The KP Writers Guild presents Summer Poets Beat Night in  O'Callahans Beer Garden in Key Center with stories, poems, songs and drums. The drums of Dale Loy and Friends bring local writers to the stage to read their work. Guest authors are invited to the stage during the open mic session.

O'Callahans is located at the intersection of Key Peninsula Highway and Olson Drive, about 9 miles east and south of the Purdy exit off of Highway 16. Here be map.

Contact Danna Webster at 253-884-6455, email: danna004@centurytel.net

The Auburn Good Ol’ Days festival includes arts & crafts booths, commercial, food, and non-prophet booths (they don't tell your fortune or make any money), Saturday at high noon is a parade featuring some of the world’s most bizarre out houses, Sunday there is a classic car show, there’s music and out door performances both days and activities for kids.

The poetry is held in the Auburn Ave. Theater along with a book/small press fair held in the lobby. The Auburn Ave. Theater is located on the corner of Main street and Auburn Ave.

The literary events Saturday include, Auburn Regional Theater Group children’s workshop from 10-11, a reading by the Auburn School District essay contest winners at 2-3, from 3-4 a children’s library story teller, and 4-6 an open mic (all ages).

Sunday, 10:00am-12:00 is a writing workshop facilitated by Jack McCarthy, 12-3 local authors readings and featured poets take center stage, and 3-5 is a poetry open mic contest with cash prizes.

For more information, see www.auburngoodoldays.com

To participate in the book fair contact Gerald A. McBreen at mcbreenpost@aol.com

Band of Poets creates new space, plays instruments in ways unexpected, speaks words in many combinations.

BOP is:

John Burgess, a punk poet of sorts, stands up with words among ballads, blues, country & more sounds. Check out Pointer from John's A History of Guns in the Family:

What evidence remains. Empty bucket. Empty pint.

Jed Myers also beats just like a poet/musician. He writes stupendous stuff like 3-5 guitar blues and deep bass jazz-me rhythms. Like, from this recently published poem: After the Future:

on the ground, just colorless walls.
We dripped green puddles in the halls

David Rizzi on the drum set to trance you w/ his Hendrix Band of Gypsies clatter when he does not play jazz as instructed. Also, he offers a poem or two. From Self -serve your own war:

Fill two million coke bottles, sell them at a fair
File a lawsuit for clean air in your spare bedroom
Put an Automatic Rifle in your hand

Plus special guest Debra McElroy, author of Old Moon. From her poem Seen:

I saw her / panic in the sun
in the warmth / in the calm
when he smiled

Join Band of Poets on July 22 at:

Rob Schouten Gallery
At Greenbank Farm
765 Wonn Road, C- 103
Greenbank WA 98253
360-222-3070

A Poetry Walk will be held in the Seminary Hill Natural Area, a wilderness park just east of downtown Centralia, on Saturday, Sept. 13th, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. until about noon. The walk will feature readings from several classic English and American authors, as
well as Washington State/Northwest poets. Hiking shoes and water are recommended; rain cancels.

For information, call 360-736-7045. Online directions can be found at:

http://www.centraliaguide.com/centralia/seminary_hill_info.tpl

along with a link to a downloadable PDF trail map.