[ January 28, 2011; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]
How did we miss this?
This Friday at 4 in the PM, in the VU 565 up at Western, Robert Wrigley will be reading and answering questions. It’s a free event, and everyone is welcome.
If you would like to read a little more about Robert let me direct you to his bio, linked here from the [...]
For the third year in a row, The Bellingham Herald will run love poems written by Whatcom County residents in honor of Valentine’s Day.
Selected entries will run in the Feb. 14th Herald, and all accepted entries will run online at TheBellinghamHerald.com.
Poems can be e-mailed to:
dean.kahn@bellinghamherald.com
or mailed to:
“Valentine’s Day Poems”
The Bellingham Herald
1155 N. State St.
Bellingham, WA
or [...]
Over at her blog, Karen Finneyfrock brought this fantastic article to our attention: In the Realms of the Unreal: Searching for authentic slam poetry in Chicago. A well written piece by Alizah Salario, discussing the authenticity of slam poetry and its development from the movements earliest roots in Chicago’s Green Mill. Alizah interviews numerous poets involved in [...]
Zara Stevens of DVSAS dropped in on our monthly board meeting to say hello and pick up the check from the Born in Flames Slam. Our lushly bearded arts director Robert was on hand to present the thing. Look at them go!
It would be fair, I think, to call Born in Flames an overwhelming success and leave it at that. What more is there to add? All in all, we sold more tickets than we made and the people just kept coming! We raised some money and awareness for a very important organization in our community. [...]
Who doesn’t like taking notes and making phone calls and keeping minutes and drafting letters and giving reports?
Poetrynight has need of a new secretary. This is a board position and carries all sorts of fancy responsibilities, not least of which is wrangling our Arts Director, Robert, into something resembling productivity.
From our bylaws:
The Secretary and Assistant [...]
The internets are a wonderful thing. An intricate series of tubes, they bring the world closer to itself everyday! Recently, our arts director Robert received an email soliciting advice from our organization. Have a read:
My name is Enrique Siliezar and I am president of the Library Club here at Cerritos Community College in California. I was browsing [...]
The Sue Boynton Poetry Contest is pleased to offer two poetry workshops with outstanding poet-instructors on Saturday, November 13, 2010, at Mindport Exhibits, 210 W. Holly, Bellingham.
10:00am – Noon
Poetic Geography
with Luther Allen
The spatial arrangement of words, lines and stanzas on the page can amplify, enrich and deepen the power of a poem. We will explore free-form ways of distributing [...]
[ October 16, 2010; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
Update: It was great! You can read about it all here.
This Saturday, the legions of poetrynight descend upon the JINX art space to bring awareness to (and raise money for!) Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault services of Whatcom County. This is the second time we have gathered in that hallowed space for this explicit purpose. [...]
We’ver updated our tubes!
Our site only just went live and we are still getting all of our ducks in a row. Still have a few walls to paint, so to speak. Check out our newly updated about us page and tell us what you think. Did we miss anything?
For booking inquiries, article and book submission or to tell us about an event:
email: info@poetrynight.org
post: PO Box 3038, Bellingham, WA 98227-3038
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poetrynight is a program of
The Whatcom Poetry Series
and is a 501(c)(3).
Which makes us particularly fancy.
