Denton Poets' Assembly will meet on Saturday, February 16 at the Emily Fowler Public Library in Denton, Texas.

Our meeting begins at 10 a.m. with a welcome to visitors, and a short business meeting discussing planned activities plus new and old business.

The DPA the spotlight poet reading will be presented by Rebecca Hines.

Members will read poetry responses to  Read and Respond poems and an essay by Ellen Bryant Voit.  Susan Maxwell-Campbell Will facilitate the readings and share additional notes about the poetry.  

Following the Read & Respond assigned readings, members and guests will read a free choice poem. 

Read & Respond materials were distributed earlier for the DPA March 2019 meeting for poets ELIZABETH BISHOP and an Ellen Bryant Voigt essay on Bishop.

We adjourned the meeting at noon.

Denton Poets' Assembly meets on the third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m. - noon at the Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street, Denton, TX 76201. Meetings are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome. For more information, visit http://DentonPoetsAssembly.weebly.com

​Thursday February 21, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. 
at the Patterson-Appleton Art Center in Denton.

Kitchen Sync is an open mic for poets, sponsored by GDAC and taking place on the third Thursday of each month at the Patterson-Appleton Art Center in Denton.
 
Each month we offer a prompt to prime our poetic pumps.  This February, in a month devoted to honoring romantic entanglements, we offer PROPINQUITY.
 
Propinquity can mean physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things.  The effect of propinquity is profound – office romances are a perfect example of how propinquity affects someone’s psyche and body.  Never underestimate the intimacy of propinquity, which sneaks in so unobtrusively we barely, rarely sense it happening.  This month we ask you to describe an incidence of propinquity.  By all means slip the word ‘propinquity’ into your poem, if you can.  It’s a big word, an awkward word, a word most of us don’t know, but which affects us all.  Witness the homage we pay to propinquity this month as we send our valentines hither and thither in a strange flurry of affection to lovers, friends and strangers.