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SUMMARY:The Invention of the Darling: An Evening of Poetry with Li-Young Lee
DESCRIPTION:Through the observation and translation of often unassuming and silent moments\, the poetry of Li-Young Lee gives clear voice to the solemn and extraordinary beauty found within humanity. By employing hauntingly lyrical skill and astute poetic awareness\, Lee allows silence\, sound\, form\, and spirit to emerge brilliantly onto the page. His poetry reveals a dialogue between the eternal and the temporal\, and accentuates the joys and sorrows of family\, home\, loss\, exile\, and love. Born in 1957 of Chinese parents in Jakarta\, Indonesia\, Lee learned early about loss and exile. His great grandfather was China’s first republican President; and his father\, a deeply religious Christian\, was physician to Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949\, Lee’s parents escaped to Indonesia. In 1959\, his father\, after spending a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno’s jails\, fled Indonesia with his family to escape anti- Chinese sentiment. After a five-year trek through Hong Kong\, Macau\, and Japan\, they settled in the United States in 1964. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLi-Young Lee is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry\, most recently The Invention of the Darling (W. W. Norton\, 2024)\, The Undressing (W.W Norton\, 2018)\, Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton\, 2008)\, and a chapbook The Word From His Song (BOA Editions\, 2016). His earlier collections are Book of My Nights (BOA Editions\, 2001); Rose (BOA\, 1986)\, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; The City in Which I Love You (BOA\, 1991)\, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster\, 1995)\, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. His translation of the Dao De Jing is forthcoming in October 2024. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLexington Depot\, 13 Depot Square\, Lexington MA
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-invention-of-the-darling-an-evening-of-poetry-with-li-young-lee/
LOCATION:MA
ORGANIZER;CN="Craig Hall":MAILTO:chall@lexingtonma.org
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SUMMARY:POETS AT LARGE CONTINUES ITS FALL SEASONAT THE VANILLA BEAN CAFÉ
DESCRIPTION:Poets at Large will continue their fall series on Oct 26 th at The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road\, Pomfret\, CT. That evening Massachusetts poet and publisher Lee Derosiers will be the featured reader.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDesrosiers (they/them) is a native New Yorker who has lived in western Massachusetts for the past 30 years. They are the editor of The Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace\, an E-zine. Derosiers holds an MFA in poetry from New England College and teaches writing at Westfield State University and Poetry at Lesley University’s MFA program.. They have three full-length collections from Salmon Poetry; The Philosopher’s Daughter (2013)\, contains poems about their parents\, and a “rather eccentric family” and about their journey out of domestic abuse; Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (2016)\, about “music\, voices\, time and memory\,” and Keeping Planes in the Air (2020)\, a volume about “loss\, ghosts\, aging and ephemera.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThese Saturday evenings of spoken word and poetry are from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $15.00 and includes a give-away. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA\, now in its fifth year. Contact Poets at Large coordinator Karen Warinsky if you are interested in reading in the open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. There is a 5-minute limit for open mic readers and these events are recommended for ages 14 and up. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPoets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. The Vanilla Bean is ADA compliant.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-at-large-continues-its-fall-seasonat-the-vanilla-bean-cafe/
LOCATION:The Vanilla Bean\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T200000
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SUMMARY:Richard Fox Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:The Richard Fox Poetry Series is a monthly poetry open- mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human-being extraordinaire Richard Fox. This month’s Featured Poet will be the legendary Eve Rifkah. \n\n\n\nFree admission. On-the-street parking. Root and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their new location. \n\n\n\nSignup for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots available.Sponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County Poetry Association). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEve Rifkah was co-founder of Poetry Oasis\, Inc. (1998-2012)\, a non-profit poetry association dedicated to education and promoting local poets. Founder and editor of DINER\, a literary magazine. She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. The play\, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island\, was based on her first book\, Outcasts the Penikese Island Leper Hospital 1905-1917. She has written 6 books.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/richard-fox-poetry-series-3/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with David Surette
