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South Puget Sound's Spot for Poetry Since 1990
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everyone else.
BILLY COLLINS
May 21, 2025
Featured Reader and OPN Board member Chris Dahl

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Open Mic Readers
April 16, 2025
​Dead Poets Readings

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March 19, 2025
Abby E. Murray
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Open Mic Readers

February 26, 2025
​Thomas A. Thomas

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Open Mic Readers

August 21, 2024
Carol R. Sunde

Open Mic Readers

July 24, 2024
Sati Mookherjee

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Open Mic Readers

June 19, 2024
Examined Life Book Launch

​Open Mic Readers

May 15, 2024
​Douglas Cole
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Open Mic Readers
April 17, 2024
​Dead Poets Readings

March 20, 2024
​Linda Strever

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Open Mic Readers
January 17, 2024
Michael Schmelzer
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Open Mic Readers

December 16, 2023
Season's Readings

November 15, 2023
Olympia Poet Laureate, ​Kathleen Byrd

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Open Mic Readers
October 18, 2023
​Ryler Dustin

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Open Mic Readers
August 16, 2023
​All Open Mic

July 19, 2023
Farewell Reading - ​Sandy Yannone
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Open Mic Readers
June 21, 2023
​Risa Denenberg

Open Mic Readers​
May 17, 2023
​Joanne Clarkson

Open Mic Readers

Feb. 16, 2022
​Martha Silano



Jan. 19, 2022
Lacey, Washington's Inaugural Poet Laureate
​Cynthia Pratt


Oct. 20, 2021
Fusion Collective Featured Reading​ (Zoom)

June 16, 2021
Deborah Bacharach Featured Reading​ (Zoom)

May 19, 2021
Ryler Dustin Featured Reading (Zoom)
Feb. 19, 2020
Luke Salazar
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OPEN MIC READERS
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Jan. 15, 2020
Clem Starck
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OPEN MIC READERS
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Suzanne Simons announces a special event with Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna, to be held at The Evergreen State College in February. See our Special Events page for more information.

Dec. 18, 2019
Season's Readings
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The evening opened with an audience-participation song "The Twelve Days of Solstice," written by OPN Board member Terri Cohlene, led by the OPN Board and MC Ed Sharp.

Nov. 20, 2019
Tacoma Poet Laureate, Abby Murray
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OPEN MIC READERS

Oct. 16, 2019
​Connie Walle
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OPEN MIC READERS

Sept. 18, 2019
Kay Mullen

OPEN MIC READERS

August 21, 2019
All Open Mic

July 18, 2019
Karen Whalley
OPEN MIC READERS

June 19, 2019
Sandra Yannone
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OPEN MIC READERS

May 15, 2019
Olympia Poet Laureate, Sady Sparks
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OPEN MIC READERS
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April 17, 2019
​Dead Poets Readings
March 20, 2019
Thomas A. Thomas
OPEN MIC READERS

February 20, 2019
Don Freas

OPEN MIC READERS

January 20, 2019
Dennis Connolly

December 19, 2018
Seasonal Readings
October 17, 2018
Featured Reader: Emily Van Kley
OPEN MIC READERS

September 19, 2018
 Featured Reader: Carl Palmer

​OPEN MIC READERS

August 15, 2018
All Open Mic

May 16, 2018
Featured Reader: Christina Butcher
OPEN MIC READERS

April 18, 2018
Dead Poets Readings

​March 21, 2018
Featured Reader: Michael Dylan Welch

​OPEN MIC READERS

October 18, 2017
​FEATURED READER: CAROLYNE WRIGHT


​OPEN MIC READERS

Laureate LoveFest 2021


Watch the video of the webinar with readings by poets laureate from Canada, Ireland and across the United States.
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5th and Water Street, downtown Olympia, WA
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