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:

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 in prizes)
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 Writing Workshop
May 12th - Deep Poetry Critique
May 19th - Featured: LYNNE BRONSTEIN, LEAH BROWN & TBA + Open Reading
May 26th - Poetry Writing Workshop

June 2nd - Deep Poetry Critique
June 9th - Poets published in the Spring 2012 issue (#54) of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly (Poets, please send up to three poems in the body of an email message by May 26th to: kingfisher1031@charter.net)
June 16th - Poetry Writing Workshop
June 23rd - Deep Poetry Critique
June 30th - CALOKIE hosts JULIA STEIN, TBA & TBA

July 7th - Poetry Writing Workshop
July 14th - Deep Poetry Critique
July 21st - Featured: TERRY McCARTY, KEVIN PATRICK SULLIVAN & BRIGIT TRUEX + Open Reading
July 28th - Poetry Writing Workshop

August 4th - Deep Poetry Critique
August 11th - Featured: MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN, TBA & TBA + Open Reading
August 18th - Poetry Writing Workshop
August 25th - Deep Poetry Critique

All events FREE, as always.

Hope to see you there,
Don