Online open mic (Zoom, phone)

To comply with the shelter-in-place directive, we are going online.

Join us on Zoom for a makeshift online open mic on every other Saturday morning. Poems and short stories are welcome. We read in rounds in undefined order. Read your own, or your favorite, or just what struck you so much that you want to share.

The time is chosen to accommodate East Coast and international participants:

• 10 AM Pacific time;
• 12 AM Chicago time;
• 1 PM East Coast time;
• 5 PM GMT;
• 7 PM Kyiv;
• 8 PM Moscow, Saint Petersburg.

To join from your computer (with or without video), install the application from https://zoom.us and enter 611-156-713 in the "Join meeting" window.

To join by phone, use the following numbers:
+1 669 900 6833 (West Coast)
+1 929 205 6099 (East Coast)
+7 812 426 8988 (St. Petersburg)
+7 495 283 9788 (Moscow)
...contact us for a phone number in your area (Europe is covered).

Once you hear a prompt, enter the meeting ID (only the numbers) + two # signs: 611156713##

The event is announced elsewhere, so there would likely be more participants than the number of RSVPs on Meetup. You can invite your own guests. Spread the ID!

There will be Russian poems, but we aren't planning to keep the event Russian only.
We may want to launch another open mic in the evening, for the Western Hemisphere / Pacific, mostly in English (optionally Spanish, French?).