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Poetry Near You
Are you looking to connect with poets or find opportunities to hear or study poetry? To find poetry events and resources near you, simply enter your zip code in the search field below.
| Date | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Mayda del Valle and Mark Turcotte Reading | Chicago, IL | |
| Verse4Verse: Drag + Poetry | Ridgewood, NY | |
| Poetry Reading by Alumni Leah Flax Barber and Will Schutt | Oberlin, OH | |
| Wild Bloom Poetry Open Mic, Fort Lauderdale's Home for Poetry | Fort Lauderdale, FL | |
| Poetry Appreciation Group | Brookfield, IL | |
| Affrilachian Poets Collective Reading | Chicago, IL | |
| Third Thursday Reading and Open Mic | Bainbridge Island, WA | |
| Nick Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Contest | ||
| Poetry reading & open mic: Writing Workshop: World Within a Poem: From Micro to Macro and Back Again | workshop with Jamie Lahey Fitzgerald | Altadena, CA | |
| Genre Fiction and Race - Writers Panel at Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) with Naomi Hirahara (Crown City), Pedro Ininguez (Fever Dreams of a Parasite) and David A. Romero (The Enemy Sleeps) | Long Beach, CA |