Poetry for the People

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
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

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.

February 3, 2019

Rachel Barton

Vincent Wixon

Open Mic

Rachel Barton is a poet, writing coach, and editor. She is a member of the Calyx Editorial Collective, she edits her own Willawaw Journal, and she co-chairs Willamette Writers on the River. Find her poems in Oregon English Journal, Hubbub, Whale Road Review, Mom Egg Review, Cloudbank, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Out of the Woods, was released in 2017. Happiness Comes is just released from Dancing Girl Press.

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Vincent Wixon’s most recent book of poems is Laying By, from Flowstone Press. Previous volumes are Blue Moon: Poems from Chinese Lines, The Square Grove, and Seed. He has coedited four books by William Stafford, including Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems. In 2014, Vince and his wife, Patty, received the Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for contributions to the literary life of Oregon. Vince Wixon lives in Ashland.

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"You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say."

~ William Stafford

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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.

March 3, 2019

Christopher J. Jarmick

Grace Richards

Open Mic

Writer - Poet Christopher J. Jarmick is the owner of BookTree bookstore in Kirkland. He has organized readings, and special events for poets in the NorthWest since 2001 in addition to his various careers as a Financial Adviser, a documentary and T.V producer- director, screenwriter, editor, and very briefly, a short order cook. He was born and raised in New York and New Jersey, spent 19 years in Los Angeles and made his home in the Seattle area in 1994 because it was a better place to raise his 3 daughters. His writings and poetry have been published in several literary presses, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and online. His newest collection of poetry, Not Aloud was published in 2015 by MoonPath Press; other books include IGNITION: Poem Starters, Septolets, Statements and Double Dog Dares (2010), The Glass Cocoon – a mystery thriller he co-wrote with Serena F. Holder, and Poems for the Middle Class (out of print). Oh there's more of course but let's be grateful we limit these bio things to under 10,000 words.

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

~Mary Oliver

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