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SUMMARY:Artists Who Are Poets/Poets Who Are Artists
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an open mic and reading at TidePool Books\, featuring Jennifer L Freed\, winner of the 2022 Frank O’Hara prize. \n \n  \n  \nJennifer L Freed’s When Light Shifts: A Memoir in Poems (finalist\, 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize) explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage\, touching on themes of identity and ability\, healing and loss\, and the altered relationships that emerge in a family crisis. Freed is also the author of These Hands Still Holding\, a finalist for the 2013 New Women’s Voices Chapbook competition. Her work has been published in print and on-line journals\, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and the Orison Anthology. Other awards include the 2022 Frank O’Hara prize  (Worcester County Poetry Association)\, the 2020 Samuel Washington Allen Prize (New England Poetry Club)\, and honorable mention for the 2022 Connecticut Poetry Award. She lived in the Worcester area for 20 years\, but has recently moved to Beverly Mass.  Please visit jfreed.weebly.com to learn more.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/artists-who-are-poets-poets-who-are-artists-9/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
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SUMMARY:Solo/Duet: Music & Poetry Unite
DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry and music. Each evening will feature solo readings by area poets that will\nbookend a musical duet performance in the Merriam Gilbert library in West Brookfield\, Ma.\nEach program will begin at 6:00 pm. The evenings are free and open to the public and sponsored\nin part by a grant from the Mass Council of the Arts as administered locally by the West \nBrookfield Cultural Council. \nPoets Clair Degutis  and Jonathan Blake. Music by Jerry Wilfong and Dick Hummel. \n  \nClair Degutis of Princeton writes poems drawn on her close observations\, experiences\, and relationships to the natural world. She is an avid hiker and woods-walker along New England’s forested paths. As a Field Teacher Princeton’s Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary\, she introduces both the young and young-at-heart to the wonders of our local natural environment. Her poems are published in “Echo & Spark: Work from the 4×4 Poet and Artist Collaborative”. \n \nJonathan Blake has been following the gospel of his heart for as long as he can remember. Writer\, educator\, arts activist/organizer\, he makes his home in central Massachusetts. His poems and essays can be found in an array of journals and anthologies\, including the Atlanta Review\, Amoskeag\, Brilliant Corners\, Poetry East and The Worcester Review. \n \nJerry Wilfong is an active freelance bassist in the Boston area. He has performed with such distinguished jazz artists as Leni Stern\, John Stowell\, and Richie Cole\, appears on several\nrecordings and can be heard live anchoring two working trios – “Bring Back Pluto” and “The Conversation.” More can be learned about Jerry at his Website. \n  \n  \n  \nDick Hummel is a psychologist who works with children in Worcester. Drummer\, trumpeter\, and composer\, Dick has performed in an around the central Massachusetts area both as a solo trumpet and with varied ensembles\, and occasionally with poets; he has led drumming groups with at risk children for over 25 years instilling techniques of ensemble work that insist on listening and complementary interaction.  Long ago during his undergraduate years at Yale\, he was fortunate enough to play and learn from such musical luminaries as Wadada Leo Smith\, Gerry Hemingway and Mark Helias.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-music-poetry-unite-4/
LOCATION:Merriam Gilbert Library\, 3 West Main St.\, West Brookfield\, MA\, 01585\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open Mic at New Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Come out to the New Dawn Writers’ Group’s Open Mic. Every fourth Tuesday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm we host an open mic for writers of all genres and ages.  Bring a few poems\, or that experimental thing you wrote that doesn’t fit any known category. It’s a friendly\, pressure-free atmosphere at the New Dawn Arts Center in Ashburnham. The address is 84 Main Street\, Ashburnham\, MA. \nFred Gerhard is one of the open mic hosts\, for the New Dawn Writers’ Group. His poems appear in numerous anthologies and magazines including The Amethyst Review\, Asylum Magazine\, Black Moon Magazine\, Entropy Magazine\, Heavy Feather Review\, Pif Magazine\, POETiCA REViEW\, Sylvia Magazine\, and others. He is also an editor at Quabbin Quills Press. For many years he led a poetry therapy group in Worcester at UMASS Memorial’s Community HealthLink. For more information\, please visit our WEBSITE.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/open-mic-at-new-dawn/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Trevor Code
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, April 25th\, 2023  Trevor Code will be the featured reader. \n \nPlease click HERE to register. \nTrevor Code\, has been a member of the WCPA since 1981\, but his WCPA contact began when he met Michael True and Kenneth Koch in 1975. He joined the Board in 1992 and was Vice President for Programming (1998-2004). Through the Association he helped establish readings in libraries and schools. He directed projects for the Hudson River paintings and the Modernism and Abstraction exhibitions at the Worcester Art Museum\,  and with the “Celebration of Worcester Poets” worked with First Night Worcester in 2000\, 2001 and 2003. He was instrumental in making WCPA aware of Frank O’Hara as a Worcester poet\, and in the consequent celebration of New York poets with David Lehmann in 2002. \n  \nHe began his teaching career in Australia where he was the original chair of Literature and Writing at Deakin University and\, in Worcester he was a professor in Humanities at WPI. Through the illness of Jennifer\, his wife (author of  The Mad Angel)\, these two writers moved to Australia in 2004\, and Trevor continues to write and research.  His recent publications include the chapbooks:  Mopoke Hill  (2005); bear snake crayfish frog (2006); Sonnets\, Mutations & Fourteeners  (200o); Sun-Dried(2007) and\,  through Odrerir Books:  Stage by Stage (2009); For One Brief Instant  (2009); Which Way the Wind (2010); and Configurations (2012). \n\n\n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-trevor-code-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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