Poetics Corvallis

Poetics Corvallis Poetry Open Mic every FIRST FRIDAY 7:30pm at Corvallis' InterZone Cafe; see Poetics Corvallis Group. Poetics occurs on the First Friday of each month.

Poetics Corvallis is an open reading run by the Corvalis arts community that supports independent voices and freedom of speech in writing and performance poetry. Check the FB Events page and join us for the next Poetics Corvallis

https://www.facebook.com/PoeticsCorvallis/events

Though the name would imply a focus on poetry, all forms are enthusiastically welcomed, from short fiction to dramatic

monologue to performance art. However, we ask that all pieces be under 5 minutes in length and we do not allow musical accompaniment or props. This page includes regular updates on the Corvallis literary scene, videos of today's best spoken word and slam poetry, as well as innovative as to how poetry and art can be used to change the world for the better.

02/09/2026

David Whyte's Three Sundays Series on the appropriate shyness of love.

You might appreciate this true story that happened 109 years ago last night, to soldiers two years into WWI. By that tim...
12/25/2025

You might appreciate this true story that happened 109 years ago last night, to soldiers two years into WWI. By that time the war had devolved into a brutal trench war standoff, with the first ever warfare use of poison gas, machine guns, tanks, and wide-scale aerial bombing. The most horrendous war ever seen in human history.

This telling was written by John McCutcheon.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3SVi4K1L5RZJT3F1Gwc1jr?si=9CeG4tOZQXi4zKH80-cESA

John McCutcheon · Winter Solstice · Song · 1984

05/23/2025
01/05/2025

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.” — Mary Oliver

01/02/2025
12/30/2024

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12/28/2024

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12/17/2024

First Cut ON Northwest Forest Plan Amendment DEIS: It's a disaster!

Forest Service’s Preferred Option B
Late-Successional Reserves (LSRs)

Forest stands will be considered “young” up to 120 years of age.
Current NWFP definition of “mature” stands is 80 years or older.
Logging will be allowed in “young” stands in LSRs.

Currently, logging in LSRs is only allowed for the purpose of accelerating late-successional or old-growth conditions. New exceptions will allow logging to “restore habitat for species that depend upon younger stands” and to “achieve other desired conditions.”
Together, these provisions eliminate the core purpose of LSRs.

Matrix Lands
No genuine restrictions on logging in stands established after 1905 (up to 120 years old). The Forest Service aims to log 81,000 acres per decade “to bolster timber production.”

In stands established between 1825 and 1905 (up to 200 years old), logging will be allowed for multiple reasons at the Forest Service’s discretion, including the bogus wet forest exception for “reducing the risk of fire.”

This shift to allow logging in older age forest stands means such stands will never age into old growth for protection.

When Matrix logging is combined with relaxed logging provisions in LSRs, Option B is a disaster for wildlife, watersheds and carbon storage to help arrest a warming climate. All new logging will increase the risk of wildfire.

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Interzone Cafe, 1563 NW Monroe Avenue
Corvallis, OR
97330

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