PCSJ Events:
POETRY READINGS @ WILLOW GLEN LIBRARY
Third Thursday of Every Month
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 7:00 pm
Featured Reader: KATHIE ISAAC-LUKE
An open mic reading will follow
Willow Glen Library
1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125
(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361
Free and open to the public
See more about the Featured Reader in the calendar.
3 VOICES: POETRY FROM CONNIE POST, ELLARAINE LOCKIE, & ERICA GOSS
Saturday, January 21, 2012, 2:00 pm
Book signing to follow
Open MIC MC: Parthenia Hicks, Poet Laureate of Los Gatos
Mention PCSJ when you buy merchandise on 01/21/12 to help support Poetry Center San Jose.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
3600 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose, CA 95117
Free and open to the public
POETS @ PLAY
will break for December
Have you ever wanted a quiet place to write? Or an informal gathering for collaborating with fellow poets about works in progress? That’s what Poets@Play is all about. We alternate between writing and sharing our works in progress. This is not a workshop, but rather a playhouse – some starter ideas and a comfortable place to play with words. Registration is encouraged, but not required, at poetsatplay@pcsj.org (we can also provide you with information on how to avoid a parking fee).
Edwin Markham House in History Park
1650 Senter Road, San José, CA 95112
Free and open to the public
see full details on the events calendar
News:
Poetry on the Move call for entries open
Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Sally Ashton announces "Poetry on the Move," a poetry contest supported by the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, VTA, Arts Council Silicon Valley, and Santa Clara County to put poetry in public transportation. Winning poems will be placed in VTA light rail and buses in April, 2012. Submit your best poem, 50 words or less, that in some way relates to the contest theme, "Invention." Sally is looking for poems that celebrate who we are and what we do in Silicon Valley. Write about "Invention" as a subject or a theme, or think of your poem as an invention. In it, capture the spirit of "making new" that shapes our county.
Visit the Poetry on the Move Submission Page or Sally's Poet Laureate web page for more on how to participate. Open to Santa Clara County residents. Entry deadline is January 31.
PCSJ presented Jane Hirshfield on October 6
A brief look at a wonderful evening of reading and reminiscences with award-winning poet and translator Jane Hirshfield in downtown San Jose.
PCSJ presents Nils Peterson's
A Walk to the Center of Things
Poetry Center San Jose is proud to have released Nils Peterson's new book A Walk to the Center of Things in PCSJ's new Cæsura Editions. The book has been distributed as a benefit of Membership, with additional copies available for sale online.
San José native Kay Ryan, former U.S. Poet Laureate, has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. See the press release.
To see what PCSJ has been up to lately, see the event archive.
