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Los Gatos Poetry Open Mic at Great Bear Coffee

Back by popular demand this year was the gathering of poets and non-poets alike at Great Bear Coffee in downtown Los Gatos to celebrate the written word.

 Email Print 6 Comments    PHOTOS (13)Poets Victoria Johnson and Jade Bradbury during Community Open Mic at Great Bear Coffee the evening of Tuesday, April 24, 2012.Denise Lefers, lover of poetry, with Jade, writer of poetry and artist, at Great Bear Coffee.The amazing Ted Gehrke at Great Bear Coffee the evening of Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Richard Burns reads his just published poem. Delicious poem all you chocolate lovers at Great Bear Coffee in Los Gatos. Rita Baum reads her poignant poem about speaking to trees inspired by a conversation with a young girl at Great Bear Coffee in Los Gatos.Renee Schell reading her sestina, forthcoming in Granny Smith mag where she is the featured poet at Great Bear Coffee.LG author Steve Sporleder, Lyn and Patrick Dougherty at Great Bear Coffee.Kelly and prize-winning Dennis Noren at Great Bear Coffee.Patrick Dougherty reads his poem.Lyn Dougherty reads her first poem.Parthenia and Erica sing and dance (well, almost) during the Community Open Mic event at Great Bear Coffee the evening of Tuesday, April 24, 2012.The poetry crowd gathers the evening of Tuesday, April 24 at Great Bear Coffee for Community Open Mic as part of National Poetry Month.Go poets! Los Gatos Poet Laureate Parthenia Hicks hosted a Community Open Mic at Great Bear Coffee the evening of Tuesday, April 24 in honor of National Poetry Month this April.   Upload Photos and Videos

Poetry Los Gatos, under the direction of Los Gatos poet laureate Parthenia M. Hicks, participated in a Community Open Mic event at Great Bear Coffee Tuesday evening.

The session attracted about 40 residents, including 24 readers—writers and non-writers to the popular coffee shop. The gathering as one of several activities coordinated by Hicks in honor of National Poetry Month in April.

Los Gatos boasts its own Poet's Canyon and poets such as Sara Bard Field, Charles Erskine Scott Woods as well as many visiting writers including John Steinbeck and Frank Norris have deep connections to the town, Hicks said.

The open mic forum was a chance for those who love poetry to get together, hear some cool poetry, read a poem or just sit, relax and listen among the company of friends, Hicks said.

 

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Los Gatos Patch
Date: 
Apr.29.2012
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Los Gatos Poetry Open Mic at Great Bear
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Parthenia Hicks
Jul.28.2012 - 4:16 pm
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April as National Poetry Month in Los Gatos

Open Mic at the Great Bear was the wrap up evening for all of the events we presented in April in Los Gatos and certainly the most fun.

Others events included: an Ekphrastic event, EXPOSURES, in which Los Gatos poets responded to the art of photography.

Movie night with a showing of Il Postino, a film featuring the relationship between Pablo Neruda and an Italian postman who takes lessons from the master poet as he tries to woo his true love.

The most remarkable part was seeing so many attend poetry events who never had previously. More events scheduled. Next up: September.

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Poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ”
—Mary Oliver

About Parthenia

Poet and fiction writer, Parthenia M. Hicks, is the Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA, the recipient of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Prize, the Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowship for the Short Story, the Villa Montalvo Poetry prize, and several...
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