word open mic and reading featuring Sandy Yannone. Yannone is the Poet Laureate of Old Saybrook, CT, and is the author of two collections: The Glass Studio (2024) and Boats for Women (2019), both published by Salmon Poetry in County Clare, Ireland. She returned to Connecticut after a career teaching at Evergreen College in Seattle, WA. Her poetry […]
MASSCreative seeks artists, cultural organizations, and creative businesses across disciplines to join us as featured exhibitors and performers during the 2024 Creative Sector Day at the State House on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Creative Sector Day at the State House is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that artists, creatives, cultural leaders, and organizations make […]
Writer’s Unite Event Organizations participating: New Dawn Arts Center, New Dawn’s Writer’s Group, Quabbin Quills?, Straw Dogs, The Openest Mic, Worcester County Poetry Association, Worcester Writers' Collective and more! Below is the tentative schedule for event: (Which will be upstairs.) 5:30 pm - 6 pm Exhibition open for public viewing, mingling & networking 6 - […]
A poetry and music series at the Merriam-Gilbert Public Library Free and open to all! Please stop by or call the Library at 508-867-1410 to reserve your seat. Each evening will feature poetry readings from the shelves of the library book-ended by a musical duet. This program is made possible by the West Brookfield Cultural […]
The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, Mass., continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 James B. Nicola will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. James B. Nicola was born in Worcester, raised in Holden, and lives in New York City. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, the latest three […]
Join us on Thursday, May 1, at 6:30 pm, with the author Judith Ferrara to discuss her book A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son, the Poet Stanley Kunitz. Join Virtually About the Book Perhaps the most enduring poet of his generation, Stanley Kunitz, once observed that “poetry is for the sake of the […]
WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: KAREN DURLACH & KATE GREGOIRE WHERE: Deb Horan’s Backyard 15 Eddy St Webster, MA RAIN LOCATION: Steve Veilleux’s house112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale, CT WHEN: Sunday May 4th, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm WHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 20 […]
The book is Henry’s Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood. TidePool Bookshop in Worcester is hosting my launch event on Tuesday, May 6, at 5:30pm. The book explores complex parenting and the challenges of navigating the American special education system while neurodivergent. I’ll be doing a short overview of and reading from the book, followed by a Q&A […]
Boylston Public Library is pleased to announce bg Thurston, who will be reading from The Many Lives of Cathouse Farm Tales of a Rural Brothel her upcoming book, on Wednesday May 7 at 6:00 P.M. The reading is also available on Zoom. Please call the library at 508-869-2371 to register. The reading has been made possible through […]
Monthly Board Meeting Join us for our monthly discussion and planning. Come see what what we have been up to and will be up to. ;) But first.... Please join us for a screening of the award-winning Dirty Gerund Documentary, which captures two unforgettable nights at one of America's best open mics. It will be followed […]
