POETRY MONTH--EVENTS STARTING TODAY! April 2022 Poetry Events calendar and timely announcements
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The calendar of poetry events for April 2022 is attached,
along with a guide and contact information for the events.
(If you print the calendar and guide, use landscape orientation.)
Scroll down this page for announcements.
Award Ceremony Honoring Jack Foley
- Today, April 1, 2-4 pm Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Rd. Kensington
- Dana Goia, Deborah Bachels Schmidt, Nina Serrano and others will offer remarks.
Love Poetry Celebration
- Love Poetry Celebration flyer is attached. Sunday, April 3, 3-5 pm PDT, on Zoom.
- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85154842235?pwd=K3ZqdThWMDRwbVNmN2sxbFRuY2ZmZz09
Webinar: “Memory & Poetry / Memorias y Poesia” A roundtable on Pablo Armando Fernandez’s writings
- Tuesday, April 5, 4-6 PDT
- Nina Serrano among the presenters
- Register at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pTSKC5o7TEW1oa8zphEu_A
First Tuesday Poets
· Tuesday, April 5, 7-9 pm PDT
· Poet in Context: Dee Allen.
· Theme: “Going the Distance”
· Open mic: Present your own poetry, whether on-theme or not.
· Or just come and listen.
· Zoom information will be sent Tuesday morning.
Alameda Island AllPoets
- Wednesday, April 6, 7-9 pm
- Featuring Benicia Poets Laureate Mary Susan Gast, Tom Stanton, Johanna Ely, Lois Requist, Ronna Leon.
- Email cath...@gmail.com for link
“Living, On Earth”
- AAUW Poetry Reading Sunday, April 10, 3-5 pm Flyer attached
“Banned Books” Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam
- Thursday, April 14, 2-4 pm
- Featuring, among others, D.L. Lang, Tongo Eisen-Martin
- https://sfpl.org/events/2022/04/14/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam-banned-books-edition
Poetry Month Celebration—Live, with open mic
- Saturday, April 16, 2-4 JFK Library, 505 Santa Clara St., Vallejo
- Featuring Jeremy Snyder, Georgina Marie, D.L. Lang, Mary Susan Gast
- Open mic following features
Benicia Diversity Festival
- Saturday, April 23, 12-5 Marina Pavilion
- Genea Brice featured
Ekphrastic Reading for “Water Color, a Happy Medium”
- Saturday, April 23, 2-4, The aRt Cottage, 2238 Mt. Diablo St., Concord
- Poems and prose by Genea Brice, Carole Dwinell, Johanna Ely, Tom Garry, Georgette Howington, Kathy Monroe, Myra Nissen, Aikya Param, Nina Serrano, Sandra Simmer. Aline Soules, Tom Stanton, Roger Straw, Becky Bishop White, Jim White.
OZCAT Live Reading
- Thursday, April 27 10:30 am—arrive by 10, 1026 Georgia St., Vallejo
Submission Deadlines
- Ina Coolbrith Circle Poets’ Dinner contest EXTENDED through Wednesday, April 6.
- Dancing Poetry April 15 deadline.
Publications
- A poem by Diane Murray Ward was included in Moonstone Arts Centers International Women’s Day Anthology, along with others mentioned last month.
- Kathleen Herrmann’s poem “Amelia’s Song” will be published in the Moonstone Press Ukraine Anthology.
Please let me know about any honors or awards for, or publications of, your poetry. This community of poets wants to celebrate them.
Ozcat Poetry Hour
· Record your poems, 3 minutes each or less, using any audio format; multiple poems should be separated. Email to skippe...@gmail.com subject line “POEMS FOR OZCAT.”
· Or read live, Thursday, April 27. See above.
Calls for Submissions
- Join the Vallejo Poetry Society googlegroup for ongoing notifications of anthologies on an incredibly vast range of topics.
Go to https://groups.google.com/g/vallejopoetrysociety/about and click “Join Group.”
Mary Susan Gast
Benicia Poet Laureate
Mary Susan Gast
Benicia Poet Laureate
