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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Judith Ferrara
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, MA\, continues to meet virtually. Join us on Tuesday July 28th virtually on Zoom with none other than Judith Ferrara\, our featured reader!\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPhoto by Jeff Davis\n\n\n\nWriter and artist Judith Ferrara holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire\, Fitchburg State University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her poems\, essays and artwork have appeared in three collections and in journals\, and her artwork has been exhibited widely. She was awarded a Worcester Cultural Commission/Massachusetts Cultural Council Creative Arts Fellowship and the Stanley Kunitz Medal from the Worcester County Poetry Association. Her non-fiction work includes Peer Mediation: Finding a Way to Care and biography/memoir A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son\, the Poet Stanley Kunitz in which she explores the recently recovered memoir\, diary and letters of the mother of Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz and his relationship with her. www.PaletteAndPen.com. She is currently working on a new poetry collection\, Field Notes from an Indoor Girl\, and volunteers at the Museum of Worcester under the direction of Susan Elizabeth (Beth) Sweeney processing the Worcester Poetry Archive. An exhibition\, “Echoes: Photographs by John Gaumond with Paintings by Judith Ferrara” which features her interpretations of his work will be on view September and October at the Worcester Jewish Community Center.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-judith-ferrara-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetorium Too Poetry Reading & Open Mic Featuring Candace R. Curran\, Janet MacFadyen\, & Steven Bizel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special Wednesday 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 July 29th 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 Candace R. Curran\,  Janet MacFadyen\, & Steven Bizel\, 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\nCandace R. Curran was raised alongside Wachusett Mountain in rural Princeton\, MA by a coyote and Ford mechanic doing the best they could. Publications include\, Bone Cages and Playing in Wrecks\, by Haleys Press;  and the Elyse Wolf prize winner The Sound of Her Good Name\, Slate Roof Press\, 2025. \n\n\n\nJanet MacFadyen is the author of four full-length collections—most recently Love Letters to the Wild (Dos Madres) and State of Grass (Salmon Poetry)—and four chapbooks\, including two photo-poetry collaborations with the photographer Stephen Schmidt. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant\, a Cill Rialaig residency\, and a 7-month Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. Her poems appear widely\, most recently in SWIMM\, Slant\, Osiris\, Dark Matter\, and Scientific American. She is the managing editor of Slate Roof Press\, a collaboratively-run chapbook publisher: www.slateroofpress.com. \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.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-too-poetry-reading-open-mic-featuring-candace-r-curran-janet-macfadyen-steven-bizel/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Richard Fox Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:We’re off for July but back with a roar on August 4th with the extraordinary Evan Plante! \n\n\n\nWe’re keeping the 5pm start to help with metered parking. The Broadway will take one-hour of parking ($2\,00) off your ticket with a food purchase.Owners Tony and Nequel Germano have a plethora of delightful entrees\, apps\, desserts\, and their famous\, homemade ice cream. The Broadway also serves beer and wine and breakfast until closing (with mimosas!). We have a separate room for our shenanigans. Admission is still Free!. All of the tip jar $ goes to our feature. Sign up for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Five minute maximum and limited spots. \n\n\n\nThe Fox Poetry Series\, in honor of the iconic poet Richard Fox\, is sponsored by the Worcester County Poetry Association through a generous donation from the Fox family. I’m pleased as punch to continue this exciting open mic/feature every 1st Tuesday of the month except for July from 5-7:30pm at such a welcoming venue. Join us on August 4th! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvan Plante has recently rejoined the spoken word community after a twenty year hiatus. Where has he been? Well… taking down existential walls mostly… which he’ll explain bit by bit at future open mics and the occasional feature. Evan and his wife Carole have been together for over sixty years – and no… he can’t figure it out either! Nevertheless\, they have two children\, six grandchildren – and six great-grandchildren – and although they are retired from industry\, they are not retired from life. Evan bowls in a candlepin league. They are both active in the Blackstone Valley Arts Association and at Open Sky Community Services’ Take Down the Wall open mic initiative. But most importantly\, Evan goes to breakfast with friends so often that he’s thinking about going pro! That being said\, Evan does not remember a time when he was not reading or not under the compulsion to write. He writes essays and short stories in addition to his poetry… although it’s hard to sort them out sometimes. (Labels aren’t always helpful in this regard.)
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-richard-fox-reading-series/
LOCATION:The Broadway Diner\, 100 Water Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01604\, United States
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