{"id":143123,"date":"2025-06-14T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143123"},"modified":"2025-06-14T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:04:37","slug":"enjoy-second-saturday-poetry-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143123","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Second Saturday Poetry This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: Due to rain, the first Second Saturday Poetry event has been rescheduled\/relocated; see the updated schedule below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit the Karl Stirner Arts Trail this summer for our Second Saturday Poetry events, as well as similar ones at the Easton Farmers\u2019 Market and West Ward Market. Local poets will compose spontaneous poetry on manual typewriters to inspire you and brighten your day.<\/p>\n<p>We invite local poets to join us for inspiration and support. Contact coordinator Maryann Riker, <a href=\"mailto:maryann_riker@hotmail.com\">maryann_riker@hotmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday schedule by the pedestrian bridge connecting the Silk complex with the trail, weather permitting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 12, 5-8 p.m., Frank May and Lynn Alexander<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 9, 5-8 p.m., Cleveland Wall and Frank May<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 13, 1-4 p.m., Rebecca Migdal and Matt Wolf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstirnerartstrail.org\/enjoy-movies-along-the-trail-on-july-12-aug-9\/\">Movies Along the Trail<\/a> will follow the July 12 and Aug. 9 events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other dates to see poets compose on manual typewriters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, July 2, 4-7 p.m., West Ward Market, Kat Collins<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, July 26, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Easton Farmers\u2019 Market, Matt Wolf<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, Aug. 2, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Easton Farmers\u2019 Market, Darrell Parry<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Aug. 6, 4-7 p.m., West Ward Market, Danielle Notaro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstirnerartstrail.org\/send-us-your-poems\/\">seeking submissions<\/a> for monthly themed poetry webpages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstirnerartstrail.org\/june-poetry-strawberry-moon\/\">Read the poems submitted so far for June<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Second Saturday Poetry is sponsored by the Karl Stirner Arts Trail Poetry in the Wild Project, which brings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstirnerartstrail.org\/funeral\/\">poetry<\/a> and spoken word to the trail. It began with a celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/poem-your-pocket-day\">National Poem from Your Pocket Day<\/a> at the Easton Public Market and outside Book and Puppet on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>This project is supported in part with funding from the Hotel Tax grant programs through Northampton County\u2019s Department of Community &amp; Economic Development, a Crayola Community Grant, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Due to rain, the first Second Saturday Poetry event has been rescheduled\/relocated; see the updated schedule below. Visit the Karl Stirner Arts Trail this summer for our Second Saturday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=143123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enjoy Second Saturday Poetry This Summer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5718,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-easton","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Karl-Stirner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}