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May 9th (6p UK Time) via Facebook
Jeff Cottrill, our past poet guest, was one of two featured poets at the this month’s Runcible spoon open mic.
May 5th (5-7p MST) via Zoom
Narrative Medicine at the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine Phoenix, hosted a Celebration of the Publication of the 7th and 8th Editions of ChArt
Works from these past poet guests below appeared in the 7th edition of ChArt.
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April 29th (7p EDT) via Zoom
Felicia Zamora, our past featured poet, hosted a reading and book launch for her newest collection: I Always Carry My Bones.
April 28th-30th (MDT) via Zoom
Amber McCrary, our past featured poet, was one of the panelists discussing, “Saad Bee Ahoozhood: Thinking Towards a Diné Literary Culture,” on Friday, April 30th.
April 27th (6-7:30p MST) via Zoom
tanner menard, our past featured poet, led a workshop on Creading a Community Event.
April 24th (7-9p MST) via Zoom
AMP, our past featured poet, was an organizer of this year’s Breaking the Silence Virtual Dance, for those in grades 9-12 living in Maricopa County, AZ.
April 24th (7-8:30p MST) via Zoom
Oscar Mancinas, our past featured poet, was a featured reader at Letters from el Valle and Beyond/Letras del Valle y Más Allá.
April 21st (6:30-8p MST) via Zoom
Laura Tohe, a past featured poet, was a featured poet at University of Arizona’s celebratory event of The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature.
April 20th (6-7:30p MST) via Zoom
Amber McCrary, a past featured poet, discussed the ways to self-publish a zine.
April 15th (7p MST) via YouTube
Austin Davis, our past featured poet, read his poems at Desert Spotlight’s YT Live Show, to the accompaniment of Jazz musician Joe Allie.
April 7th (10a-2p MST) via Zoom
Catherine Lockmiller, our past featured poet, organized the 2021 All Virtual PBC Living Library, where human “books” told their stories about the challenges they’ve faced in the healthcare system.
Readers learned how storytelling can be a powerful force in generating empathy, overcoming injustice, and growing new opportunities to better the healthcare system.
April 3rd (10a-3p PDT) via Zoom
Celebrate National Poetry Month with a stellar lineup of poets at A Virtual Garden of Verses, including our past featured poet, Felicia Zamora.
April 1st (7-8p Arizona Time) via Zoom
Imogen Arate, host of Poets and Muses, led an interactive conversation about the perception of poetry and poets at ASU Piper Center’s monthly literary salon.
March 21st and 28th (5p MST) via Zoom
Desert Diwata, co-founded by our past featured poet Erin Kong, and Luya Poetry teamed up to offer a two-week writing workshop.
March 26th (5-7pm EAT) at Bushpig Backpackers Kampala
Open Mic Uganda, co-founded by two of our featured guests, The Black Poet and Dennis Ssesanga, held an in-person Women, Power & Poetry event.
March 25th (5:30–6:30p Perth, Australia, Time) via Zoom
Jeff Cottrill, a December poet guest, and Imogen Arate, host of Poets and Muses, were among the readers at the Launch Event for the Globalisation poetry Anthology, in which both of their work are included.
March 22nd (5-6:30p Arizona Time) via Zoom
Poets and Muses, in collaboration with UNCOMP Narrative Medicine & Health Humanities and Revisionary Arts, hosted Poetry of Connection in Times of Crisis, a reading and panel discussion in celebration of World Poetry Day, featuring five of our past poet guests.
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March 21st (7p CET) via YouTube
Maysan Nasser, one of our November poet guests, was a featured reader at the Poesías desde las sombras de la ira y de la sanación poetry jam.
March 20th (4-6pm Arizona Time) via Zoom
One of our poet guests, Amber McCrary (the founder of Abalone Mountain Press), was a featured reader and panelist at the Labriola Community Reading and Celebration, as a part of NEA Big Read Phoenix.
March 19th (1-2p GMT) via Zoom
Jeff Cottrill, one of our December poet guests, was the featured poet on Nowt But Verse with Hannah Stone at the Leeds Library.
