Online poetry calendars, local poetry centers and organizations in Pacific coastal states.
Beyond Baroque has been doing public readings and free workshops for 40 years in Venice, California, and it is truly a literary activity center, with a bookstore, chapbook/small press archive, and its own publication program all housed in the old Venice City Hall.
NorCal Spoken Word is a fairly anarchic confederation of slam masters and slam venues in all over Northern California, whose Web site is ever under construction, but provides links to poetry calendars for the region.
Home of the American Poetry Archives, the Poetry Center also sponsors spring and fall
reading series in the Bay area, as well as several annual writing awards.
Poetry Flash has for decades been the indispensible calendar for California poetry events, distributed free on newsprint, and it’s even more useful in its Web form: searchable daily listings for Northern and Southern California, plus separate lists of open readings, workshops and festivals.
Portland: Reading Local aims to post everything there is to know about literary doings in Portland, Oregon, including
weekly events listings, links to repeating reading series, and listings of local bookstores, writers and publishers.
Nicole Savage maintains a detailed calendar of current poetry and art doings, ongoing events, regular reading series, and San Francisco poets at her
SF Heart Web site.
Seattle Reading Local bills itself as “Your source for Puget Sound lit” and offers
events listings as well as extensive news, reading reports, interviews and essays in its blog postings.
The SPoken Word Lab in Auburn, Washington is a by-the-short-grassroots bootstrap of a delirium — take heart as flower all ye who enter hear/walking on yr ear. You can Splam if you want, ’kuers are Haiku Slamsters, and in general refresh in the vital waters of the Mighty Po.
Larry Jaffe was our Museletter correspondent based in the Los Angeles area, writing about poetry doings in LA, Hollywood and wherever he rambled (Britain, Sacramento, San Diego, Alabama, Arkansas, St. Louis...).
Northern California correspondent Martha Cinader moved from New York and reported on her explorations in the brimming Bay Area poetry cauldron for our Museletter readers.
Danika Dinsmore and Chris Blakeley were our Museletter team on the ground in the great Pacific Northwest.
