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SUMMARY:Poet Stephen Campiglio & Soprano Xuemei Jiang
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poet-stephen-campiglio-sopranoxuemei-jiang/
LOCATION:Jacob Edwards Library\, 236 Main St.\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550\, United States
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SUMMARY:Beyond The Page: Poetry Reading and Open Mic
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/beyond-the-page-poetry-reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Greendale Family Branch YMCA\, 75 Shore Drive\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T180000
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SUMMARY:Brain Wash
DESCRIPTION:BRAIN WASH POETRY & OPEN MIC AT HUNCHBACK GALLERY CO-SPONSORED BY W.A.G. & POETORIUM \n\n\n\nBRAIN WASH: \n\n\n\nPOETRY & OPEN MIC \n\n\n\nSEPTEMBER 11TH\, 2026 \n\n\n\n6PM TO 9PM \n\n\n\nAMONGST THE ART\, THE WORCESTER ARTISTS GROUP IS HOSTING THE POETORIUM AT HUNCHBACK GALLERY \n\n\n\nFOR A NIGHT OF POETRY! FREE! \n\n\n\nFEATURED POETS & AN OPEN MIC! \n\n\n\nALSO A UNIQUE AUDIENCE GROUP POEM \n\n\n\nASSEMBLED AND READ AT THE END \n\n\n\n(ANONYMOUS & NOT REQUIRED)! \n\n\n\nFEATURING \n\n\n\nSTEVEN BIZEL \n\n\n\nEVE RIFKAH \n\n\n\nCLAIRE SCHAEFFER-DUFFY \n\n\n\nMC’D BY PAUL SZLOSEK \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteven Bizel is an extremely talented poet living in Pittsfield\, Massachusetts who has been a regular attendee of The Poetorium Too at TidePool Bookshop since August of 2025.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEve Rifkah was co-founder of Poetry Oasis\, Inc.\, and founder and editor of Diner\, a literary journal. She was the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. Eve has published seven collections of her poetry\, the latest being Sustenance published in August of 2026 . The play\, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island\, was based on her first book\, Outcasts the Penikese Island Leper Hospital  \n\n\n\n1905-1921. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Schaeffer-Duffy is a freelance writer in Worcester\, MA. A childhood spent overseas left her eternally hungry for travel. Writing has allowed her to pursue that yearning. Her reviews and essays have appeared in various publications including America Magazine\, Commonweal\, and Consequence. Her reporting for the National Catholic Reporting has garnered a number of awards from the Catholic Press Association. She comes to poetry late in life grateful for a form that inculcates marvel.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/brain-wash/
LOCATION:Hunchback Gallery\, 75 Webster ST\, Worceter\, Massachusetts\, 01603\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T183000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Extravaganza with Joe Fusco Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Once in a bluish moon\, I book myself for a Feature\, especially if I have a new book to share like ‘Here We Go Again.’ \n\n\n\nJoin us at The Mill in West Boylston on September 16th. Hoping to see past featured performers from both of my venues help us celebrate my book release. \n\n\n\nThe Mill is right off Rt 190\, has a spacious parking lot\, serves delectable apps\, entrees\, and desserts with a full bar. \n\n\n\nWe have a separate room with AC for our monthly shenanigans. Admission is still free. All of the Tip Jar proceeds go to the Feature. My reading will not be sponsored. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Extravaganza (PE) is the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6:30-8;45 pm. Sign up for the open mic at jfjr6969@gmail.com. Five minute maximum\, Please! There are no language restrictions. We are not kid-friendly! \n\n\n\nJoin the Fun on September 16th! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/stand-up poet/storyteller from Worcester\, Massachusetts. He is the author of six books of semi-amusing poems and essays: “Here We Go Again (2026)\, “Random Thoughts from a Curmudgeon “(2023)\, “Pondering the Pandemic during The Rust Years” (2021); “Hmm…That’s Different” (2020); “Three Score” (2014); and “The Lost and Found Essays” (2012)\, all available at local bookstores and Amazon.Joe’s musings have appeared in Damfino Press\, Ballard Street Poetry\, Worcester Review\, Asinine Poetry\, Soul Lit\, and the e-zine Clean Sheets. He was a co-winner of the Jacob Knight Poetry Award in 2002 and was named Best Poet by Worcester Magazine readers in 1999 and 2002. Joe is a Humor Columnist for Worcester Magazine and the last Worcester Mega-Slam winner in 2017. He features at bookstores\, libraries\, clubs\, and coffeehouses throughout Central Massachusetts and Belgium. He is the host of The Poetry Extravaganza at The Mill in West Boylston and The Richard Fox Poetry Series in Worcester. Joe has taught “Humor 101” for high-school students at Gateways Academy in Shrewsbury\, and for adults at the Senior Centers of Worcester\, Lancaster\, Millbury\, Princeton\, and Auburn\, as well as Eisenberg Assisted Living\, Notre Dame Assisted Living\, The Residence of Orchard Grove\, Overlook in Charlton\, Hillside Village in West Boylston\, and Christopher Heights Assisted Living. He taught ‘Humor 102’ for WISE at Assumption University and will teach ‘Humor 103’ in November 2026. He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association.Joe has lived in lovely Worcester with his better-half Cyndi and their large family for forty-one years. He is a registered Independent and sleeps with one eye always open.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poetry-extravaganza-with-joe-fusco-jr/
