If you're interested in being a featured poet for Saturday Afternoon Poetry, be sure to check the schedule below for openings (wherever you see TBA), and email a sample of your poetry and your chosen date to kingfisher1031@charter.net. Also check out the poetic links at lower left for 132 other worthwhile poetry ventures.

Hey So Cal Poets,

Saturday Afternoon Poetry is here for you! We meet EVERY Saturday in the NEWLY REMODELED backroom of the NEWLY REMODELED Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. between 3pm and 5pm. Here's our schedule:

February 18th - Poetry Writing Workshop + 2012 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival planning meeting #3
February 25th - Deep Poetry Critique

March 3rd - Featured: Poets published in the Winter 2012 issue (#53) of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (Poets, please send up to three poems in the body of an email message by February 18th to: kingfisher1031@charter.net)
March 10th - Poetry Writing Workshop + 2012 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival planning meeting #4
March 17th - Deep Poetry Critique
March 24th - Featured: CALOKIE, LALO KIKIRIKI & JESSICA WILSON + Open Reading
March 31st - CALOKIE hosts RUTH NOLAN'S Phantom Seed magazine poets

2012 SAN GABRIEL VALLEY POETRY FESTIVAL
April 7th - Festival Kickoff (Open reading + FREE drawing for readers with $100 prize)
April 14th - Broadside Contest Entrants + Winner Announced (FREE to enter, $100 prize)
April 21st @ ALTADENA SENIOR CENTER, 560 E. MARIPOSA ST., 2PM TO 4PM - Chapbook Contest Winner Announced (FREE to enter, $200 prize)
April 28th - Poetry Slam (FREE to enter, $100 prize)
(CLICK THE LINK IN THE LEFT COLUMN OF THIS WEBSITE FOR DETAILS AND A COMPLETE LIST OF FESTIVAL EVENTS)

May 5th - Poetry Book Club hosted by MARY TORREGROSSA
May 12th - Poetry Writing Workshop
May 19th - Deep Poetry Critique
May 26th - Featured: LYNNE BRONSTEIN, MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN & TERRY McCARTY + Open Reading

All events FREE, as always.

Hope to see you there,
Don