Celebrate love through poetry with the Pachamama community!
Our February Monthly Gathering fell on Valentine’s Day this year, but to accommodate our venue, we had to reschedule it for February 13th instead. We’re still going to embrace the holiday and celebrate love with the help of our dear friend and poet Drew Dellinger, author of Love Letter to the Milky Way, who will host an evening of poetry – your poetry!
This is your opportunity to share your poems celebrating love in a friendly and inspiring environment. Whether you create something new in the coming weeks or dust off an old favorite you’re particularly proud of, your contribution will be warmly received.
To accommodate as many people as we can, we do ask that you prepare shorter pieces for a maximum of 3 minutes of stage time. It may be possible to invite individuals on stage for a second round of readings – we’ll assess as the evening progresses.
Event Details
- 7:00pm: We will start with a brief update and introduction to The Pachamama Alliance
- 7:30-9:00pm: Poetry open mic
Come early! Our venue, Peña Pachamama – located in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco – is a South American restaurant. Delicious organic appetizers and entrees are available starting at 6:00pm (no host).
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More About Drew Dellinger
Drew Dellinger is an internationally sought-after speaker, poet, writer, and teacher who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher, and founder of Planetize the Movement.
Dellinger’s award-winning book of poems, Love Letter to the Milky Way – now in its fourth printing – has thousands of devoted readers on six continents.
His work has appeared in films, books, anthologies and magazines, including The New York Times magazine, YES!, Tikkun, Kosmos, and others. Dellinger’s poems have been cited and quoted in venues ranging from prison workshops to climate change hearings before the U.S. Congress.
Dellinger co-wrote the documentary film, “The Awakening Universe,” which premiered at the United Nations. As a consultant, Dellinger helped develop and design The Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium.
Drew has been called “a national treasure,” by Joanna Macy, “a deep and courageous poet,” by Alice Walker and “one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation,” by Cornel West.