• Tuesday, October 9, 2007 -
  Open Mic Poetry and Featured Poet at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - Pauletta Hansel
  8:00 - open mic poetry
  

• Tuesday, November 13, 2007 -
  Open Mic Poetry and Featured Poet at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - Rhonda Pettit
  8:00 - open mic poetry
  

• Tuesday, January 8, 2008 -
  Open Mic Poetry and Featured Poet at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - featured poet
  8:00 - open mic poetry

• Tuesday, February 12, 2008 -
  Open Mic Poetry and Featured Poet at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - Jillian Weise
  8:00 - open mic poetry

• Tuesday, March 11, 2008 -
  Poetry Slam Competition at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - poetry slam

• Tuesday, April 8, 2008 -
  Open Mic Poetry and Featured Poet at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - Keith Wahle
  8:00 - open mic poetry

• Friday, April 25, 2008 -
  Student Poetry Competition Awards Dinner at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and catered refreshments
  7:15 - students read award-winning poetry and receive prizes

• Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Open Mic Poetry and Featured Poet at Fairfield Community Arts Center
  6:30 - live music and refreshments
  7:15 - Slammin' John Kraimer
  8:00 - open mic poetry

Special Events

Riverbank Poetry has hosted a number of internationally acclaimed poets over the years including:
Anne Waldman,
Ray McNeice,
Gordon Ball,
The Beat Museum on Wheels

For our 2008-2009 season we are tentatively planning an exhibit which includes displaying the original scroll of Jack Kerouac’s revolutionary book, "On theRoad" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road] This manuscript recently sold at auction for $2.4 million dollars and is currently on tour in the United States.