Easton Book Festival 2022: Darrell Parry at Book and Puppet Books

poetry reading with darrell parry for the Easton Book Festival

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

Lehigh Valley Poetry Collective- Reading at the Easton Book Festival 2022

lehigh valley poetry collective at the easton book festival 2022

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

Easton Book Festival, Back Again For 2022

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

Fall 2022 Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic

Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic 2022

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

Fall 2022: Monthly Mini Workshops And Past Prompts

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

Monthly Mini: September 2022

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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 Salon- Summer Hiatus

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

Lehigh Valley Poetry Presents- “Ten on the Tenth”

lehigh valley poetry presents, ten on the tenth event. Poetry, music, hosted by E. Lynn Alexander. Contact with questions.

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

Upcoming Virtual Salons and Open Mics- May and June

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

Lehigh Valley Poetry Presents- Book Launch for “Twists”

Book Launch for Darrell Parry's book "Twists"

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

Winter 2022- Lehigh Valley Poetry Updates

Lehigh Valley Poetry Updates 2021 2022

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

Monthly Mini: March 2022

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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

Monthly Mini: February 2021

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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

Monthly Mini: January 2021

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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

LVP’s Annual Krampus Rumpus Open Mic 2021

Lehigh Valley Poetry Krampus Rumpus December Poetry

Monday, December 6, 2021 8:30 EST, Zoom: We interrupt our regular monthly open mic programming for the annual Krampus Rumpus open mic, which will replace the December Lehigh Valley Poetry (virtual) salon that would normally occur on December 6. Consider this virtual event mesh to be a special edition of… Continue reading

Lehigh Valley Poetry- Winter Season-Virtual Salon and Open Mic

We’re back for our monthly virtual salon and open mic, on Monday, November 1, 2021. We start off at 8:00 PM with our “mini workshop”, and then we follow that with our open mic at 8:30. (EST) This is a loose, flexible space for all to hang out, share a… Continue reading

Lehigh Valley Poetry Salon- Staying Virtual

Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic

The Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic will stay virtual, and continue on the first Monday of the month. The event is hosted on zoom with the event details on the Lehigh Valley Poetry Facebook page. (Under “events”) We start at 8:00 EST with a mini workshop, followed… Continue reading

The Salons Continue!

Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic

We are still hosting the Lehigh Valley Poetry Virtual Salon and Open Mic, on the first Monday of the month. We start with out monthly “mini workshop” at 8:00 PM EST. At 8:30, we start the updates and open mic. We do this virtually on zoom, and you can find… Continue reading

LVP Virtual Salon and Open Mic- New Schedule in February 2021

We have been doing the open mics each week during the pandemic, and they will continue but will be moving to once a month starting with February. We were doing a mini workshop on the first open mic of the month and these will continue, but will be moving in… Continue reading