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SDPA Readings with Poets Underground (5/2) and Poets INC (5/5) + National Poetry Month (in review)
Our Poetry to the People outreach events over the 2023-24 year were made possible with generous support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. We are grateful for their work on behalf of the local arts community! *Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily… Read More
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2022-23 SDPA Reading + Carly DeMento + Open Mic @ Poets Underground
Tuesday, March 28 at 7:00 p.m.: Read poetry and be merry @ .modbom. (formerly Amplified, East Village, 1429 Island Ave, 92101). Let’s go Poets Underground! You’re invited to a preview reading of the 2022-23 San Diego Poetry Annual. Hosted by Michael Klam, Sunny Rey and Anthony Azzarito, SDPA poets feature and all local poets welcome… Read More
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New SDPA Website + Readings Trifecta: The Grove (6/26), SDWI (6/27), SDPA (6/28) @ Poets Underground
Submissions are open for the San Diego Poetry Annual. Submit your best, original, previously unpublished work on the new website here. Sunday, June 26, 2 – 3:30 pm.: Poets at the Grove‘s first reading of the summer goes down in the Cypress Grove Picnic Area on Balboa Drive, near the intersection of Quince and 6th Avenue (see map… Read More
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SDPA Anthology Open Reading + Special Guests Kazim Ali, Ant Black, Susan J. Farese, and Alana Contreras-Rodríguez
Join us on Tuesday, June 28 at 7 p.m., for the 2021-22 Poets Underground/San Diego Poetry Annual (SDPA) open reading. All authors, fans of lit arts, and poets looking to publish are welcome. Come eat, drink, watch, read, and celebrate at Amplified Ale Works, East Village. Mark your calendars! Sign up to read by email at mkklam@gmail.com or… Read More
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Spacebar on Sunday, Acid Vault on Tuesday, Katie Manning on CWP!
On Sunday, May 8 from 3 to 5:30 p.m., I’m delighted to read again with author Joe Milosch at Spacebar Cafe & Wine Bistro, 7454 University Ave, Suite A, La Mesa, CA 91942: 2nd Sunday–Jihmye Poetry-Open Mic in person and on Zoom. Jim Moreno hosts, and Alfred Williams provides tech support for Zoom. Meeting ID: 990 814 5215 and Password: poetvoices _________________________________________________ Then on Tuesday,… Read More
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April is National Poetry Month!
Here are a few of the many National Poetry Month events happening in April at libraries, colleges, bars, galleries, and cafés around San Diego. Hope to see you out there, in person! Friday, April 1, at 3 p.m., poet Chrystophver R, hosts The Poetry Party (The Poetical Party of Choice) in the Santa Fe Room (Balboa Park… Read More
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Poets Underground Back in Person at Amplified!
Poets Underground open mic is officially back and in person beginning this Tuesday, March 15 at 6 p.m.! I’m over the moon to get back to Amplified Ale Works in East Village and be in the same room again with founder and poet, Sunny Rey! This first event, open to all poets and aficionados, is part book fair and… Read More
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Sharon Elise and Michael Klam in the Acid Vault, Poets Underground
On Tuesday, Oct. 29, Sharon Elise and Michael Klam feature at Poets Underground in East Village’s Amplified Ale Works. The performance takes place in Amplified’s Acid Vault and an open mic follows the features. Hosted by Sunny Rey. Food, drink, poetry! Show starts at 8 p.m. sharp. Amplified is located at 1429 Island Ave., San… Read More
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Sunny Rey Features at Palabra!
La Bodega Gallery presents PALABRA an evening of poetry hosted by Ted Washington Sunny Rey will be our featured Artist of the week Sunny Rey, bad ass local Poet. Author of Quotes and Poems of a Nobody (2013) and ROT (2016) both published with Garden Oak Press. Poems that cover themes of homelessness, sex, a… Read More
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Poetry LP!
Poetry LP? The birth of the long play format poetry performance for me began in 1998 at Java Joes. I had tired of the 3 – 5 minutes poets are normally relegated to at slams and open mics. I wanted to talk to the people in the audience, develop a story line and arc with… Read More