Events
River Writing is for everyone and we'd love to welcome you to the table. If the $40 tuition presents a barrier to your participation, please request sliding scale. If you'd like to dive in a bit deeper, consider joining a multi-week series. Click here to see our current schedule.
2 Hours @ the Table with Karen 2/4/25
Tuesday, February 4th
6:00-8:00 pm MST
Meeting on Zoom
Everyone Welcome! (16+) Sliding scale available
Limited to 8 Participants
About Karen
About River Writing
We create a friendly place to practice by making community agreements. We read poetry aloud to find prompts and then write with pen and paper to say the truest things we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be challenging not to praise each other, but we choose to opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. Sharing your writing is optional. When you choose to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.
2 Hours @ the Table with Karen 2/7/25
Friday, February 7th from 6:00-8:00 pm MST
Facilitated by Karen
Meeting at Karen’s home in Albuquerque, NM
Everyone Welcome! (16+) Sliding scale available
Limited to 8 Participants
About River Writing
We create a friendly place to practice by making community agreements. We read poetry aloud to find prompts and then write with pen and paper to say the truest things we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be challenging not to praise each other, but we choose to opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. Sharing your writing is optional. When you choose to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.
When We Sing to the Lake, She Sings Back: the Irreplaceable Poetry Reading 2025
Saturday, March 22nd, 2-4pm.
Antelope Island State Park, Buffalo Point
Everyone is welcome! ASL Interpretation will be provided.
Event is free with registration.
If you come in your own vehicle, state park fee ($15 per vehicle) for access to Antelope Island will still apply. Please plan for extra travel time. Dress warmly for outside! Bring a blanket to warm up the cold bench.
Join us for the fourth annual reading of irreplaceable, an ever-flowing collective praise poem devoted to Great Salt Lake. The poem is a prayer for the full restoration of the lake and an homage to all the species she sustains. The work is contains over 400 voices.
Every word we read and sing will be presented directly to Great Salt Lake as an offering of love and devotion for our imperiled sacred lake.