We're excited to announce the newest addition to the Afterword Press family. Welcome Maria Denney, the current Poet Laureate of Brentwood, CA. @dancingdenney
She has helped curate the 7th volume of In Mt. Diablo's Shadow in the amazing tradition of previous Brentwood Poets Laureate. With authors ranging from 12 to 77 years old, there's something in here for everyone. We're so excited to share in their stories from across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Join us for the release on November 13th at the Brentwood Open Mic hosted at One Day at a Time:
331 Pine Street
Brentwood CA 94513
Book sale starts at 6:00.
Open mic 6:30-7:30
You can also pre-order at Theafterwordpress.com.
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What are you doing every 3rd Thursday of the month?
Come be a part of our Richmond community for our open mic. Experience or share poetry, singing, comedy, and other performing arts. Hosted by Stephen Sharpe, the Poet Laureate of Richmond, CA, at CoBiz Richmond right across from the Richmond Bart Station.
Get your tickets at RichOpenMic.Eventbrite.com or at TheAfterwordPress.com/Events
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! We hope that your April was amazing, celebrating National Poetry Month. Were you able to attend some great events or able to create do some writing or performing of your own?
Keep the momentum going and share some of your new poems or share your favorites this month at our Open Mic, May 21st from 7pm to 9pm. Hosted by Stephen Sharpe, the Poet Laureate of Richmond.
Click the link in our bio for ticket information
📍CoBiz Richmond
🕖 7-9pm
🎟 $10
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Day 29 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today's topic was based on my personal Bible study in John 6:11-12
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Day 26 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today's style is ABABCC. Inspired by my trip to Vacaville today for a poetry event. Having completed middle and high school out there, it was certainly nostalgic and reminder of all that's happened in the last 25+ years
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Day 25 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today's topic is family and I used alliteration of words with similar or the same spelling but have different meaning
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Day 25 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today's poem is based on addressing an enemy. Part off a longer poem in the works
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Day 23 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today was an eventful day and reflective, but not much for writing. And that's okay. I partially reflected on how some days we say less than what's on our tongue to say, some days we keep things to ourselves, and how some days we just enjoy the silence.
Today's style is a Japanese Haiku, a 3 line 5-7-5 rhyme scheme.
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Day 19 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today's topic was first impressions/ what's left unsaid
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Day 17 of the 30/30 challenge, writing 30 poems in 30 days.
Feel free to recommend some Styles, Topics, or Prompts.
Today's style is a homage to homophones. Homophones are words that share identical pronunciation but have different meaning and usually spelling (e.g. see/sea, there/their/they're)
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We're only hours away from our next Open Mic. Come out and enjoy our awesome feature Donté Clark, fresh tacos, raffles, and of course the open mic.
🕖 8-10pm
📍CoBiz Richmond
FREE PARKING at Richmond BART Parking Garage right around the corner
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2 DAYS AWAY!
Our upcoming open mic will be starting at 8pm this Thursday. You're invited to our monthly Open Mic on April 16th, hosted by Stephen Sharpe.
This month, we have the honor of featuring Donté Clark, former Poet Laureate of Richmond, CA. Donté is a prolific communicator, poet, filmmaker, actor, a lifelong dreamer and visionary through the arts. Using body language, and voice as instruments to uplift stories of the past, to reimagine the future.
THERE WILL ALSO BE A COUPLE OF RAFFLES!
You don't want to miss this.
📅 April 16, 2026
🕖 8-10pm (Special Time)
📍CoBiz Richmond
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