Live Reading Events
Authors published by Kelsay Books are invited to request to participate as a guest poet in our winter Zoom reading.
December TBD, 2024
Zoom
What: Biannual reading events
Where: Online through Zoom
When: Time TBD | December TBD, 2024
Who: Four featured readers and ten guest poets
How: Any author published by Kelsay Books may request to participate as a guest poet. Email Karen with the subject “Zoom group reading request.” Include the title of your book, the date it was published, and a link to a short video of your reading a poem.
Afterward, if we enjoy a guest poet’s reading, we may invite them to be a featured later. The featured readers are by unsolicited invitation only.
We help promote your books by including links to the bookstore while you read. A few months before the reading is scheduled, we will confirm that you have been included in the program. The reading will be recorded and posted on the Kelsay Books YouTube channel.
Past Readings
June 20, 2024 | Zoom
Featured poets: Sarah Russell, Rose Mary Boehm, Jim Landwehr, and Lynne Burnett, winner of the 2023 Women’s Poetry Contest
Guest readers: Anthony DiMatteo, Carolyn Bell, David Anthony Sam, Mary K O’Melveny, Gene Twaronite, Claire Drucker, Gary Grossman, Joyce Meyers, and John W. Bing
May 18, 2024 | New York
The Parkside Lounge
Two and a half-hour open mic for all Kelsay Books poets
May 14, 2024 | Pennsylvania
Newtown Bookstore
Featured readers include Cheryl Baldi, Shaheen Dil, Carole Croll, VA Smith, and Jane Edna Mohler
20-minute open mic for all Kelsay Books poets
December 9, 2023 | Zoom
Featured poets: Catherine Chandler, Shutta Crum, Margaret Duda, and Neil Creighton
Guest readers: Constance Brewer, Kathleen Mickelson, Jane Muschenetz, S. Salazar, George Perreault, Janet Rives, Victoria Twomey, Katie Dary-Mullins, Lisa Grunberger, and Rodney Torreson
November 4, 2023 | Utah
Pioneer Bookstore
Featured poets: Justin Evans, Maurine Haltiner, Javen Tanner, Steven Peck, Anita Barrows, and David Shaddock
30-minute open mic for all Kelsay Books poets
June 3, 2023 | Zoom
Featured poets: Ann Bookman, Rebecca Brock, Lorraine Henrie Lins, and Majorie Maddox
Guest readers: Laurie Kuntz, Rose Marie Boehm, Lisa St John, Dale Cotttingham, Mark Saba, Peggy Gerber, Peter Crowley, Alfred Encarnacion, and Glen Mazis
May 20, 2023 | New York
The Parkside Lounge
Open mic for all Kelsay Books poets
December 17, 2022 | Zoom
Featured poets: Rita Maria Martinez, Paul Bone, Yasmin Mariam Kloth, and Luke Stromberg
Guest readers: David Ruekberg, Arnie Johnston, Jennifer Freed, Carolyn Clark, Michael Milligan, Jacqueline Jules, Daniel Lusk, Angela Patten, Gene Twaronite, Lee Woodman, John Johnston, Lois Roma-Deeley, and Jeannie Roberts
July 16, 2022 | Zoom
Featured poets: Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, Patrice Boyer Claeys, Katerina Canyon, Kathleen A Dale
Guest readers: Matthew Johnson, Laura Johnson, Charise M. Hoge, Stephen Anderson, Maggie Mackay, Bruce W. Niedt, Thomas DeFreitas, and Chris O’Carroll
May 21, 2022 | New York
The Parkside Lounge
90-minute open mic for all Kelsay Books poets
May 18, 2022 | Pennsylvania
The Newtown Bookshop
Featured poets: Jane Ebihara, Cheryl Baldi, Charlotte Innes, Kim Malinowski, Jane Edna Mohler, Lynn Fanok, Wendy Fulton Steginsky, Marie Kane, Bernadette McBride, and Constance Wrzesniewski
May 12, 2022 | Vermont
The Putney Library
Featured poets: Tim Mayo, Toni Ortner, Midge Goldberg, and Arlene Distler
15-minute open mic for all Kelsay Books poets