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Open Mic Poetry

Thu, Sep 26

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Avondale Estates

Join us for an evening of Open Mic Poetry AND our featured reader, Collin Kelley.

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Open Mic Poetry
Open Mic Poetry

Time & Location

Sep 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Avondale Estates, 32 N Avondale Rd, Avondale Estates, GA 30002, USA

About the event

We look forward to hearing our first time readers as well as our seasoned and published poets! Our doors are open to ALL ages and we look forward to having you join us in house!

Join us for an evening of Open Mic Poetry AND our featured reader, Collin Kelley!

Are you a creative, a poet, poetry enthusiast, or simply just curious as to what it's all about? Then this is the event for you! Come and listen OR sign-up to read. Readers have a max of 3 minutes (roughly).

We are proud to support the ARTS!

Collin Kelley is the author of the poetry collections Wonder & Wreckage: New & Selected Poems (Poetry Atlanta Press), Midnight in a Perfect World (Sibling Rivalry Press), Better To Travel (Poetry Atlanta Press), Slow To Burn (Seven Kitchens Press), After the Poison (Finishing Line Press) and Render (Sibling Rivalry Press), chosen by the American Library Association for its 2014 Over the Rainbow Book List.

He is also the author of The Venus Trilogy of novels – Conquering Venus, Remain In Light, and Leaving Paris – also published by Sibling Rivalry Press. Remain In Light was runner-up for the 2013 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Fiction and a 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction finalist. Kelley is also the author of the short story collection, Kiss Shot (Amazon Kindle Exclusive).

A recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award and Deep South Writers Award, Kelley’s poetry, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies around the world. With Karen Head, he co-edited Mother Mary Comes To Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing), named a 2022 Book All Georgians Should Read by Georgia Center for the Book.

Find out more at collinkelley.com.

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