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 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
- new time: 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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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.
December 2, 2018
Charles Castle |
Claudia Lapp |
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Charles Castle returned to creative writing after a career in healthcare. He has three books of poetry; Living with Patriarchs, A Season’s Second Coming, and A Good-night in America, but what gives him the most pleasure is having a poem in the Oak and 10th Street parking structure as part of the City of Eugene’s Step Into Poetry installation. Charles is a co-host for the ‘Burning Down the Barnes’ reading series at Barnes and Noble Bookstore and frequents the Page 2 Poetry open mic at the Cush Cafe.
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Claudia was born in Stuttgart, Germany, the only child of a German mother and American father. She grew up in Maryland, graduated from Bennington College, and migrated to Montreal for 11 years where she taught at John Abbott College and published & performed poetry with the Vèhicule Gallery poets (www.Vehiculepoets.com). Returning to Maryland in 1979, she taught writing, dream work, and ESL.
A professional astrologer for many decades, the stars aligned when she compared charts with future husband Gary, also a student of stellar weather. They moved to Eugene in 1991, Oregon becoming their promised land. She worked for 13 years at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art as an Exhibit Interpreter and where she presented workshops for UO freshmen on Writing & Art. Now retired, she uses her newly freed-up time to create new and revise existing works. This past April, Claudia flew to Montreal where, as part of the week long Blue Met Literary Festival, the six surviving Vèhicule poets were honored for their 40 years of work with a video recorded reading at the Rare Book Room of the McLennan Library at McGill University. A touch screen displayed bios, photos and videos of the poets, open for public viewing. Recent work: Water and Fire, BUCH, Color Quartet, Horses; The Poetry of Peace, The Vèhicule Poets Now, The Fires From Her Window, What the River Brings, MOUSE EGGS (Montreal 2018); poetry reviews of Canadian poets for Talon Books and Poetry Quebec. Vertical Divider
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"My role in society, or any artist or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
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Download our most recent flyer:
Food for Lane CountyOptional: bring a can of food to donate to Food for Lane County.
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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.
January 6, 2019
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C. Steven Blue
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Tom Titus
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February 3, 2019
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TBD
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TBD
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March 3, 2019
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TBD
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TBD
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April 7, 2019
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TBA
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TBA
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May 5, 2019
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TBD
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TBD
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