Events in April 2023
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March 26, 2023
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March 28, 2023(1 event)
7:00 pm: "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham7:00 pm: "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham – John Brantingham Boot Camp “Creating a Poetry Routine” Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023 7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom $100, four weekly meetings Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites. This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.) John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY. |
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April 4, 2023(1 event)
7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month – Tuesdays, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25/23 7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom $100, four weekly meetings To enroll: https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month Calling all poets! This is one boot camp you won’t want to miss. Following the method created in John Brantingham’s website, students will write a poem a day for the month of April. At the end of that month, they will have thirty individual poems that together will form a unified chapbook collection. The classes will generate new work, workshop existing poems, and develop new techniques and skills. (Meets weekly.) John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY. |
April 5, 2023
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April 6, 2023(1 event)
6:30 pm: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests6:30 pm: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests – Thursday, April 6, 2023 Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library Present First Thursdays Arts Walk “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library 3900 Mission Inn Blvd Riverside, CA 92501 Doors Open at 6:00 PM 6:30-8:00 PM For National Poetry Month, learn some new techniques for arranging a poetry manuscript. Join Cati Porter and special guests who talk about their own adventures in arranging a poetry manuscript and give you some strategies for arranging your own. If a poem is the best words in their best order, then a poetry manuscript is the best poems in their best order. But with so many possible variations, how do you decide what is “best”? Cati Porter is the author of eleven poetry books and chapbooks and has extensive experience in what not to do, and some tried-and-true strategies and tips. Attendees of this program who submit a manuscript to the Hillary Gravendyk Prize open poetry book competition will have their contest entrance fee comped. Open mic poetry readings start at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00. Cati Porter has been writing and publishing for three decades. She has a Masters in Fine Arts — Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019), Novel (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), and the forthcoming small mammals (Mayapple Press, 2023). She is founder and editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and executive director of Inlandia Institute. |
April 7, 2023
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April 11, 2023(1 event)
7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month – Tuesdays, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25/23 7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom $100, four weekly meetings To enroll: https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month Calling all poets! This is one boot camp you won’t want to miss. Following the method created in John Brantingham’s website, students will write a poem a day for the month of April. At the end of that month, they will have thirty individual poems that together will form a unified chapbook collection. The classes will generate new work, workshop existing poems, and develop new techniques and skills. (Meets weekly.) John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY. |
April 12, 2023
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April 18, 2023(1 event)
7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month – Tuesdays, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25/23 7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom $100, four weekly meetings To enroll: https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month Calling all poets! This is one boot camp you won’t want to miss. Following the method created in John Brantingham’s website, students will write a poem a day for the month of April. At the end of that month, they will have thirty individual poems that together will form a unified chapbook collection. The classes will generate new work, workshop existing poems, and develop new techniques and skills. (Meets weekly.) John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY. |
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April 25, 2023(1 event)
7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month – Tuesdays, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25/23 7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom $100, four weekly meetings To enroll: https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month Calling all poets! This is one boot camp you won’t want to miss. Following the method created in John Brantingham’s website, students will write a poem a day for the month of April. At the end of that month, they will have thirty individual poems that together will form a unified chapbook collection. The classes will generate new work, workshop existing poems, and develop new techniques and skills. (Meets weekly.) John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY. |
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May 4, 2023(2 events)
5:30 pm: Ballet Folklorico at Riverside Main Library!5:30 pm: Ballet Folklorico at Riverside Main Library! – Our Arts Walk event "Music and Memoir" starts at 7:00, but come early if you can! Our second annual Cinco de Mayo performance by Ballet Folklorico Cultural dancers begins at 5:30 PM in RPL’s outdoor arcade. After the performance, join us inside for an open mic experience from 6:30-7:00 where you can read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from your work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event!
6:30 pm: Music and Memoir: A Conversation About Writing, Post-Punk, and US Latinidad6:30 pm: Music and Memoir: A Conversation About Writing, Post-Punk, and US Latinidad – Thursday, May 4, 2023 First Thursdays Arts Walk “Music and Memoir: A Conversation About Writing, Post-Punk, and US Latinidad” With Richard T. Rodríguez and Juanita E. Mantz Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library Community Room & Arcade 3900 Mission Inn Blvd Riverside, CA 92501 5:30 PM Ballet Folklorico Cultural – Arcade 6:30 PM Open Mic – Community Room 7:00 PM “Music and Memoir” – Community Room Join Inlandia and Riverside Public Library at First Thursdays Arts Walk for a one-of-a-kind conversation between music loving authors Richard T. Rodríguez and Juanita Mantz. The pair will discuss their mutual devotion to punk and how it intersects with US Latinidad, and share their journeys from first inspiration to the completion of a book. How do the dots connect between British post-punk and Latinx audiences? How does punk music become the soundtrack of memoir? Join us in the RPL Community Room at 7:00 PM on May 4 to find out! But come early if you can! Our second annual Cinco de Mayo performance by Ballet Folklorico Cultural dancers begins at 5:30 PM in RPL’s outdoor arcade. After the performance, join us inside for an open mic experience from 6:30-7:00 where you can read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from your work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event! |
May 5, 2023
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May 6, 2023
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