Poetorium @ Starlite

Please join us for a special double feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium at Starlite hosted by Paul Szlosek and Ron Whittle. It will be a full evening of poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our two featured poets Eileen Cleary (Author of 2 a.m. with Keats & Short List of Wonders) and Linda Bratcher Wlodyka (Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025) followed by poetry readings by our features, a 10-minute tribute to a dead poet by a guest reader (T.B.A), a short intermission, and then an open mic (with 5-minute slots for each reader). Admission is free, but a hat will be passed for donations to pay our feature and compensate Starlite for the use of their space. For more information, please get in touch with us at poetorium@mail.com or visit our website https//poetorium.home.blog/2019/04/29/the-poetorium-at-starlite-2/

Eileen Cleary (she/her/hers) is the author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (2019), which won honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Award,  2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024.) She co-edited the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus, the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival and founded and is EIC of Lily Poetry Review Books and the Lily Poetry Review. She has edited over fifty published poetry collections. A multi-Pushcart nominee, her work is widely published in journals and anthologies.

Mark Walsh is an English professor at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, MA, where he teaches literature and philosophy. Through Massasoit Television, he created Writers at Work, andhas developed a new show, Out of the Marvelous, focusing on poets and poetry in Southeastern Massachusetts. Since the mid 1990s he had helped organize and host poetry readings in Plymouth and Brockton. Mark was the head judge of the selection team for the City of Brockton’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate. He is a submission reader for The Lily Poetry Review, and his journalism has appeared in The South Shore News and The Marshfield Mariner and his book reviews in the Lily Poetry Review and Solstice. His poetry has been published in various literary journals and publications including Beatnick Cowboy, Lily Poetry Review, Abandoned Mine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Coneflower Cafe,and Rituals, Mark’s first collection of poetry, his chapbook, In The Garden of Fortune, was just published by Lily Poetry Review Books in May of 2024.