LOCATION:The Mill\, 185 W. Boylston Street\, West Boylston\, Massachusetts\, 01583\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Roundtable Poetry with Special Feature Susan Marie Powers
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic Roundtable Poetry with Special Feature Susan Marie PowersSeptember 19th @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pmPlease join us for our Monthly Open Mic Poetry Roundtable moderated by Robert Eugene Perry. This month will also feature a reading and book signing by Susan Powers! \n\n\n\nAll local poets are invited to bring original poems to share in a supportive\, nurturing environment. There is space for up to 14 readers and usually fills up quickly!  \n\n\n\nListeners are always welcome.To sign up \, please call 508-949-6232 or email deb@bookloversgourmet.com. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Marie Powers is a life-long educator who has enjoyed working with an enormous variety of students including gifted children\, university students\, international students\, and residents of a drug rehabilitation facility. She lived in several places in the United States before settling deep in the beautiful woods of Northeast Connecticut with her husband. \n\n\n\nDue to her interest in both literature and psychology\, Powers attained graduate degrees in English literature and clinical psychology. No matter where she was living or whom she was teaching\, she continued to write essays\, stories\, and poetry. Her first book of poetry\, Break the Spell\, was published by New London Librarium press in 2010. You will find her poetry in Tiferet\, Sixfold Magazine\, and the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal. Her poetry also appears in the 2024 anthology Personal Freedom and the 2025 collection Lost Love (Orenaug Mountain Publishing). \n\n\n\nIn February of 2024\, Powers was awarded a 10-day residency by The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs\, Arkansas to work on her eco-poetry collection. In November of 2025\, Powers returned to WCDH where an 11-day-scholarship resulted in the completion of Gather Your Chi. A great debt is owed to WCDH for supporting artists in their creative endeavors. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Susan Marie Powers is the Inaugural Poet Laureate for the town of Scotland\, Connecticut. She conducts workshops for all ages\, hosts open mics\, and continues to marvel at the beauty of the natural world. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/open-mic-roundtable-poetry-with-special-feature-susan-marie-powers/
LOCATION:Booklover’s Gourmet
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Eve Rifkah
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, MA\, continues to meet virtually. Join us on Tuesday September 22nd  VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM with none other than Eve Rifkah\, our featured reader! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n!!REGISTER HERE!! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEve Rifkah was a welfare mom for too many years.  She worked as a divider in a skirt factory\, in a cardboard box factory\, as a compositor for the local rag\, a free-lance reporter\, and wandering adjunct English professor\,  after getting an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was co-founder of Poetry Oasis\, Inc. (1998-2012)\, a non-profit poetry association. Founder\, and editor of DINER\, a literary magazine. She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz medal. The play\, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island\, was based on her first book. She lives in Worcester\, MA. \n\n\n\nWebpage: eve-rifkah.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-eve-rifkah-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Online Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T190000
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SUMMARY:Poets at Large Presents Knowles and Aeroelastic Flutter
DESCRIPTION:Poets at Large will continue its seventh season on Saturday night\, September 26th with two disparate types of poetry. The show begins at 7 p.m. at The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road\, in Pomfret\, CT and featured that night will be Frederick-Douglass Knowles II and performance artist duo Aeroelastic Flutter. Suggested donation is $10.00. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nKnowles is a Hartford Poet Laureate Emeritus\, an English Professor at CT State Community College and author of BlackRoseCity (Author House 2011). He is the recipient of The Nutmeg Poetry Award\, a Connecticut of the Arts Fellow in Artistic Excellence in Poetry/Creative Non- Fiction\, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He will be showcasing work from his newest book\, Sinking in Moonlight Alone. \n\n\n\nAeroelastic Flutter is a spoken word and sound collaboration\, combining the often-absurdist poetry of Jim Whitten with the guitar work and sound exploration of Nicholas Pecsok. Their project experiments with lo-fi audio and borderline performance art\, challenging audiences to reevaluate how poetry can be performed and defined. \n\n\n\nPoets at Large has brought over 150 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-presents-knowles-and-aeroelastic-flutter/
