Updated Website!

The online edition of Proetry Magazine has just been revised to include more poems and more visual art!  It now includes all the artwork from the print edition, and even more.  Check it out at ProetryMagazine.com.  You can pick up print copies of the zine at the Live Poets Society Open Mic, every Monday from 6-8pm at Flicker Theatre and Bar on Washington St.  Come by and enjoy some poems, some art, some drink :)

Athens, GA Writing Community Upcoming Events (April, 2011)

4/4/11 @ 8:30pm - Special Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker Bar
Celebrating the arrival of Ben Gulyas & Ralph LaCharity into Athens this week for Word of Mouth, we are honoring these two great poets from Ohio with a special open mic at Flicker.

4/6/11 @ 8pm - Word of Mouth, located at The Globe
First Wed. of every month, Poetry open mic
April feature: Ben Gulyas from Cincinnati

4/11/11 @ 6pm - Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker
Every other Monday, Poetry open mic
Come celebrate life with us during Happy Hour on a Monday!

4/18/11 @ 7pm - Goodbye Blue Mondays Open Mic, located at Dog Ear Books
Every other Mon., alternating with Live Poets Society Open Mic

4/25/11 @ 6pm - Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker
Every other Monday, Poetry open mic

We are still planning to get the magazine's first edition out this month - stay tuned for the release party date & time!

Athens, GA Writing Community Upcoming Events (Late March - Mid April, 2011)

3/28/11 @ 6pm -  Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.)
Poetry open mic, Every Other Monday (alternating with Goodbye open mic at Dog Ear Books)
Email for more info:  ColAthPo@gmail.com

3/30/11 - Presentation: “Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues”. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, English Department, and the Inst. for African American Studies. Michael Gray, the author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and Song & Dance Man III: The Art Of Bob Dylan, uses records and rare footage to show how hugely Dylan has been inspired by the blues and how much of its poetry has been smuggled inside his own, highly influential writing. 4:00 p.m. 101 Miller Learning Center. Contact: 706-542-1561
Link to UGA's Calendar:  www.uga.edu/mastercalendar/

3/30/11 - Lecture. Sponsored by the department of Romance Languages and other partners. Speaker: Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Chapel. Contact: lorgiag@uga.edu
Link to UGA's Calendar:  www.uga.edu/mastercalendar/



4/1/11 - Reading by Touring Poet Brian Turner. Sponsored by The Georgia Review and the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, a first-person account of the Iraq war, won a number of major awards. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to include one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000. His second poetry book, Phantom Noise, was released by Alice James in the Spring of 2010. Turner has recently been selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows for 2009. 7:00 p.m. Cine, 234 West Hancock Ave. Contact: 706-542-3481, davidi@uga.edu 
Link to UGA's Calendar:  www.uga.edu/mastercalendar/



4/4/11 @ 7pm - Goodbye Poetry Open Mic, located at Dog Ear Books (162 W. Clayton St.)
Poetry open mic, Every Other Monday (alternating with L.P.S. at Flicker)
Link for more info:  www.DogEarBooks.com

4/6/11 @ 8pm - Word of Mouth, located at The Globe (199 N. Lumpkin St.)
Poetry open mic, 1st Wednesday of every month, has a featured reader.
Link for more info:  AthensWordOfMouth.com

4/15/11 - Projected Release Date of Proetry, Athens' Community Literary Magazine.
Location & time TBA.  The magazine will be on sale at Dog Ear Books & other locations around Athens.