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SUMMARY:4th Annual National Baseball Poetry Festival May 7th-10th
DESCRIPTION:Baseball—the “National Pastime”—is the American sport most represented in the arts.  The National Baseball Poetry Festival unites Baseball—one of our great cultural common denominators—and Poetry—the world’s oldest art form—in a unique and wonderful celebration of both. Multiple days of poetry readings\, generative workshops\, panel discussions\, baseball games and more. Please refer to the full schedule for details here: https://baseballpoetryfest.org/schedule/
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/4th-annual-national-baseball-poetry-festival-may-7th-10th-2/
LOCATION:Worcester County
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SUMMARY:NBPF: Holy Relics of the Game—Artifact\, Myth and Legend
DESCRIPTION:National Baseball Poetry Festival Two Free Generative Workshops: Holy Relics of the Game—Artifact\, Myth and Legend Facilitated by Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate Tommy Twilite.Participants are invited to consider some baseball relics as inspiration to conjure up a poem. Twilite will bring some very interesting pieces\, and participants may bring something of their own: a special old glove or cap\, maybe a scorecard\, ticket stub\, etc. to use as inspiration for discussion and writing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Facilitator:Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate Tommy Twilite is the author of Kills No Bird and Fifty Words for Rain. He hosts the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ Valley Free Radio out of Northampton\, MA\, is the former editor of Silkworm and a retired fire fighter.Sessions are limited to 15 participants each. Register for this workshop by emailing tommytwilite@gmail.com You may register for both workshops\, but please indicate your first and second choice. Deadline to sign up is May 3rd. We will try to accommodate all who are interested in attending.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/nbpf-holy-relics-of-the-game-artifact-myth-and-legend-2/
LOCATION:Jean McDonough Creative Arts Center\, 20 Franklin St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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SUMMARY:NBPF: The Assist- Tricks to Shake off Writer's Block
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by award-winning poet and Poets at Large Coordinator Karen Warinsky \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will do a table read of an article about American rock band The National’s frontman Matt Beringer\, his love of baseball\, and the event that led him to a very unusual method to solve writer’s block. Then attendees will try his method! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBest of the Net Nominee and Coordinator of Poets at Large\, Karen Warinsky lives in CT. She is the author of four collections including Dining with War and Beauty & Ashes and has published widely in anthologies and lit mags. A former finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Contest\, she is retired from careers in media and teaching. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSessions are limited to 15 participants each. Register for this workshop by emailing karen.warinsky@gmail.com. You may register for both workshops\, but please indicate your first and second choice. Deadline to sign up is May 3rd. We will try to accommodate all who are interested in attending.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/nbpf-the-assist-tricks-to-shake-off-writers-block/
LOCATION:Jean McDonough Creative Arts Center\, 20 Franklin St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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