Poetry Studies 2025
By Mike Garofalo
Workshops, Classes, Homework
Writing Exercises
Bibliography, Links, Poetry Readings
Notes, Research, Practice
I have been studing poetry carefully in 2025.
This webpage organizes my efforts in reading and writing poetry in 2025.
1. Workshops by Christopher Luna
My poetry writing exercises:
Lesson 3, June 19, 2025
These workshops, live and online Zoom meetings, are held in Vancouver, Washington. The workshop teacher is is Christopher Luna, MFA. His Printed Matter website has all the information.
2. My Independent Writing Efforts
Quintains, Cinquains, Waka, Tankas
25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works
At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and Hwy 1: Docu-Poem
3. Bibliography, Links, Research Studies
Valley Spirit Center Poetry Library Bibliography
4. Poetry Readings Attended 2025
4/26 Vancouver Library Downtown
5/2 Birdhouse Books
5/8 Ghost Town Open Mic @ The Cave
6/6 Birdhouse Books
6/12 Ghost Town Open Mic @ The Cave
5. Reviews of Books
6. Poetry by Mike Garofalo: Online
25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works
Bundled Up: Quintains and Tankas
At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and Hwy 1: Docu-Poem
Cuttings: Haiku, Senryu, Brief Poems
At the Edges of the Fertile West
Highway 99 and Interstate 5
7. Objectives in 2025
Publish online 700 of my Quintains
Participate in Poetry Workshops each month
Publish one chapbook/eBook by December
Build an extensive poetry library at my home
Meet with other poets
Take classes in poetry writing
Contnue to expand At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and 1
Mike Garofalo lives in Vancouver,
Washington. He worked for 50 years
in city and county
public
libraries,
and in elementary
schools. His degrees
are in philosophy,
library science, and
education. He has been a web publisher
since 1998.
25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works
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by Mike Garofalo
on June 9, 2025.