Activities
Rochester Poets sends out regular email flyers of area literary events, publishes a monthly newsletter and The Pinnacle Hill Review*, an annual anthology of selected member work. The group maintains a website, a mailing list (informing subscribers of area literary events) which can be joined via the website, and a Blog. Since 2004, Rochester Poets has been a sponsor of the annual Poets Against the War event for the Rochester area. Since 2006, they have co-sponsored annual World Poetry Day and National Poetry Month events which have been held at St. John Fisher College. From April 2007 until September, 2009, they co-sponsored a monthly series of readings at the Anti-War Storefront of the Peace, Action & Education Committee of Rochester MetroJustice.
Since 2007, Rochester Poets has also sponsored an Emerging Poets event in December of each year at St. John Fisher College. The event is open to poets of all ages; the primary criterion for eligibility is that participants are not yet "established" with a published volume of poems or had a significant number of poems appear in literary journals. The group also hosts the Free Speech Zone series held on the 1st, 2nd, 4th and (if there is one) 5th Tuesday at the Tango Cafe in Rochester.
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