Comments on: What would you want to do for your community for poetry? https://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:30:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ivy https://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/#comment-2811 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:30:57 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/#comment-2811 I vote for a reading series, too. Incorporate an open mic section alongside the featured readers, invite students to it, ask magazines to offer subscriptions for encouragement prizes, ask the featured readers to award the prizes…

Or make it more informal than that, if you like. It can be simply a regular night where people share a favourite poem of theirs (not necessarily written by them). Then it’d be about what poetry means to them, which I think would be very cool. 🙂

]]> By: Kathleen https://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/#comment-2810 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:36:09 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/#comment-2810 I’ve gone to local cultural institutions and set up readings and reading series in art museums and a history museum. It’s good for everyone!

]]> By: Sandy Longhorn https://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/#comment-2809 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:00:36 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-would-you-want-to-do-for-your-community-for-poetry-2/#comment-2809 Experiencing something similar, I created a reading series here in Central Arkansas, and it’s been fabulous (and worth the time, sweat, and tears of putting it together). I’m still toying with the idea of hosting a monthly literary salon as well.

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