Second Friday Poetry Sharing
February 10, 2023
7PM to 9PM
Grants Pass Museum of Art event
upstairs 229 SW 'G' Street
Free to the public-donations appreciated
Read poetry and/or listen to others
Mark your calendar for every second Friday of the month
for more information please call 541-479-3290
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February's optional theme: Show and Tell
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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder and words, with
a dash of dictionary." ~Khalil Gibran
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of
cheese." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
"I was reading a dictionary. I thought it was a poem about
everything." ~Steven Wright
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
~Rita Dove
"Every single soul is a poem." ~Michael Franti
"Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal."
~T.S. Eliot
"Poetry is the deification of reality." ~Edith Sitwell
"Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's
always been the language of bridges." ~Amanda Gorman
"Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry."
~Michaell Eric Dyson
"Why should poetry make sense?" ~Charlie Chaplin
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic
justice." ~George Will
"Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it
sometimes...whether they're the songs of Bono or the
songs of Justin Bieber...they're listening to poetry."
~Maya Angelou
"Poetry is indispensable-if I only knew what for."
~Jean Cocteau
"My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to
understand." ~Thomas Gunn
"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion
for it and wrote a lot of poetry." ~Danielle Steel
"Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid."
~Kathy Skaggs
"Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us
drink because we're not poets." ~Dudley Moore
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