Wildfire: A poetry open mic featuring Eleanor Berry

Name: Wildfire: A poetry open mic featuring Eleanor Berry
Start: 2025-09-05T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-05T21:30:00-07:00
Location: Interzone Cafe, 1563 NW Monroe Ave, Corvallis, OR, United States, Oregon 97330

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Interzone Cafe, 1563 NW Monroe Ave, Corvallis, OR, United States, Oregon 97330 | Corvallis, OR

On Friday Sept 5 at 7:30pm, Poetics Corvallis presents a poetry open mic featuring Eleanor Berry, a Salem-based author of several poetry collections. Her latest, Works of Wildfire, winner of the 2022 Grayson Books Chapbook Award, came from the loss of her home almost exactly five years ago in what are now called the Labor Day Fires of 2020, one of the most destructive wildfires in the recorded history of Oregon. Another poetry collection, Not Just Us, is forthcoming in 2026 from Finishing Line Press.
We will start with Eleanor's poetry at 7:30pm, with poetry Open Mic to follow. Open Mic signup starts at 7:15pm. Come share poems or poetic prose that you like, by you or by another, on any topic, at our friendly free open mic in the artsy ambience of the Interzone Cafe. Or come to just listen, and let poetry dissolve, at least for a moment, the walls between us all.
More about Eleanor:
Eleanor Berry currently chairs the Mid-Valley Poetry Society, an open group of poets and poetry lovers living in and near Salem, Oregon. She is a past president of the Oregon Poetry Association and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Her poems and essays on poetry and prosody have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Her previous poetry collections include Green November (2007), No Constant Hues (2015), and Only So Far (2019). Berry holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has taught writing and literature at Willamette University, Marquette University, and other colleges.