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Slightly Off-Beat Poets
May 24 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Linda Wlodyka & Bill Tremblay
WHERE: Steve Veilleux’s home 112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale, CT
WHEN: Sunday May 24th @ 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 20 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Emerita Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate (2023-2025). Her poem, “Secret Cottage,” was voted Best in the Berkshires (2012). Linda self-published 3 chapbooks, Her Spirited Cameo, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock prior to 2013. Her first full length poetry collection released in 2023, is titled, If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems, published by Human Error Publishing. Her current 2026 release is, Mistress of the Wick Poetry and Flash Fiction, published by Metaphysical Fox Press. Linda represented The National Beat Poetry Foundation at the 2024 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac. She featured her original poems written in the vein of Jack Kerouac and participated in an all-women panel discussing the past and current beat poetry movements. Linda was commissioned in 2025 to write an ekphrastic poem which she titled, “A Tale of the Northeast Kingdom VT” interpreting a sculpture by Kathy Ruttenberg on loan to The Mount in Lenox. You can find her poems in numerous journals, anthologies and in online zines. She is a member of The Florence Poet’s Society and is on their editing board for their yearly anthology, Silkworm.
BILL TREMBLAY is a widely-published, award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, editor, and reviewer whose work has appeared in ten full-length volumes of poetry, including Crying in the Cheap Seats [University of Massachusetts Press: 1971], Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada [BOA Editions, Ltd.1986] which was a finalist for the National Poetry series; Pushcart Prize, finalist National Poetry Series], Shooting Script: Door of Fire, is from Eastern Washington University Press [2003] and was awarded the Colorado Book Award [2004]. Mr. Tremblay is the recipient of the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor Award for his thirty-three years of service at Colorado State University. He served as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing as well as the AWP Program Directors’ Council. He founded the Colorado Review and for fifteen years he was Editor-in-Chief and now serves on its Board of Advisers. He has taught American Literature at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa [Portugal] on a Fulbright-Hays Lectureship. He has received a fellowship from a National Endowment for the Humanities (1980), and has written poetry with support from a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship [1985] as well as grants from the Corporation at Yaddo and the Mountain Writers Center. His most recent books are Walks Along the Ditch and The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems (both from Lynx House Press) about his French-Canadian family. He has been appointed the first Poet Laureate of Southbridge, Massachusetts, his hometown.