FSP July City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 1st July, 2019
6:00 – 9:30pm.

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

Bring along your poems to read or just come and listen to a diverse range of poetry. Remember, 3 minutes maximum mic time per reader to make sure everyone gets a go and has an audience.

Sign-in from 6:00pm for a start around 6:20pm. Second session starts around 7:30pm.

If you want your poem to be considered for this year’s anthology, you must be a member of FSP. Bring along two printed copies of your poem with all your contact details on them for submission.

$5 to read; free to just listen.Click for more

Elaine Barker Book Launch

Elaine Barker has published her fourth collection of poetry See My Feathered Fingers which will be launched by Nicholas Jose.

Tuesday 25th June 2019
6:00pm for 6:30pm

Royal South Australian Society of Arts,
Level 1, Institute Building,
corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide.

All welcome. Lift access is available.

2019 AGM and Launch of Anthology 43

FSP Inc hereby announces that 2019 AGM will be held on Monday 1st April 2019 commencing at 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide.

The AGM will be followed by the launch of FSP Anthology 43.

The is no open mic this month, and entry is free.

The formal agenda for the AGM and more details of the night’s activities will be announced soon. You must be a current financial member of FSP to take part in the AGM. Go to the following link to join: https://friendlystreetpoets.org.au/about-2/membership/

Epicurean – ArtHouse SALA exhibition opening event with poets Rob Walker and Jennifer Liston

EPICUREAN
Sharing with wonderful friends, fine wine and good food is what we consider the perfect Epicurean experience! Enjoy our exhibition of visual art as well as the written interpretations by our collaborative poets Rob Walker and Jennifer Liston.

EXHIBITION OPENING
Sunday, 12 August 2018, 2:00 -5:00 pm
Campbelltown Arthouse, 168 Montacute Road, Rostrevor

OPENING HOURS
Every Sat and Sun 12:00-4:00 pm
Monday 9.30 am – 3:00 pm

CONTACT
campbelltownarthouse@gmail.com | www.arthouse.org.au | Facebook & Instagram @CampbelltownArtHouse

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/233088917504732/

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSOR: Colourbox Print colourboxprint.com.au

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Carol Altschwager
Gulsanga Asad
Pina Ascensio
Margie Baack
Deborah Baldassi
Margaret Carusi
Rubi Cassidy
Julianne Caust
Sarah Clay
Petra Dolezalova Troyn
Carey Dunning
Patricia Garcia
Amie Gibard
Bernadette Gordon
Anne Grigoriadis
Aussie Kanck
Elizabeth Little
Susan Long
Kath Lorenz
Salvador Loreto
Lana Mckenzie
Pamela Mosman- Scott
Dan Nastasie
James Parker
Lynne Parkin
Kay Patchett
Alan Louis Ramachandran
Madhu Saraf
Bettina Seifert
Ann Whitby
Jill Whittaker

 

POETS
Jennifer Liston
jenniferliston.comClick for more

June Poem of the Month

Congratulations to Erica Jolly for her Poem of the Month for June, This Business of Learning, and to Pat Lee for her Commended Poem, I Am One.


This Business of Learning by Erica Jolly

It seems as if I have to wait till now
trying to find out how the process works.
One thing I think I know at last
is this. Probably it began unspoken
the day my father did not come home.

Was that the moment I lost it –
joy in laughter, delight, trust in love
since comfort in my childhood was gone?
Was that the day my childhood died?… Click for more