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Mondays:
Writers Helping Writers
Third Monday each month
7-9 pm
presented by Benicia Literary Arts
formerly at HQ Gallery
333 First Street, Suite D
Benicia
Free for members, $10 non-members
Contact: Lois Requist
lois@requist.com
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
Cover to Cover
Tuesdays at 10:30 AM
KPFA 94.1
Poets Society (back to in person)
for Zoom info check:
https://benicialibrary.org/events/first-tuesday-poetry-group-1
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:
Poetry Book Club
First Wednesday each month
Contact kherma@gmail.com for info & Link
Napa Valley Writers (back to in person)
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:
Brentwood Open Mic
Second Thursdays at 6:30
Host: Kati Short
sign up to receive the Zoom link: katishort@yahoo.com
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; 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.
SUNDAYS:
Poetry on Sundays
Quarterly meetings
Sundays at 2 pm
Carnegie Arts Center
250 N. Broadway
Turlock (209)632-5761
A function of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center
(free but donations accepted)
(I will post links as they become available)
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