ORGANIZER: Dustin ‘Dystan’ Barnes
CONTACT: barnesdustin51@yahoo.com.
Larned, Kansas
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Category Archives: USA
Alameda, California
ORGANIZER: Sharon Coleman CONTACT: backyardpoems@gmail.com DESCRIPTION: Jeanne Lupton, Sharon Coleman, Rosa Lane, Kimberly Satterfield & Carla Kandinsky are organizing a reading with the theme “Backyards: Poets for Local Change.” It will take place at Frank Bette’s Center for the Arts … Continue reading
Miami Arts Charter School, Florida
ORGANIZER: Jen Karetnick CONTACT: Kavetchnik@aol.com LOCATION: Miami Arts Charter School … Continue reading
Santa Monica, California
ORGANIZER: Justin Yoffe,Cultural Affairs Supervisor, City of Santa Monica
CONTACT: Justin.Yoffe@SMGOV.NET or (310) 710-0147
DESCRIPTION: Downbeat Teen Poets for Change
LOCATION:
Thelma Thierry Center at Virginia Avenue Park
2200 Virginia Avenue
Santa Monica 90404
Reading on The Range-Nevada
CANCELLED! ORGANIZER: Anne Novak CONTACT: Anne@TheCloudFoundation.org LOCATION: TBA (on a range, somewhere in the Reno/Tahoe area) BREAKING NEWS: WILD HORSE FREEDOM LAWSUIT FILED 01 JULY 2011 For immediate release Lawsuit filed to protect free-roaming American wild horses in Nevada Despite thriving natural ecological … Continue reading
Red Slider-Sacramento
West Linn, Oregon
ORGANIZER: Deanna Piowaty CONTACT: deannaelaine@comcast.net … Continue reading
Subterranean Arthouse-Berkeley, CA
ORGANIZER: Maya Dorn
CONTACT: mayadorn@gmail.com
LOCATION: Subterranean Art House
2179 Bancroft Way(between Shattuck & Fulton), Berkeley, CA, 94704
100 Thousand Poets for Change
“A demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change”Saturday, September 24th at 8pm
@ The Subterranean Arthouse
(2179 Bancroft Way in Downtown Berkeley)
with featured poets MamaCoAtl, Chris Cole, Jenny Newman, and Sam Pierstorff, hosted by Maya Dorn. The second half of the evening will feature 10 -as of now unamed- poets selected through our submissions process, reading shorter pieces, including Jennifer Arin, Margaret Stawowy, Sean Feit, Page Getz, Zac Walsh, Lenore Weiss and Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin
“A demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change”Saturday, September 24th at 8pm
@ The Subterranean Arthouse
(2179 Bancroft Way in Downtown Berkeley)
with featured poets MamaCoAtl, Chris Cole, Jenny Newman, and Sam Pierstorff, hosted by Maya Dorn. The second half of the evening will feature 10 -as of now unamed- poets selected through our submissions process, reading shorter pieces, including Jennifer Arin, Margaret Stawowy, Sean Feit, Page Getz, Zac Walsh, Lenore Weiss and Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin
$10 at the door
*Earlier in the evening at 7pm, Moe’s Books, a few blocks away is hosting the same event with poets Gloria Frym, Joseph Lease, and Donna De la Perrier. Come to both!
MamaCoAtl, Barrio Poet, Songstress, Curandera, Artivist, works for the reconnection of the human soul with the living Earth through music prayer and political action. MamaCoAtl
Chris Cole sits on the board of the San Francisco literary organization Quiet Lightning and is a co-founder of the popular Pints and Prose reading series. Under the name, Disembodied Poetics, Chris writes a daily blog of verse and occasional prose to thousands of dedicated followers. His first novel is The Speed at Which I Travel and is about an existentialist, time-traveling teenager from the Midwest. Chris Cole
Jenny Overman is a native New Yorker currently living in the San Francisco Bay area. Her first book of poetry, “I’m so White in Some Ways,” has sold nationally. She is currently working on a second book. Jenny Overman
Sam Pierstorff is the founding editor of Quercus Review, a national journal of prose and poetry, and host of Modesto’s monthly poetry slam, Slam on Rye. His debut poetry collection, Growing Up in Someone Else’s Shoes, was published by World Parade Books last year, and most recently, he won an Award of Merit from the California Association of Teachers of English.Sam Pierstorff
Sam Pierstorff is the founding editor of Quercus Review, a national journal of prose and poetry, and host of Modesto’s monthly poetry slam, Slam on Rye. His debut poetry collection, Growing Up in Someone Else’s Shoes, was published by World Parade Books last year, and most recently, he won an Award of Merit from the California Association of Teachers of English.Sam Pierstorff
Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin .pdf
Shafer, Minnesota
ORGANIZER-Denise Sweet CONTACT: sweetd@uwgb.edu LOCATION: Franconia Sculpture Park and info TBA DESCRIPTION: … Continue reading
Cornelia Street Cafe-New York City
ORGANIZER: Davida Singer
CONTACT: davalta@earthlink.net
Saturday, Sep 24
FIVE 4 CHANGE: A 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE EVENT
Davida Singer, host
Andrea Wolper, vocalist-songwriter; Ken Filiano, bass; Jason Hwang, violin; Damiel Kelly, piano
LOCATION: Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, New York City
TIME: 6 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
DESCRIPTION: Improvisational mix of music and word, as part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a global series of events taking place on September 24th. Poet/performance artist Davida Singer mixes it up with vocalist-songwriter Andrea Wolper and jazz artists Ken Filiano (bass), Jason Hwang (violin) and Daniel Kelly (piano). Special “starving artist” raffle will award a weekend creativity retreat on Shelter Island.
