FINDING POETRY IN THE WAKE OF THE STORM
We weathered Hurricane Isabel -- many of us were without power for 10 or more days, with undrinkable water, and not a lot of poetry! But we’re back and ready to rhyme and read! There are regular events in many cities in Virginia. Check your local bookstores, in particular independents and used bookstores. Most universities and colleges run regular readings. Sometimes if you want to find poetry, you simply have to look around (or do like I do: wear your Poetry Daily t-shirt (out of Charlottesville, VA) or an Austin International Poetry Festival hat with POET across the brim.

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REGULAR EVENTS IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA

• Borders Roundtable
  1st Tuesday 7:30-9:30 pm
  Borders Broad Street, by the Costco, in Richmond
  
  
• Short Pump Poets
  2nd Thursday 7-9 pm
  Short Pump Barnes & Noble
  
  
• E.L. Farrell’s Wordstage Poetry Lounge
  2nd Saturday 7-9 pm (sign up 6:30)
  Barnes & Noble Bookstore Café, 9850 Brook Road, Richmond (on Rt. 1, across from Virginia Center Commons Mall)
  
  
• Shockoe Poets Open Mike
  2nd and 4th Sundays 2-4 pm
  Shockoe Espresso in the slip by the horse fountain, Richmond
  The Shockoe Poets are working on a second anthology. You must have read at the slip sometime during the past three years to get a poem or prose piece into the chapbook. Write shannp@sprynet.com for more info.
  
  
• Libbie Place Poets
  3rd Tuesday 7:30-9 pm
  Libbie Place Barnes & Noble, Richmond
  
  
• Saturday Poetry Series
  1st Saturday 11 am
  Williamsburg Regional Library, Schell Memorial Room
  on Scotland Street, Williamsburg

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SPECIAL EVENTS UPCOMING

• Moveable Feast graduate student readings
  October 10, November 21, December 12 1708 Gallery, Richmond
  
  
• Levis Prize Reading
  October 14, 7 pm
  Grace Street Theatre at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
  featuring Susan Aizenberg
  
  
• Charles Wright in the Poetic Principle Series
  November 5, 6 pm
  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Auditorium
  
  
• Linda Rae Johnson at Artspace Gallery
  November 8, 8 pm
  6 East Broad Street, Richmond
  
  
• Poetry Society of Virginia meeting
  in the Western region
  November 8 (rescheduled from October 18)
  
  
• Poetry Society of Virginia meeting
  in the Central region
  November 15
  John Hoppenthaler will discuss “Pillow Talk: Sex in 20th Century Poetry”
  
  
• Marian Hollowell at Artspace Gallery
  November 15, 8 pm
  6 East Broad Street, Richmond

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ALL THE GOINGS-ON IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA/DC

• DC Poetry @ In Your Ear
  3rd Sunday 3 pm
  2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan (south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)
  
  
• DC Poetry @ Ruthless Grip
  2nd Saturday 7:30 pm
  1732 Connecticut Ave NW, between R & S Streets (Dupont Circle Metro)
  
  
• DC Poetry @ Bridge Street Books
  Sunday, October 26, 7 pm
  2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW (at M St NW)
  
  
• DC Slam
  Sundays 7-10:30 pm
  Myth at Teaism
  400 8th St. NW (the intersection of 8th & D St. NW)

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JOIN YOUR LOCAL POETRY SOCIETY
The Poetry Society of Virginia is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a hardcover anthology filled with poetry by members. Order yours today!

The PSV annual adult and student contests are receiving entries thru January 19, 2004 and offering cash prizes to the winners.

Join your local poetry society! Support your local poets!

Shann Palmer