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Poetry for the People: 
​1st Sunday Reading Series

Poetry for the People's--
​1st Sunday Reading Series

We are very excited to have found the perfect venue for our series.

The owners of rye ​are opening their doors exclusively for our reading series.

Please note:

  • the series runs the 1st Sunday of the month (October through May, 2019)
    • same format, featured readers and an open mic
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 
    • we will be starting and ending on time
  • the restaurant will be closed (we will have the place to ourselves)
    • a red and a white wine and beer will be offered for $5 a glass
    • coffee and tea will be offered for $2 a cup
    • cash only please
    • (there will be no food)
  • there is ample parking
  • the building is ADA accessible, the bathrooms are also ADA accessible
  • please enter through the patio door
  • if you are participating in the open mic (we sure hope you will) the time for the mic starts the minute you start speaking
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rye on 3rd
444 E 3rd Ave
​Eugene, OR 97401

Hosted by Laura LeHew and Roy Seitz
Poetry for the People is sponsored, in part, by the Lane Literary Guild and Uttered Chaos.

Want to be a featured reader?

  • Please note we schedule our featured readers one or two months in advance of each reading. 
  • We often feature readers who come as audience members to our readings.
  • We typically feature one or two poets at each reading, except December which is usually an all open mic.

If you are interested in being a featured reader, send me an email and I'll put you on our list. Let us know how you heard about our reading series. 
  • Know someone who should be a featured reader? Have them send us an email.

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

Join us for the last reading of the season ...

Judith H. Montgomery

Erik Muller

Open Mic

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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."

~Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Download a flyer:

poetry_for_the_people_05-05-19_rev3.pdf
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October, 2019

The first reading of the season ...

Check back here ~July for details

Past Featured Readers:

Broadsides 

Barton, Rachel:
rachel_barton_-_start_at_the_upper_pond.pdf
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Blue, C. Steven:
csteven_bluefaded_light_brown_now-rev2.pdf
File Size: 43 kb
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Iredale, Kristine: 
kristine_iredale_-_daffodil_parade.pdf
File Size: 94 kb
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Irions, Lissy:  
lissy_irions-festival_of_near_death_experiences.pdf
File Size: 106 kb
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lissy_irions-pagan.pdf
File Size: 102 kb
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Jarmick, Christopher J.:
christopher_j_jarmick-stir.pdf
File Size: 94 kb
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Lapp, Claudia:
claudia_lapp-carvings_and_marks.pdf
File Size: 108 kb
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claudia_lapp-richards_wings.pdf
File Size: 104 kb
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Montgomery, Judith H.:
judith_h._montgomery-her_silence_is.pdf
File Size: 63 kb
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Muller, Erik: 
erik_muller-im_digging_a_ditch.pdf
File Size: 47 kb
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Nose, Renee Roman:
58_renee_roman_nose-eternal_song.pub.pdf
File Size: 872 kb
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Richards, Grace:
grace_richard-mid-century_modern_rev2.pdf
File Size: 52 kb
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Sullivan, Anita:
57_anita_sullivan_here_is_what_i_see.pdf
File Size: 672 kb
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Titus, Tom: 
tom_titus-ashes_rev1.pdf
File Size: 43 kb
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Wallace, DM:
dm_wallace-lexicon_of_the_body.pdf
File Size: 39 kb
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dm_wallace-planting_garlic_rev2.pdf
File Size: 57 kb
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Wixon, Vincent:
vincent_wixon_-_apocalypse_rev2.pdf
File Size: 64 kb
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