July In Person Inside Open Mic - 07/25/21

Ancient City Poets

THEME: "Summer Daze" ​
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It is getting hot outside and Ancient City Poets are going to an air conditioned indoor space, after three months of social distanced outdoor gatherings.

Share two or three of your polished poems or bust out some fresh ink from your notebook during Saint Augustine, Florida’s longest-running open mic poetry event. Invite a friend or two or three to bring a folding chair, and cheer you on.

If you would like to share a poem, please show up at 2:30 PM on the day of the reading and get your name on the list. There is space on the list for 15 poets at 5 minutes each.

At 3:00 PM, the readers will be called to the podium in the order their names appear on the sign-up sheet. This month’s reading will be facilitated by poet Amy Goldin.

Please share your words and embrace the local poetry scene. The theme will be "Summer Daze." Think of days on the beach, and opportunities just out of reach. Think of hazy days outside, and living outside of the box. The writing prompts are always just a suggestion, and you are free to follow it or not. What is important is that the audience gets to know you and your creative words.

READING LOCATION
Indoors at Art Box located at 137 King Street in the San Sabastian Art District, St. Augustine, Florida 32084. Pop-up coffee and sweet treats for sale by Ancient City Brunch Bar. Get to know their menu and their hours at their downtown location.

https://ancientcitybrunchbar.com/

PAY CLAY
For a fifty dollar donation, you can help pay our audio visual tech. He comes with a sound system, a camera, and microphones to record footage that we upload to YouTube. Our supporter for July will be Rick Harrienger. If you would like to help out in this way, please pay fifty bucks through the following link. Poet Plant Press has been doing amazing things with coffee money since 1996

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/poetplantpress

​ANCIENT CITY POETS ON YOUTUBE
Three years ago in April, we launched a YouTube Channel to preserve our past. We always encourage video students and volunteers with cameras to help us document the Saint Augustine poetry scene.

Subscribe to our channel so you can get notified whenever new footage is added. Thanks to Zoom we have some amazing recordings from the last year.  If you missed the April, May, or June reading, we have them all on the channel. Check them out there. Here is the direct link to the June reading.

​Please like, share, and comment on the reading. Writers always gain a deeper understanding of their audience when feedback is given.

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