THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR POETRY THERAPY PRESENTS
VIRTUAL OPEN MIC NIGHT
"Writing Childhood, Writing Parenthood"
With Featured Poet:
Jeffrey Bean, M.F.A.
Jeffrey Bean is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His most recent chapbook, Ella’s Plan, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Poet’s Corner/Maine Media Chapbook Contest, and his most recent full-length collection, Everywhere, Everywhere, was chosen by Robert Morgan for the 2024 Vern Rutsala Prize and published by Cloudbank Books. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Sugar House Review, Poet Lore, and Tahoma Literary Review, among other journals. He is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he is a two-time winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award.
Jeffrey’s website, where folks can read poems: https://www.jeffreybeanpoet.com/poems
Jeffery’s recent book on the Cloudbank Books website: https://cloudbankbooks.com/everywhere-everywherejeffrey-bean/
All Participants are invited to bring one poem to share!
When: October 12, 2025
Time: 7:30pm-8:30pm EST
Where: Zoom
Host: Jenna Robinson
Registration:
Members-Free*
Non-Members-$10*
* Proceeds from all our virtual events support our conference scholarship fund.
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