Join the City of Worcester’s Cultural Development Office for a virtual poetry open mic on Wednesday, February 24th from 7-8 p.m. hosted by Worcester Poet Laureate Juan Matos and Worcester Youth Poet Laureate Amina Mohammed. The reading will be shared via the City of Worcester's Facebook page using Facebook Live. You can find all the […]
Join the Worcester County Poetry Association for our Annual Meeting on February 28, 2021, and help us celebrate our 50th anniversary! The afternoon consists of a short Business Meeting and a poetry feature by Tim Mayo. We'll start at 2:00 pm on Zoom. Registration is needed to join the event. After registering, Zoom will e-mail […]
The Zoom into Poetry series continues with North Shore poet Jennifer Martelli. Author of The Uncanny Valley, and My Tarantella, Jennifer is known for emotionally gripping poetry. Registration is required; visit this Zoom registration link, fill out the form, and Zoom will send you an e-mail link. #poetryofworcestercounty
Worcester poet Curt Curtin has a new book, Kerry Dancers, and is holding a virtual book tour during March 2021 in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Annie’s Book Stop kicks off book sales by interviewing Curt about his early background as a first-generation Irish-American and the stories that helped shape some of the poems in […]
Join the board of the Worcester County Poetry Association for our monthly board meeting. This will once again be a virtual meeting due to the continued need for social distancing. This is a working meeting, not a poetry reading. We welcome the respectful input of the central Massachusetts poetry community. Registration is required; visit this […]
As part of a virtual book tour, the Worcester Public Library hosts a live reading with Curt Curtin and his wife Dee O’Connor. Curt is a first-generation Irish-American poet who lives in Worcester. Both his parents emigrated from County Kerry at the beginning of the 20th Century, and their experiences inspired Curt’s latest collection, Kerry […]
The WCPA is excited to present a virtual poetry reading with Jeff Walt on Sunday, March 14, 2021, at 3:00 pm. Registration is needed to join the event. Visit the Zoom registration link and fill in the form. A meeting link will be e-mailed to you. Register Jeff Walt won the 2018 Frank O'Hara Prize […]
Retired Professor Curt Curtin will be joined by three current students and three alumni from Westfield State University in a reading in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Students and alumni will read from their own work; Curt and his wife Dee O’Connor (also a WSU alum) will read selections from Kerry Dancers, Curt’s latest collection. […]
The Worcester Senior Center celebrates St. Patrick’s Day and the Worcester County Poetry Association’s 50th anniversary with a reading from Kerry Dancers, Curt Curtin’s newest poetry collection. Curt, his wife, and fellow poets/friends will read selected poems. You’ll meet Da, Ma, Aunt Nora, and the rest of the family, dance a reel in Boston’s Hibernian […]
Musicians from Worcester’s Pakachoag Music School provide fiddle music to accompany Curt Curtin’s reading of selected poems from Kerry Dancers. Though the collection focuses on Curt’s Irish-American heritage, it is a more generic immigrant’s tale dedicated to “immigrants from around the world who chased their dreams to the American shores.” Pre-recorded by Pakachoag Music School; […]
