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 July 5, 2026
Poet Debbie Hall will read from her book Mixtape.
The poems in Mixtape: Marginal States bear witness to members of our human family who exist just outside the mainstream of society. In these portrayals, we see individuals struggling with homelessness, those uprooted from their native countries, such as asylum seekers, and others dealing with altered or challenging psychological states-states which anyone of us might occupy at some time during our lives. The hope of bearing witness is to foster compassion and inclusion, human needs shared by all.
“… these may very well be the individuals that we most need to meet; to read their stories recorded in a variety of shifting poetic forms by the author….Souls, weathered to gray dull as the sky overhead. Hall shines a light on all of them, also illuminating the reader with a purpose in mind: for us to come/ back to our senses.”
-Robt O’ Sullivan ,
Escondido Arts Partnership and San Diego Poetry Annual regional editor
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
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