Local Poetry, US Pacific Coast
Online poetry calendars, local poetry centers & organizations, reading & slam venues in Pacific coastal states.
Norcal Spoken Word
NorCal Spoken Word is a fairly anarchic confederation of slam masters & slam venues in all over Northern California, whose Web site is under construction, but provides links to poetry calendars for the region.
NorCal Spoken Word is a fairly anarchic confederation of slam masters & slam venues in all over Northern California, whose Web site is under construction, but provides links to poetry calendars for the region.
Pacific Northwest Writer’s Index
The Raven Chronicles offers “virtual baseball cards” for writers living & performing in the Pacific Northwest -- look up Jim Andrews, Noel Franklin, Sheila Bender, Willie Smith...
The Raven Chronicles offers “virtual baseball cards” for writers living & performing in the Pacific Northwest -- look up Jim Andrews, Noel Franklin, Sheila Bender, Willie Smith...
Poetix.net
Poetix.net, “Poetry for Southern California,” has a great LA-area calendar, a comprehensive list of poetry venue addresses, plus calendars for outlying SoCal areas from local editors: Ventura/Santa Barbara (Phil Taggart), San Diego (Michael Klam) & San Luis Obispo (Kevin Patrick Sullivan).
Poetix.net, “Poetry for Southern California,” has a great LA-area calendar, a comprehensive list of poetry venue addresses, plus calendars for outlying SoCal areas from local editors: Ventura/Santa Barbara (Phil Taggart), San Diego (Michael Klam) & San Luis Obispo (Kevin Patrick Sullivan).
The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University
Home of the American Poetry Archives, the Poetry Center also sponsors spring & fall reading series in the Bay area, as well as several annual writing awards.
Home of the American Poetry Archives, the Poetry Center also sponsors spring & fall reading series in the Bay area, as well as several annual writing awards.
Poetry Flash Literary Calendar
Poetry Flash has for decades been the indispensible calendar for California poetry events, distributed free on newsprint, and it’s even more useful in its Web form: searchable daily listings for Northern & Southern California, plus separate lists of open readings, workshops & festivals.
Poetry Flash has for decades been the indispensible calendar for California poetry events, distributed free on newsprint, and it’s even more useful in its Web form: searchable daily listings for Northern & Southern California, plus separate lists of open readings, workshops & festivals.
Poetry Santa Cruz
Poetry Santa Cruz feeds the poetic community in its small coastal city by sponsoring several reading series & workshops, and by offering a comprehensive calendar of literary events in & around Santa Cruz.
Poetry Santa Cruz feeds the poetic community in its small coastal city by sponsoring several reading series & workshops, and by offering a comprehensive calendar of literary events in & around Santa Cruz.
PoetsWest
PoetsWest is a Seattle-based nonprofit network, whose Web site includes a calendar of special events & regularly scheduled readings in Seattle & Vancouver, British Columbia[link], plus [link url=http://www.poetswest.com/news.htm]a page of news & notes from around the Pacific Northwest.
PoetsWest is a Seattle-based nonprofit network, whose Web site includes a calendar of special events & regularly scheduled readings in Seattle & Vancouver, British Columbia[link], plus [link url=http://www.poetswest.com/news.htm]a page of news & notes from around the Pacific Northwest.
Sacramento Poetry Center
This independent literary nexus has been live in Sacramento since 1979, and while it has a calendar of poetry events in & around Sacramento on its Web site, the place to go for the most up-to-date Sacto po-news is the SPC’s new blog.
This independent literary nexus has been live in Sacramento since 1979, and while it has a calendar of poetry events in & around Sacramento on its Web site, the place to go for the most up-to-date Sacto po-news is the SPC’s new blog.
SPLAB! Northwest
The SPoken Word Lab in Auburn, Washington is a by-the-short-grassroots bootstrap of a delirium -- take heart as flower all ye who enter hear/walking on yr ear. You can Splam if you want, ’kuers are Haiku Slamsters, and in general refresh in the vital waters of the Mighty Po.
The SPoken Word Lab in Auburn, Washington is a by-the-short-grassroots bootstrap of a delirium -- take heart as flower all ye who enter hear/walking on yr ear. You can Splam if you want, ’kuers are Haiku Slamsters, and in general refresh in the vital waters of the Mighty Po.
Washington Poets Association
The Washington Poets Association sponsors an annual festival on Whidbey Island, The Burning Word, and lists open mic poetry venues in the Pacific Northwest on its Web site.
The Washington Poets Association sponsors an annual festival on Whidbey Island, The Burning Word, and lists open mic poetry venues in the Pacific Northwest on its Web site.