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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

I am pleased to share this information about a monthly Zoom poetry "workgroup." 
 
Fairfield poet Karen Trollinger is host to this once a month meeting for those interested in having your poems heard by peers and responses/suggestions made about that poem.
 
Karen says suggestions must be kind and helpful as the intention of this group is to craft poetry, not have them graded.
 
The group meets the last Wednesday of each month at 7pm via Zoom.
Be prepared with one poem you want to share.
 
Here is the link:
 
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85113921700?pwd=STYxWUdZV00reG13VXJLOXNxVVFGQT09

Meeting ID: 851 1392 1700
Passcode: cEAe95
 
Please contact Karen for any questions. karentrolli@gmail.com

 

THURSDAYS: 

 

Outlaws Writers Group  (not a new group, but a new listing)

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

 

Saturdays:
 
Bay Area Poets Coalition
First Saturday of the month in person
Second Saturday is on Zoom
1 to 2:30 pm
25 open mic slots (3-4 min)

 email bapc.poetalk@gmail.com to sign up for open

Listeners welcome
Zoom link emailed a week before
Host: John Rowe

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.

 

 

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