Poetry for the People's--
1st Sunday Reading Series
What a wonderful run we had. Sadly, we are on hiatus for the foreseeable future.
However, please do visit Rye.
However, please do visit Rye.
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Hosted by Laura LeHew and Roy Seitz
Poetry for the People was sponsored, in part, by the Lane Literary Guild and Uttered Chaos.
Open Mic Guidelines
- Find the person with the clipboard, add your name to the list, and then go on stage when your name is called.
- You'll have between 3 - 5 minutes. That's enough time for a long poem or 2-3 short ones.
- Open Mics are open to a general audience, so plan accordingly.
- Read your own original poems, or or poems by published poets whom you admire.
- Try to avoid a long-winded preface to your poem, and for Pete's sake, don't explain your poem before you read it.
- Never apologize, especially if you just wrote the poem on the way to the venue. Let the audience believe that it was worth coming to hear you.
- Read slowly, but not too slowly. Enjoy your vowels and consonants. Remember to breathe.
- It's considered rude to keep shuffling your papers while awaiting your turn, and to fly the coop after your 3 minutes on stage. Please sit back down and listen to your fellows.
- The audience is encouraged to moan, groan, heckle, laugh, whistle, snap their fingers, slap their knees, clap their hands, and shout amen. Go with it.
May 5, 2019
Our last reading featured:
Judith H. Montgomery |
Erik Muller |
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Judith H. Montgomery’s poems appear in the Bellingham Review, Cimarron Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. Her first collection, Passion, received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, Litany for Wound and Bloom, was a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Prize, and appeared in August 2018 from Uttered Chaos Press. Her prize-winning narrative medicine chapbook, Mercy, appeared in March 2019. [She’s been living in Bend, but plans to move with her husband back to the Portland area.]
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A poet for sixty years, most of them lived in Oregon, Erik has been engaged in local poetry as an editor, publisher, essayist and self-published poet. He has edited Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon and Traprock Books. Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets (2017) as well as And Yet, Selected Poems 2011-2018 (2019) are from Mountains and Rivers Press. Erik is currently an OPA Board member.
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"Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."
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Past Featured Readers:
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BroadsidesBarton, Rachel:
Blue, C. Steven:
Iredale, Kristine:
Irions, Lissy:
Jarmick, Christopher J.:
Lapp, Claudia:
Montgomery, Judith H.:
Muller, Erik:
Nose, Renee Roman:
Richards, Grace:
Sullivan, Anita:
Titus, Tom:
Wallace, DM:
Wixon, Vincent:
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