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Archives for March 2021

Tonight – a virtual Thirsty Lab with Francine Sterle

March 30, 2021 by Robert Gill

Join the WCPA tonight for the (sorta) rare 5th Tuesday Thirsty Lab.  You can register via Zoom or join us on the WCPA’s Facebook page and view the program on Facebook Live.

Register for Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscO2vrj4qHty22fKA-grIzouMUgMLohX5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A native of northern Minnesota, Francine Sterle has an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and has furthered her studies in a variety of settings, including Oxford University, Oxford, England, the Spoleto Writers’ Workshop in Spoleto, Italy, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her awards include multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, a Loft-McKnight Foundation Award, a Jerome Foundation Travel, and Study Grant, a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award, residencies at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, a Career Initiative Grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council as well as both a Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her poems have been published widely in such literary journals as The North American Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Nimrod and have been anthologized in To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present, 33 Minnesota Poets, The Cancer Poetry Project, and Broad Wings, Long Legs: A Rookery of Heron Poems, forthcoming in 2022. Her poetry collections include The White Bridge (Poetry Harbor, 1999), Every Bird is One Bird (Editor’s Prize, Tupelo Press, 2001), Nude in Winter (Tupelo Press, 2006), and What Thread? (David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize, Red Dragonfly Press, 2015).

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Zoom into Poetry with Charles Coe

March 28, 2021 by Robert Gill

The WCPA is thrilled to present Charles Coe in our ongoing Zoom into Poetry series, Sunday, April 11 at 7 PM. Registration is required, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEufuqspjMvGdXC_8ssB2ZDpHM3lwy_ID0z, fill out the form and Zoom will e-mail you the link to join the event.

 

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Princeton Women’s Reading – 3/24/2021

March 23, 2021 by Robert Gill

The annual Princeton Women’s Reading moves online this year and is taking place tomorrow night (3/24/2021) at 7:00 pm via Zoom. We know it can be difficult for folks to find the link to register so here it is – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtce2srzMuH9FJ8Rr25HNJ9ILSglhlt8B4.

The following poets are scheduled to read – Pam Bernard, Polly Brown, Therese Carr, Devon Evans, Kathleen Fagley, Rushelle Frazier, Jennifer Freed, Joyce Heon, Emily Judkins, Maura MacNeil, Cheryl Perreault, Catherine Reed, Eve Rifkah, Susan Roney-O’Brien, Francis Sterle, Nancy Strong, Beth Sweeney, Rhett Watts, and Kate Zebrowski.

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Coming up this week

March 21, 2021 by Robert Gill

It’s a busy week in the world of virtual poetry readings with three events for you to join if you so desire.

Tonight, 3/21 @ 7:00 pm – Zoom into Poetry with Karen Friedland
Tuesday, 3/23 @ 7:00 pm – A virtual Thirsty Lab with Curt Curtin
Wednesday, 3/24 @ 7:00 pm – Princeton Women’s Reading

Registration via Zoom is needed to join the actual events; you’ll find a link in each calendar event.

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Sisters Outsider: Black Women Creating Poetry – tonight!

March 18, 2021 by Robert Gill

Reminder – join the Worcester Black History Project, Worcester Historical Museum, and the WCPA tonight at 7:00 pm for Sisters Outsider: Black Women Creating Poetry. Moderators Tina Gaffney and Lydia Fortune will host Worcester poets Rush Frazier, the Reverend Dr. Catherine Reed, Xaulanda Thorpe, Zoe Vilicic, and Ashley Wonder.

Register via Zoom to join us live; details are in the calendar event.

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Broadsided Press

March 16, 2021 by Robert Gill

Our featured reader from our last Zoom into Poetry session, Jeff Walt, shared a fascinating website with us – Broadsided Press @ https://broadsidedpress.org.

Broadsided Press connects poets and visual artists in the creation of the beloved broadside. The WCPA has a long history of creating broadsides and you can find digital versions of some of them in our Broadside Archive.

What’s interesting about Broadsided Press is that they create a collaboration between art forms and then make the result available via their website for anyone to distribute.

Take a look at the broadside created for Jeff Walt’s poem, “After the Fight” at https://broadsidedpress.org/broadsides/after-a-fight/. And let us know if you have a favorite broadside.

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Ethridge Knight, 1931-1991

March 10, 2021 by Robert Gill

Etheridge Knight, who we honor each year with The Ethridge Knight Performance Prize as part of our annual College Poetry Contest, died on this day in 1991 of lung cancer.

Born in 1931 in Mississippi, he saw active duty in the Korean War. While serving an eight-year prison term in the Indiana State Prison, Knight wrote poetry. In 1968 Knight saw his first book published, Poems from Prison (Broadside Press). Knight entered into a successful period during the early 1970s, enjoying Popularity and recognition. He led Free People’s Poetry Workshops, gave numerous readings, and was a poet in residence at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Hartford, and Lincoln University. His critical acclaim included a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (1972) and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1974). In 1980, Knight published Born of a Woman and received a second National Endowment for the Arts grant. In 1986 he published The Essential Etheridge Knight.

After making Fran Quinn’s acquaintance at the Great Mother Conference, he began giving readings in Worcester regularly and eventually moved to Worcester. While Knight lived in Worcester, he continued the Free People’s Poetry Workshop in area bars. Knight explained that if someone reads poetry and can stop a drunk man with a bladder full of beer on his way to the bathroom, you know it is a good poem.

Join us (virtually) on Saturday, April 10, 2021, for our annual College Contest Reading. Details can be found on the event listing.

 

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Reminder – submissions are open for our annual poetry contest!

March 7, 2021 by Robert Gill

Submissions for the WCPA’s Annual Poetry Contest: The Frank O’Hara Prize are open through Friday, April 30, 2021. For 2021 our contest judge is Pam Bernard, an adjunct professor of writing at Franklin Pierce University.

Contest rules and submission details can be found on the 2021 Annual Contest Submission Guidelines page.

Online submissions are powered by Submittable – https://theworcesterreview.submittable.com/submit.

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Zoom Into Poetry with Jennifer Martelli

March 6, 2021 by Robert Gill

Join us tomorrow, Sunday, March 7, 2021, for Zoom Into Poetry with Jennifer Martelli. visit this Zoom registration link, fill out the form, and Zoom will send you an e-mail link.  The reading starts at 7:00 pm.

Jennifer Martelli is the author of “My Tarantella” (Bordighera Press) and “The Uncanny Valley” (Big Table Publishing Company), as well as the chapbook “After Bird” from Grey Book Press. Her work has appeared in The Aeolian Harp Anthology, The Superstition Review, The Bitter Oleander, Thrush, Carve, Glass Poetry Journal, The Heavy Feather Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Jennifer Martelli is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is a poetry editor at The Mom Egg Review.

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“Kerry Dancers” by Curt Curtin

March 4, 2021 by Robert Gill

Congratulations to WCPA member Curt Curtin on the release of his newest poetry collection, “Kerry Dancers.” Curt has a number of virtual readings and events scheduled this month as part of a virtual book tour. You can find the ones we are aware of at https://worcestercountypoetry.org/events/.

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Remembering Pat Fargnoli

March 2, 2021 by Robert Gill

We’ve learned that former New Hampshire poet laureate Patricia Fargnoli passed away on February 18. We were honored to help support a tribute to Pat back in January. The image we share here is from the final poem she shared with us that afternoon.  You can watch an edited recording of the January 24, 2021 “Tribute to Pat Fargnoli” on our YouTube channel.

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