SANDRA YANNONE
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Past Happenings

~ 2021 ~

Sunday, 7th February
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase
Featuring 
Tamara J. Madison, Mike Jurkovic, Iris Gersh, Carla Cherry
Here is the link to register to join us LIVE in Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTL...
You also can watch LIVE from our Facebook Group page: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097

Time: 12:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/466803051003620

Sunday, 31st January
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Featuring: Amit Dahiyabadshah, Kate Węgrzyn, Shaswata Gangopadhyay, Larry Kerschner, Bill Nevins, Ronald P. Bremner, Marian Lovett, Ken Burch, Bill Fay, Marcella Remund
To register to join us LIVE in our Zoom Poetry Studio: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTL...
You also are welcome to watch LIVE on our Facebook GROUP Page: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097

​Time: 12;00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

Saturday, 30th January
Brownstone Poets

Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief
Features: JP Howard, Susana H. Case, and Sandra Yannone. Plus a limited open mic.
Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features.


Sunday, 24th January
Host for Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase featuring Shira Dentz, Jennifer K. Sweeney and Jen Karetnick

Register to join us LIVE in our Zoom Poetry Studio: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTL...
Or watch LIVE from our Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Facebook Group Page: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097
​
Time: 12:00 pm PST


Thursday, 21st January
Featured Reader with Tina Schumann
SoulFood Poetry Night
SoulFood Coffee House
15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA
Time: TBD

https://soulfoodcoffeehouse.com/about/

Sunday, 17th January
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Featuring 
Medha Bhattacharyya, Amit Dahiyabadshah, Siobhan Potter, Amy Barry, Martina McGowan, Bryan Beady Man Wilson, Bertha Rogers and Elizabeth Eisenberg
To register to join us LIVE in our Zoom Poetry Studio: 

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTLhKUnste?fbclid=IwAR3OnN4MkncHzdE3sNPQdFRmLRdH2VzXmqQdv40WJUjZqHPgUvrtRHKiPwc
You also are welcome to watch LIVE on our Facebook GROUP Page: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097

Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/884584428956275


Sunday, 17th January 
Oak Harbor Poetry Project
Featured Reader with Open Mic

Oak Harbor Library
1000 SE Regatta Dr., Oak Harbor, WA 
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PST
https://sno-isle.libnet.info/events?r=thismonth

Sunday, 10th January
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase with 
Mary Ellen Talley, Mervyn Taylor, Gigi Bella & Wayne Power
Members can watch LIVE from our Facebook Group Page: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097
or register to join the LIVE audience in Zoom with the readers here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTL...

Time: 12:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/484743392509114


Sunday, 10th January
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase with 
Mary Ellen Talley, Mervyn Taylor, Gigi Bella & Wayne Power
Members can watch LIVE from our Facebook Group Page: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097
or register to join the LIVE audience in Zoom with the readers here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTL...

Time: 12:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/484743392509114


~ 2020 ~

Sunday, 20th December
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Holiday Poetry Open House

Special guests include Moncho Alvarado (USA), Indran Amirthanayagam (USA), Rajib Arjuni (Bangladesh), Risa Denenberg (USA), Angela Dribben (USA), Don Krieger (USA), Gary Lilley (USA), Josephine LoRe (Calgary), Matt Mooney (Ireland), Kim Ports Parsons (USA), Archna Sahni (India), Eileen Sheehan (Ireland), and more guests as well as poets reading in our LIVE Open Mic!

To register to join us in our Zoom Poetry Studio for our LIVE  
Ho! Po! OH! reading, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../upAsdeCppzooHNGdbeDjFUZ16FX5m..
Time: 12:00 pm PST

https://www.facebook.com/events/959789101095960

Sunday, 13th December
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase with Dayna Patterson, Jami McCarty and 
Page Hill Starzinger

Members can watch LIVE from our Facebook Group Page
www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097 or register to join the LIVE audience in Zoom with the readers here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../upAsdeCppzooHNGdbeDjFUZ16FX5m
Time: 12:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/180283717106196


Saturday, 12th December
Hosts Roxanne Hoffman and Patricia Carragon: Brownstone Poets with Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers and Carrie Magness Radna
Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:  https://rb.gy/9hxvyh
Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Time: 11:00 am PST to 1:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/296341978268709


