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WCPA Annual Meeting and Board Elections
April 20, 2016
Bob Cronin welcomed our 2015 annual contest winner, Emily Ferrara, who opened the WCPA annual meeting with a poem. After brief remarks the minutes from the 2015 meeting, the 2016 treasurer’s report and The Worcester Review were delivered. Board elections followed.
Following the business meeting we enjoyed refreshments and then our guest poet, Tony Brown, recited some of his works.
2016-2017 WCPA Board
Jonathan Blake
Jim Cocola
Bob Cronin – VP, Programming
Kristina England – Secretary
Rushelle Frazier
Robert Gill – Treasurer
Carle Johnson
Sam Lalos
Jay Lavelle
Dan Lewis
Anne Marie Lucci – VP, Publicity
Heather Macpherson
Rodger Martin
Laura Menides
Diane Mulligan – Editor, The Worcester Review
Catherine Reed
Joe Reynolds
Robert Steele
Eleanor Vincellette
Second Annual Judith O’Connell Hoyer Poetry Reading
This event occurred on Thursday, April 7th at the Student Center, the Blue Lounge at 2:30 (Worcester State University)
Marge Piercy has written 17 novels including The New York Times bestseller Gone to Soldiers; the national bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; and the classics Woman on the Edge of Time and He, She and It; 19 volumes of poetry including The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems 1980-2010, The Crooked Inheritance, and in spring 2015, Made in Detroit; and a critically acclaimed memoir Sleeping with Cats. Born in center city Detroit, educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, Piercy is the recipient of four honorary doctorates and an active advocate in antiwar, feminist, and environmental causes. The reading, which was free and open to the public, was generously supported by the Worcester State Foundation’s Judith O’Connell Hoyer ‘65 Poetry Series Fund, Worcester State University’s Theme Semester, English Department, Women’s Studies Program, Honors Program, Alumni Association, and the Worcester County Poetry Association.
A book signing and reception followed.
9th Annual College Poetry Contest
Sunday, April 10, 2016 – 2:00 pm
Worcester Public Library, Saxe Room
Congratulations to the Winners
Manuscript Prize
Andrew Scott Farrar
Marissa Dakin (runner-up)
Travis Norris (runner-up)
Performance Prize
Marissa Dakin
Thank you to all the finalists, our judges, Polly Brown and
Tony Brown, and to organizer Jim Cocola for their hard work.
Free People’s Workshop: A Reunion Reading
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 – Worcester Public Library
In Memory of Christopher Gilbert and Etheridge Knight
Featuring John Hodgen, Cheryl Savageau, and David Williams
Thanks to Jim Cocola for conceiving of and organizing this event.
April Flyers and posters
21th Annual Bloomsday Ramble
June 16, 2016 – throughout Worcester
Thanks to everyone who came out for our annual reading of James Joyce’s seminal work, Ulysses, in what is affectionately known as Bloomsday. Whether you read a bit, listened, came for only one stop or marathoned through the entire day we couldn’t do it without you.
A big shout out to the host committee, Kristina England, Jay Lavelle, and Anne Marie Lucci. Special acknowledgement to the business that allowed us to use their space – Annie’s Book Stop, Boynton Restaurant, Espress Yourself Cafe, Tatnuck Grille, and Worcester Public Library.
2016 Stanley Kunitz Medal Award Winner Dan Lewis
The 2016 Stanley Kunitz Medal Award was presented to Dan Lewis on Thursday, July 28, 2016 in a ceremony held at Worcester Historical Museum.
2016 WCPA Poetry Contest: the Frank O’Hara Prize
Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 WCPA Poetry Contest: the Frank O’Hara Prize!
First place – Heather Treseler
Voyeur in June
Second place – Janet Shainheit
Harvey Atkins
Third Place – Barbara Ungar
Global Weirding
Honorable Mentions
Judith Robbins
Worcester, Mass. June 9, 1953
Leone Scanlon
My Seventy-Sixth Year
Rhett Watts
Summer’s End
John Garton
Istanbul Mosaic
Eigth Annual Gregory Stockmal Reading
We regret that the Q&A talk and poetry reading by poet Carolyn Forché had to be canceled due to circumstances beyond the control of Holy Cross or the Worcester County Poetry Association.