Jabberwocky June

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We’ll start out the meeting talking about publishing opportunities and local readings that are taking place in the upcoming month. After that, we’ll read and discuss a poem by a famous poet that fits the month’s theme, in order to inspire us. Then the floor will be open to poets who would like to read their work, with optional critiques from their fellow poets.

If you’d like to read at the meeting, please bring 1 poem. Also, if you’d like feedback on your poem, please feel free to bring printed copies for other members to write out their thoughts during your reading, so they can give it back to you after our group discussion of each poem.

Readings may be limited, based on the number of poets attending and time constraints, so RSVP early if you’d like to read. Ed and I will bring coffee and donuts (or something else to nibble on) to give us all energy for Saturday morning.

We have optional poetry homework – again, this is optional for anyone interested in participating and completely NOT required to do. In 2020, we’re exploring poetic forms, so this month’s poetry form is experimental poetry. Experimental poetry is about innovation in form and content, and so it breaks from traditional poetic forms and types of verse, using unusual punctuation, capitalization, line length, and themes/sentence structures.

Our selected journal for. submitting this month is Alegrarse: A Journal for Poetry https://www.alegrarsejournal.com/submissions.html.

We look forward to seeing all of you in June.