Sunday, 6th December
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic with
 Dr. Medha Bhattacharyya,
 Gale Hemmann, G. Buck, Marian Lovett, Alexx Oh, Anna Jordan, David C. Brydges, Joanne James, Angela Dribben 
Register to join LIVE: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../upAsdeCppzooHNGdbeDjFUZ16FX5m
Time: 12:00 pm PST to 1:30 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/1747659478737281​

Friday, 4th December
Hosted by Tomas Mac Simon $ Aisling Richmond of Kevin Higgins BOOK LAUNCH The Colour Yellow & THE Number 19
Others showing their solidarity through poetry are: Janet Silver, Ruth Aylett, Merryn Williams, Gerry Potter, Neil Fulwood, Phil Knight, Kate Ennals, Andre 
Rostant, Sandy Yannone, Dave Lordan, Miriam O'Donovan, Quincy Lehr, Josephine Dickinson and Susan Miller DuMars who will introduce this segment of the evening.
Online event: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7389013549
Meeting ID: 7389013549
Time: 10:30 am PST to 1:00 pm PST

https://www.facebook.com/events/815917235909748

Sunday, 29th November
Host, 
CULTIVATING VOICES LIVE POETRY NEW BOOKS SHOWCASE with Jan Beatty, Don Krieger, and Lauren Russell

Time: 12:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/​
https://fb.me/e/3Q4YQ0g8o


Tuesday, 24th November
Hosted by John Roche and Jules Nyquist: Kaktus Open Mic Featuring Sandy Yannone and Ray Johnson with Open Mic to follow
Time: 6:00 pm PST

Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZEld...
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
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https://www.facebook.com/events/285122849508901

Sunday, 22nd November
Host, 
Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Welcomes the Fall Poets of PRATIK: A MAGAZINE of CONTEMPORARY WRITING
Featuring: 
Charles Bernstein, Tony Barnstone, Chard DeNiord, Grant Hier, Yuyutsu Sharma, Jill Hoffman, Kerrin McCadden, Bill Wolak, Judith Mok, Gerard Beirne, Sydney Lea, Cleopatra Mathis, Suzanne Lummis, Flaminia Cruciani, Patricia Carragon, Seymour Mayne, Gloria Mindock, Chuck Joy, Margaret Saine, Howard Pflanzer

Zoom Link to register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../upAsdeCppzooHNGdbeDjFUZ16FX5m..

Time: 11:30 am PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/​
https://www.facebook.com/events/663288314371227/


Sunday, 15th November
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase 
Featuring: 
Susan Aizenberg, Hilda Raz, Betsy Sholl and Leslie Ullman
Time: 12:00 pm PST
Register in advance for this meeting: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/upAsdeCppzooHNGdbeDjFUZ16FX5m8m1rtgB?fbclid=IwAR3BHlkV_9_9bMe9pR_iqZMr9M0KwzpfnvJaL1mhw3BcAe-Ywe8ri0Du8no
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/​
https://www.facebook.com/events/800955200695846/


Sunday, 8th November
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Post-Election Open Mic
Featuring: TBA (
open mic where folks can sign up to share one poem up to three minutes to allow many of us to process our post-election day experiences)

Time: 12:00 pm PST to 2:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/​
https://www.facebook.com/events/3282258231901517

Sunday, 1st November
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Reading
From Lost Horse Press' Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Reading from an Unapologetic Anthology, eds. Grace Bauer and Julie Kane
Julie Kane and Lost Horse Press editor Christine Holbert co-host with the following Nast Women Poets reading from the anthology: Nordette Adams, Desire Aguirre, Melissa Balmain, Judith Barrington, DeMisty Bellinger, Tara betts, Carolyn Breedlove, Kim Bridgford (posthumous reading by Nicole Caruso Garcia), Patricia Clark, Annie Finch, Twyla Hansen, Allison Joseph, Julie Kane, Jenna Le, Leslea Newman, Jennifer Perrine, Valentine Pierce, Hilda Raz, Pat Gallagher Sassone, Andy Young
To celebrate this anthology, distributor University of Washington Press is giving Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry members, guests and attendees and 30% discount if you enter this promo code: WST30 for a 30% discount on all books you order! Order on U of WA Press website:

https://uwapress.uw.edu
Time: 12:00 pm PDT
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/276609073602748