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, October 22\, 2024 David Surette will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid R. Surette’s new book of poetry is Tonic. He is the author of six other collections including Stable and Easy to Keep\, Hard to Keep In\, both honored by the Massachusetts Book Awards. His poems have recently featured in the anthology From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry\, and 3 Nations Anthology: Native\, Canadian & New England Writers\, winner of a Maine Book Award. He lives on Cape Cod. \n\n\n\nFree \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSusan Roney-O’Brien
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T160000
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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly round robin style\, open poetry reading hosted by Robert Eugene Perry. Bring original pieces to share. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills up quickly. \n\n\n\nSign up to reserve your spot by calling 508-949-6232 or emailing deb@bookloversgourmet.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T180000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Jos Charles
DESCRIPTION:Jos Charles\, author of Feeld and A Year and Other Poems\, will be giving a reading at Clark University in the Fireside Lounge on the second floor of Dana Commons on October 18 at 4:30 pm. The reading is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions\, 2022)\, Feeld\, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions\, 2018)\, and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press\, 2016). She is visiting faculty for UC RIverside’s Creative Writing Department and teaches as a part of Randolph College’s low-residency MFA program. She resides in Long Beach\, CA.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/an-evening-with-jos-charles/
LOCATION:Fireside Lounge\, Dana Commons\, 950 Main St\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01610\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Gutman-Gonzalez":MAILTO:mgutmanngonzalez@clarku.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T210000
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SUMMARY:New Dawn Writers' Group: Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come out to the New Dawn Writers’ Group’s Poetry Workshop. Every third Tuesday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm we will discuss poems and writing\, write to prompts\, give feedback\, encourage one another\, and discuss upcoming projects. It’s a friendly\, pressure-free atmosphere at the New Dawn Arts Center in Ashburnham. The address is 84 Main Street\, Ashburnham\, MA. The workshop is being led by Fred Gerhard. \n\n\n\n  \n \n  \nFred Gerhard leads the Poetry Workshop\, and is one of the open mic hosts\, for the New Dawn Writers’ Group. His poems appear in numerous anthologies and magazines including The Amethyst Review\, Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Pif Magazine\, POETiCA REViEW\, Sylvia Magazine\, and others. His first chapbook\, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring came out in 2023 from Local Gems Poetry Press. He is also an editor at Quabbin Quills Press and Smoky Quartz. For many years he led a poetry therapy group in Worcester at UMASS Memorial’s Community HealthLink. More about him can be found at FredGerhard.com \n  \nhttps://www.newdawnarts.org/classes-and-workshops \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/new-dawn-writers-group-poetry-workshop-3/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Fred Gerhard":MAILTO:fredcgerhard@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T160000
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off Beat Poets
DESCRIPTION:MPORTANT: PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR FOR THIS OUTDOOR EVENT  (Indoors if weather is unpleasant) \n\n\n\nWHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Sara Letourneau & Wayne Daniel Berard \n\n\n\nWHERE: Steve Veilleux’s Home 112 Fabyan Woodstock Rd\, N Grosvenordale\, CT \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sunday October 13th\, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\nWHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 15 minutes. Then we will take a quick break for book sales\, snacks and the raffle before starting the open mic. Open mic will be round robin\, one poem at a time until 4 PM. \n\n\n\nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. \n\n\n\nSIGN-UPS: There is room for 18 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-7/
LOCATION:Steve Veilleux’s Home\, 112 Fabyan-Woodstock North Road\, Grosvenordale\, CT\, 06255\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T150000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Bishop: Paintings in Poems
