Saturday, May 5 — IMAGINE fest at RIT — Call for Poets

John Roche announces : “We’ll be handing out the new Signatures all day Saturday, and there will also be a Signatures-sponsored open mic for students outdoors near the Henry Moore sculpture behind the Liberal Arts building. In addition, there will be a tribute to several area poets going on at the new Campus Center attached [...]

Elaine T. Olsson, Featurered Reader, Just Poets Open Mic 5/10/2012

Come out to Barnes and Nobles at 7 pm to hear Elaine, who is both avid reader and writers of poetry, and as you can tell from the picture, dog lover.

3 events not to miss: May 5, 8, 10

May 5th:  Just Poet Meeting, 1:30-4:  St. John Fisher College, Campus Center, COP, 2nd Fl. David White will speak on Wittgenstein, a not-to-miss source of inspiration to poets, followed by a workshop.  Bring 7-10 copies of a poem if you plan to stay for it.   May 8:  Writers and Books, Genessee Readers, 7:30 pm. [...]

May 1st: Just for Today: Poetry Super Highway Exchange!

You can find postings of work in progress by JPers, Vincent Golphin and yours truly along with a potpourri of other artists/poets ranging from Jerry Garcia who writes a pastiche for e.e. (whose balloon man is mugged by eddy and bill) to poems set to music.  Vincent uses the striking photography of Robbert van der [...]

NaPoWriMo — April 30

Thanks to all the Just Poets who shared a “favorite poem” for National Poetry Month.  We conclude with three poems: Colleen Powderley offers John Chapman from American Primitive by Mary Oliver Almeta Whitis offers Nonno’s Poem from the Night of the Iguana,  by Tennessee Williams Laura Klinkon offers Longest Duration to Stand Motionless—by Frank Giampietro [...]

NaPoWriMo — April 29

  John Roche shares “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams, pediatrician/obstetrician in the Rutherford/Paterson area of New Jersey.  The poem brings a doctor’s detachment and observational acumen into that most common of poetic genres, the “arrival of spring” poem. The opening lines, “By the road to the contagious hospital,” signal that this is not [...]

NaPoWriMo — April 28

Two poems from Pearl Rook and Jane Black, which speak to “calming” and remind me of the “Desiderata” (Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence…) Pearl N. Rook  explains her choice this way: she sees it every day and it reminds her of a more gentle, [...]

NaPoWriMo — 3 Just Poets’ Picks — April 27

3 poems by William Heyen, from Karla Merrifield, Ann Putnam and yours truly. Karla Merrifield pick: William Heyen’s “Riddle,”.  This chilling poem is a reminder not just of the Holocaust and who was responsible — all of us — but also of our modern times. If we sit back and let the 1% continue their [...]

NaPoWriMo — April 27

Perhaps the post should be called NaPoSHoMo — National Poetry Show MORE month!  Yesterday’s “Poem in your Pocket day was celebrated nationally, (see  http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406) and also locally.  University of Rochester offered 6 poems read by Philip Levine on April 12 (go to this : http://www.rochester.edu/news/pocketpoem/ and click on each pocket to hearWhat Work Is; Solo; The Mercy; Songs; The Poem [...]

Anne Coon and John Roche

Reading at RIT, Global Village Gift Shop,
April 25, 2012