Sunday, 25th October
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase
Facebook event featuring books and readings from 
Megan Alpert (US), Patrick Lodge (UK), and Anne McDonald (Ireland)
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm PDT

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/353786585931955


Saturday, 24th October
​Lit Balm Presents
A Poetry Zoomathon Fundraiser for the Democratic Party
​Featuring: Patricia Spears Jones, Paul Muldoon, Rachel Hadas, Chard deNiord, Anne Waldman, Cornelius Eady, Margo Berdeshevsky, Carolyn Forche, Chavisa Woods, Denize Lauture, Mervyn Taylor, Kimiko Hahn, Jaime Monrique, Kazim Ali, Jennifer Rathburn, Dick Lourie, Elaine Sexton, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sandy Yanoone, Mark Doty, Tim C. Hernandez
Time: 5:00 pm EST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10157579524882647&set=a.10151144232727647

Sunday, 18th October
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic

Facebook event featuring Gregory Buck (US), John W. Sexton (Ireland), Gale E. Hemmann (US), Bill Fay (US), Kathryn Crowley (Ireland), Telmo Dos Santos (Canada), Samari Zysk (US),
Peader Badger O'Donoghue (Ireland)

On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/254299109344251

Sunday, 11th October
Host, Cultivating Voices National Coming Out Day Poetry March
Facebook event featuring 
David Groff, Tara Hardy, Moncho Alvarado, Mark Ward, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Daniel Edward Moore, Ann Tweedy, April Lee Fields, Scott Wiggerman, Ayanna Wimberly, David Meischen, Nadia Niva, Samari Zysk and Wryly T. McCutchen as Host of LIVE Open Mic to follow
On Facebook ( Go to CV LIVE Group page to join )
Time: TBA

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/3564232316940870

Sunday, 4th October
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring 
Shaswata Gangopadhyay, Judith Lowans, Joanne James, Thomas A. Thomas, Phil Lynch, Josephine LoRe, Ken Burch, Marcella Prescher Remund
On Facebook ( Go to CV LIVE Group page to join )
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

https://www.facebook.com/events/670962907188296/

Sunday, 27th September
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Books Showcase
Facebook event featuring books and readings from John Roche, Moyra Donaldson,
 David Meischen
On Facebook ( Go to CV LIVE Group page to join )
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1562926570555299

Sunday, 20th September
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry with POETS ON THE COAST 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Facebook event featuring 
Sarah Bitter, Dia Calhoun, Pam Carter, Risa Denenberg, Wanda Herndon, Tia Hudson, Susan Landgraf, Lauren Mallett, Mary Mullen, Sylvia Pollack, Heidi Seaborn, Annette Sisson, Mary Ellen Talley, Kathryn Thurber-Smith, Melody Wilson
On Facebook ( Go to CV LIVE Group page to join )
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.facebook.com/events/328732058210743

Sunday, 13th September
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry: New Books Showcase
Facebook event featuring Lynne Ellis, Bill Nevins, Ayanna Wimberly
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/365064591145512


Saturday, 12th September 
Featured Reader PoetsWest 
Green Lake Public Library
Seattle, WA
​Time: TBA 
www.poetswest.com/

Monday, 7th September
​
Labor Day ~ Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace
Special Event co-hosted with Lost Horse Press 
Facebook event featuring Mary Alexandra Agner, Kathya Alexander, Grace Bauer, Sheila Black, Susana H. Case, Xanath Caraza, Jennifer Dotson, Patricia Dubrava, Denise Duhamel, Sarah Freligh, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Carolina Hospital, Mary Makofske, Colleen Michaels, Helena Minton, Jo Pitkin, Maria Termini, Shannon Ward, Karen J. Weyant, Leah Zazulyer
On Facebook (Go to Live Facebook page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1207100299656102

Sunday, 6th September

Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring poets Judith Lowans Thurley, Sharmila Pokharel, Joanne James,
Linda Ohlson Graham,
 Peadar Badger O’Donoghue, Anne Deroe, Madge O’Callahan, Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/657655535154043

Sunday, 30th August
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry: New Books Showcase
Facebook event featuring Shin 
Yu Pai, Manuel Gonzalez, Lori Desrosiers
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/988550308271332​

