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Solo/Duet
April 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
A poetry and music series at the Merriam-Gilbert Public Library
Free and open to all!
Please stop by or call the Library at
508-867-1410 to reserve your seat.
Each evening will feature poetry readings that will book-end a set of chamber jazz music. This program is made possible by the West Brookfield Cultural Council as supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, In celebration of National Poetry and National Jazz Month.
It is difficult
To get the news from poems,
Yet men die miserably every day
For the lack
Of what is found there
~William Carlos Williams~
Join us on Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM …
April 7th : bassist Jerry Wilfong and percussionist-trumpeter Dick Hummel
Glenn D’Alessio and Susan Roney-O’Brien read
Jerry Wilfong is an active freelance bassist in the Boston area. He has performed with such distinguished jazz artists as Leni Stern, John Stowell, and Richie Cole, appears on several recordings and can be heard live anchoring two working trios – “Bring Back Pluto” and “The Conversation.” More can be learned about Jerry at jazzfong.com.
Dick Hummel is a psychologist who works with children in Worcester. Drummer, trumpeter, and composer, Dick has performed in an around the central Massachusetts area both as a solo trumpet and with varied ensembles, and occasionally with poets; he has led drumming groups with at risk children for over 25 years instilling techniques of ensemble work that insist on listening and complementary interaction.
Susan Roney-O’Brien earned an MA in Education in 1989 from Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass., and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoah, N.C. She attended The Frost Place on four occasions and was a resident at Dorset House in Vermont.. She curates a Princeton, Mass., reading series at The Thirsty Lab, and has received MCC grants to bring poets to her community.. She is a member of 4X4, a group of poets and visual artists who respond to each other’s art through their specific disciplines.. Her book, Farmwife, won the William and Kingman Poetry Book Award in 2000. Earth, a joint venture with photographer Bruce Dean, was published in 2011. Legacy of the Last World was published in March 2016.
Glenn D’Alessio’s Finishing Line Press chapbooks (FLP) of poems are: In My Sea Cliff Years of Innocence; A Carpenter’s Building, Homes for His Poems; and, Some Tanka in Thanks to