DESCRIPTION:This year’s graveside reading to mark the anniversary of Bishop’s death will acknowledge Crystalle Lacouture’s new installation Correspondence (for Elizabeth Bishop) at the Worcester Art Museum. \n\n\n\nDid you know Bishop was also a painter? Listen to local poets and fans read her poems about drawings\, paintings\, and scenes sketched with a painter’s eye\, and enjoy refreshments in the delicate\, complicated colors she liked. If you’d like to read — we’ll suggest a poem for you! — please email Beth at ssweeney@holycross.edu by Oct. 10. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nElizabeth Bishop\, Pansies\, 1960 (Alice Methfessel Collection)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirections: To find Bishop’s grave\, enter the main gate of Hope Cemetery\, 119 Webster Street\, and drive along Curtis Avenue. Take your fourth left onto Beech Avenue (after Elm\, Larch\, and Bush Avenues). Proceed for one very short bock until you see two trees next to each other on the left side of the road Bishop’s grave lies behind the first tree. There is ample space to park close to the grave.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/elizabeth-bishop-paintings-in-poems/
LOCATION:E.Bishop Grave at Hope Cemetary\, 119 Webster St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T200000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Board Meeting: October Edition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Board & Committee Meeting and help us plan for our future. We meet in the Seminar Room at our Headquarters at 61 Harvard St.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/monthly-board-meeting-october-edition/
LOCATION:WCPA Headquarters\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T210000
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CREATED:20241006T011329Z
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SUMMARY:The Poet's Cauldron: Genie Santiago
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poets-cauldron-genie-santiago/
LOCATION:The White Room\, 134 Green St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Bruja TheVillain":MAILTO:thepoetscauldron@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T200000
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SUMMARY:Free lecture by poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathi
DESCRIPTION:The Prior Performing Arts Center will be hosting poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil on Thursday\, October 3 at 6 pm. Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times-bestselling World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments. Her essay collection\, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees\, blends reporting\, research\, and memoir to celebrate food as a locus for care\, grief\, desire\, nostalgia. Her poetry collections explore issues of environmental concerns\, and she is the first-ever poetry editor for SIERRA magazine.  You can reserve your free ticket and learn more information on our website. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/free-lecture-by-poet-and-essayist-aimee-nezhukumatathi/
LOCATION:Luth Concert Hall\, Prior Performance Center\, 1 College Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Marta Beyer":MAILTO:mbeyer@holycross.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T203000
DTSTAMP:20260612T073445
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SUMMARY:Poetry Extravaganza Featuring Bruja TheVillain
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday October 1st from 6-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor and contemplation. Two open-mic sessions will sandwich our feature Bruja TheVillain. Sign up for the Open mic at jfjr6969@gmail.com. Five minute maximum please. Free admission. Separate area for our event. On-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options. \n\n\n\nRedemption Rock Brewery serves craft beers\, coffees\, teas and delicious snacks. you can bring your own food but outside beverages are not allowed. The Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowsky Painting.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIn the mystical realms of Isabela\, Puerto Rico\, a self-taught visionary emerged\, destined to become a force of reckoning – BrujaTheVillain. Raised by the enchanting shores\, Bruja honed their skills in the arcane arts of interdisciplinary creativity\, blending film\, visual arts\, and the spoken word into a tapestry that echoed through the ether. The origin of BrujaTheVillain is steeped in mystery\, a tale whispered among the palm trees and carried by the Caribbean breeze. As a young artist\, they discovered their powers\, a gift to weave inspiration and magic through every stroke of their brush\, every frame of their films\, and every word of their poetry. The vibrant heart of downtown Worcester became their canvas\, a playground for their artistic prowess. From the shadows\, Bruja emerged as an artist\, activist\, and mentor\, transcending the boundaries of ordinary existence. Their creations not only graced the stages and galleries of New England and New York but also garnered a cascade of honors and accolades. Each accolade was a beacon\, drawing the attention of those who sought the extraordinary. Yet\, Bruja’s art wasn’t just an expression; it was a lifeline to their community. With roots deep in the mystical soil of Puerto Rico\, they dedicated themselves to using their creative endeavors as a lifeline\, saving lives through the freedom of expression. The symphony of creativity and passion that flowed through Bruja’s work became a transformative force\, imprinting the souls of those who dared to join them on this extraordinary journey of art and advocacy. As the tale of BrujaTheVillain unfolds\, their story becomes a legend in the cosmic tapestry of heroes and villains\, a saga that transcends the boundaries of reality and imagination. In the comicbook of life\, BrujaTheVillain stands as a symbol of inspiration\, a beacon of change\, and a guardian of the artistic realms. The journey continues\, and with each creation\, a new chapter unfolds\, leaving an indelible mark on the universe.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-extravaganza-featuring-bruja-thevillain/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T160000
