Networking Aloud: A monthly event (every second Tuesday) open to the public. Fifteen to twenty minutes from a featured reader followed by a literary open mic. Come early and sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry, essay etc. Continue reading Networking Aloud! Featuring Garland Thompson Jr.
The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents
A Mother’s Day Reading Featuring: Carolyn Brigit Flynn & George Lober
Sunday, May 13, 2:00 p.m. $5.00 Admission
Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler Street, Monterey
(between Pearl and Munras) Continue reading Monterey Poetry Consortium presents Carolyn Brigit Flynn & George Lober
First Fridays at Old Capitol Books – an occasional, not quite monthly night of poetry, music and art.
This month we’re excited to have two poets: Tongo Eisen-Martin and Wendy Trevino. They’ll be joined by musical performer La Sofa Queen, and artist Chloe Wilson. Continue reading Award winning poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, with Wendy Trevino, La Sofa Queen & Chloe Wilson (First Fridays)
Joaquin Barreto will be at Old Capitol Books for the launch of the Spanish version of his book, El Otro Lado (The Other Side) An Immigration Story.
20 April 2018
4pm
Old Capitol Books
559 Tyler Street
Monterey
Continue reading Book signing: Joaquin Barreto, author of El Otro Lado (The Other Side) An Immigration Story
The History and Practice of Experimental Poetics
with Lucas Bailor
This lecture will discuss experimental poetry’s history and the various ways it is interpreted in contemporary writing. Rather than working through a definition of what exactly experimental poetry is, we will look at ways it has been realized and interpreted in various historical, social, and theoretical contexts. Continue reading The History and Practice of Experimental Poetics with Lucas Bailor
The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Presents: Dan Linehan and Dane Cervine
Sunday, April 8, 2:00 p.m. $5.00 Admission
Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler Street, Monterey
(between Pearl and Munras)
Continue reading Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium presents Dan Linehan and Dane Cervine
Part of a series of events for National Poetry Month
POSTPONED – now scheduled for May 4th.
Old Capitol Books and the Direct Action Monterey Network are coming together for the thirty-fourth iteration of the Theory & Philosophy Reading Group, working through a mini-series on Environmental Philosophy. At the end of April, we’ll come together to read the poetry and the prose of Henry David Thoreau, whose nature writings were an essential part of the New England Transcendentalist movement. Continue reading Theory & Philosophy 34: Henry David Thoreau on Nature
