Poetry Express

Pre-Medicated, pills, poems & ponderings by Gary Turchin, launches July 31st @ 1pm in Berkeley’s Live Oak Park picnic area 2. Gary writes: Yes, enough with the virtual Zoom world, we’re going live again, a live living poetry reading, with live living poets, featuring me and a few guest readers (TBA) reading their own work, as well as mine. I hope you can come out and join the celebration. There will be treats, besides the poetry!

Join us if you can, or order a book from Amazon or from me at [email protected] or www.garyturchin.net.

Live Oak Park is at the Berkeley Arts Center, A shady spot with a lot of trees and an amphitheater. Parking is on Walnut with the park on the right side of the street between Rose and Eunice.

What’s Changing & Coming Up at Poetry Express Berkeley
1) Some of our hosts are trying out immediately the use of open mic signup, with the intention of announcing each poet and giving priority to those who arrive in a timely fashion. This may not be offered all nights.

2) Several windows have been shattered in the parking lot. We suggest parking along University Ave instead. Meters are inactive at our meeting times.

3) July and August 2020, we are going to try out a few new things:
1st and 3rd Mondays of the month will be double features. We will have two features and start promptly at 7pm.
2nd and 4th and the occasional 5th Mondays are themed nights. We will have opportunities for everyone with each of these Mondays choosing from a list of themes including but not limited to:
Longer poems open mic night
Fiction night
Workshop night
Formal poetry night
Story telling night
Guess who wrote it night
Interview night
Slam night
We are open to your suggestions as well.
4) Sharon Metzler Dow will join us in hosting, and we are also looking for an additional host with digital skills to assist at times when Bruce in unavailable.

5) Open Mic will continue to be offered all nights, however, on themed nights, the theme comes first and predominates until exhausted.

6) Poetry Expressed, our online magazine will be out with a reading Monday 3/30. Per feedback we will have a $5 printed version available.

Why the changes: we are committed to providing the best possible experiences for both the people who come to PE and the features. By having two features on some evenings we hope to have larger, lively audiences for the features. By offering a variety of theme nights we hope to provide a platform for our attendees to showcase work that does not fit within our normal open mics and allow for some fun evenings.

Reminder, there are two exits from Himalayan Flavors — out the back past the restrooms, or out the front.

As always, your feedback is important.
[email protected]
find us at:
http://poetryexpressberkeley.com/
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Scott Caputo 2/24
Ashia Ajani 3/02
Laura Schulkind 3/9
Lynne Barnes 3/16
Tom Odegard 3/23
Poetry Expressed Mag reading 3/30

Poetry Express Berkeley