sweet!

Forget the roses and the chocolates (well, maybe not the chocolates): show your Valentine some love with poetry. To benefit the Skagit River Poetry Foundation, poet Jeffrey Morgan and paper artist Nancy Scagliotti will offer a Valentine & Poetry Workshop on Saturday, February 11, 2023, 1:00-3:00pm. $10 includes supplies. Families welcome. Register by sending an email to directorsrpp@gmail.com. The workshop will be held in person, in Mount Vernon, at a location TBD.

Want more love poetry? This one is after Valentine’s Day, but not too late for love. On Sunday, February 19, 2023, 11:00am-2:00pm, Oregon poet Christine Delea will offer Love is Strange, an online poetry workshop that will avoid “the moon-June-swoon lovey-dovey poems and look at poems that are grounded, more complex, and willing to tackle love in all its aspects.” This is a Pay-What-You-Can Event ($5 minimum), with ALL fees going to the Portland Chapter of For Goodness Cakes. Click here to register for Love is Strange.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

better than flowers

Sunday, February 14, 2021, is Valentine’s Day and here are a couple of sweet options.

The League of Canadian Poets presents Poetry in Union. You book a 15-minute time slot (7:00am to 1:00pm Pacific) with a Canadian poet and after a brief conversation you will receive a poem written specially for you and your sweetheart. Advance booking recommended.

From Noon to 3:00pm on Sunday, the Olympia Poetry Network (OPN) and Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry presents an international celebration of poets laureate: Laureate Lovefest. Poets laureate from Ireland, Canada, and across the U.S. will participate in a three-hour lovefest of readings and conversation, including special video readings by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and current U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. See the lineup (including Claudia Castro Luna, Kim Stafford, and former Youth Poet Laureat of Seattle Azura Tyabji) and register here.

February 14

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Read some love poems.
Happy Valentine’s Day.

found Valentine

found Valentine © j.i. kleinberg

Valentine

Grant Snider draws comics about writing, literature, inspiration, art, books and other elements of the human condition.

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Cycles of Love by Grant Snider

love underfoot

There’s more than one way to bring poetry — and love — into your life. Here, for example, landscape architect Topher Delaney designed a Braille pathway for a Tiburon, California, house with the words of Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” spelled out in bricks.

Happy Valentine’s Day, however you write it.

found Valentine

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love words

 
The Bellingham Herald will once again run love poems written by Whatcom County residents in honor of Valentine’s Day. Selected entries will run in the Sunday, February 14, Herald, and all accepted entries will run online at BellinghamHerald.com.

Poems can be emailed to dean.kahn@bellinghamherald.com; mailed to “Valentine’s Day poems,” c/o Dean Kahn, The Bellingham Herald, second floor, 1155 N. State St., Bellingham, WA 98225; or hand-delivered to the Herald’s customer service office.

Please include your name, age and town of residence. Also include your phone number, in case questions arise (phone numbers won’t be published). The deadline to submit a poem is Monday, February 8, 2016.

found Valentine: writing

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