Third Thursday is a monthly poetry program in partnership with Poetry Center San José and hosted by Mighty Mike McGee!

Willow Glen Public Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San José, 95125.
Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:30pm. Featured guest poet begins shortly after 7pm. Open mic to follow.

Our guest poet tonight is Ethan Stanton!

Ethan Ashkin Stanton grew up in Portola, a small railroad town in the Sierra Nevada, but now lives in San Jose, California. Since he was six years old, he knew he had to be a writer. He has also always known that he had weird stuff in his head. It took the pressure cooker of pandemic parenting along with the explosion of Zoom classes for him to finally make the connection between those two facts and start writing poetry in 2021. He has poems about being a parent, a husband, a son, a high school teacher, a tiny human being in a dark universe, and various other spiritual, political, and midlife things which came to him very unexpectedly along with the writing. But he rolls with it, cause what else can he do? His work has been published in Vita Poetica, Dispatches from Quarantine, and Amethyst Review.

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Poetry Center San José's mission is to nurture and promote diverse literary expression in our community as a means of exploring, defining, and enriching the human experience.For those under 18 years of age who may be attending, we recommend that a parent/legal guardian be with you during the program.

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