the same as being angry, but feels better to type “pissed”. It was my second wake up. I had a wake up at 1 a.m. I tried to goContinueContinue reading “Once”
Event: Bellingham Poetry Gallery
You’re invited… May 8th, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. at the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention on Bay Street Erica Reed is a visionary. Did you know there were 18 poetry groups and open mics in our medium sized city of Bellingham? (really 19, but one can’t make it) At most I thought perhaps onlyContinueContinue reading “Event: Bellingham Poetry Gallery”
Event: WWU Erotic Poetry Night
You are invited to Erotic Poetry Night April 16th 7-9 p.m. @ The Underground Coffeehouse, WWU, Bellingham, WA What is Erotic Poetry Night? The Associated Students Sexual Awareness Center on the campus of Western Washington University hosts this popular event. Basically, it is a poetry reading laced with “safe sex” PSA’s. I had the opportunityContinueContinue reading “Event: WWU Erotic Poetry Night”
Meet Poet Dee Dee Chapman
The first time I heard Dee Dee share her poetry was in 2011 at the infamous Poetry Night Open Mic when it was located at the Amadeus Project on Cornwall. She had the guts to walk up on stage and share a process poem about an intimate subject matter, then return to her chair likeContinueContinue reading “Meet Poet Dee Dee Chapman”
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