March 14th (6:30p GMT) via Zoom
Jeff Cottrill, a December poet guest, was the featured reader at this month’s Run your tongue.
March 13th (6-7:30p MST) via Zoom
Palabras Bookstore, co-founded by Rosaura Magaña, one of our featured poets, restarted its monthly BIPOC Open Mic.
March 12th (7-9p MST) via Zoom
Join the Sun Valley Jack and Jill Chapter every 2nd Friday for an evening of poetry, storytelling, music, and comedy.
Hosted by our past poet guest, Tamika (aka Dr. T)
March 6th (12-1:30p MST) via Zoom
Rosaura Magaña, one of our featured poets, hosted a special NEA-Big-Read-Phoenix edition of Palabras Bookstore’s Mujerx Book Club.
March 4th (6p PST) via YouTube
Oscar Mancinas, one of our poet guests, was a featured reader at GASHER Journal’s 2 Readers 2 Nights virtual readings.
February 28th (7:30-9:30p EEST) via Zoom
Sidewalk Beirut, established by one of our November featured poets, Maysan Nasser, hosted a generative poetry workshop with Anna Turner, a British poet and playwright.
February 27th (6:30-8:30pm MST) via Zoom
Two Navajo-Nation Poets Laureate, including one of our featured poets, Laura Tohe, officially kicked off NEA Big Read Phoenix with a conversational community event.
February 27th (1-4pm MST) via Zoom
One of our featured poets, Amber McCrary (the founder of Abalone Mountain Press), led a zine-writing workshop at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center (at ASU Library), as a part of NEA Big Read Phoenix.
February 20th (2-3pm MST) via Zoom
June Powers, a September poet guest, hosted a triple-book launch virtually at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore.
February 14th (8p Beirut Time) via Zoom
Sidewalk Beirut (established by our featured guest, Maysan Nasser) hosted a “speed-dating” style mini chat-and-create get together, where participants were matched with three different people to discuss thoughts on various aspects of love, then share the result of those brainstorms in an open mic.
February 13th (6-8p PST) via Zoom
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) was a featured poet at the inaugural Los Angeles Poet Society Press Presents: Acid Verse Literary Journal Release Party.
February 13th (11am-6pm EAT) at Bushpig Backpackers Kampala
Because Uganda has COVID under control, Open Mic Uganda, co-founded by two of our featured guests, The Black Poet and Dennis Ssesanga, fêted Valentine’s Day with in-person literary festivities.
February 11th-16th via YouTube
Proverse Hong Kong showcased a poem a day from Home, Away, Elsewhere, the latest poetry collection by our featured poet,
Vaughan Rapatahana.
February 9th (7-8:30p MST) via Zoom
Dr. Tamika Sanders, a past poet guest, gave a fascinating presentation about the role of coded messages and songs in helping slaves reach freedom via the Underground Railroad.
February 7th (3-4p AKST) via YouTube
Our past poet guest, Felicia Zamora, was one of the featured poets taking part at the Pièces de Résistance benefit reading for the Alaska Quarterly Review.
January 27th (6p GMT) via Zoom
The Oxford Arab Society launched a monthly Poetry Night with Sidewalk Beirut, established by our featured poet, Maysan Nasser.
January 13th (6-8p MST) via Zoom
Our past poet guest, Erin Kong, co-curated a special lunar new year / anniversary celebration reading and open mic.
January 8th (7-9p MST) via Zoom
Join the Sun Valley Jack and Jill Chapter every 2nd Friday for an evening of poetry, storytelling, music, and comedy.
Hosted by our past poet guest, Tamika (aka Dr. T)
January 8th (7:30p EST) via Zoom
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) was a featured poet at 2021’s first iteration of Words out Loud
2020
December 31st (6p PST) via Zoom
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) read with other participants of the Los Angeles Poet Society‘s Love Letters to 2020 writing workshop.
