Featured is our revisit of the Poets Speak Anthology published by Poetry Playhouse Publications starting in 2017….. apt for a revisit in these turbulent times. John Roche and Jules Nyquist will share the story of the original Poets Speak Anthologies and the book launches and charitable gifts that followed.

The February 25 edition of the Poetry Playhouse Zoom is dedicated to the 8-year anniversary of the “Poets Speak (while we still can)” anthology series, which John and Jules conceived of shortly before the 2017 Inauguration of the Orange Menace. Five volumes were published. Trumped and Hers in the spring of 2017, Water in the summer of 2017, Walls and Survival in 2018. 

During the first hour, we will discuss the history of the series and the necessity of resistance poetry today. We will also hear a few poems by contributors Demetria Martinez, Denise Weaver Ross, Larry Goodell, Bart White, Bill Nevins, and John Macker.

Our regular open mic will occur in the second hour. We especially hope to hear from additional Poets Speak contributors.

We encourage poems related to the current administration, political climate, women’s rights, migration, immigration, and survival (the subject of the five-set anthology).

6 pm Pacific, 7 pm Mountain, 8 pm Central, 9 pm Eastern

Jules and John at Peter’s Projects of the Gerald Peters Contemporary gallery in Santa Fe, 2018.