Saturday Night Poetry at The Vanilla Bean Cafe

November 22nd at 7 p.m. Featured that evening will be poets Gloria Monaghan and Heather Treseler. Admission is $15.00 and includes a raffle and an open mic. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to be on the open mic list. Five- minute limit, recommended for ages 16 plus.

Heather Treseler was recently awarded the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. She is the author of the poetry collection Auguries & Divinations, which received the May Sarton New Hampshire Prize and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, and she has authored two chapbooks, Partuition and Hard Bargain. Treseler has received a Pushcart Prize, the W.B.Yeats Prize, and the Editors’ Prize at Missouri Review, and her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Irish Times, and Kenyon Review. Recipient of the George I. Alden Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. 

Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University with seven poetry collections to her credit. Her latest book, Diary of Saint Marion, (Lily Poetry Review, 2025) was featured this year at the Association of Writers and Writing Program, and her poems have appeared in Nixes Mate, NPR, Poem-a-Day, Lily Poetry Review, and Mom Egg Review, among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Griffin Prize. She has also been nominated for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club. Thanks to a Bistline Grant from Wentworth Institute, she recently completed a film on the painter, Nancy Ellen Craig, Daughter of Rubens, which was accepted into the 2023 Provincetown Film Festival. Monaghan is currently working on another film about the Dominican painter, Jose Ricon Mora.

Poets at Large is now in its sixth year. PAL and is a part of Windham Arts. All events are ADA compliant. Admission to all Vanilla Bean events is $15.00 which includes a raffle. All Poets at Large events are sponsored in part by Linemaster Switch, bankHometown, WHZ Financial Advisors, the Putnam Area Foundation and Charter Oak FCU. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic which is recommended for ages 16 and up and has a 5-minute max as time allows.