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Monday, October 7, 2013
Hello all!

Once again we have started a new school year, and Poetry Club is back up and running! On Tuesdays we meet at 3:00 pm in the Hot Shot Cafe on the Albany campus. Wednesdays the Benton Center club meets at 5:30 pm in the conference room.

Lots of exciting and creatively driven projects are happening this year, so stay tuned! On this blog I often post weekly poems and prompts, original work from club members, upcoming literary events, and submission opportunities. I'll also be keeping you up-to-date on everything LBCC and Poetry Club related!

Let the writing begin!
Kiera Lynn
LBCC Student Poet Laureate

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
-E.E. Cummings
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Events are coming your way!


This Friday, April 19th at 7:30 p.m. join the LBCC English Department in their annual fundraiser for the English Endowment. There's going to be readings, music, food, no-host bar... ;)

 NEXT Friday, April 26th at 7:00 p.m. come riot your words with LBCC Student Leadership Council, LBCC Benton Center, and LBCC Poetry Club at WordMOB! There's going to be silly amounts of fabulous local poets and artists, and an open mic for you, too!

Wednesday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. Oregon State University's Kathleen Dean Moore and Rachelle McCabe will dazzle you with words and music and music and words and music and 
it's 
bound
to be
spectacular!
CLICK HERE for more details!

Hope to see you there!
Monday, February 4, 2013

In Your Eyes
I shine on your stomach
   where I removed your entrails
I swell your tongue in my grip
   spread frozen across your skin
I sold your heart for feathers
   liquefied your joints with pain
I set your whiskers a-quiver
    and grew bulbs in your viscera
If you hide me in shame
   I grow forever more
Yet if you name me
   you prove I am not yours
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Hello all!

At tonight's meeting at the Benton Center we were met with an interesting question: if you wrote a series of poems addressed to your faults, your ailments, or the "seven deadly sins" that you find yourself giving into (avarice, gluttony, pride...), what would they look like? What would they sound like? I challenge you to write your own series of personal letters, addressing these entities. Happy scribbles!



Gustave Doré
The Avaricious