Next up for The Spoken Experience: the power and poetry of Lucille Clifton. Come join this community of readers who gather monthly to enjoy poems from a featured poet. We meet again on Monday, August 24, at noon in the front room of the Capitola Branch Library. Hope to see you!

I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.

Thanks to AUBADES, "The Straggler" is out in the world. aubades.org/the-straggler/

Next up for The Spoken Experience: Dean Young, Monday, 7/27 @Capitola library@noon. We enjoy the featured poet's work ("You want happy endings, read cookbooks") and the ensuing conversation. Hope to see you. (Meetups, facilitated by local poets Paola Bruni, Elaine Fletcher Chapman and Jessica Cohn)

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Another, feel good timeline cleanse, is due! Here you go! Enjoy! Try not to smile, let alone tear up.

6/22@noon, the Spoken Experience returns to Capitola Branch Library. This month, this community of readers takes up the poems--sounds and spirit--of translator, essayist, logger, fire lookout, crewman, carpenter, back-to-the-land Buddhist environmentalist Gary Snyder. Join us "Ah, to be alive."

Next up: the great “Nobody.” The Spoken Experience returns May 18th@noon@Capitola Branch Library (third Monday rather than the fourth because of Memorial Day). This community of readers meets up monthly for communal readings of a featured poet's work. For May, the focus is on Emily D. Join us!

@nytimes.com You know damn well that if this was Joe Biden it would have been on your front page. You’re cowards and trump’s enablers. It’s embarrassing how low you’ve sunk.

The Spoken Experience returns April 27 at noon to the Capitola Branch Library (CA). The words of Arthur Sze, U.S. poet laureate, will be in focus for National Poetry Month. You're invited. You're always invited. This month marks one year for this welcoming community of readers. Join us!

Because evil has a huge platform these days, I just want to post this and wish the good humans of Artemis all the good there is. Godspeed.

Monday, March 23rd, the Spoken Experience returns to the Capitola (CA) library from noon to 1 p.m. This month, we'll read poems from Eavan Boland. There's nothing like meeting up with fellow poetry fans. Join us!

You're invited to a gathering of poetry fans at the library in Capitola, CA. The Spoken Experience meets at noon on the fourth Monday each month for a communal reading of a featured poet's work. On 2.23, we're reading Billy Collins, who doesn't hold himself out as "too good" to be humorous. Join us!

Join readers who gather at the library in Capitola, CA, for a communal reading of a featured poet's work. The Spoken Experience meets on the fourth Monday at noon. On January 26, the discussion centers on the healing poems of Joy Harjo, first Native to serve as poet laureate for the U.S. Join us!

Thanks to Beth Gordon, Narmadhaa, Jude Marr, and Amanda McLeod (and Anne Kazak's art): "The Ticket" found a home in FERAL. feralpoetry.net/issue-twenty...

"I see literature as activist, particularly the epic forms of literature. It’s great to have lyric poetry that explores the self and identity, but the voice you choose gives you what you see, and if your voice is private, your vision will be private." Alice Oswald in the Paris Review resonates.

Alice Oswald, The Art of Poetry No. 119

“You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.”

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Here's a nice way to start the week, and you're invited. You're always invited: Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience: Monday, December 22, noon to 1 p.m.@Capitola Branch Library. This month, we're going to take some time to share poems from Naomi Shihab Nye.

For the archives. Big thanks to Sacramento Poetry Center. youtu.be/s0SPyTuzZIk?...

Sacramento Poetry Center Feat. Jessica Cohn (09/15/2025)

YouTube video by NSAA 360

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Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience Monday, November 24, noon to 1 pm, Capitola Branch Library The poems of Jane Kenyon take the focus this month. Discussions facilitated by a trio of Aptos poets. If you feel so moved, you're welcome to bring a poem of your own to read at the end.

Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience Monday 10.27 @ Capitola Branch Library, noon-1 We're going to share some Tony Hoagland. Join us. Before I went to work on this planet I signed a nondisclosure agreement with god . . . from "Disclosure Agreement" By T.H.

As of Sunday, GRATITUDE DIARY: POEMS (Main Street Rag) is one year old. Still in the stroller.

"Systematically" now "up" in Indianapolis Review's response to censorship. Thanks to the staff & fellow contributors: thanks to you, too. Does a heart good to read you. We had the option to not be tagged, given scary stuff happening. Talk about living in interesting times theindianapolisreview.com

The Indianapolis Review

A Quarterly Journal of Poetry and Art

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Congrats to poets launching books or marking book birthdays. It's not easy to promote yourself--especially now. So we'll share your news in community on November 6th. Join us and meet others who might collaborate to help make your book's journey more enjoyable. Sign up NOW at saltandpoetry@gmail.com

Wrote a fan-girl letter to the James Webb. It's published now in a Verseve book about the stars. Simpler times. A former teacher posted this quote, and wow it spoke: What kind of times are these When to talk about trees is almost a crime Because it leaves so much atrocity unspoken —Bertolt Brecht

Reading Poems Together: The Spoken Experience 9.22 from noon to 1 p.m. @ Capitola (CA) Branch Library Join us. This month we read Li-Young Lee: The radio in the kitchen is stuck in the year I was born. The capitals of the world are burning. from "Changing Places in the Fire," by Li-Young Lee

🫶 open mic

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This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

If you told me five years ago this would be me on Tuesday night, I don't know. I likely would have grimaced and changed the subject. Seems you really can change up your life.