Poetry & Wine

for Grownups

Read the poems. Come and discuss. We are a very non-pretentious group of poetry enthusiasts who gather once each month. This is an open group. There is no need to sign-up ahead of time. Just read the selection and show up. Bring a bottle of wine (or bourbon or whatever), or a dessert of some sort to share if you wish. Folks read their favorite poems and we have truly interesting and wonderful discussions. Send a note to Dave at dave@littleshopofstories.com if you would like more information or to get on the email list!

We’re meeting next on Wednesday, December 21st at 6 pm. for our annual potluck. Email dave@littleshopofstories for details.

Our next regular meeting will be on Wednesday, January 16th at 7 pm. We'll be discussing Musical Tables, the new collection of very, very, very short poems by Billy Collins. Copies are available at Little Shop.

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It was requested that a list be compiled of all the works that we have read for Poetry & Wine. I will slowly, randomly put this together.

2023

January - Musical Tables by Billy Collins

2022

December - Potluck and memorial poems

November - Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland

October - Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

July and September - The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

June - Hail, The Invisible Watchman by Alexandra Oliver

May - Time is a Mother by Ocean Veoung

April - Crush by Richard Siken

March - Magnificent Errors by Sheryl Luna

February - Reparations Now! by Ashley M. Jones

2021

December - Potluck and Haikus

November - The Gold Cell by Sharon Old

October - Red Clay Suite by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

September - Poetry Pot Luck: poems submitted by the group

August - The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

2020

March - Nightshade by Andrea Cohen (canceled due to the pandemic)

February - Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson

January - Hey Marfa: Poems by Jeffery Yang

2019

December - Pot luck, poetry, and music

November - The Café of Unintelligible Desire by Julia Knowlton

September - The Flame by Leonard Cohen

August - Still Life with Mother and Knife by Chelsea Rathburn

July - How to Love a Country by Ricahrd Blanco

April - Power Politics by Margaret Atwood

March - Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

February - Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker

January - Years, Months, and Days by Amanda Jernigan

2018

October - Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (part two)

November - Hold by Bob Hicok

October - Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

September - feeld by Jos Charles

2017

September - Scald by Denise Duhamel

August - Lessons on Expulsion by Erika Sánchez

April - Madwoman by Shara McCallum

2016

November - The Poetry of Bob Dylan as selected by the group in honor of Dylan's Noble Prize in Literature

October - Unquiet Things by James Davis May

September - Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

June - 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shibab Nye

April - The Best American Poetry edited by Sherman Alexie (the innaugural meeting)