1st Sundays of the Month 1 to 4pm
with an intermission
Poets, INC (Inland North County) &
THE ESCONDIDO ARTS PARTNERSHIP
host a Literary Series usually on
the first Sunday of every month.
OPEN MIC in the second hour –
your own work or that of your favorite author

Upcoming Poetry Events

Upcoming - 1pm, May 3, 2026

Poets INC hosts the authors of the new 2025-26 San Diego Poetry Annual.
Even if you aren’t published in the latest SDPA, come anyway to listen to the anthology poets read their selections; plus you can also find out how to submit your poems for next year’s 2026/27 book.

The link to order a copy of the book is https://sandiegopoetryannual.com/order/

An open reading for those not in the book will follow the anthology authors, with a surprise guest POET LAUREATE coming down from Central California to introduce himself, and his spoken word, to us.

Next up:
Sunday June 7th: 15 years of Garden Oak Press, with founder Bill Harding and author Al Zolynas celebrating his ekphrastic collaboration with Mary Kowit titled Hidden Valley Dispatches.

.. and mark your calendars now for Sunday July 5th when Debbie Hall brings us her latest collection Mixtape: Marginal States (Poetry Box)  

Cover art @artbybrianmeyer/
facebook.com/BrianMeyerArt.

Summation 2025 - 2026 Call for Poetry

Writers are encouraged to submit poetry to the
18th annual Summation Art and Poetry Anthology, written to and inspired by artworks in the2025 Summation exhibition
showing December 13 through January 2, 2026
Send submissions
(up to 3 poems in the body of an email,
or Word doc if special formatting applies)
for consideration by the editors to
eapsummation@gmail.com
subject line: Summation 2025
submission deadline is May 31st, 2026

Click Here to see images from 2025 Summation

17th annual Summation Anthology of Art & Poetry

Books available for purchase now at the Escondido Arts Partnerhip

Our mission is to facilitate and promote
the writing, reading, performing and appreciation
of creating poetry.

Participants in Poets INC join with the EAP
to create an environment where the arts can prosper.

Encourage networking among poets.

Conduct small peer critique groups.

Provide a venue for poets to read thier work publicly.

Promote the collaboration of visual and literary arts.

see more poetry by Kathy Fallon here