Sunday, 23rd August
Host, Votes for Women! A Poetry Pageant in Celebration of 100th Anniversary of (some) US Women's Suffrage,  Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry 
Facebook event featuring Liz Ahl, Terri Cohlene, Ger Duffy, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Jan Freeman, Elizabeth Cady, Rachel Gomez, Kate Padilla, Tamara J. Madison, Cynthia Pratt, Hilda Raz, Lennee Reid, LIza Rognas, Linda Strever
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/592458581468913

Thursday, 20th August, Postponed
Featured Reader with others TBD
Margin Shift: Friends in Poetry
Common Area Maintenance
2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, Wa
Time: 7:00 pm PST
http://commonartspace.com/index.php/programs/program-series-2/


Sunday, 16th August
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry: New Books Showcase
Facebook event featuring Susana H. Case, Indran Amirthanayagam, Karen Poppy
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.facebook.com/events/533337203998725/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5B%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D%5D%7D

Sunday, 9th August
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry 
Facebook event featuring Don Krieger, Archana Sahni, Sashwata Gangopadhyay, Ann Tweedy, Sheridan Fitzgeral, Seth Lowe, Gary Lilley, Amy Barry

On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.facebook.com/events/422554285327995/


Sunday, 2nd August
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Kim Ports Parsons, Sven Kretzschmar, Lynne Ellis, Muddy Dean Norman, Josephine LoRe, Lisa Cohen, Ken Burch, Bertha Rogers
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30 pm PST

To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/756267305189999/
​​

Sunday, 26th July 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry: New Book Showcase
Facebook event featuring Dave Cavanagh, Maxima Kahn, Mark Ward
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12 pm to 1:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/314823639567275/


Sunday, 26th July 2020 POSTPONED
Host, Cultivating Voices Reading Series 
with Lauren Davis and Daniel Edward Moore
Shakespeare & Company: Coffee and Used Books
120 NW Pacific Ave, Chehalis, WA
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm PS
https://www.facebook.com/events/195252928362019/


Friday, 24th July 2020 POSTPONED
with Carolyn Tipton
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 N. Venice Blvd, Venice, CA
Time: TBD
https://www.beyondbaroque.org/

Sunday, 19th July 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Katie McIlroy, Rachael Stanley, Janet MacFadyen, Linda Ohlson Graham, Matt Mooney, Rajib Arjuni, Lori Desrosiers, Cathal Mac Theinfhir
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 12 pm to 1:30 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1471811882990137/


Sunday, 12th July 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry New Book Showcase Featuring Books by Dee Allen, Kate Padilla, Daniel Edward Moore 
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join) 
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST 
https://www.facebook.com/events/886210508552241

Sunday, 5th July 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Patrick Dixon, Josephine LoRe, Tristan Beach, Phil Lynch, Elizabeth McGeown, Ken Burch, Telmo Dos Santos, Bertha Rogers
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join(
Time: 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm PST
To find your time zone:  www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://facebook.com/events/s/cultivating-voices-live-poetry/759435078158940/?ti=cl


Sunday, 28th June 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices POETRY PRIDE PARADE LIVE Open Mic
On Zoom simulcast to Facebook LIVE Featuring Risa Denenberg, Moncho Alvarado, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Laura Foley, April Lee Fields (Leopard Printcess), Tara Hardy, Lex Langguth Torres, Orla Fay, Caerdwyn MT, Charlie Dale, Wryly Tender McCutchen, Alyssa N. Moore, Mark Ward, Ananya Garg, Mariam Bazeed
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/587851302128969/


Sunday, 21st June 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic FATHER'S DAY EDITION
Facebook event featuring Sandy Yannone & Elizabeth Yannone, Larry Kerschner, Kate Wegrzyn, Zoe Brooks, Marian Lovett, Bertha Rogers, Anne Gleeson, Ken Burch, Anne Deroe, Roxanna Groves, David Hornibrook, Andy Drummond
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
To find your time zone:  www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097/


Sunday, 14th June 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Bill Nevins, Kathryn Crowley, Ethna McKiernan, Anne McDonald, Michael Farry, Micheal Gallagher, Josephine LoRe, Fergus Hogan, Luke Salazar
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm PST
To find your time zone:  www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097/announcements/


