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 outlines my goals and objectives for reading and writing poetry in 2025.
1. Objectives in 2025
Publish online over 900 of my Quintains
Build an extensive poetry library at my home
Take Zoom classes in poetry writing
Participate in public poetry readings
Meet with other poets
Contnue to expand:
At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and 1
Publish one chapbook/eBook by December
2. Zoom Workshops with Christopher Luna
My poetry writing exercises:
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.
3. 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
4. Bibliography, Links, Research Studies
Valley Spirit Center Poetry Library Bibliography
San Francisco Renaissance
1950-1990
5. 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
9/11 Ghost Town Open Mic @ The Cave
6. Reviews of Books
7. Poetry by Mike Garofalo: Online
25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works
Bundled Up: Quintains, Pentastichs, 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
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
This document was last edited, revised,
reformatted, added to, relinked,
changed, improved, or modified
by Mike Garofalo
on August 25, 2025.