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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly round robin open mic poetry share\, moderated by Robert Eugene Perry. Bring original pieces to share in a friendly\, supportive environment. \n\n\n\nIn addition to our regular open mic (1.5 hours)\, this month Brian Mosher will be the featured reader (20 minutes) to celebrate his two new poetry books: Relic & Double Vision. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 14 open mic participants and usually fills up quickly.  \n\n\n\nPlease email deb@bookloversgourmet.com or call 508-949-6232 to sign up. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, Booklovers’ Gourmet\, located at 72 East Main Street in Webster\, MA is hosting an Open Mic Poetry Event with Featured Poet Brian Mosher\, on Saturday\, April 18th from 2-4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. There is space for up to 14 readers for the open mic. To sign up to read\, please call 508-949-6232 or email deb@bookloversgourmet.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Mosher resides in Mansfield\, MA. His work has appeared in Blood and Bourbon\, Lily Poetry Review\, Literary Underground\, Nixes Mate\, Anomaly Poetry\, eMerge\, Esoterica\, and others. He received Honorable Mention in the Joe Gouviea Outermost Poetry Contest\, and his short story “Fragments” was a winner of the Nikki Hanna Literary Challenge. His most recent books are the collection\, “A Muster of Melodious Musings” (2025 Metaphysical Fox Press); Double Vision\, a collaboration with artist Becky Haletky (2026); and the chapbook “Relict” (2026 Finishing Line Press). \n\n\n\nHis website is Phlubbermatic: (www.phlubbermatic.blogspot.com). \n\n\n\nRelict is the result of the author’s struggle to figure out what the death of his father meant to him. Does a person become something different on the day they no longer have any living parents? A child becomes an adolescent\, becomes an adult. A single person becomes part of a couple\, becomes a parent\, becomes again single either as a widow or through divorce. But we have no word for the stage of life that begins once both a person’s parents have died. This book is an attempt to document the feelings of grief\, and to reconnect to a lost past through stories about ancestors\, all without losing sight of a hopeful future. \n\n\n\nArtist Becky Haletky and poet Brian Mosher present their collaborative project\, Double Vision. Becky has created gorgeous and colorful collages of diners\, historic locations and other attractions (both real and imagined)\, and Brian has written poems to accompany each one.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-open-mic-16/
LOCATION:Booklover’s Gourmet
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SUMMARY:Poets at Large
DESCRIPTION:Poets at Large Presents Stewart & Anderson April 18th \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPoets at Large will once again present well-known poets Joshua M. Stewart and Doug Anderson on Saturday night\, April 18th at 7 p.m. at The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road\, in Pomfret\, CT. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoshua Michael Stewart is currently the Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate (2025-27) and he has published poems in the Massachusetts Review\, Louisville Review\, Rattle\, Night Train\, Evansville Review\, Cold Mountain Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems\, Break Every String\, was published by Hedgerow Books in April 2016. Stewart received his BA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and lives in Ware\, MA. He’s employed as a teacher/counselor\, working with individuals with special needs. \n\n\n\nDoug Anderson’s most recent book Undress\, She Said\, was published by Four Way Books. He has received awards from the NEA\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, Poets & Writers\, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, and others. His first book\, The Moon Reflected Fire\, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and his second\, Blues for Unemployed Secret Police\, a grant from the Eric Matthew King fund of the Academy of American Poets. His third book\, Horse Medicine\, was published by Barrow Street Press in 2015 and his memoir\, Keep Your Head Down was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. Anderson taught in the Pacific University of Oregon and Bennington College MFA programs\, and at Smith and Emerson Colleges. He lives in Ashfield\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\nPoets at Large has brought over 120 published and awarded poets to the area since 2020 and dozens of people have participated in the open mic portions during that time. Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. All events are ADA compliant and are recommended for ages 16 and up. Readings for the rest of the season are sponsored in part by donations from bankHometown\, Charter Oak FCU\, WHZ Financial and The Putnam Area Foundation. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic; 5-minute max as time allows.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-at-large/
LOCATION:Vanilla Bean Cafe\, 450 Deerfield Road\, Pomfret\, CT\, 06259\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Warinsky%2C Poets At Large":MAILTO:karen.warinsky@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Openest Legs
DESCRIPTION:For when your poetry gets drunk and goes home with someone…
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-openest-legs/
LOCATION:Conquest Smokeshop\, 227 Lunenburg Street\, Fitchburg\, Massachusetts\, 01420\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Laura DiCaronimo":MAILTO:laura.optician@gmail.com
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