Monday Night Poetry is moving from the Coffee Pavilion to the Downtown Writer's Center. Here's the e-mail from host Jane Cassady.

DEC 4! Extended open and WELCOME CELEBRATION. THERE WILL BE CAKE. For those of you who don't know, Phil Memmer, poet and head of The Downtown Writer's Center, invited us to use their space for our beloved poetry night. I take this as a HUGE compliment and you should too. We are now at:

The Downtown Writers Center
(inside the YMCA)
340 Montgomery St.
Syracuse, NY

Because Jen Pashley's workshop is in there before us, we have a new start time:
Sign-ups 8:30-9pm, open mic starts @ 9pm.

Shiny things about the new place:

• Free coffee and bring your own snacks.
• We have the room to ourselves so we have even more freedom of expression than we had before.
• More seating and a more audience-shaped room.
• Free books! The DWC Anthology will be there for thetaking our first night and all the nights.

And 2 Awkwardnesses:

• Be on time. The doors lock to the outside at 9:30, so we can get in and out, but you'll have to wait till a break if you come after 9:30. I'm letting people leave their phones on to help with this issue a bit.
• We're no longer at street level, so that cuts down on the chance of walk-ins. That means we need to set up new synchronicities-spread the word any way you can think of: take flyers, blog us, repost bulletins, etc. Phil's plugging us at his events, too, so that should help.

For those of you without the ability to contact Jane through her MySpace page, you can contact me and I'll pass along the e-mail.