Island Verse Literary Collective

Island Verse Literary Collective IVLC exists to scaffold, support, and launch literary arts throughout the San Juan Islands.

Another fantastic Writer’s Salon at the hq. Today we practiced presence from our big toes to our earlobes and looked a...
12/01/2025

Another fantastic Writer’s Salon at the hq. Today we practiced presence from our big toes to our earlobes and looked at the poem “The First Straw” by the brilliant Jeffrey McDaniel. Thank you for rolling through, brilliant islanders!

Another lovely IVLC Writers Salon! This time we looked at Under One Small Star by the remarkable Polish poet Wislawa Szy...
11/24/2025

Another lovely IVLC Writers Salon! This time we looked at Under One Small Star by the remarkable Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. Fantastic writing was produced and beautiful discussion. See you next Sunday at 4!

11/17/2025

It’s a real unique beauty these Sunday eve open mics we have the honor to host on San Juan Island. Come join us next week for “church” 6-9 at our new headquarters @ 30 First st, Friday Harbor. The mic is open 🌊

Another wonderful Island Verse literary salon led by our own ! Today we studied the numinous words of Aracelis Girmay f...
11/17/2025

Another wonderful Island Verse literary salon led by our own ! Today we studied the numinous words of Aracelis Girmay from the Black Maria. Thank you to everyone who participated and see you next week, 4pm Sunday right here at the IVLC HQ.

Thank you to SJC LTAC for supporting our 2026 Guest Author Series! We’re so excited to welcome Roberto Ascalon, performi...
11/15/2025

Thank you to SJC LTAC for supporting our 2026 Guest Author Series! We’re so excited to welcome Roberto Ascalon, performing with local musicians on December 6th. We can’t wait to bring more phenomenal literary talent to the island for our community to enjoy, learn from, and connect with. Tickets available now, links in our bio.

December 6th, come see perform live at IVLC HQ! 🎤He’s been a mentor to and will be leading a ✨free✨ workshop earlier i...
11/12/2025

December 6th, come see perform live at IVLC HQ! 🎤

He’s been a mentor to and will be leading a ✨free✨ workshop earlier in the day before his evening performance with live jazz.

Come learn, connect, and unwind! Grab your tickets through the link in our bio!

First Island Verse Literary Salón activated 🌀 💫 🌊
11/03/2025

First Island Verse Literary Salón activated 🌀 💫 🌊

Boom! The enduring and inspiring Open Mic is back with a twist, in our new space, IVLC founder himself will host a salo...
11/01/2025

Boom! The enduring and inspiring Open Mic is back with a twist, in our new space, IVLC founder himself will host a salon pre mic, work on your craft, engage with prompts, prepare something to read at Mic…a long time, highly accomplished, traveled and published poet, Danny will offer his well honed teaching and collaboration. $10 suggested for each, helps us pay rent! will be back hosting as well!!

10/28/2025

Our boo-tiful eulogy brought tears, and cheers.

10/28/2025

Boo Voyage blessed our bleeding hearts with wonderful walks and giddy gyrations in our new delicious space

Boo voyage shall be a tearful farewell to WaterWorks Gallery, and a procession into what’s next. IVLC headquarters ✨Join...
10/12/2025

Boo voyage shall be a tearful farewell to WaterWorks Gallery, and a procession into what’s next. IVLC headquarters ✨
Join us for ritual, remembrance, and a toast to the future — first drink’s on us, courtesy of Madrone. Beer will be available for purchase to help us fund this new chapter.
Come mourn, celebrate, and move forward together. 🪦

09/30/2025

Thank you to for hosting such a delightfully bountiful day of poetry and music, and for letting us use your space to help raise funds for our new spot!
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We’re especially grateful to for taking the journey out to the island to share their words with us — it meant a lot.
Thank you to for the happy harvest hymns 🎃

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