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Words in the Alley: Feral Poetry

About Me


HELLO! Welcome to Words in the Alley: Feral Poetry in Glendale, AZ. We are very proud to call A Shot of Java our home and want to extend a HUGE "Thank You" to Lisa Dowd, my partner, for supporting poetry and being such a wonderful friend!
Words in the Alley: Feral Poetry
What’s in a name?
Well, if you’ve never been to A Shot of Java , it’s behind Pizza Old Roma in an alley right off the sidewalk of Glendale Avenue. It’s a brick alley with tables and lights and such.
Since our reading is done with a microphone and had a bit more of a ’raw’ edge to it, we thought it would be cool to have it right there in the alley - piping our words into the night air, down the alley, and into the street. When choosing a name I wanted to play to the alley, but "cat" kept popping into my head, and that was just too cheesey for me. Then I remembered the feral cats at Encanto Park and the old Poetry in the Park. Those cats were no longer domesticated. They were wild and free - just like POETS can be!
Come out and join us every-other Tuesday night from 7:00 - 9:30 PM. It’ll be open mic poetry and we will often have featured poets too.
Words in the Alley: Feral Poetry
at:
A Shot of Java 7003 N. 58th Avenue Glendale, AZ 85301 (in the alley behind Old Pizza Roma) 623-847-2423
Also check out our sister reading "Poetry in the Round." It is held at A Shot of Java every Sunday night from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. The host is the extremely talented Jonathan Standifird. Check it out near the top of our "Friends" list.
Thank you everyone for keeping poetry ALIVE in our communities!!!
Peace - John

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/02/2008
Band Members: John Lynn
Influences: Billy Collins, Jonathan Standifird, Jessica Standifird, Shawnte Orion, Aaron Johnson, Wisdom, Craig Kessinger, Carol Hogan, Jason Davis, Chesko, J. W. Baz, Adam Rubinstein, Chris Rock, Sam Kinison, Steven Wright, and all of the poets, spoken word artists, and general characters I have had the absolute pleasure of meeting around our wonderful poetry and arts community here in the Valley of the Sun.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Your update!

Hi all,First I'd like to thank the last four poets we had in the alley recently for their wonderful performances.  Thank you Madeline Beckwith , Patrick Hare, bakeem lloyd, and Cat Klotsche. You all w...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:17:00 GMT

Your Update

Hi There just a quick update .Words In  The Alley is This Tuesday August 18th At 7:00 pmOur featured Poet will be bakeem lloyd.First ,thanks to Patrick Hare for being our last featured poet on August ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:27:00 GMT

Your Update!

Here is your update for Words In The AlleyFirst thank you to Madeline Beckwith for being our last featured poet in the alley.You were great! We are lucky you are getting back into performing poetry ag...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:14:00 GMT

Your update!

Here is your update for Words In The Alley!First I'd like to thank Jack Evans and Judy Green-Davis for featuring last week in our  beloved alley .  The two of you were great and I hope you'll come bac...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Your Update!

Hello all,Another quick update just to let you know what's going on.This Tuesday July 7th we will have the legendary Jack Evans and his gal palJudy Green-Davis featuring in the alley.Yay! I'm sure tha...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:52:00 GMT

Your update!

Just a quick note for you allFirst I'd like to thank Tristan Marshell for being our last feature in the alley on June 2nd.Tristan was awesome and if you missed him it's really too bad. He is SO AWESOM...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:14:00 GMT

A look back and a look forward

Just a quick little blurb about the last Words In The Alley and the upcoming WITA.Our last feature was on May 19th. We had a terrific poet by the name of Jack Cavanaugh.  He put on a great show. His w...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 02:43:00 GMT

The In Between Blog

Hello all,I'm back again to let you all kow what went on at the last Words In The Alley and what is happening for the upcoming Words In The Alley.On Cinco De Mayo ( May 5th) Bill Campana was our featu...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 17:22:00 GMT

What's going on now and what's already gone on.

Hello All,I just thought I'd give a short update to the blog and let you know what's gone  on and what is going on.First I'd like to thank Miouo for featuring with us on April 21st.  We had a really n...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:22:00 GMT

I'm so not a blogger

As the current host of  Words In The Alley I have been encouraged to write a blog.  Well, I say don't expect it all of the time because blogging is really not my thing. I actually prefer to be more in...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:57:00 GMT