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We want to end National Poetry Month with a lasting impact so this is a new group that will be starting on Thursday, April 27th 2017 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Please feel free to drop by at our first meeting which will be at
Café Aroma
55 Wall Street. , Norwalk , CT.
Desired Outcomes:
* -Give LGBT individuals of all ages who benefit from the community an alternative for self expression and creativity
* -Connect poet enthusiast and amateurs through socialization and community
* -Craft and coordinate activities that are beneficial to members- coffee house, open house, Pride in the Park, youth group, performance, open mic, etc.,
* -Use poetry as a way to drive creative interest in writing, art, film etc.
* -Educate and inspire aspiring poets
* -Inspire members to express their feelings and difficulties so that they can heal and better themselves in a safe and non-judgemental environment
* -Embrace our identity, culture and shared commitments and communications
* -Encourage the use of poetry as a therapeutic skill
* -Form a community of LGBT poets
* -Develop an album of poetry from community members who may or may not self publish
Facilitator Contact
Information:
Edward Lent
Email: edwardlent@icloud.com
For more information, visit: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NdOxnlyA/events/239211702/?isFromReg=true
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Hey All Poet Enthusiast,
Just want to send a reminder and an invite to y’all for this week’s Gay Poetry Society meeting in Norwalk.
There are limited seats so please join and RVSP if you plan on coming. Click here to be directed to the group’s sign up page:
https://www.meetup.com/Gay-Poets-Society/events/239211702/?read=1&_af=event&_af_eid=239211702&https=on
Tomorrow April 27 is Poem in Your Pocket Day.
On Poem in Your Pocket Day, it is part of our annual National Poetry Month celebration, (United States and Canada) to carry a poem and share it with others throughout the day.
Pocket your favorite poems, carry, and share them tomorrow at our meeting in Norwalk at Café Aroma, 55 Wall Street. Corner of Isaac Road (Road that leads to Garden Cinema).
Meeting time: 10 .a.m.
I think this is a very interesting thing to try to do, but something I would totally try to engage myself in. Seeing as how I just noticed the post at this time I cannot attend the meeting, but I still want to do the aspect of picking a poem and carrying it with me so that I can share it with others throughout the remainder of the day. I think I will be able to relay a specific type of message that can alter a person’s mood entirely depending on the type of poem I pick to repeatedly share, so I think it will be really cool! Thanks for sharing this great idea!
Hi Luz,
You are always welcome to join us. We had a great time yesterday, in fact, I wrote a poem based on a similar image to the one below:
Life Descends upon this near-barren land
Of space, time, distance, shape and form.
Here I become, to face my dreadful fears
With a world cast around me
Of Vague thoughts, distant memories
Of what I dread asleep or awake
I am destined to make of this what I can,
With what I have,
…What I may.
For this life seems but a ray of light
That escapes from the dark sky
By chance
And thus by chance, I justify my being.