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SUMMARY:10th Annual Women's Reading!
DESCRIPTION:On March 11th\, 2025\, the WCPA is proud to host its annual Women’s Zoom Reading. If you would like to attend\, please CLICK HERE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere is the reading list & order of readers: \n\n\n\n1.        Catherine Zebrowski grew up in Worcester County. Worcester has been an inspiration for hertwo novels Sleepwalking Backwards and Through a Bakery Window\, along with poetry\, songsand most recently a memoir\, Me\, Fran and the shadow man\, due to be published in April. \n\n\n\n2.        Rhett Watts has poems in The Worcester Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck RiverReview\, The Ekphrastic Review\, One Art\, and other journals. She facilitates writing workshops.Her poems are included in the anthologies: The Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology\,Knitting into the Mystery\, The Black River: Death Poems\, and The Best Spiritual Writing 2000.Rhett’s books are: Willing Suspension\, The Braiding\, and The Double Nest. She lives with herhusband and Siberian cat twenty-five feet from a brook in MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3.        Linda Warren has worked as a teacher\, Romance novelist and software analyst.  She has published a dozen novels and had poems published in in The Worcester Review\, Diner\, Whiskey Island Magazine\, Naugatuck River Review\, Writing the Land\, and other books and journals.  She fishes the trout and salmon rivers of New England and New Brunswick as often as she can\, and this collection is inspired by those rivers and the hours she has spent standing in them\, casting for fish and for words.  Her first chapbook of fishing poems\, They Say\, has recently been published by Finishing Line Press. \n\n\n\n4.       Susan Elizabeth (Beth) Sweeney’s poems have appeared in Diner\, Worcester Review\, Journal of Irish Literature\, and elsewhere\, and have won an Academy of Poets Prize\, a Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize\, and other awards. Her chapbook\, Hand Me Down\, was a semifinalist in the 2012 New Women’s Voices Competition. Close and Apart\, a sequence of nine poems\, was adapted by composer Matthew Jaskot and performed by a dozen musicians at a world premiere in 2023. A past president of the Worcester County Poetry Association\, Beth now directs Mapping Worcester in Poetry\, an initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; she guest-curated the exhibit “The Poem Next Door” at the Museum of Worcester in 2024 and recently established the Worcester Poetry Archive there. She holds the postion of Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. \n\n\n\n5.        NANCY BAILLIE STRONG lives in Manchester\, NH.  She has workshopped with Jim Beschta  at the Worcester Art Museum and participates in Susan Roney-O’Brien’s virtual workshop. Her work has been published in TOUCHSTONE (PSNH) and SMOKY QUARTZ (Monadnock Writers’ Group)\, and she is featured in OFF THE MARGINS (offthemargins.com). \n\n\n\n6.        Cindy Snow’s writing has appeared online and in the Massachusetts Review\, Peace Review\, Worcester Review\, Crannóg\, and Maria Sibylla Merian: Changing the Nature of Art and Science.  Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart\, and her chapbook\, Small Ceremonies\, was published by Slate Roof Press.  Cindy served as a Platte Clove Artist in Residence and was a writing fellow at Cill Rialaig\, Ireland.  She holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University\, works at Greenfield Community College\, and lives in Shelburne Falls\, MA\, with her family. \n\n\n\n7.         Karen Elizabeth Sharpe lives in Rutland\, Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue dogs. She is the author of Prayer Can Be Anything and This Late Afternoon. A poetry editor for The Worcester Review and executive committee member of the National Baseball Poetry Festival\, her poems appear in SWWIM\, Whale Road Review\, The MacGuffin\, and others. \n\n\n\n8.       Eve Rifkah: was co-founder of Poetry Oasis\, Inc. (1998-2012)\, a non-profit poetry association dedicated to education and promoting local poets. Founder\, and editor DINER\, a literary magazine.She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. She lives in Worcester\, MA. The play\, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island\, was based on her first book. She has 6 published books\, none self-published. \n\n\n\n9.        Rev. Dr. Catherine Reed is a graduate of Clark University\,  Kaleo School of Ministry\, Hartford Seminary BMCP\,  Brigham and Women’s Chaplaincy Program\, and attended Boston University School of Theology.    She served as the associate pastor of John Street Baptist Church\, Campus Minister atClark University\, and Protestant  Chaplain of  The College of The Holy Cross.  She is a mother\, grandmother\, and great-grandmother.  Rev. Dr. Catherine Reed is the author of the following publications: Crossing Boundaries\, Between Midnight and Dawn\, Sankofa\, and Fire Goes Out Without Wood and the winner of the Barbara Pilon Poetry Contest and the Dark Horse Third World Contest.  She hosted WCCA TV’s “A Journey of Words.” \n\n\n\n10.   Jina Ortiz holds an MFA from The Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College. Her first poetry collection\, Miss Universe (Broadstone Press\, 2025) is a series of persona poems in the voices of the African descendant Miss Universe contestants who have won their country’s crown. Her poetry has been published in Sahara\, Afro-Hispanic Review\, Calabash\, Poui\, New Millennium Writings\, The Caribbean Writer and New Works Review\, Solstice Literary Magazine\, and Worcester Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11.  Muriel Nelson’s publications include Part Song\, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize (Bear Star Press)\, and Most Wanted\, winner of the ByLine Chapbook Award (ByLine Press). Nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize\, her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Four Way Review\, Front Porch Journal\, Hunger Mountain\, National Poetry Review\, The New Republic\, Northwest Review\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and Superstition Review\, and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Italian Culture published her critical essay on Eugenio Montale. She holds master’s degrees from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the University of Illinois School of Music. \n\n\n\n12.  