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Upcoming Meeting Info	Agenda
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Poetry Community Bulletin Board

Upcoming Community Readings	Agenda
Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop: Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 10-12pm Pacific Follow-Up reading: Sunday, March 26 at 2:00 PM	Jeanie Greensfelder is running the annual United Methodist Beacon Art Show Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop. Every year, a gathering of poets choose a couple pieces of art and write poems inspired by the pieces. Two weekends later, they meet for an open reading of the poems written through the workshop. The church is located off Grand at 1515 Fredericks St., San Luis Obispo, CA. Please RSVP to Jeanie Greensfelder ‹geniegreensfelder@gmail.com›
April 8th at 1:30 pm	SLO Poets Laureate Reading - 40th Anniversary San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival: Jeanie Greensfelder, Dian Sousa, Kevin Clark all reading from their work, and Benjamin Daniel Lawless performing the poetry of Ivan BrownOtter. Open reading to follow: 5 minutes or less, original work only. Hosted by Kevin Patrick Sullivan.
April 15, 2023 at 1pm Pacific	40th Anniversary San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival at the Gala Pride and Diversity Center in San Luis Obispo. Featured Readers: Ginger Hendrix, George Burns, and Meliza Bañales. Open reading to follow: 5 minutes or less, original work only. Hosted by Kevin Patrick Sullivan.
April 17, 2023 8pm EST	J. Carroll StarLitWriter will be the featured reader in April at Moore Mondays on Zoom. This was previously going to be the March reading, but it has been postponed to April. Zoom ID: 882 6737 5178, Passcode: 918441
April 29, 2023 at 11am Pacific	40th Anniversary San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival at the Arroyo Grande Library. Featured Readers: Amber West, Karl Kempton, and Pilar Graham. Open reading to follow: 5 minutes or less, original work only. Hosted by Kevin Patrick Sullivan.

Ongoing updates
Read two new poems from Kevin Patrick Sullivan at Dashboard Horus, published March 21, 2022. I’ve had the pleasure of designing both his books The Space Between Things and Under Such Brilliance
B. Misty Wycoff has a brand-new site and is hosting a podcast with 2-minute readings of her poetry.
Issue #21 of Black Fox Literary Magazine is out celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, and the cover art is by our very own Patti Sullivan. See the cover at BFLM’s site. I had the pleasure of designing Patti’s book For the Day.
Hear Benjamin Daniel Lawless on a weekly podcast about science and science fiction: The Science Faction Podcast.
J. (StarLitWriter) has a Patreon! Read some of her writing and watch or listen to some of her performances.
Ivan BrownOtter’s posthumous collection of poetry The Sky Where the Sea Should Have Been is now available. More info here.

	List of Previous Featured Readers
6/18/22	Margaret Lange - Nipomo poet, host of “Sky World Poetry” and “The Spoken Word” on Excellent Radio.
6/19/21	Joseph Ross - Author of Raising King, ACHE, and others, in honor of Juneteenth. More about Joseph on his website.
10/17/20	Evy Cole - Author of Consider.
9/19/20	Leslie St. John - Author of Beauty Like a Rope. More about Leslie on her website.