By R.D. Pohl

Monday, 7 p.m.: Ground and Sky Poetry Series Once Trees Bookclub reads from and discusses American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation (University of California Press, 2006) by Jonah Raskin, facilitated by poet Joel Lesses. Inspiration Point, 483 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open to the public. Program also available via Zoom. Contact www.educationtrainingcenterinc.com/ for the link.

Tuesday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesday Night Open Mic Series at the Em Tea Coffeecup Café hosted by poet and founder of the performance ensemble Typography of Women Celeste Lawson. All are welcome whether be you new to poetry or a long-time member of the community. 80 Oak grove Ave, Buffalo, NY. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, 7 p.m.: Ground and Sky Poetry Roundtable, informal reading and poetry discussion group led by Joel Lesses. Format is ‘no mic, no list, no podium,’ but an organic discussion of life and poetry. Inspiration Point, 483 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open to the public. Program also available via Zoom. Contact www.educationtrainingcenterinc.com/ for the link.

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.: CFI Literary Café Series reading hosted by poet Ryki Zuckerman and featuring poets Robert McDonough and Maril Nowak.

• Robert McDonough is the author of No Other World (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1988) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House Publications, 2009), as well as numerous poems in literary magazines and anthologies. He is an English professor emeritus at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland OH, and moderated a Cleveland poets group for 21 years. McDonough has two adult children and numerous grandkids, and lives in retirement on a hill in the Finger Lakes area.
  
• Maril Nowak has written poems, plays, essays, songs, and stories since she was old enough to hold a pencil. She is the author of two chapbooks of poems, Slender Crescent and Postcards From Michigan, and has a third forthcoming from Foothills Publishing. She has had recent work in Seneca Review and other small press magazines.
  
  Nowak’s poems have been awarded the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize at Michigan State University, the Midwest Poetry Prize in 1989, given a dramatic reading by the Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland, and set to an original orchestration/reading by Cleveland Composers’ Guild, Rocky River Chamber Orchestra, and professional actors. Nowak taught English at the college and university level for 25 years before retirement. She now lives in the Finger Lakes region of central New York.
  
  Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, 9 p.m.: Poetry Night at Caffe Aroma, biweekly open mic reading series hosted by Ben Brindise and Justin Karcher. 957 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open to the public.