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
Sponsored by 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.
October 7, 2018
Carter McKenzie
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DM Wallace
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Open Mic
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Carter McKenzie’s work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems, Canary, Sisyphus, Turtle Island Quarterly, The Berkeley Poets Cooperative: A History of the Times, and the poetry anthology Of Course, I’m a Feminist! Along with poet Jenny Root, she co-hosts the Springfield Poetry Series at the Emerald Art Center in Springfield, Oregon. A co-founder of the Northwest poetry collective Airlie Press, Carter continues to support the press as a member of the board of directors. Since 2015, she has been an active member of the Springfield-Eugene Chapter of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice). Carter lives in a small community in Western Oregon’s Middle Fork Willamette watershed region, which has been her home for the past twenty-three years. Stem of Us, released by Flowstone Press in May 2018, is her second full-length book of poetry.
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DM Wallace grew up in a large family in Twin Falls, Idaho, but thinks of herself as a true Oregonian since she has lived in Eugene, OR for over 30 years, and has pioneer ancestors who settled the Tillamook, OR area.
Her poems have appeared in the following magazines: New Letters, Silverfish Review, Calapooya Collage, The Pointed Circle, Lactuca, The Sow’s Ear, Fine Madness, Calypso, Mudfish, the Atlanta Review. Two of her poems were included in From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. DM has been writing poems since she was a teenager has worked as an editor, a film reviewer and an event coordinator, and currently makes her living in the wholesale wine trade. Coming shortly Vertical Divider
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“As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.”
~Jane Hirshfield Vertical Divider
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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.
November 4, 2018
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TBD
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December 2, 2018
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TBD
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January 6, 2019
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TBD
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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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April 7, 2019
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TBD
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May 5, 2019
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