Groups on Zoom
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Mondays:
Amuse-ing Mondays (Rivertown Poets)
First and Third Mondays monthly
6:15 PM host: Sandra Anfang
Open mic is 3 minutes per person
•(Sign up in advance for open mic at aqus.com/online – Choose Weekly Poetry Open Mic.)
To sign up to read go to : https://aqus.com/rivertownpoets/
And here’s the quick link to the zoom room: https://zoom.us/j/6508887879
TUESDAYS:
Coastside Poetry
2nd Tuesdays, 6-8 pm
email dianeleemoomey@costsidepoetry.org for info
(RSVP to join the Zoom)
Cover to Cover
Tuesdays at 10:30 AM
KPFA 94.1
2nd Tuesday Reading
live this month
Rattlecast
every Tuesday
streams live on their YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Periscope pages
also a podcast on iTunes & Soundcloud
reading & casual discussion with a poet from a recent issue
leave questions for our guest in the chat window
writing prompts at the end of each episode
WEDNESDAYS:
Faithful Fools
both live & Zoom every second Wednesday
234 Hyde St, SF
Sacred Grounds
every week, 7-10 pm
the longest-running poetry Open Mic event in San Francisco. They are now on Zoom
https://www.drdan.solutions/Sacred'sWeeklyNews.htm
Poetry Book Club
First Wednesday each month
Contact kherma@gmail.com for info & Link
Alameda Island Poets
First Wednesdays,
7-9 pm
contact Cathy Dana: cathydana@gmail.com
Fairfield Zoom Poetry Workshop
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85113921700?pwd=STYxWUdZV00reG13VXJLOXNxVVFGQT09
Meeting ID: 851 1392 1700
Passcode: cEAe95
THURSDAYS:
Outlaws Writers Group
Every Thursday 6 to 8 on Zoom
Moderated by Tim Lewis and open to new members benicias.outlaw.writers.group@gmail.com
This is a very high-tech group that critiques documents on the spot as
posted on Google docs. Long-established and very active.
Brentwood Open Mic
Second Thursdays at 6:30
sign up to receive the Zoom link:
Steve Rhodes stevelr_home@hotmail.com
login URL: https://brentwoodca-gov.zoom.us/j/86157634359?pwd=RmIwTzVHaU1oUElkMHZPQk96aUFlQT09
OZCAT Poetry (also live most months)
Fourth Thursdays
10:30 at 89.5 FM
(record your poem & an intro
and send via email to:
mullet.laura@gmail.com OR skipperwicky@gmail.com. )
MUST BE MASKED AND VAXXED
ART BEAT airs every Thursday at 10:30 AM
Poetry with a Purpose
Second Thursday each month
7 to 8:30 PM
Respectfully discuss the message behind a poem
contact: kmonroe77@msn.com for more info & link
Point Arena Poetry
Third Thursdays 7 pm
email the host for zoom details
blake@snakelyone.com
Alameda Island Poets Workshop
Second Thursdays every month
7 to 9 PM
contact Cathy Dana at cathydana@gmail.com
FRIDAYS:
Benicia Writer’s Salon (hybrid)
First & Third Friday each Month
2-4pm/
Edna Clyne Room/Benicia Public Library
Bring a piece of writing to share and receive positive feedback.
Poetry or very short prose (600 words max)
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95750050409
We also spend 20 minutes writing to a prompt. Everyone is welcome!
Benicia Writer’s Workshop
Second and Fourth Friday each month
2-4 pm
This is a critique workshop for writers who have longer pieces and want some feedback.
You may read up to 15 minutes and hear critique for another 15. Listeners welcome.
contact Jim White for a Zoom link:
jw.inkwell@gmail.com
Panda Poetry
Join a fun community of poets writing every Friday at 3 pm
We are a generative group not critique, rotate giving 2 prompts and then writing together for 10 to 15 minutes with a final read around.
hosted by Fred Dodsworth fdodsworth@comcast.net
Rattle—Critique of the Week
Fridays at 5 pm Eastern Time
gather round your screens & workshop poems together!
streams live on Rattle's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Periscope pages
Poets are chosen to have their work critiqued in a random drawing each month
Tune in to find out how
email bapc.poetalk@gmail.com to sign up for open
rowepoet@yahoo.com
Ina Coolbrith Circle
SEPT TO MAY ONLY
generally Third Saturdays, with exceptions
Featured speaker plus member read-around, (refreshments afterwards when in person); two contests yearly, and an anthology called "The Gathering" every other year. Members' publications are added to a collection in the state library. For lots of info, visit www.coolpoetry.org
Poets are limited to one poem, one page in length, during meetings.
April 19, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. ICC Zoom Meeting
Features Robert Eastwood
Hosted by Evie Groch
Robert Eastwood’s work appeared most recently in 3Elements Review, West Texas Literary Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Poet Lore, Triggerfish Literary Review, Sky Island Journal, and Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. He has three chapbooks and four published books: Snare (Broadstone Books), Romer (Etuscan Books), Locus Loci (Main Street Rag), and Cantata Angeleno (Broadstone Books). He has three Pushcart nominations. Eastwood graduated from C.S.U.L.A. and the Secondary Teaching Program at Saint Mary’s College. Before teaching high school and becoming a poet he worked for over three decades as a manager in the telecommunications industry He also serves on the poetry staff of The MacGuffin Reader, and is a coordinator for the Poets' Society writing group.
The presentation will be followed by an open mic.
If you would like your poem for the Open Mic to be displayed online while you read, please send it to Evie Groch (egroch@gmail.com) by 8 pm Friday evening.
Evie Groch (egroch@comcast.net) will be the zoom host for the meeting and will send out the Zoom link on Saturday morning.
SUNDAYS:
Rattle—Poets Respond Live
Every Sunday at 12 Pm Eastern
streams live on Rattle's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Periscope pages
open mic with poems about current events
call in through Skype or by phone
Poets' Lighthouse
Weekly YouTube show with Tricia de Jesus-Gutierrez
Every Sunday
https://youtube.comcPoetryGlobalNetwork