DTSTAMP:20260612T073445
CREATED:20240919T202123Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Caribbean Short Fiction at 19Carter
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to hear Barbara Paul-Emile offer a dynamic reading from her short fiction and poetry collection!  \n\n\n\nNow living in Berlin\, Paul-Emile is an award-winning author born and raised in Montego Bay\, Jamaica. Her fiction and poetry\, inspired by the mystical heritage of Caribbean island culture\, has appeared in American and Canadian journals. Her novel Seer\, winner of the Chelson Award for fiction\, warms the heart and stirs the spirit. Paul-Emile’s Mosaic: Caribbean Short Fiction Collection presents dramatic images that mirror\, as with a painter’s brush\, portraits of characters facing life issues. This author is described as possessing “an exciting and original voice in Caribbean literature that chronicles the richness of the multicultural experience with strong cross-cultural appeal”. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Paul-Emile is the inaugural Maurice E. Goldman Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Bentley University.  She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at New York University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado–Boulder. Dr. Paul-Emile’s work centers on 19th century English Romantic Literature\, Myth\, and Caribbean Literature. \n\n\n\nNamed Massachusetts Professor of the Year (1994-5) by the Carnegie Foundation and by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education\, Dr. Paul-Emile was honored by the University of Massachusetts\, receiving its Distinguished Scholar Award and was awarded Bentley University’s highest teaching honor: The Adamian Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a four-time winner of the Teaching Innovation Award\, a two-time winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award\, and the recipient of several publication awards. \n\n\n\nDr. Paul-Emile was selected by the Women of Harvard Club Committee as an honoree for demonstrated leadership and outstanding achievement at their 3rd Annual Boston’s Most Influential Women’s Award Ceremony\, 2014.  She was the recipient of Bentley University’s Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award 2020 and was recently honored by New York University’s Alumni Association as recipient of their 2024 Alumni Achievement Award. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-and-caribbean-short-fiction-at-19carter/
LOCATION:19Carter\, 19 Carter Street\, Berlin\, Massachusetts\, 01503\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T073445
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SUMMARY:POETS AT LARGE KICKS OFF ITS FALL SEASON
DESCRIPTION:Worcester poet Tony Brown will help kick off the fall season of Poets at Large at The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret.  Brown will be featured on Sept 28th\, followed by  Lee Derosiers on October 26th with Christie Max Williams closing things out on November 23rd.  These Saturday evenings of spoken word and poetry are from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $15.00 and includes a give-away. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA\, now in its fifth year. Contact Poets at Large coordinator Karen Warinsky if you are interested in reading in the open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. There is a 5-minute limit for open mic readers and these events are recommended for ages 14 and up. \n\n\n\nBrown has a long and lauded career as a poet\, which includes being a seven-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best Of The Net nominee\, and an earlier life traveling the country as a slam poet. \n\n\n\nHe is the winner of the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Medal\, endowed by the late US Poet Laureate and Worcester native and awarded annually to a poet for life achievement and service to the Central Massachusetts poetry community.  His most recent publications can be found through his Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/TonyBrown).  Brown is also known for being a part of the jazz/rock/funk/poetry band “The Duende Project\, which has seven released collections\, available on all the usual online streaming and download outlets.   He is the Poetry Program director of the Shawna Foundation\, and is the host of the Library Poetry Tour\, among other creative endeavors \n\n\n\nPoets at Large is a project of Windham Arts.  This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown\, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union\, and Weiss\, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors. The Vanilla Bean is ADA compliant.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-at-large-kicks-off-its-fall-season/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T213000
DTSTAMP:20260612T073445
CREATED:20240910T161926Z