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:Poetorium Too Reading
DESCRIPTION:Poetorium Too Poetry Reading & Open Mic Featuring Stephen Campiglio\, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy\, & Simon Hunt  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a special Tuesday triple feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series  Poetorium Too at TidePool Bookshop (located at 372 Chandler Street in Worcester\, MA) on September 29th\, 2026 from 5 pm to 7 pm hosted by Paul Szlosek and (hopefully) Ron Whittle.  It will be a full two hours of poetry and spoken word featuring 20 minute readings each by poets Stephen Campiglio\,  Claire Schaeffer-Duffy\, & Simon Hunt\, followed by the passing of a hat to pay our features\, a short intermission\, and then an open mic with 5-minute slots for each reader if time allows (in order to fit everything planned into our allotted time\, if the event runs too long\, readers may be restricted to one poem). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Campiglio lives in southern Worcester County and works at Connecticut State Community College in Manchester\, where he also founded and directed for 12 years the Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series. He co-edited and contributed to the Noh Place Poetry Anthology and was a winner in Mapping Worcester in Poetry: Poems in and Out of Places. His poetry\, and his Italian translations\, have also appeared of late in The Closed Eye Open\, Delos\, Gradiva\, Italian Americana\, Poet Lore\, SurVision\, and Wild Roof Journal\, and a featured section of his poems translated into Italian by Barbera Carle has appeared in Journal of Italian Translation. Stephen recently won the inaugural Bill Tremblay Poetry Prize (sponsored by the Jacob Edwards Library) and had a poem selected for the collection\, Remembering Wallace Stevens\, published by Moon Arts Center. His book-length translation from the Italian\, with Elena Borelli\, of Giovanni Pascoli’s 1903 volume of poems\, Canti di Castelvecchio\, was recently published by Italica Press. \n\n\n\nClaire Schaeffer-Duffy is a poet & freelance writer living in Worcester\, MA. A childhood spent overseas left her eternally hungry for travel. Writing has allowed her to pursue that yearning. Her reviews and essays have appeared in various publications including America Magazine\, Commonweal\, and Consequence. Her reporting for the National Catholic Reporting has garnered a number of awards from the Catholic Press Association. She comes to poetry late in life grateful for a form that inculcates marvel. \n\n\n\nSimon Hunt moved to Massachusetts\, after having lived in Monterey\, California\, for 20 years and Las Vegas\, Nevada\, for three. He has been a teacher for more than four decades\, predominantly in California and predominantly at the high school level.  Simon was born in what is now Zimbabwe and also lived in South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as the USA during his childhood.  His poems have been published widely in print and online journals. 2018 saw the publication of his first collection\, Lesser Magi\, and in 2019 his first play\, Re-run\, was performed.  Endlings\, his second collection of poems\, was published in 2023.  The father of two\, he served the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel\, California\, as a volunteer tour docent and trustee for over a decade.  He lives in Ashburnham\, with his wife\, novelist Melissa (Dorval) Hunt. \n\n\n\n——————————
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-too-reading/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
DESCRIPTION:It’s Worcester Pride and the Museum of Worcester is partnering with Love Your Labels as we read City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara. \n\n\n\nThe definitive biography of Frank O’Hara\, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century\, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s. \n\n\n\nCity Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the years when it became the epicenter of the art world\, and illuminates the poet and artist at its heart. Brad Gooch traces Frank O’Hara’s life from his parochial Catholic childhood to World War II\, through his years at Harvard and New York. He brilliantly portrays O’Hara in in his element\, surrounded by a circle of writers and artists who would transform America’s cultural landscape: Willem de Kooning\, Franz Kline\, Helen Frankenthaler\, Jackson Pollock\, Gregory Corso\, Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, LeRoi Jones\, and John Ashbery. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion at Salisbury House for a discussion of moderated by Stanley Kunitz Award winner Judith Ferrara. Following our discussion\, we will have a tour of Love Your Labels on-site! \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE \n\n\n\nSalisbury House\, 61 Harvard StreetMore info: The Novel Historian: Museum of Worcester September Book Club | Museum of Worcester
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/city-poet-the-life-and-times-of-frank-ohara/
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