There's lots of great poets and readings in Santa Fe. Although I'm not a poet I've hosted poetry readings with featured poets for the past 12 years. People are always asking me what is going on around town and Meetup is a great venue to list the events and strengthen the poetry community.

Duke City DimeStories is part of a larger group that includes affiliates in San Diego, Laguna Beach, and Oceanside CA.  We've held events occasionally in NYC and regularly at the LA Times Festival of Books. Since 2010 DimeStories has been Albuquerque's only open mic for PROSE* 3-minute stories read by the author, fact, or fiction, funny, and/or heart-rending read before a live audience. $3 donation at the door. Friendly group of talented writers-- new voices always welcome! Try your hand at sha …

Wanted: A core group of writers experienced in the art of reading, writing, and critiquing. Looking for other serious, committed, published or publishable literary writers who also want or need the structure of a group--or a little push--to keep writing, submitting, and publishing. A writing degree certainly helps--everyone is at the same base level of knowledge, if not skill, but isn't a requirement. We are a group of poets, fiction, and nonfiction writers, most of whom have at least one writin …