Poetry for the People's--
Third Saturday Reading Series
CAUTION;
We would just like to give a shout out to all of our loyal readers and audience participants.
Poetry for the People brought you 50 featured poets and 3 holiday reads. During the 3rd season we brought in over 400 people from the community. Featured readers were a combination of new and established poets, both local (Eugene) and from the NW. We very specifically, did not make this read about featuring poets from Uttered Chaos.
We paid for wine and/or food at every event (with a huge huge huge thanks to Martha Gatchel for providing most of the food).
During the 3rd season we began paying each featured reader a $50.00 stipend.
Imagine my surprise at having just found out that we need to find a new venue for our reading.
Please check back over the summer and click if you'd like an email with an update.
And, thanks again for all your support.
Poetry for the People brought you 50 featured poets and 3 holiday reads. During the 3rd season we brought in over 400 people from the community. Featured readers were a combination of new and established poets, both local (Eugene) and from the NW. We very specifically, did not make this read about featuring poets from Uttered Chaos.
We paid for wine and/or food at every event (with a huge huge huge thanks to Martha Gatchel for providing most of the food).
During the 3rd season we began paying each featured reader a $50.00 stipend.
Imagine my surprise at having just found out that we need to find a new venue for our reading.
Please check back over the summer and click if you'd like an email with an update.
And, thanks again for all your support.
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.
September, 2018
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Open Mic |
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
~Emily Dickinson
~Emily Dickinson
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 3 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.
