THE POETRY NEVER STOPS! BIG EVENTS OVER THE NEXT 72 HOURS

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As always, I have to start the announcement posts with a caveat: I know I'm missing good stuff, but I can't stay on top of it all. Plus, time is short. Anyway, does your poetry travel well? I hope so. 

Poetry Festival Singapore Sizzles

The highlight of this poetry weekend for me is the Poetry Global Network’s partnership with Poetry Festival Singapore this Sunday, Aug. 7th (7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm UK / 10pm). It is being

LKN of Poetry Global Network

made available via a special edition of Bottoms Up, our International Poetry Jam which is usually held on the final Sunday of the month. Other organizations collaborating in production of Sunday’s event include Word Forward (Singapore), Morocco Poets (Morocco), and Let’s Unmesh Life (India).

Lawin Bulatao
Host of PGN's Bottom's Up

I only know a few of the poets performing, but the ones that I do know ensure that I’ll be waking up for the 8am start my time. If you wanna get on board the Singapore poetry train, click here for the Zoom link to join the event.  Passcode: Browning.

Poetry X Hunger Raises Awareness & Funds

If you’d like to see and hear poetry making a tangible difference in real lives, Poetry X Hunger’s Hiram Larew and Fizza Abbas Rabbani of Fizza Writes will be hosting a special 90-minute fund-raising reading this Monday Aug. 8 at 11am PDT/2pm EDT/7pm UK/11pm Pakistani time. There is a full slate of readers, but the more the merrier…especially if we can show that poetry can feed more than minds and spirits by raising some funds for the cause. Email poetryxhunger@mail.com if you’re interested in being a part of the effort.

Got Phynnecabulary in Your Poet’s Library?

Most of you probably know Phynne-Belle, the San Fran poet who is the founder and coordinator of Phynnecabulary, and who hosts about 3 dozen events so varied you’ll have to check out her linktree to see what I mean. Anyway, she hosts writing and readings events several days, sometimes multiple

times per day, per week. Tonight (Friday, 8/5) she hosts Get Inspired & Speak Up (GISU), a writing and reading session for SocietyX starting at 7pm PDT. I believe she does a rerun of GISU on Sunday. If you’re into early morning quiet writing, Phynne hosts Wake Up & Write at 9:30am EDT, the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, and she rocks an open mic every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, so check her out.

Moore Poetry at Reach Arts First Friday

Chris Moore

Lee Eric Freedman and ReachArts First Friday Open Mic (7pm EDT) is featuring Christopher Moore who hosts his own open mic (WIW Moore Poetry) on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7:30pm EDT. As a heads up, this coming Wednesday, Aug. 10th, Moore Poetry will be featuring R. Sen, the author of Introspectrum.

Super Lupert Merges onto Poetry Super Highway

Rick Lupert of Poetry Super Highway and Cobalt Poets fame is holding a special Facebook Live event on Saturday Aug. 6th at 3pm PDT. Special guests include Mariko Kitakubu, Live from Japan, Aviva Rosenbloom and Joel Siegel. This is a free event, and you can be there by clicking here.