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Slightly Off-Beat Poets
March 22 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Oliver de la Paz & David P. Miller
WHERE: WCPA Ballroom at 61 Harvard Street, Worcester (parking right next to Salisbury House)
WHEN: Sunday March 22nd @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
WHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 20 minutes. Then we will take a quick break for book sales, snacks, and the raffle before starting the open mic. Open mic will be round robin, one poem at a time until 4 PM.
COST: There will be a 50/50 raffle, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter.
SIGN-UPS: There is room for 25 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
Oliver de la Paz is the author and editor of several books. His latest collection of poetry, The Diaspora Sonnets, was published by Liveright Press (2023). It was a winner of the 2023 New England Book Award and was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award. A founding member of Kundiman, he is the James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly Barrett Professor of Creative Writing at the College of the Holy Cross. He also teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU and is the former Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA.
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David P. Miller’s collection, Bend in the Stair, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. Nixes Mate Books published his Sprawled Asleep in 2019. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Reed Magazine, Jerry Jazz Musician, Tar River Poetry, Gramercy Review, Second Coming, The Ekphrastic Review, The Disappointed Housewife, and Cherry Tree, among other journals. David is a member of Boston’s Jamaica Pond Poets and co-directs their Chapter and Verse literary reading series. He is a member of the New England Poetry Club’s Board of Directors, and is the recipient of a 2025 Tanne Foundation award.