Poetry Archive
For additional information please contact the Series Coordinator Tom Hogan.
First Friday Poetry Reading Friday July 19, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Milwaukie Poetry Series First Friday
Poetry Reading and Open Mic.
July 19, 2024 at St. John the Evangelist
2036 SE Jefferson St. Milwaukie 97222
6:30 PM and on Zoom
Share poetry! It’s that time of year again for First Fridays!
On Friday, July 19, our 2024 First Friday poetry readings will continue
for the Summer Season through October. Yes, the event is on the third
Friday of July but that is due to the Fourth of July Holiday weekend. The event
will occur at 6:30 PM at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, 2036
SE Jefferson St. Milwaukie, 97222.
The Featured Readers will be the First and Second Place winners of the
recent 2nd Annual Writing Contest sponsored by the Clackamas County
Arts Alliance Literary Committee. Reading will be Megan Jones in poetry, Carina
Cooper in short story and playlet and a guest reader for Leslie Hayertz’s
playlet. They will read for approximately 35 minutes.
have her dream job teaching math, social studies, and poetry at an alternative
high school in Oregon City. Meg couldn’t stand the poetry she had to read in
school, but after graduating, she discovered modern work and realized she likes
poetry after all! Meg’s work has appeared in a variety of print and online journals
and she is currently working on her first book-length manuscript.
Carina Cooper is a nontraditional student attending art and writing courses at
Clackamas Community College. Her story “Behavioral Health” won an award
from the Clackamas Arts Alliance in 2024. Like her fiction, she also has two sons,
now adults, the youngest has autism. She connects people through stories of hope
and hardship in an effort to garner understanding and empathy for others from her
readers. She is driven to create more compassion in the world. Carina lives in
Milwaukie with her husband and their two cats.
Leslie Hayertz is an author of fiction and short plays. Her plays have won
the Clackamas County Arts Alliance Writing Contest, and others have had staged
readings and a production. She lives near the confluence of the Tualatin and
Willamette Rivers.
We will then have the Open Mic. Anyone who would like to participate
in the Open Mic is welcome. For this event we will expand the Open Mic
to short story and playlet since the Featured Readers will be reading those forms.
There would be a 5 min. limit for short story and playlet and two poems for the
poets in the first round.
Register below. You will receive a link prior to the event. We will do another round
if time permits. People who want to read must be present. The event will be
recorded and available for viewing on demand on the Ledding Library YouTube
Channel after the event. You will receive a link prior to the event.
Venue: Zoom Call
Venue Website: zoom.us
Description:
We will message you a Zoom link near to the event.
- Zoom
July 19, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
