Poets at Large: March Edition

POET LAUREATE OF PLYMOUTH, MA TO READ AT THE VANILLA BEAN CAFE

Poets at Large begins year six with a spoken word reading at The Vanilla Bean Café, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret on March 29 th from 7-9 p.m. There will be a mix of events at The Vanilla Bean and Roseland Park this year.

Getting the series underway will be the voices of two Massachusetts poets, Carol Hobbs and Miriam O’Neal. Hobbs is an educator whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the United States and Canada. Her recent book New-found-land, available through Main Street Rag in North Carolina, received honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize with the NEPC, and a New England PEN Discovery Prize.

Miriam O’Neal is the current Poet Laureate of Plymouth, MA. Her work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly and The Galway Review among many other magazines. Her poetry collections include We Start With What We’re Given (Kelsay Books, 2018), The Body Dialogues (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020), and The Half-Said Things (Nixes Mate Books, 2022) and she hosts Poetry the Art of Words, the longest continuously running poetry reading series in Massachusetts south of Boston.

All Poets at Large events are ADA compliant. Admission is $15.00 which includes a raffle. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic. 5-minute max as time allows. Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts and this year PAL is sponsored in part by Linemaster Switch, Charter Oak FCU and WHZ Financial Advisors.