Sunday, 7th June 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Susana H. Case, Linda Ohlson Graham, David Halenda, Anne Gleeson, Tristin Beach, Gary Lilley, Faithfulness Joseph, Bertha Rogers, Bridgit Lacy, Peadar Badger O'Donoghue, Telmo Dos Santos, and Rajib Arjuni
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:oo pm PST
To find your time zone:  www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097/about


Saturday, 6th June 2020
Hopscotch Reading Series
Featured Reader with Nancy Krygowski, Edward O'Dwyer
Time: 9 am to 10:30 am PST


Sunday, 31st May 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic 
Facebook event featuring Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma, Amy Barry, Moyra Donaldson, Kim Ports Parsons, Bill Nevins, Mike Gallagher, Josh Forbes, Isabelle Kenyon, Lakita Pendleton, Terry Lucas, Raul Sanchez, Andi Talbot 
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join) 
Time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097/ 


Sunday, 24 May 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Alexander Nicholas Blake, Lori Desrosiers, Linda M. Robertson, Luke Salazar, Anne Deroe, Annette Sisson, Josephine LoRe, Tayve Neese, Alice Pettway, Samari Zysk, Ken Burch, Anne McDonald
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/68525174890609
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Sunday, 20th May 2020 Postponed
Host, Cultivating Voices Reading Series
with Ana Beatriz Gaspar 
Shakespeare & Company: Coffee & Used Books
120 NW Pacific Ave., Chehalis, WA
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/195252928362019/


Sunday, 17th May 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Susana H. Case, Ara Morgenstern, Ann Tweedy, Bernadette Gallagher, Peadar Badger O'Donoghue, Kathryn Slattery, Bertha Rogers, Luke Salazar, Catherine Ann Cullen, Doug Rawlings, Bill Nevins
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097/


Sunday, 10th May 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic, Special Mother's Day Edition
Facebook event featuring Lori Derosiers, John Harrington, Belle Kenyon, Indran Amirthanayagam, John Carew, Tanya Ko Hong, Gary Lilley, Ken Burch, Rachel Gomez, Bertha Rogers, David Hornibrook, Josephine LoRe
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
To find your time zone: www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
https://www.facebook.com/events/572124120348466/


Sunday, 3rd May 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Sandra Yannone, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Peter O'Neill, Moyra Donaldson, Bill Nevins, Kathleen McCracken, Matt Mooney, Marian Lovett, Fergus Hogan, Attracta Fahy, Amy Barry, Telmo Dos Santos
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/565619034329860/


Sunday, 26th April 2020 Postponed
Reading with Elizabeth Alexander, Geraldine Mills, Susan Rich
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA
Time: TBA

https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events

Sunday, April 26th 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma, Paul McNamara, Kim Ports Parsons, Moyra Donaldson, Mary Mullen, Anne Deroe, Deirdre McKernan, Bertha Rogers, Stanley Notte, Josephine LoRe, Anna Jordan
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/842898799540077/


Sunday, 19th April 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Andi Talbot, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Elizabeth McGeown,
Janet MacFadyen, Holly Dodge, Lori Desrosiers, Ken Burch, Bertha Rogers, Thomas A. Thomas, Samari Zysk, Ann Tweedy & Kevin Barrington
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/2519857658265780/

Saturday, 18th April 2020 Postponed
Poetry Workshop with Linda Strever
Columbia River Maritime Museum
1792 Marine Dr, Astoria, OR
Time: TBA
http://www.crmm.org/

Friday, 17th April 2020 Postponed
Reading with Linda Strever
Columbia River Maritime Museum
1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR
Time: TBA
http://www.crmm.org/

Thursday, 16th April 2020
Featured Online Reader
Margin Shift: Friends in Poetry
Common Area Maintenance
2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA
Time: 7:00 pm
http://commonartspace.com/index.php/programs/program-series-2/

Tuesday, 14th April 2020 Postponed
Featured Reader with Susan Landgraf and others
Book Launch of The Inspired Poet: Writing Exercises to Spark New Work
Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA
Time: 7:00 pm
https://hugohouse.org/events/book-launch-the-inspired-poet-writing-exercises-to-spark-new-work/


