The Richard Fox Poetry Series Featuring Michael Milligan

Now, the 1st Tuesday of every month, The Richard Fox Poetry Series is an open- mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human-being extraordinaire Richard Fox.

Our next Featured Poet will be the iconic Michael Milligan on February 4th. Free admission. On-the-street parking.

Root and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their new location. Signup for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots available. Sponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County PoetryAssociation).

Michael Milligan has worked as a construction laborer, migrant fruit and grape picker, homestead farmer and graphic arts production manager. Also a musician/composer, artist and writer. Recently someone called him “one of those creatives.” He is not sure if the term is pejorative or not. Because his parents would not let him play drums he tortured them with stringed instruments instead and has now been playing guitar just about forever. He took his MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College, thereby joining the teeming mass of writers with degrees of dubious cachet, co-founded Poetry Oasis Worcester and was privileged to be an editor with Diner. His poetry book reviews, fiction and poems have appeared in Agni, Diner, The New Orleans Review, The Valparaiso Review, Chaffin Journal, Blue Earth Review, Illuminations and others. He is the author of Unless I Came Back to Tell You from Kelsay Books