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SUMMARY:Stockmal Reading
DESCRIPTION:GREGORY STOCKMAL READING \n\n\n\nThe Gregory Stockmal Reading was established in 2009 by the Worcester County Poetry Association in cooperation with Carol Stockmal. The purpose of the reading is to continue the efforts of Greg Stockmal to honor American poet Stanley Kunitz and his legacy in Worcester. The reading is an important part of this legacy\, recognizing Stanley Kunitz as teacher and leader of his self-described “tribe” of poets\, friends\, and family by sponsoring Worcester-area readings by poets for whom Stanley Kunitz has been an inspiration. \n\n\n\nEach year the Worcester County Poetry Association partners with a local college or university to present a poet who had a connection to poet Stanley Kunitz. Kunitz (1905-2006) was born in Worcester and went on to receive many honors\, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Medal of Arts\, and was to become Poet Laureate of the United States (1974\, 2000). \n\n\n\nWhere: RAZZO HALL\, TRAINA CENTER\, CLARK UNIVERSITY (92 DOWNING ST.) \n\n\n\nWhen:  THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 7:30-9:30 PM \n\n\n\nMary Bonina was finalist for the Goldfarb Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) which has since awarded her several residencies\, including one at the VCCA retreat\, Moulin a Nef\, in Auvillar\, France. Publications include My Father’s Eyes: a Memoir and the poetry collections—Living Proof\, Clear Eye Tea\, and the newly-released collection Lunch in Chinatown\, all from Červená Barva Press\, which will also publish her novel\, My Way Home\, in 2025. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Lowell Review\, Poets and Writers\, Lily Poetry Review\, Salamander\, Mom Egg\, Ovunque Siamo\, Adelaide\, and many other journals\, and her work has been included in several anthologies\, including Voices of the City from the Rutgers University Center for Ethnicity\, Culture\, and Modern Experience\, with Hanging Loose Press. Bonina’s poem\, “Drift\,” won the Boston Contemporary Authors Prize and is engraved on a granite monolith\, a permanent public art installation outside a busy subway station. Her collaborations with composers of art songs and new music premiered at Longy School of Music of Bard College and elsewhere\, and for the exhibition “Breath and Matter” at Boston Sculptors Gallery\, twenty-four collaborations between poets and sculptors\, her poetry was featured with B Amore’s sculpture. She earned her M.F.A. in the Program for Writers\, Warren Wilson College. Her website is www.marybonina.com \n\n\n\nSorcery \n\n\n\nOn this island hummingbirds drink \n\n\n\nfrom blue banana flowers\, and orchids \n\n\n\nin the cloud forest attach themselves \n\n\n\nto every tree\, making you fall for them\, \n\n\n\nleading to confusion and forgetting \n\n\n\nwho you are you begin to think: \n\n\n\nam I a flower\, a bird\, \n\n\n\nor maybe I’m a tree? \n\n\n\nOn this island you will find \n\n\n\nThe Valley of Desolation and also \n\n\n\nthe sometimes dried up Boiling Lake. \n\n\n\nYou will hear\, too\, the dove\, \n\n\n\nits awful sad cry\, because \n\n\n\nin the rainforest\, even the sadness \n\n\n\nof a dove has more muscle. \n\n\n\nAnd the pigeon with a red neck coos\, \n\n\n\ncomforting the trembler\, \n\n\n\nand the pearly-eyed thrasher. \n\n\n\nMARY BONINA \n\n\n\nFrom Clear Eye Tea: Poems\, copyright 2010 by Mary Bonina. Used with permission of Cervena Barva Press. Artwork by Donna Pomponio.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/stockmal-reading/
LOCATION:Razzo Hall\, Clark University\, 92 Downing Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01610\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Richard Fox Poetry Series Featuring....
DESCRIPTION:The Richard Fox Poetry Series is a monthly poetry open- mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human-being extraordinaire Richard Fox. Our feature will be blank. \n\n\n\nFree admission. On-the-street parking. Root and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their new location. \n\n\n\nSignup for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots available. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County Poetry Association)
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-richard-fox-poetry-series-featuring/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Richard Fox Poetry Series: Don White
DESCRIPTION:The Richard Fox Poetry Series is a monthly poetry open- mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human-being extraordinaire Richard Fox. \n\n\n\nThis month’s Featured Wordsmith will be the very talented author\, storyteller\, and singer/songwriter\, Don White\, \n\n\n\nFree admission. On-the-street parking. Root and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their new location. \n\n\n\nSignup for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots available. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County PoetryAssociation) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDon White defies a one-word explanation. An award-winning singer/songwriter\, a comedian\, an author\, and a storyteller\, he is a modern day troubadour. He has been bringing audiences to laughter and tears for forty years\, releasing nine CDs\, three live DVDs. He has authored two books\, Memoirs of a C Student and most recently\, The Hitchhiking Years.”