Tuesday, 14th April 2020
A Night To Remember: A Titanic Irish Poetry Showcase
Co-host & Featured Reader with Attracta Fahy, Kieran Beville, Frances Browner, Ron Carey,
Edward O'Dwyer, Marie Studer, Michael Durack, Eileen Sheehan, Tommy Collins, 
Arthur Bloomfield and Anna M. Evans
Co-sponsored with Limerick Writers' Centre, Limerick, Ireland
Time: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm PST
            7:00 pm to 11:00 pm IST
https://www.facebook.com/events/222477888973362/

Sunday, 12th April 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices (CV) Online LIVE Poetry Open Mic
Facebook event featuring Dave Cavanagh, Michelle Parker Randall, Sharon Webster, Philip Lynch, John Carew, Larry Kerschner, Vincent Louis Carrella, Tanya Ko Hong, Fergus Hogan, David Hornibrook, Laura Foley
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST 
https://www.facebook.com/events/156086945713979

Sunday, 5th April 2020
Host, Cultivating Voices (CV) Online LIVE Poetry Open Mic 
Facebook event featuring Morag Anderson, Joanne M. Clarkson, Caitlyn Krause, Chris Dahl, Kylin Larsson, Monica Barron, Carolyn Lee Wright, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Raul Sanchez, Susan Kay Anderson, Lori Desrosiers, Liz Ahl
On Facebook (Go to CV LIVE Group page to join)
Time: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST
https://www.facebook.com/events/2664922716964609/


Friday, 6th March 2020
Emcee, Salmon Poetry readings and book signings 
with Anne Casey, David Cavanagh, Dede Cummings, Lori Desrosiers, James Ragan and Sandra Ann Winters  
Mission B, 2nd floor, Grand Hyatt San Antonio
600 E Market St., San Antonio, TX
6.00 pm - 7:30 pm
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview

Thursday, 5th March 2020
Featured Reader
Naugatuck River Review/Wordpeace
with Lauren K. Alleyne, Joanna Cowan White, Monica Barron, Lisa C. Taylor and Lori Desrosiers
Exhibit Halls 3-4
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX
Time: 10:35 am - 11:50 am
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview


Thursday, 13th February 2020
Craft Talk w/open mic
It's About Time Writing Series
Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch
5614 22nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com 


Thursday, 6th February 2020
Northwind Reading Series with Lauren Davis
Northwind Art Gallery
701 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA
TIME: 7:00 pm
https://northwindarts.org/programs/reading-series/


Thursday, 23rd January 2020
with Sherrie Flick
Bookworks 
4022 Rio Grande Blvd, Albuquerque, NM 
Time: TBA
https://www.bkwrks.com


Sunday, 19th January 2020
Cultivating Voices Reading Series
with Michele Bombardier & Putsata Reang
Shakespeare & Company: Coffee & Used Books
120 NW Pacific Ave, Chehalis, WA 
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
https://www.facebook.com/Shakespeare-Company-Coffee-and-Used-Books-424806447900404/


Friday, 17th January 2020
Featured Reader
50+ Lunch Bunch
Rainbow Center
2215 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA
Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
https://www.rainbowcntr.org/events 

~ 2019 ~

Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Author Visit and Book Signing
Acton Public Library
60 Old Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, CT
TIME: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
http://www.actonlibrary.org


Tuesday, 12th November 2019
Sonnet Party sponsored by Olympia Poetry Network
Olympia Senior Center
222 Columbia St NW, Olympia, WA 
Time: TBA
www.olympiapoetrynetwork.org


Monday, 11th November 2019
Featured Reader
Easy Speak Open Mic
Wedgwood Ale House & Cafe
8515 35th Ave NE, Seattle, Wa
Time: 8 pm
www.wedgwoodalehouse.com/


Sunday, 10th November 2019
Cultivating Voice Reading Series with Larry Kirschner & Suzanne Simons
Shakespeare & Company: Coffee & Used Books
Chehalis, WA
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Coffee-Shop/Shakespeare-Company


Tuesday, 29th October 2019
2019-2020 Eagle Pond Authors' Series at Plymouth State University
Silver Center for the Arts
Plymouth State University
17 High Street, Plymouth, NH 
Time: 7:00 pm
www.facebook.com/EaglePondAuthorsSeries/?ref=page_internal

Thursday, 24th October 2019
Featured Reader Visiting Artists' Series
Mary Lyon Hall, Woolley Room
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
https://wheatoncollege.edu


