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The Timid Poet Underground’s Open Mic Night on Saturday, December 7, 2024

The Timid Poet Underground’s Open Mic Night on Saturday, December 7, 2024

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Sharing starts at 7 p.m.

Location: 2208 Winchell Avenue / Kalamazoo MI 49008

Come to share your creative work or just listen! Published writers may sell their books.

Snacks and facilities provided by the Phoenix Community Church UCC.

For more information, visit https://timidpoetunderground.blogspot.com   or https://facebook.com/timidpoetunderground  .

You can also see the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/395998663449702/

Who are the Timid Poets?

We are just some folks who want to share our poetry, stories, and music. We are a variety of ages, and we have many different professions.  We are experienced writers and beginners.  This is a safe place for the timid and the nervous introvert as well as the brave and confident extrovert. You’re welcome if you’re lesbian, gay, straight, bi, queer, trans. You’re welcome if you’re religious, spiritual, atheist, or agnostic.  The cool kids, the nerds, the geeks, the jocks—everyone is welcome!  No matter what race, nationality, or creed, we want to hear your voice!

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).