The Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading

The Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading The Santa Monica Poetry Reading started as The Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading in November, 2000. Elena Secota hosts third Friday of the month.

Save the date: Third Friday Salon at The SANTA MONICA POETRY READING, is on June 19th. Hope to see you there.
06/06/2026

Save the date: Third Friday Salon at The SANTA MONICA POETRY READING, is on June 19th. Hope to see you there.

Please join us for our 3rd Friday Salon at The Santa Monica Poetry Reading, in the historical first brick building, the ...
05/05/2026

Please join us for our 3rd Friday Salon at The Santa Monica Poetry Reading, in the historical first brick building, the Rapp Saloon at HI Hostelling International, Santa Monica ~ featuring: Elena Karina Byrne, Beth Ruscio, Stephen Feldman, singer/songwriter + Surprise Guests + open mic.
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM

New Name: The Santa Monica Poetry Reading formerly The Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading.
04/14/2026

New Name:
The Santa Monica Poetry Reading
formerly The Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading.

Please join us this Friday for an inspirting Third Friday Salon at The Rapp Saloon, featuring: Cynthia Good, Marcus Elma...
02/19/2026

Please join us this Friday for an inspirting Third Friday Salon at The Rapp Saloon, featuring: Cynthia Good, Marcus Elman, singer/songwriter Michael Whittle + Surprise Guests + Open Mic.

Third Friday Salon, this Friday at 8:30 PM!
01/16/2026

Third Friday Salon, this Friday at 8:30 PM!

Please join us for December's Third Friday Salon at the Rapp Saloon, featuring phenomenal poets SUZANNE LUMMIS and MARSH...
12/13/2025

Please join us for December's Third Friday Salon at the Rapp Saloon, featuring phenomenal poets SUZANNE LUMMIS and MARSHA DE LA O, with award-winning actor/singer/director/composer/producer CHRISTOPHER M. ALLPORT, + SURPRISE GUESTS

Please join us this Friday, for our Third Friday Salon at The Rapp Saloon, featuring STEVEN REIGNS, BROOKE BENSON, TODD ...
11/17/2025

Please join us this Friday, for our Third Friday Salon at The Rapp Saloon, featuring STEVEN REIGNS, BROOKE BENSON, TODD BEESON + Surprise Guests + Open Mic. 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Please join us this Friday for our October 3rd Friday Salon (on the 2nd Friday), featuring SUSAN SUNTREE, DON KINGFISHER...
10/09/2025

Please join us this Friday for our October 3rd Friday Salon (on the 2nd Friday), featuring SUSAN SUNTREE, DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL + Open Mic + Surprise Guests. 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Please join us this Friday for our Third Friday Salon at The Rapp Saloon, featuring the prolific Cecilia Woloch, Carine ...
09/16/2025

Please join us this Friday for our Third Friday Salon at The Rapp Saloon, featuring the prolific Cecilia Woloch, Carine Topal + singer/songwriter Stephen Feldman + Surprise Guests +
Open Mic. 8:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Guy Zimmerman, PhD. I'm a writer, director, and producer of theatre. Since 2001 I've served as artistic director of the ...
08/13/2025

Guy Zimmerman, PhD. I'm a writer, director, and producer of theatre. Since 2001 I've served as artistic director of the new works theatre company, Padua Playwrights, in Los Angeles. I recently completed a doctoral degree in Performance Studies and Theatre Studies in the joint UC Irvine/UC San Diego program. I've published articles and essays about film, theater, art, science and politics in Theatre Journal, SubStance, Shakespeare Bulletin, La Deleuziana, Modern Drama, The Harold Pinter Review, the critical anthology, Architecture in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities, 2013), TheaterForum, LA Weekly, LA Theater Magazine, the LA Citizen, Cyrano’s Journal, and the arts and culture website Times Quotidian. Since 2001 I've staged over forty productions of new plays, moving several to stages in Atlanta, New York City, Edinburgh, Prague, and Berlin, and my productions have been fortunate enough to win many LA Weekly, Ovation, Garland, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards and nominations. My recent LA theater credits include: The Royal at the Met Theatre, the critically acclaimed The Fool and the Red Queen at the Lounge Theater in Hollywood, my own play The Black Glass, seen at Push-Push Theater in Atlanta and at Balhaus OST Theater in Berlin, Fractalicious! by playwright and critical theorist Bryan Reynolds, developed by Transversal Theater Company, at the Interferences Festival in Cluj, Romania, and The Hive Project, featured at the SLSA conference at Notre Dame in 2013. Over the years, I've also edited an eight-volume anthology series for Padua Press, distributed nationally by TCG, and produced and directed a series of digital media productions of original plays, including Pronghorn, Girl on a Bed, Gary’s Walk, Great Things, Hello, Say and Allen's Love. My own plays include La Clarita, The Inside Job, Vagrant, The Black Glass, The Hillary Game, and The Royal. In 2015, I co-produced VisionLA Climate Action Arts Festival, staging over 80 environmentally-themed events at venues across the LA basin in support of the UN Ministers gathering in Paris for COP21. In 2023 I wrote and directed a feature-length documentary film, The Coyote Cycle, narrated by Ed Harris.

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1436 2nd Street
Santa Monica, CA
90401

Opening Hours

8:30pm - 11pm

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(310) 393-9913

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