Diane V. Mulligan is a teacher\, writer\, and artist from Worcester. Her most recent novel is What She Inherits. She has published poems\, essays\, and short stories in many literary magazines over the years including Cognoscenti\, The Ocean State Review\, and Glassworks.Publications: Watch Me Disappear (2012)\, The Latecomers Fan Club (2013)\, and What She Inherits (2017). \n\n\n\nThe poet Jennifer Militello (USA)\, New York\, New York\, June 6\, 2024. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan\n\n\n\n13.  Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (Tupelo Press\, 2026)\, named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize\, the memoir Knock Wood\, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize\, and five collections of poetry\, including\, most recently\, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books\, 2021. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Best New Poets\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College. (photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan) \n\n\n\n14.  Carolyn Howe writes poetry to help make sense of the inner and outer worlds that shape our experience of being human. She has published in The Worcester Review and the anthology The Senior Class: 100 Poets on Aging (ed. Laurence Musgrove). She has a chapbook\, Across the Street\, and is working on a collection of poems that speak to challenges facing our nation and world\, tentatively titled Looking Out\, Looking In. Carolyn is Associate Professor\, Emerita at College of the Holy Cross\, end enjoys her retirement with painting and writing poetry at her home on Patch Reservoir in Worcester. \n\n\n\n15.  Kathleen Granchelli spent her career in communications and community relations at a not-for-profit R&D organization following four years teaching English on the high school and freshmancollege levels. Upon retirement\, she reignited her passion for poetry with a focus on writing. Herchapbook\, “For the World\, She Said\,” scheduled to be published later this year\, is drawn fromexperiences living in Australia and Greece and other travels. She lives with her husband\, DavidGranchelli\, in Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n16.  Claire Golding is a freelance writer and editor. She was the 2003 recipient of the Worcester County Poetry Association’s Frank O’Hara Prize\, and has self-published a chapbook\, Poems and Other Offerings (Lulu Press\, 2009). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has been published in The Worcester Review\, New Millennium Writings\, Contour (as part of the 2017 Tale of Two Cities International Poetry Project with Worcester\, Massachusetts and Worcester\, England)\, The Scenes and Seasons of a Small New England Village\, Penning the Pandemic\, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal. She lives in Princeton\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n17.  Polly Brown has happily resettled a family place in western Maine\, where she is growing poems and a few green beans. Her new book\, Stitching\, follows Pebble Leaf Feather Knife\, Each Thing Torn From Any of Us\, and Blue Heron Stone. A new website\, with blog posts\, can be found at pollybrownpoet.com.  \n\n\n\n18.  Robin Boucher: She has taken classes at the Worcester Art Museum\,  Grub Street\, Stanford University and attended workshops like those held at the Stanley Kunitz home\, the Frost Place\, and Mount Monadnock Pastoral Retreats. In 2023\, she was the inaugural poet for the Shawna Shea Foundation’s Library Poetry Tour. Her work has appeared in the Tale of Two Cities Projects\, in a collection of poems from the Slightly Off Beat Poets series\, Worcester Magazine and the Shivering Mouse Art & Poetry Review Vol. One 2025.  \n\n\n\n19.  Cheryl L. Bonin is a bourbon sipping\, baseball watching\, pirate loving\, Neil Diamond singing\, cancerous wench of the breast variety who writes snark filled stories and poetry because it’s cheaper than therapy. Her rantings have been encouraged\, tolerated\, published and/or acknowledged by: her Good Sport Hubby\, random unsuspecting open mic attendees\, The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, Three Decker\, The National Baseball Poetry Festival\, The Eastport (Maine) Library Review and the 2022 Frank O’Hara Poetry Contest. \n\n\n\n20.  Kathleen Aguero’s most recent book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Books.Her other poetry collections include After That\, Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth\, Daughter Of\, The Real Weather\, and Thirsty Day.She has co-edited three volumes of multi- cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press (A Gift of Tongues\, An Ear to the Ground\, and Daily Fare). A former contributing edior at Kenyon Review\, she is poetry Faculty-at-Large in the Solstice low-residency M.F.A. program at Lasell University and also teaches in Changing Lives through Literature\, an alternative sentencing program. Kathleen has been awarded a 2026 Creative Individuals Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n\n\n\n21. Eleanor Wilner has nine books of poetry\, most recently Before Our Eyes; New and Selected Poems 1975-2017( Princeton University Press); her awards include the 2019 Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America for lifelong achievement\,  fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the NEA\, the Juniper Prize\, and three Pushcart prizes. She is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, and is a lifelong activist for civil rights and peace.  \n\n\n\n22. Susan Roney O’Brien earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Publications include Earth and Farmwife\, Legacy of the Last World\, Bone Circle and Thira. Her work has been translated into Mandarin and Braille\, Susan has been nominated for many Pushcart Prizes and published widely. She was the 2020 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Medal for Poetry She teaches\, organizes monthly poetry readings and facilitates free poetry workshops. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nI
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