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Purpose:
The purpose of this ongoing poetry reading venue is to provide a
comfortable environment to seasoned poets and to provide a supportive place
for new poets to be encouraged. Since September 2011, we have included some
acoustic music performances.
Community:
Poetry is often a solitary endeavor. This series offers poets
and the community the opportunity to enjoy poetry together.
Format:
This series is a poetry event with featured poets and then
open mic poetry readings. Our featured poets generally read for twenty minutes. We
then take a refreshment/social break. After the break we have five minute
open mic poetry readings and sometimes acoustic music performances. We don’t wish to censor
material, but we ask readers and musicians to keep in mind that ours is an audience
that may include children and young people. Poets/musicians are asked to be sensitive to
this when choosing their materials. We also request that there be no shouted out remarks
during a reading or music presentation that could be distracting to the poet,
musician, or to other audience members.
Complimentary Books:
Each featured poet will be offered a basket of books to
select one book as our gift to them for reading at this series. We will have
one free door prize and the audience guest that wins the door
prize will be offered the basket and allowed to select one book as a gift.
Selling:
Authors and musicians may inform audience
members that they have books or music CDs available for purchase. Authors and
musicians must have seller’s permits and will be responsible for applying appropriate
sales tax.
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