December 31st (7p EST) via twitch
Count down to the new year with The Poetry Stream’s “New Year’s Eve vs battle” poetry slam between Chrissy Bloom and Nicole Tracii (an August poet guest)
December 21st (8:30 CST) via Instagram
Service (an August poet guest) hosted a virtual listening party for his Born + Raised project.
on Instagram:
@servicenoservice
December 19th (7p PST) via Zoom
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) was a featured poet at Open Mic McGee #13. DM her on Twitter or Instagram to get the sign-in details
December 17th (8p EST) via Stream Yard
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) was one of the featured performers at the Healing Collective Benefit for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida
November 10th-20th
Live discussions between Poets and Muses Host, Imogen Arate, and Sidewalk Beirut‘s Founder,
Maysan Nasser
July 16th (7:30pm AZ time) via Zoom
Ric Castillo and Imogen Arate will be guest-hosting July’s District 4 Poetry Open Mic
May 25th (8pm EDT) via Zoom from Woolly Mammoth
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) demonstrated her geek creds at the Spit Dat Digital “Say Nerd” event.
May 16th (5:30p MDT) via Twitch.tv
A new poem by Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) was featured during Broche Ballet’s Third-Anniversary Multimedia Concert.
April 29th (8pm EDT) via Instagram Live
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) chatted with The Haifa Girls about staying creative during the lock down.
The Haifa Girls is a lifestyle company co-founded by our past poet guest, Alana Hayes.
April 10th (7-9pm) via Zoom
Imogen Arate (host of Poets and Muses) & a number of past poet guests were featured at the second of four Friday readings from Phoenix Poetry Series, to celebrate National Poetry Month.
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March 16th (postponed due to the coronavirus) at Blue House Café
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February 22nd at ASU Tempe
Poets and Muses was scheduled to exhibit at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Literary Fair (cancelled due to rain), where past poet guests, tanner menard and Laura Tohe, gave talks and readings (this portion was moved to Piper Writers House).
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February 21st at Alwun House
Host of Poets and Muses, Imogen Arate, past poet guests, Anna Flores and Tristan Marshell, and other bards will envelop you in erotic poetry.
January 3rd at Palabras Bookstore
2019
November 28th at First Church
November 26th at First Church
November 9th at Space 55
Imogen Arate, the Executive Producer and Host of Poets and Muses, will be performing at Desert Diwata’s “Exodus” event, along with Poets-and-Muses guests, Megan Condeno Atencia and Erin Kong (DD’s Co-Founder), and other notable AAPI & POC artists.
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October 5th at the Phoenix Public Market
Poets and Muses exhibited at the 2019 Meet Your Literary Community event (along with Poets-and-Muses guest, Leah Marché and Erin Kong, and other exhibitors) and took part in our partner, Oh My Ears’s demonstration of the Phoenix Poetry Orchestra.
September 26th at the Uganda Museum
Imogen Arate was featured, along with a number of talented Ugandan poets, writers, performers and artists, at Tontoma‘s Meet & Greet with Arts Collaboratory (including Poets-and-Muses guests, Rap Poet, Gideon Mugay and the Black Poet).
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September 21st at the Phoenix Urban Arts Market
Poets-and-Muses guests, Imani the Lyricist, Dyrti Redd, Lupe Castro and Francisco Torres, were featured.
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June 4th at the Phoenix FilmBar
Imogen Arate performed with the Phoenix Poetry Orchestra wind quartet, with music composed by Kevin E. Kerr, specifically to the poems she read.
During the 2nd half, the audience participated in writing improv poetry that the talented musicians interpreted (in vivo) in musical form.
June 1st at the Mesa Convention Center
Poets and Muses exhibited at the 2019 KJZZ Arizona Story Fest & Authors Showcase.
May 25th at Narrative
Imogen Arate read her poetry and short stories along with Poets-and-Muses guests, Sean Avery and Anna Flores, among other writers.
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May 11th at the Heard Museum
Imogen Arate MCed the Poetry Reading Open Mic at the Books, Beats and Bite event, which also featured Poets-and-Muses guests, Freddy Lopez and Dyrti Redd.
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