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Slightly Off-Beat Poets with Michael McAfee & Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
July 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
IMPORTANT: PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR FOR THIS OUTDOOR EVENT
WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: MICHAEL Michael McAfee & KAREN ELIZABETH Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
WHERE: (Donna Lange’s house 59 Chase Road Thompson, CT (exit 50 off RTE 395)
RAIN LOCATION: Steve Veilleux’s house 112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale, CT
WHEN: Sunday July 27, 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 20 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
Michael McAfee is a software quality assurance engineer living in Millis, MA. Though he’s been writing poetry since childhood, he only started going to open mics about ten years ago while working on his collection, “Tarot Poems.” His use of random card drawings to determine what to read at shows has since become a hit with audiences. Along with poetry, he is active in the Boston-area audio theater community, having most recently written and directed “Townies and Dragons: A Barrel Full of Peril” for the Post Meridian Radio Players’ spring show of 2025. He is constantly working on project ideas, and being an extrovert, will gladly talk about them with anyone who’ll listen, and will in turn gladly listen to others talk about theirs.
Karen Elizabeth Sharpe is from Rutland, Massachusetts, where she lives with her partner and two pandemic rescue dogs. Karen is a poetry editor at The Worcester Review and author of Prayer Can Be Anything, (Finishing Line Press) and This Late Afternoon (Dunn & Co.). Her poems have or will soon appear in Whale Road Review, On the Seawall, The MacGuffin, SWWIM Fourth River, Split Rock Review, Mom Egg Review, and Halfway Down the Stairs, among others.