Calendars Galore!

Poetz presently maintains calendars in seven locations: NYC, Hudson Valley, Long Island, Colorado, Connecticut, Vermont and Pittsburgh. Each calendar has its own Curator, a local poet who donates their time.

Over time,  various calendars have come and gone as Curators have moved on to other projects. The New Jersey calendar is most missed — more than five years after its retirement, people still write to ask where it can be found.

Poetz would be delighted to host a new New Jersey calendar — or just about any calendar for which a willing Curator emerges. Interested? Check the guidelines and take our test calendar for a spin: new locations can be set up quickly, and you’ll get all the hand-holding you need to hit the ground running.

NYC is the longest-running (established Y2k!) and most active calendar on the site. And the latest upgrade makes it possible to display several areas in a single calendar, like this rollup version that incorporates listings from NYC, Long Island, Hudson Valley and Connecticut.

NYC – Curated by Jackie Sheeler (listings@poetz.com)
Long Island – Curated by Barb Reiher-Myers (longisland@poetz.com)
Hudson Valley – Curated by Bob Wright (hudsonvalley@poetz.com)
–(The Hudson Valley calendar covers Albany, Greene, Ulster, Orange, Rockland, Rensselaer, Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester counties.)
Connecticut – Curated by John Jeffrey (connecticut@poetz.com)
Vermont – Curated by Ronald Lewis (vermont@poetz.com)
Pittsburgh – Curated by Renee Alberts & Crystal Hoffman (pittsburgh@poetz.com)
Colorado – Curated by Lynn Wagner (colorado@poetz.com)

Send your event listings to the calendar using the appropriate local email address listed above, in a plain-text email — no attachments, no embedded image files. Just the basics in a form that’s easy to cut-and-paste. Like so:

4/1/10, 7pm
Dead Poets Reading Series

Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe & open mic
Hosted by Vincent Price

Keep Dreaming Coffee House
100 Main Avenue (at Cypress Street)
$5 admission
host@keepdreaming.com | 999-999-9999

No bios, please! Just who, what, where, when and how much. Travel directions are nice if you have them, and important details such as over-21 or a minimum purchase requirement. And double-check that you’ve included the “when” — it’s surprising how many listings arrive without a date or time for the event.

Poetz would like to thank Brown Bear Software, makers of the Calcium program that powers our poetry calendars, for going above and beyond the call of duty in providing assistance in upgrading and migrating the calendars to the new site. Special thanks to Fred Steinberg, who even wrote a few scripts — at no charge! — to customize some defaults to our specifications. You guys rock!