Our café meetings in 2025

We meet in person in Literair Café de Graanrepubliek (Gedempte Kattendiep 11, Groningen) every 2nd Thursday night of the month (7.30 – 10 pm). If it’s your first time, we appreciatie a short email beforehand: info@groningenpoetrystanza.nl. Thanks!

  • 9th of January
  • 13th of February
  • 13th of March
  • 10th of April
  • 8th of May
  • 12th of June
  • 10th of July
  • 14th of August
  • 11th of September
  • 9th of October
  • 13th of November
  • 11th of December

Our online meetings in 2025

We meet online every 4th Thursday night of the month (7.25 – 10 pm) – if you are new to the group, just drop us a line and we’ll invite you for the online meeting: info@groningenpoetrystanza.nl.

  • 23rd of January
  • 27th of February
  • 27th of March
  • 24th of April
  • 22nd of May
  • 26th of June
  • 24th of July
  • 28th of August
  • 25th of September
  • 23rd of October
  • 27th of November
  • 25th of December (probably will be cancelled due to Christmas)

Who the * do we think we are?

We write poetry in English. During our meetings we share our work to get constructive feedback. Some call this ‘workshopping’ and they are probably right. Everybody is welcome during the open meetings/workshops of the Groningen Poetry Stanza, as long as you bring some English poetry you wrote and are willing (or rather, hoping) to receive feedback. We can guarantee you: your poetry will improve!

Other events are in the cards: open mic nights, exhibitions, the whole lot. View our calendar for any planned events.

Just because we can, we are an official Stanza registered with the Poetry Society. That makes the Groningen Poetry Stanza the only Poetry Society Stanza of the Netherlands. We are kinda proud of that.