Since 2019, Lehigh Valley Poetry has been hosting Wicked Brew at the Connexions Courtyard in Downtown Easton. We have created an annual event for the Easton Book Festival each year, as it takes place in October and is close to Halloween. It is one of our favorite events. Come, if… Continue reading
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
Come to the auditorium at the Sigal Museum for the annual small press expo, where independent presses and authors will have tables with books and merch and zines and art and… themselves. Come hang out and support small presses. Special thank you to Darrell Parry who has been organizing the… 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
Join The Poets’ Cauldron team at Book and Puppet Co. to discover the new prompts for next year’s anthology, and sink your fangs into a bone chilling writing workshop. They will also be releasing the latest anthology and celebrating with a local book tour in the Lehigh Valley Area at… Continue reading
We will be celebrating the release of this long-awaited volume, number five in the Citizens for Decent Literature “This is Poetry” series, focusing on different areas of the United States. This volume focuses on poets of the Northeast. A project of the Literary Underground, Citizens for Decent Literature Press has… 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
We (EBF) are working with the Easton Farmers’ Market in Downtown Easton again for the Easton Book Festival author table opportunities, as we do each year. This year, the LV Zine Exchange will be hosting a table there to exchange zines. This will happen outside near the river, on Saturday… 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
Words in the Ward has been a local, grassroots West Ward, Easton neighborhood event for over ten years, starting with open mic gatherings on sidewalks and pocket parks in 2014. During the pandemic, Words in the Ward went virtual. We will be hosting an event as part of the annual… Continue reading
Words in the Ward has been a local, grassroots West Ward, Easton neighborhood event for over ten years, starting with open mic gatherings on sidewalks and pocket parks in 2014. During the pandemic, Words in the Ward went virtual. In 2020, Words in the Ward contributed programming to the local… 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
Lehigh Valley Poetry has been a partnering organization and co-producer of events and activities since 2019. Like all organizers, we had to go virtual in 2020 to keep things going and that is when our open mics went online, as well. For the festival that year, we hosted virtual open… Continue reading
Thank you to Darrell Parry who facilitated last month’s “mini” workshop, for February’s virtual salon/open mic. Apologies for not posting the topic earlier for this month- it has been a bit busy around here. Thinking back to some of the more political/activist workshops that we have hosted such as “Revolutionary… Continue reading
Happy New Year! We have another year of events, workshops, open mics, fests, and tabling. If you aren’t familiar with the Lehigh Valley Poetry Collective, let’s start by explaining that this is a loose collective of poets who collaborate on events and projects and share resources to build community. Whether… Continue reading
Words in the Ward is a West Ward Easton based poetry series, partnering with the Easton Book Festival through video collage featuring local poets. This will be the third year, with a new video premiering on October 24 at 8:00. The videos and series, organized and produced by Easton poet… Continue reading
Rebecca will be reading at the Easton Book Festival on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 6:00 PM. She will be at Book and Puppet bookstore in downtown Easton at 22 Centre Square. Rebecca Reynolds has published two books of poetry, “Daughter of the Hangnail” and“The Bovine Two Step”; her first… Continue reading
Lehigh Valley local Nancy Scott will appear at Book and Puppet bookstore for the Easton Book Festival on Saturday, October 22 at 5:00 pm. Book and Puppet is located at 22 Centre Square in downtown Easton. Nancy Scott’s over 925 essays and poems have appeared in magazines, literary journals, anthologies,… 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
