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2018 Archive

January 14, 2020 by TrigonAdmin

Requires a nice yearly summary to be drafted before launching into the archives folders.

WCPA Annual Meeting and Board Elections

On February 10, 2018, we held our annual meeting in the Saxe Room at the main branch of Worcester Public Library. During the business meeting portion we reviewed the minutes from our 2017 meeting, learned about the financial health of the organization and elected a new board of directors. After a brief intermission Worcester poet and organizer Jenith Charpentier shared her work with the audience. Thanks to everyone who attended.

The following WCPA members were elected to the board 2018-2019 Board of Directors:
Jim Cocola
Robert Cronin
Nicole DiCello
Bob Gill
Carle Johnson
Jay Lavelle
Anne-Marie Lucci
Heather Macpherson
Rodger Martin
Laura Menides
Diane Mulligan
Susan Roney-O’Brien
Karen Sharpe
Robert Steele

Guest Poet: Jenith Charpentier

Mortar and Pestle 3 – Jenith Charpentier broadsideDownload

Thank you to Sou for the broadside design.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 College Poetry Contest Reading

Congratulations to the winners:

Jessica Hoops – Runner-up Manuscript Prize.

Jess Locke – Winner Manuscript Prize
and Performance Prize

The Nominees

Rachel Del Río, of Anna Maria College and Chelsea, MA
Isabella Camasura, of Assumption College and Bristol, CT
Alexandra Larkin, of College of the Holy Cross and Riverside, CT
Jessica Hoops, of Clark University and East Hampton, CT
Mia Pare, of Fitchburg State University and Leominster, MA
Jess Locke, of WPI and Georgetown, MA

Judges
Rushelle Frazier
Heather Macpherson

Contest Chair
Craig Blais
Anna Maria College

April was once again National Poetry Month

The WCPA presented or co-sponsored a number
of events in honor of National Poetry Month.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for one of our events.

April 8 – College Poetry Contest Reading
Worcester Public Library, 3 Salem Square, Worcester

April 11 – Common Threads discussion group
WCPA Office @ 38 Harlow Street, Worcester

Apirl 22 – In Just / Spring Poetry Reading
Tower Hill Botanical Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston

April 24 – David Thoreen @ The Thirsty Lab Poetry Series
The Thirsty Lab, Route 31, Princeton

April 25 – Common Threads discussion group
WCPA Office @ 38 Harlow Street, Worcester

Aril 28 – Gary Hoare @ The Fourth Saturday Open Mic
Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Street, Worcester

College Contest PosterDownload
Common ThreadsDownload
In Just Spring FlyerDownload

Bloomsday 2018

On Saturday, June 16th the Worcester County Poetry Association celebrated Bloomsday with our twenty-third annual Worcester Ramble. This year we welcomed dozens of readers at six stops between Worcester and West Boylston.

The WCPA is thankful to the following locations that allowed us to read on their property or at their establishments…

  • City of Worcester
  • Bancroft Tower
  • Institute Park
  • Worcester Public Library @ Salem Square
  • The Wonder Bar
  • O’Connor’s Restaurant
  • The Old Stone Church

Congratulations to Judith Ferrara Winner of the 2018 Stanley Kunitz Medal

Presented on Thursday, July 26, 2018
at the Worcester Historical Museum
30 Elm Street, Worcester

The WCPA wished a fond thank you to Bob Cronin at this time for his 5-years of service on the Stanley Kunitz Award Committee. Bob had decided to step down.

Kunitz Medal Award DocumentDownload

WCPA Annual Poetry Contest Winners’ Reading: The Frank O’Hara Prize

Sunday, September 23, 2018 – 3:00 to 5:00 pm
First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street, Worcester

Featuring readings by the contest judge, Regie Gibson,
and the 2018 contest winners.

Congratulations to the 2018 Winners

First Place – Jeff Walt
The World is Ending on the East Coast

Second Place – Nicole DiCello
Electra 101

Third Place – Malt Schlitzman
This Rage Dies with Me

Honorable Mention – Michael Morlock
Speak of the Moment

Photos courtesy of John Gaumond

A Tale of Two Cities, Worcester – USA & UK

On Friday, September 28th, the WCPA hosted “A Tale of Two Cities, Worcester – USA & UK” reading at the Sprinkler Factory (38 Harlow Street, Worcester)  It is the end product of a collaboration between poets from Worcestershire, England, and the Worcester County Poetry Association.

In addition to some of the US poets involved we were pleased to have Brian Evans-Jones, a former Poet Laureate of Hampshire, England join us to read the work of the British poets involved.

Thanks to Robert Steele and Bob Gill for sharing these photos from the event.

10th Annual Gregory Stockmal Reading

Wednesday, October 24
7:30 – 9:00 pm

featuring Eleanor Wilner

Assumption College, Curtis Hall Auditorium,
Tsotsis Family Academic Center,
500 Salisbury Street, Worcester

Co-sponsored by the Assumption College Department of English, the Gregory Stockmal Fund and the Worcester County Poetry Association.

Photos courtesy of John Gaumond

A Recitation from Memory of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

This recitation was performed by actor and poet John Farrell artistic director and founder of Figures of Speech Theatre

Thursday, November 8 @ 7:00 pm College of the Holy Cross, Smith Hall, Rehm Library, 1 College Street, Worcester

Co-sponsored by Arts Transcending Borders at  the College of the Holy Cross and the WCPA

4 Quartets original flyerDownload

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