Stroll of Poets Society

Poet’s Haven Reading Series – October 21

Upper Crust, 10909 86 Ave NW
Monday, October 21st, 7:00-8:30 pm
(Doors open at 6:30)

Features Poetry by: Michael Gravel, Deborah Lawson, Karen Lumley, Alice Major

Mic Host: Lois Hammond
Joining Anne Gerard Marshall as door hosts: Jo-Ann Godfrey

Open Mic: Sign-up (2-min. poem)

Welcome all! See you at the Haven! Bring your friends! New and first readers are always welcome and given priority during the Open Mic.

**Please note: Anyone who has signed up for a reading spot and wants to make changes or needs assistance with it, or to be added to the Haven waitlist, please email: haven@strollofpoets.com and the Haven committee will help you.

To check the Haven Master Schedule, click here.

Poet’s Haven Reading Series – October 7th

Upper Crust, 10909 86 Ave NW
Monday, October 7th, 7:00-8:30 pm
(Doors open at 6:30)

Features Poetry by: Brenda Gunn, Jesse Piquette, David Brydges, Abdullah Al Muktadir

Mic Host: Dorothy Lowrie
Door Host: David Crone & Anne Gerard Marshall

Open Mic: Sign-up (2-min. poem)

Welcome all! See you at the Haven! Bring your friends! New and first readers are always welcome and given priority during the Open Mic.

**Please note: Anyone who has signed up for a reading spot and wants to make changes or needs assistance with it, or to be added to the Haven waitlist, please email: haven@strollofpoets.com and the Haven committee will help you.

To check the Haven Master Schedule, click here.

Poet’s Haven Reading Series – September 30

Upper Crust, 10909 86 Ave NW
Monday, September 30th, 7:00-8:30 pm
(Doors open at 6:30)

Features Poetry by: Clint McElwaine, Ella Zeltserman, Anne Gerard Marshall, Lois Hammond

Mic Host: Brenda Gunn
Door Host: DIANE Robitelle

Open Mic: Sign-up (2-min. poem)

Welcome all! See you at the Haven! Bring your friends! New and first readers are always welcome and given priority during the Open Mic.

**Please note: Anyone who has signed up for a reading spot and wants to make changes or needs assistance with it, or to be added to the Haven waitlist, please email: haven@strollofpoets.com and the Haven committee will help you.

To check the Haven Master Schedule, click here.

The Stroll of Poets board of directors hope that you are having a terrific summer but we are also excited to announce that the Haven Reading Series 2024/2025 season will be commencing in a couple of weeks at the Upper Crust Cafe with an all open mic engagement once again on September 16th.

We’re ready to get after it and hope that you will be there and/or also join us for our Haven Reading Series this season. The readings will continue on a biweekly schedule with an additional few dates at Audrey’s Bookstore in December, January, and March. One of four 10-minute featured reader spots will be available at each of these subsequent Haven Reading events for all Stroll members who have paid for their yearly membership, whether or not you contribute a poem to the yearly anthology (one reading spot per person per year only please).

Also, please remember that each session will require additional volunteers to mic host and to assist as a door host so we ask that you sign up for one of these spots as well if you can. Once you have signed up, confirmation and reminder notices will be sent to you via e-mail. To check out the available dates and sign up for reader and volunteer spots please use this link to access the Haven Reading Series sign up page: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D48A5AE2FA7F8C43-50020535-haven#/

ESCAPE

We tell people we need to get away from it all. But, do we mean that we need to escape from work, escape from ongoing crises, or escape from people who drive us nuts? Do we need to get away from constant pressure, flee from phonies, or disappear from aggravation?

ESCAPE is the theme. Tell us about your need to escape any negativity in your life. We all have something we need to escape from, even if it’s something deep within ourselves. Write a poem about your need to escape, or the rewards of finding it.

Go ahead! Escape, even if it’s just for a moment, or a few wonderful lines. Then bring it to the Stroll of Poets Haven Reading Series launch, an all open mic event at the Upper Crust Café, on September 16 at 7:00 PM. Share it with us and for a minute, we will escape with you!