Silverton Poetry Association

Silverton, Oregon

 

Reading Poetry by Ann Altman

 

 

 

 

SPA Events Calendar
2007 - 2008
Click on Calendar Page for details

Open Microphone Readings

2008 
Third Sunday of the Month, 3 p.m.

Read your own poems or read your favorite poets’ poems.


Performances

Dead Poets Reading

      March 29, Saturday, 7 p.m.

Poets of the past rise at the Silver Falls Library, 410 N Water St


Youth Poetry Contest

     April 12th during the Poetry Festival

Submissions accepted through March 20, 2008


Silverton Poetry Festival 2008

April 5 through 13

Look at Calendar & Events


Thanks to our Sponsors

Silver Falls Bank
Marion County Cultural Trust
City of Silverton 
Mayor’s Ball Fund

 

2007 - 2008 Poetry Season in Silverton:

The Silverton Poetry Association furthers the practice and appreciation of the art of poetry by sponsoring poetry events and activities throughout the year, including monthly open microphone readings, our popular Dead Poets readings, poetry workshops, poetry projects in local schools, and an annual gathering in memory of William Stafford, in addition to the ambitious Silverton Poetry Festival each April, celebrating National Poetry Month.

The Association hosts poetry events with the mission to offer opportunities for full community participation and to provide inspiration through the verse of a wide variety of poets.  The Silverton community and businesses generously sponsor these events each year by providing performance venues, refreshment food and drink, promotional artwork, publicity, and cash donations.  These are all-volunteer, all-community efforts

Chemeketa poetry fest April 2008

Readings * slam * writing workshop * music * spirit * beat

 Poetry Readings: Lawson Inada

More information

 

Poetry Festival Celebrates National Poetry Month

The Silverton Poetry Association hosts the eighth annual Silverton Poetry Festival April 5–13, offering a wide variety of poetry events and activities

in attractive settings in and around Silverton. Free public readings by outstanding published poets, open microphone readings, a youth poetry

contest and reading, and a poetry writing workshop are designed to encourage participation by poetry lovers of all ages.

 The festival kicks off at 11 am on Saturday, April 5, with the popular Favorite Poem Project, a sharing of a favorite poem by all who care to read, along with commentary on the poem’s personal significance.

At 7 pm that evening Tom Blood, winner of the 2007 Oregon Poetry Award in Poetry, will be joined by Portland poets Kate Gray and Ger Killeen in the first Featured Poets Reading of the Festival. Both the opening day’s events will be held at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gordon House next door to the Oregon Garden.

 On April 6 Crystal Williams will read her poems and Kim Stafford will read his poems and share a few Oregon songs at 3 pm at the Mt. Angel Abbey Library.

 All are invited to share their own poems at an open mike reading on April 9, 7 pm, at Rolling Hills Bakery on First Street in Silverton.

 Portland poets Sage Cohen and Penelope Scambly Schott and Corvallis poet Karen Holmberg will be featured at 7 pm on April 11, reading their poems at the White Steeple Gallery, 314 Jersey Street in Silverton.

 A Youth Poetry Contest, new this year, will culminate in a reading by young poets at 11 am on April 12 at the Silver Falls Public Library on Water Street in Silverton.

 Vern Rutsala, distinguished poet and longtime faculty member at Lewis and Clark College, will lead a poetry writing workshop on April 12. (Advance registration is necessary; call 873-2480 for more info.) That evening Mr. Rutsala will be joined by Eugene poet Maxine Scates in the Talking Poetry event, a reading and moderated discussion of poetry writing at 7 pm at Stomp-N-Grounds Coffee House at Main and Water Streets.

 The finale of the 2008 festival will be the Feast of Poets, a bounty of poetry and tasty treats at 2 pm on April 13 at Silver Falls Vineyards, 4972 Cascade Hwy SE south of Silverton.

 


 

Book for Sale:  YES Poetry

This new anthology, published on the occasion of the seventh Silverton Poetry Festival, brings together 34 of Oregon’s best contemporary poets (plus two from farther a field). The annual Silverton Poetry Festival is just one of many manifestations of the region’s exceptionally active poetry scene. The richly varied poems collected here are by poets who have read at the Festival or at the Silverton Poetry Association’s monthly open readings.

$10.00  Call 503-873-2480 to purchase.

 
 

 
   

These Pages Last updated
      April 07, 2008


For further information, contact the Poetry Festival at the Silverton Art Association at 503-873-2480 or email at spa@silvertonpoetry.org.


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