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/richard-fox-poetry-series-2/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Carolyn Oliver
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, September 24\, 2024 Carolyn Oliver will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books\, 2024)\, Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press\, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize)\, and three chapbooks\, including\, most recently\, Night Ocean (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2023). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in TriQuarterly\, Image\, Copper Nickel\, Poetry Daily\, Consequence\, and elsewhere. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio\, she now lives in Massachusetts. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-carolyn-oliver-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heather Treseler & Gloria Monaghan Reading
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/heather-treseler-gloria-monaghan-reading/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Hall Celebration of Excellence
DESCRIPTION:Register Here
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/mechanics-hall-celebration-of-excellence/
LOCATION:Mechanics Hall\, 321 Main Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01608\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T180000
DTSTAMP:20260612T073445
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SUMMARY:O'Hara Prize Winners' Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the winners of the WCPA’s 2024 Annual Poetry Contest: The Frank O’Hara Prize for a reading of their work and the work of contest judge Dennis Barone. There will also be an opportunity to mingle over refreshments. The reading will start at 4:00 pm US/Eastern. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Prize – Paul Szlosek is a poet born in Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, but currently resides in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. He was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge and a past recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry. In May 2019\, Paul started a brand new open mic and featured poetry reading series with poet Ron Whittle called The Poetorium at Starlite (also in Southbridge)\, which closed in March 2020 due to COVID\, but reopened recently in June 2022 (in the two-year interim\, he ran an online print version entitled The Virtual Poetorium which he continues under the name The International Imaginarium For Word & Verse). Szlosek was named 2023’s Kunitz Medalist by the Worcester County Poetry Association. His poetry has appeared in various local & national print & online publications\, including The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, Radius\, Sahara\, Concrete Wolf\, Soul-Lit\, and Diner. He’s probably best known in the Central Massachusetts poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms\, and has invented his own\, including the ziggurat\, the streetbeatina\, the hodgenelle\, the lux\, and the singsangsong\, which he often shares with readers on his poetry blog Paul’s Poetry Play Ground. \n\n\n\nSecond Prize – Claire Schaeffer-Duffy\, along with their husband Scott\, is a founding member of the SS. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker\, a lay community in Worcester\, MA\, that offers hospitality to men and women in need and engages in a variety of works for peace and justice. The community publishes The Catholic Radical\, to which Claire contributes. Claire began writing as a freelance journalist for the National Catholic Reporter in 2000\, a pursuit that has allowed her to satisfy her wanderlust. Her profiles\, features\, and investigative stories have garnered several awards from the Catholic Press Association. You can find her book reviews in America magazine. She and Scott are the happy parents of four children and grandparents of six. The couple still logs their miles as long-distance runners\, although lately\, Claire is thinking about taking up the ukulele. \n\n\n\nThird Prize – Art DuBois is a 67-year-old career clinical social worker who has worked as a psychotherapist in the public defender’s office and in management positions in the human services field. He is an amateur nature photographer and intermittent poet. He counts Mary Oliver as his main inspiration\, and his poetry is heavily influenced by his mindfulness practices and his work in helping others. Art resides in Uxbridge\, Massachusetts\, and is married to his wife\, Susan. Together they have three children: Sam\, 30; Annie\, 27; and Joey\, 23. \n\n\n\nHonorable Mention – Matt Zingg Matt Zingg is a high school English teacher in central Massachusetts with a master’s degree in English literature from Framingham State University. He spends his spare time writing poems and stories\, painting\, playing and writing music\, and hiking outside with his dog\, Ralph\, and his wife\, Brittany. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nContest Chairperson Joe Fusco Jr. and WCPA Administrator Irena Kaci will moderate the ceremony. \n\n\n\nContest Judge Dennis Barone is the author of seven short fiction books\, including On the Bus: Selected Stories (Blaze Vox\, 2012). He is also the author of two novellas\, Temple of the Rat (Left Hand Books\, 2000) and God’s Whisper (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2005)\, and the author of a collection of prose poems\, The Walls of Circumstance (Avec Books\, 2004). Bordighera Press published his study of Italian-American narrative America / Trattabili in 2011. Barone is editor of Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 1995)\, New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (Star Cloud Press\, 2011)\, and Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776 (Wesleyan University Press\, 2012). Left Hand Books published his selected poems volume one\, Separate Objects\, in 1998\, and Shearsman Books published volume two entitled Parallel Lines in 2011. In 2015 Quale Press published his mixed genre book Sound / Hammer\, and in 2016 the SUNY Press published his study Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America. In 2017 Bordighera Press published his book Second Thoughts\, a work of short fictions and prose poems. Also\, in 2017\, he received the inaugural Sister Mary Ellen Murphy Faculty Scholarship Award at the University of Saint Joseph. In 2018\, Blaze Vox published Frame Narrative\, a book of poetry\, and in 2022\, the mixed-genre book\, A Field Guide to the Rehearsal. His newest book is After Math from Cyber Wit. A graduate of Bard College\, he received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Saint Joseph. Currently\, he serves as the Poetry Editor for the Wallace Stevens Journal and President of the Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for what is always a fun and inspiring event.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/ohara-prize-winners-reading/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church (90 Main St. Worcester\, MA)\, 90 Main St.\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609\, United States
