Teaching Quotation of the Week

My hope is this:
as long as there is
so much as one of me
influencing
so much as thirty of them,
then we can't be that far
from converting
confusion into inspiration
and movement into dance.

Chris August
"Interpretative Dance Syndrome"


Monday, February 4, 2008

Poetry in Kalamazoo

It was requested of me that I post information about some local poetry events in case any of you would like to attend some.

Here you are:


A local website that has all the information you need about local poetry events is: PAKZOO.org
You can start there. There is a calendar function to keep track of shows.

Here are some locations

Every Monday from 8:00 to 10:00 PM
Papa Pete's Coffee Bar
502 South Burdick Street (corner of Cedar)
Poetry Slam and Open Mic with various hosts

The third Monday of the month from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Papa Pete's Coffee Bar
502 South Burdick Street
Youth Poetry Slam with Chris Bullmer

The first Wednesday of the month from 8:00 to 10:00 PM
Dino's Coffee Lounge
773 West Michigan Street
Poetry Slam and Open Mic with Todd Bannon

The first Friday of the month
Fire
1249 Portage Street
Open Mic and Feature Poet
Website: Fire

1 comment:

Danielle Lutz said...

I used to go to a lot of poetry readings back in ann arbor but I haven't known of any here, thanks for posting them! I'll try to make it to some of them