TICKETS: $10.00 cover plus a $10.00 minimum
credit: Isabelle Deconinck
NUYORICAN CAFE-New York City
EVENT: NUYORICAN CAFE
ORGANIZER: Nisha, Asnani
CONTACT: nisha@nuyorican.org
LOCATION: NUYORICAN CAFE
Oakland Spoken Word
OAKLAND SPOKEN WORD
ORGANIZER: Mamma Cassie (Cassandra Lopez)
CONTACT:lopezcassie1945@sbcglobal.net
DESRCRIPTION: Spoken Word Event
100,000 Poets 4 Change in Da Town !!
- Host:
Mama Cassie Lopez
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510-459-9663
- When:
Saturday, September 24 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Where:
Niebyl Proctor Community Center
DESCRIPTION
Come out and be part of the 1st international poets event coordinated through the internet. 150 countries have signed on and are sponsoring thousands of events around the globe. It has been amazing speaking with sistahs and brothas from every continent!! The Big Day is September 24!!! The idea: Poets speak out for Change All Over the Planet!!! If you are a spoken word or musical artist, give me a hollah if you wish to be part of this historical event. Refreshments will be served.There will be a $5 charge to help cover the cost of the event. Everyone, young, old and in-between are welcomed. Let me know how many will be coming in your party. My number is 459-9663. PS Stanford University will be documenting all the events taking place. It is going to be awesome. Hope to see you. Mama Cassie
Erie, Pennsylvania
Madison, Wisconsin
ORGANIZER: Ron Czerwien, poet and proprietor of Avol’s Books
CONTACT: avols@chorus.net
LOCATION:
315 W Gorham St
Madison, WI 53703-2000
(608) 255-4730
View all video clips of readers on our YouTube Channel
WordParty-San Francisco, CA
ORGANIZER: Jennifer Barone
CONTACT:baronejenn@gmail.com
100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE AT THE WORD PARTY
The WordParty is an open collective of poets and friends that started in New York City and made its way to San Francisco. The WordParty hosts a poetry & jazz open mic featuring the Nova Jazz band where poets are welcome to read with the spontaneous accompaniment of the band. Our mission is to provide a space where all the misfits of poetry and jazz — any style or genre — can come together to express themselves — at the WordParty there is always laughter, inspiration, and community.
Moe's Books- Berkeley, California
ORGANIZER: Owen Hill at Moe’s Books CONTACT: atowenmoes@gmail SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 7:00pm Poetry Flash & Moe’s Books co-present 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE READING GLORIA FRYM, JOSEPH LEASE & DONNA de la PERRIERE MOE’S BOOKS, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, (510) … Continue reading
Fairfax, California
St. Petersburg-Nation of Poets for Peace
Albany, New York
Tampa, Florida
Trenton, New Jersey
Pensacola, Florida
ORGANIZER: Katheryn Holmes
CONTACT: klholmes41@yahoo.com
DESCRIPTION:
100thousand Poets for Change-Pensacola is ready to go! We will be holding our event at 11:30 a.m. September 24th on Palafox Place at the top of the Artel Gallery steps (corner of Government and Palafox). We have a banner, sound, t-shirts, and video lined up. Bring it on
Palm Desert, California
El Paso, Texas
Winchester, Virginia
ORGANIZER: Carolyn Wolfe
CONTACT: wolfecarolyn@yahoo.com
LOCATION: Shenandoah Arts Council Gallery, 811 S. Loudoun Street, Old Town Winchester
TIME: 5-8pm Sept. 24th.
“Poets With A Purpose” a 100 Thousand Poets for Change Event in Winchester, Virginia.
Poets banding together not just to read poetry for pleasure but for the Planet, for change.
The Featured Poets are: Michael Anthony, Kim Moon, Matt Stumm, Heather Davis, Jose Padua, Joyce Byrd, Kim Hazelwood, Laura Levesque, Holly Hewlett,and myself- Carolyn Wolfe.
Reading from 5:30 – 7:00 pm and Open Mic from 7-8pm.
There will also be musical performances throughout the evening by local musicians.
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