Poetry Booth at UCSB, Monday, April 28th 2-4, SRB Patio

come make a poem with us!

April 2014

Saturday, April 26th 1-3 at From Dusk til Drawn at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara

More dates TBA!

Upcoming Poetry Booth Installations

Santa Barbara City College Writing Center
Wednesday, April 17 on the West Campus Walkway in front of the CLRC

CLAS at University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuesday, April 23rd on the SRB Patio

April 2013

We're starting to make POETRY BOOTH plans for National Poetry Month!

We'll be at first Thursday in downtown SB on April 4th. Paseo Nuevo Courtyard, 5-7pm

Recent Poeming

Poetry Booth Coverage from April
KCSB: http://www.kcsb.org/news/kcsb-news-friday-april-20-2012
Daily Nexus: http://www.dailynexus.com/2012-04-26/clas-celebrates-poetry/ 
City 2.0 http://sb.city2.org/blogs/amybou/blog_entries/3142-literary-sb-visit-the-poetry-booth-during-1st-thursday 
City 2.0 http://sb.city2.org/blogs/lemonjelly/blog_entries/3150-mobile-post-make-a-poem-at-the-poetry-booth-in-front-of-marshalls 
Poetry Booth at UCSB: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdetorie/sets/72157629861652617/with/7096977047/
Poetry Booth at First Thursday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdetorie/sets/72157629497156186/

Upcoming Installations

Thursday, APRIL 5

FIRST THURSDAY

900 State Street

5pm-8pm

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Thursday, APRIL 19

Campus Learning Assistance Services

UC Santa Barbara

2-4pm

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Join us!

Poetry Booth | Sunset Blvd. | Los Angeles Road Concerts | Sept. 18, 2011

Poetry Booth at Los Angeles Road Concerts: Sunday, Sept. 18th on Sunset Blvd!

We'll be at Sunset & Western from 1-4pm!

Check out the Los Angles Road Concerts Facebook Page.

Poems from April 7 installations coming soon!

I'll be scanning the poems from last nights' events in this weekend. If you wrote a poem at the booth, THANK YOU, and be sure to check back here to see it posted!

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."

Happy Poetry Month!

Poetry is for everybody!

The Poetry Booth is a public, free, and mobile display and workspace for experiencing and creating poems with the help or guidance of practiced poets and educators. The booth will provide space (tables and chairs), supplies (paper, pencils, pens, markers, glue, scissors, typewriters), and poetic inspiration in the form of example poems and poetic objects, writing prompts, and activities. The available poetries and activities could include poetry games and puzzles, tactile and visual poetry, postcard poetry, collaborative poetry, traditional and invented poetic forms, performance poetry, poetry in translation, and book arts. All participants are invited to contribute the poems they create at the Poetry Booth for publication on the Poetry Booth blog. Poetry is for everybody!

pictured above: "Cleromancy Poetry Game" by Michelle Detorie; photo and staging by Helen White

Poetry Booth in 2011

I hope to be lining up some dates and locations for the Poetry Booth in the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions about where/when I might stage it, drop a note in the comments or shoot me an email at femmeferal at gmail dot com. Thank you!

What is the Poetry Booth?

The Poetry Booth will be an attractive, inviting, mobile, and free public facility for creating poems with the help or guidance of experienced poets and educators. The booth itself will provide workspace (tables and chairs), supplies (paper, pencils, pens, markers, glue, scissors), and poetic inspiration in the form of writing prompts and activities. The goal of this public art project is to invite the residents of Santa Barbara to participate in a collaborative, innovative, and collective literary community.