Linda Wlodyka Tidepool Reading

Linda Bratcher Wlodyka MA Beat Poet Laureate, will be reading poetry from her latest publication, If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems as the poet feature at Tidepool Bookshop 372 Chandler Street in Worcester on April 24th at 7:00 pm. The event starts with Linda’s reading and an open mic will follow.

Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. Linda retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown. Linda’s poem “Secret Cottage” was voted “Best in the Berkshires” in 2012. She has previously self-published three chapbooks, Her Spirited Cameo, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock.  If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems, is Linda’s first full-length poetry collectionpublished by Human Error Publishing (2023). Linda attended Lowell Celebrates Jack Kerouac in October to represent The National and International Beat Poetry Foundation and served on an all women’s panel to discuss the Beat Movement and feature her beat poetry. Linda is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society and serves as a participant on their editing board for their annual anthology, Silkworm.