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SpeakEasy 27.5

Strong Waters is a new poetry series in Bellingham, Washington, and SpeakEasy is honored to be the inaugural event at SpeakEasy 27.5: A Spiritual Thread LIVE. In 2019 and 2020, five poets — Luther Allen, Susan Alexander, Bruce Beasley, Jennifer … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy: looking back, going forward

As we finalize the details for SpeakEasy 29: Waymaking, coming up Sunday, September 18, 2022, we thought we’d share a little update on recent developments regarding SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread. As you may recall, the five participating poets, Susan … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27: the audience responds

SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread engaged five poets in what turned out to be a nine-month poetic conversation. The resulting series of linked poems was presented in five Zoom readings. To complete SpeakEasy 27, audience members were invited to submit … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27 update

Thank you to the poets, Dayna Patterson, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Jennifer Bullis, and Bruce Beasley, for a series of thought-provoking poems, and thank you to the poetry audience who showed up for the five Zoom readings. The video recordings … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27, Round 5

The fifth round of SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2021, at 7:00pm Pacific, as poets Dayna Patterson, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Jennifer Bullis, and Bruce Beasley share their linked explorations. The poets’ bios … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27…Round 4

Round 4 of SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread will be Zooming your way at 7:00pm Pacific on Saturday, February 6, 2021. Please join Dayna Patterson, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Jennifer Bullis, and Bruce Beasley for this next-to-last round of linked … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27…Round 3

Please join us on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at 7:00pm Pacific, for the third round of poems from SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread. As with Rounds 1 and 2, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Bruce Beasley, Jennifer Bullis, and Dayna Patterson … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27….round 2

Please join us on Saturday, December 12, 2020, at 7:00pm Pacific, for the second round of poems from SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread. As with Round 1, Susan Alexander, Luther Allen, Bruce Beasley, Jennifer Bullis, and Dayna Patterson will each … Continue reading

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SpeakEasy 27: A Spiritual Thread

Almost a year ago we started a linked poem project with five poets — Susan Alexander, Bruce Beasley, Jennifer Bullis, Dayna Patterson, and myself (Luther Allen). Several years ago we did a similar SpeakEasy with a different set of poets … Continue reading

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March 30*

in the long run (i don’t care what the biometricians, the chaos theorists, the columnists, the politicians, the corporate industrialists, and all the rest of them funny off-islanders say) we are all one *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem … Continue reading

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