January & February Events
Art After Hours at the VMFA
January 22
6:30 & 7 pm ART OF POETRY: Liz Canfield January 29
6:30 & 7 pm ART OF POETRY: Ben Dombroski February 5
6:30 & 7 pm ART OF POETRY: Shanley Jacobs February 12
6:30 & 7 pm ART OF POETRY: Kamau Rucker
February 19
6:30 & 7 pm ART OF POETRY: Randy Marshall
Regularly scheduled events-
Every Saturday Night SlamRichmond $5 admission. At ArtSpace Gallery, Zero E 4th St, 232-6464, For more details visit Slam Richmond or email [email protected].
2nd and 4th Sundays Shockoe Poets 2-4pm Open Mike Readings (2nd and 4th Sundays) Contact Shann Palmer for information (335-9403 or [email protected]). Currently meeting at art6, 6 east broad
3rd Sunday Bend Your Ear artist salon 3-5pm, poets and artists bring work to share and duscuss visit art6.org for details
Tuesday Verses THE OPEN MIC at Tropical Soul Restaurant, 314 North 2nd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 - Damage: $5 all night. Doors open at 8pm. For info call (804) 304-6857
THURSDAYS Lyric Ave’s Chat Room discussion group/open mic 8pm @ Cosmo Lounge 1500 Eastridge Road 23229 $5
VCU EVENTS- (Movable Feast ( resumes in January 1-23, 2-27)- graduate student readings, Visual Arts Center,, 6 pm), VCU Visiting Writers Series (in the spring Stuart Dybek 3-26, Kelly Link 4-9, Mark Doty 4-23)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts- Poetic Principles Readers are: Beth Ann Fennelly 1-28, Peter Orner 3-25, Mary Jo Salter 4-1, $
Chop Suey Books
Fountain Bookstore
Other calendars:
check the James River Writers calendar for other literary events and the Richmond.com arts calendar
Poetry News
Sorcha Duncan reading at art6
January 29th poet Katy Lederer is featured at the UR Writer's Series Talk, 8pm, Brown-Alley Room, UR Weinstein Hall, 289-8287
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