Welcome to the Home Page of Playa Poets

The Playa Poets are Richard Beban & Kaaren Kitchell of Playa del Rey, CA.  We write poems, hold workshops and readings in our living room, and do other projects as time and need demands.  You can read some poems published on the Web by clicking links below.   You can buy books by clicking on the widget above.

We have a Yahoogroup that sends e-mailings about the master classes and workshops in poetry or fiction that we hold in our living room once or twice a month. If you'd like to be on the mailing list, send an e-mail to playa_poets-owner@yahoogroups.com.

To pay for a workshop (or any of our books) quickly and easily through PayPal,  just click on the widget above, or the teacher’s picture on the Workshop page.

Links to Some Beban Poems on the Web:

Seven Variations on Hansel and Gretel
Lives of the Poets:  Chapter One

All the Hits, All the Time

Dancing With the One-Legged Man

The Voyage

One of a Chorus of Angels

My Grandmother Told Us Jokes

Summer Rain Song For the Average Housefly
Customer Satisfaction

Acupuncture

My Father & I Shopped
Pantoum On Being Dealt The Fool From the Tarot
& The Hand From the Mexican Lottery
The Great Train Robbery

My Parents Watch the July Fourth Parade
Kite

Aubade
Save the Last Dance for Me

The River Asks

His Periodic, Imperfect Love Poem

Venice, California, August '03
Salishan Beach: Dead of Winter

I Saw Paris Hilton Impaled

Facing East From Paris
Collateral Vision
Hymn to Food

Requiem: Cypress Point, Carmel

For Audio samples, see our Samples page