Friday, 11th October 2019
Featured Reader: Coming Out Day Open House
Rainbow Center, 2215 Pacific Ave.
Tacoma, WA 98402
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
https://www.rainbowcntr.org/events

Wednesday, 9th October 2019
Not a Luxury: Raucous Poetry by Womxn Faculty
with Dawn Pichon Barron, Tara Hardy, Catalina Ocampo & Suzanne Simons
Purce Hall 1, The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
https://www.evergreen.edu/news/post/evergreen-host-womxn%E2%80%99s-poetry-reading-wednesday-oct-9

Tuesday, 1st October 2019
Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA
Online discussion about Boats For Women

Tuesday, 24th September 2019
with Alissa Hattman
Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR
TIME: 7:00 pm
https://www.broadwaybooks.net


Thursday, 8th August 2019
Featured Reader It's About Time Writing Series
Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch
5614 22nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA
TIME: 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com


Thursday, 8th August 2019
Featured Reader It's About Time Writing Series
Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch
5614 22nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA
TIME: 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com

Saturday, 20th July 2019
Featured Reader Poets in the Park
New Book Showcase 
Anderson Park
7802 168th Ave NE, Redmond, WA
TIME: 3:00 pm
www.graceguts.com/poets-in-the-park

Monday, 15th July 2019
Poetry Reading/Writing Workshop 
Waterford Institute of Technology
with Professor Stephen Powers
Waterford, IRELAND
TIME: 9:30 am - 11:30 am
https://www.wit.ie

Thursday, 11th July 2019
Special Guest Over The Edge Writer's Gathering
in association with the Yehuda Amichai International Poetry Festival
with Katherine Noone, Yvonne Green, Roisin Tierney and Morag Anderson
The Kitchen, Galway City Museum
Spanish Parade, Galway, IRELAND
TIME: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
www.thekitchengalway.ie/

Wednesday, 19th June 2019  
Featured Reader Olympia Poetry Network  
Traditions Café, Cafe & World Folk Art 
300 5th Ave SW, Olympia, WA  
TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm ("includes" open mic ) 
https://www.olympiapoetrynetwork.org/readings-workshops-special-events.html

Friday, 7th June 2019
Fishplate Presents! with Michele Bombardier & Tara Hardy
Good Egg 
140 Winslow Way West, Bainbridge Island, WA 
TIME: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

https://www.goodeggbi.com

Friday, 31st May 2019
Boats for Women Book Launch Party
Women's Club of Olympia (Abigail Stuart House)
1002 Washington St. SE, Olympia, WA
TIME: 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm (reading at 7:00 pm)
Special Guests:
Linda Strever, Tara Hardy, Lorna Dee Cervantes,
Michele Bombardier, and the Heartsparkle Players
www.womansclubofolympia.org/

Wednesday, 10th April 2019
Featured Reader with Jim Burke, April is Poetry Month Celebration
Limerick Writers' Centre
Limerick, IRELAND
Time and Location: TBA
http://www.limerickwriterscentre.com/upcoming-events/


Friday, 5th April 2019
Conference Presentation
"Play, Curiosity, and Poetry as Antidote to Academic Writing Trauma"
National University of Ireland - Galway
Galway, IRELAND
Time and Location: TBA
http://www.nuigalway.ie

Saturday, 30th March 2019 
Salmon Poetry Reception AWP on-site (S315)
Alaska Room, Portland DoubleTree, Level 1, Portland, OR
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/

Saturday, 30th March 2019 
AWP Book Signing with Drew Blanchard 
AWP Bookfair, Salmon Poetry Booth #4054 
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/


Friday, 29th March 2019
AWP Off- Site Book Launch with 2019 Salmon Poets
Kells Irish Pub, 112 SW Second Avenue, Portland, OR
8:00 pm -10:00 pm
https://www.kellsportland.com


Thursday, 28th March 2019
AWP Off- Site Book Launch with 2019 Salmon Poets
The Redd on Salmon Street, 831 SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR
8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
https://ecotrust.org/project/the-redd-on-salmon-street/


 I love to participate in readings/festivals and to facilitate poetry workshops for writers of any age and experience in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and United Kingdom, in particular. 
​Please contact me at 
slyoly@gmail.com ​to inquire about availability.
Email:   slyoly@gmail.com    Call:   360-951-9506
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