Join Pink Trees Press and Friends for an inspiring reading. Pink Trees Press authors from New York, Phillip Giambri, Dr. Juanita Kirton, Linda Kleinbub, Ron Kolm, and C.O. Moed will be joined by Pennsylvania authors Gaia Abraxas, E. Lynn Alexander, Darrell Parry, Danielle Notaro and more. Sunday, October 18, 2026… Continue reading
Poetry in the middle of the city, in Centre Square? Yeah we also do that. Every year. And there’s a good reason why I have been doing this to kick off the big EBF festival weekend every year, in public, under the stars since 2021: Poetry in public raises the… Continue reading
Join us virtually for an open mic event where you can share your poetry and be part of the Easton Book Festival! The Lehigh Valley Poetry Collective, established in 2015 with events in Easton, has been a loose group of regional poets who have organized and collaborated together on performance… Continue reading
We have a whole week of poetry events at the Easton Book Festival this year, including open mics, panels, book releases, and workshops. You really need to go to the Easton Book Festival website to check out the schedule! Some events that we are hosting together as part of both… Continue reading
Please join us for our quarterly, virtual open mic on Monday, October 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM EST. Hosted by Darrell Parry and E. Lynn AlexanderAll are welcome to share 1-2 poems, informally. Short fiction welcome, too.We will also be part of the annual Easton Book Festival, so please look… Continue reading
More than six years later, we are still doing the salon. It isn’t every week, or even every month, but it is still going. If you have been around for… a few decades…(yikes) you know that things come and go. Presses start, readings start, open mics and festivals start and… Continue reading
Easton poet Darrell Parry will read from his new collection “Twists: Gathered Ephemera” at Book and Puppet Book store on Saturday, October 22 at 5:30. The store is located in downtown Easton, at 22 Centre Square. Darrell Parry is a writer, artist and event organizer from Easton, Pennsylvania. His first… Continue reading
Please join us for a poetry reading with local features to celebrate the kick off of this year’s Easton Book Festival. LVPC continues to partner with the festival on programming so please check out the festival website (link) and social media during October 2022 for the latest on over a… Continue reading
We are planning for another year of the Easton Book Festival, the free local celebration of reading, books, writers, and community. The goal is to provide in person and virtual programming for all ages, free and open to all. We want to have diverse, intentional, inclusive programs that include the… Continue reading
The virtual salon will be back in September 2022, starting with the open mic on Monday, September 5th. We have the events on the Lehigh Valley Poetry facebook page, so please check them out. The dates are:September 5, October 3, November 7, and December 5, 2022. We do the “mini… Continue reading
Lehigh Valley Poetry hosts a monthly virtual salon and open mic on the first Monday of the month at 8:30 PM. (EST) Prior to the open mic, we host a “mini workshop” from 8:00- 8:30. This has been running as an added session since the pandemic started, facilitated by E…. Continue reading
Lehigh Valley Poetry hosts a monthly virtual salon and open mic on the first Monday of the month at 8:30 PM. (EST) Prior to the open mic, we host a “mini workshop” from 8:00- 8:30. This has been running as an added session since the pandemic started, facilitated by E…. Continue reading
Hello poetry friends! We had a great time with you at the Lehigh Valley Poetry Salon on June 6th. We had our usual “mini workshop” followed by our open mic. Great sharing and chatting about summer events and plans. There are a lot of events coming up, both in person… Continue reading
Calling poets, musicians, performers of all kinds!Lehigh Valley Poetry will be hosting “Ten on the Tenth” on Tuesday, May 10th. This is a special event where each performer will get ten minutes to share a poem, sing a song, tell jokes… think open mic variety show. This will be a… Continue reading
We will host our ongoing Lehigh Valley Poetry virtual salon and open mic, as we have been for over two years, on May 2 and June 6. We will take a summer break and return in September on the 5th which is Labor Day. The mini workshops are typically posted… Continue reading
Please join us for a virtual book launch party to celebrate the release of LVP’s Darrell Parry’s new poetry collection “Twists”. Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 8:00 PM EST. This will be a virtual event so you can attend safely, from anywhere! Darrell will read from his new book, and… Continue reading
Welcome to Lehigh Valley Poetry, if you are new here. Maybe you landed here from Instagram or Facebook, or came to find out more about an event or project. “But wait, where am I? And who are you?” First, welcome. I’m Lynn Alexander and I started this website and associated… Continue reading
The monthly mini is the free, no strings workshop that takes place on zoom before the Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon, open mic. We do the open mic on the first Monday of the month, at 8:30 PM EST. Before that, we gather informally on the zoom from 8:00- 8:30… Continue reading
Monday, February 7. 8:00 PM EST. Virtual. February’s mini workshop will take place before the Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon open mic, first Monday of the month at 8:30 EST. We meet on zoom each month and poets are welcome to participate in the mini workshop, open mic, or both…. Continue reading
Happy New Year, Poets. Are you ready for 2022? Monday, January 3, 2022. 8:00 PM EST. January’s monthly mini workshop will be chill and low key after the holiday bustle. As always, we post on our Lehigh Valley Poetry Facebook page and share sporadically on Instagram. (#lehighvalleypoetry and #lehighvalleypoetryvirtualsalon) The… Continue reading
