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Slightly Off Beat Poets: Paul Szlosek and Victor Infante
March 23, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Welcome to the first SOP event of 2025! Starting off the season with a real BANG: Victor Infante & Paul Szlosek!
WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Victor Infante & Paul Szlosek 2/9/25 1-4 PM
WHERE: Steve Veilleux’s Home 112 Fabyan Woodstock Rd, N Grosvenordale, CT
WHEN: Sunday March 23, 2025 @ 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 18 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
Victor D. Infante is a poet, fiction writer and journalist living in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of the recent poetic novella, “Suffer For This,” from Moon Tide Press and the full-length poetry collection, “City of Insomnia,” from Write Bloody Publishing. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Chiron Review, The Collagist, Barrelhouse, Pearl, Spillway and The Banyan Review. He is currently the features editor of the Telegram & Gazette and the editor of Worcester Magazine. He’s an Aquarius, with all that entails.
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Paul Szlosek is a poet, photographer, blogger, magician, and “cranial fermenter” (a term he has personally coined) born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, but currently residing in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. A recipient of the 2001 Jacob Knight Award for Poetry, the 2023 Stanley Kunitz Medal, and the 2024 Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize, he has served as co-founder and co-host of both the Poet’s Parlor and Poetorium at Starlite open mic & reading series. His poetry have appeared in numerous local & national print & online publications including The Worcester Review, Worcester Magazine, Radius, Sahara, Concrete Wolf, Soul-Lit, Diner, Poetry as Promised, & Silkworm. Paul is probably best known in the Central Massachusetts poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms, and has invented his own including the ziggurat, the streetbeatina, the hodgenelle, the lux, and the singsangsong which he often shares with readers on his poetry blog Paul’s Poetry Playground @ https://playground.poetry.blog/. He has also gained a legendary reputation, for some inexplicable reason, as a poet whom no one wants to follow in an open reading. Paul’s first collection of poetry tentatively titled Pretense, Portents, & the Farmer’s Son will be published by Metaphysical Fox Press in the hopefully not-too-distant future.