Iris's Art Studio 501 Wythe Creek Rd - Suite 100 Poquoson 757- 868-4205

Hosting poetry readings by featured poets from the Hampton Roads community of poets. 3-5 p.m. the last Saturday monthly light refreshments provided

Kathy is Iris Art

Nancy Powell, MC

the audience eager for poems

...and refreshments...

At Nathan Richardson's reading July 29, 2006.  His passionate, sensitive performance of poetry from his book Likeness of Being left the audience stunned and delighted.

...what she was really checking out...

Sorcha Duncan reading in 2009

Ed Lull, a Williamsburg poet

Mary Franke, a Norfolk poet, writer, editor

Barbara D Smith's reading in 2006

Shann Palmer, a Richmond, poet

Nancy introduces Pat Vermilion

...then Pat read... ...and we listened...

...and we were moved.

Toni Tyler's powerful words always stir her audience

Iris has moved twice already...so how do I get there (to 501) now? It's easy:  Drive north on Wythe Creek Rd just as you always have, but go PAST Victory Blvd, PAST the Do it Hardware, PAST the Tropical Smoothie, PAST the next trafic light where the Parish Thrift Shop dominates the Hudgins Rd intersection.  The next building PAST it there is where Iris now resides. Big parking lot just past that tree (beside that white truck...which won't likely be there then...so don't get lost).

Return to the HomePage or go to the Poetry Map or go to the Monthly-Weekly events or go into the kitchen and make something good to eat