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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic Poetry \n\n\n\nSaturday\, September 21st\, 2-4 PM \n\n\n\nJoin us for this monthly round robin style\, open poetry share. The event is limited to 14 people and usually fills up quickly.  \n\n\n\nTo sign up to participate\, please email deb@bookloversgourmet.com or call 508-949-6232.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-5/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large Presents: MASS BEAT POET LAUREATE & CT STATE POET LAUREATE READING
DESCRIPTION:Current Massachusetts Poet Laureate Linda Bratcher Wlodyka will be featured along with CTState Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell in a free spoken-word event at Roseland Park in Woodstock\, CT. This free poetry/spoken word event is sponsored by Poets at Large and will be held September 15th\, 2-4 p.m. in the barn at Roseland Park\, 205 Roseland Park Road. This is the fifth year for the regional group to bring poets to the park. Featured with Wlodyka will be Brim-Bell and Christopher Reilley\, former poet of Dedham\, MA.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSign up for open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. Five- minute limit as time allows. Recommended for ages 14 and up. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWlodyka is the current Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate\, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023\, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount\, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox\, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Wlodyka’s poem\, “Secret Cottage\,” was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012\, and she has three chapbooks previously self-published; Her Spirited Cameo\, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends\, Collected Poems\, is her first full length poetry collection (Human Error Publishing\, 2023). Wlodyka is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrim-Bell is in the second year of her term as the poet laureate of Connecticut. She is Connecticut’s 8th state poet laureate and is the author of three full-length poetry collections: These Women You Gave Me\, Icarus in Love\, and Psalm of the Sunflower.  She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alumna of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA). Her poetry has appeared in various journals\, magazines\, textbooks\, and anthologies\, including Villanelles\, 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the 44th President of the United States\, Not A Muse\, and has appeared in Poetry Magazine and Poem-a-Day.  Additionally\, Brim-Bell has published critical work and essays\, most notably: “Living Behind the Numbers: A Statistic Muses about her Life” (National Association of African American Studies Monograph Series); “The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (Critical Insights: Alice Walker\, Salem Press) and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral\, the surrealist tableau of black poverty & the women in between” (The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent\, Haymarket Books).  A printmaker and collage artist\, Brim-Bell also serves on various arts and humanitarian boards among many other accomplishments. She is a speaker\, educator and consultant\, as well as a Professor of English at Capital Community College in Hartford. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReilley (former poet laureate for Dedham\, MA) is a contributing editor at Acoustic Ink. He has been involved in print and print production for over thirty years\, working for such companies as Xerox\, EFI\, Ricoh USA and Online Print Solutions. He is a copywriter for the Bytesized Studio. His poems have appeared in a wide number of publications\, including the Boston Literary Journal\, Word Salad Poetry\, Wild Winds\, Coldnoon\, Travel Poetics and many others. His work can be found in several anthologies. Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown\, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union\, and Weiss\, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors and Global Partners and Tom and Kathy Borner and Linemaster Switch.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-presents-mass-beat-poet-laureate-ct-state-poet-laureate-reading/
LOCATION:Roseland Park\, 205 Roseland Park Rd.\, Woodstock\, CT\, 06281\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Warinsky%2C Poets At Large":MAILTO:karen.warinsky@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:The Openest Mic:  Triskaidekaphobia at Smokestack!
DESCRIPTION:Make Friday the 13th your lucky day and join The Openest Mic at Smokestack Roasters! \n\n\n\nBring your songs\, your poems\, your jokes\, your dances\, your whole authentic self and be prepared to share your craft with a responsive and fun audience! \n\n\n\nNot ready for the mic? Guess you’ll just have to have a great night of free entertainment\, delicious drinks and tasty bites. The venue is wheelchair accessible with tons of well lit parking. ALL ages are welcome\, we’ve had performers as young as 4 and as old as 92\, absolutely everyone is welcome! \n\n\n\nSets are five minutes or two songs! More details to come\, any questions just message the hosts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-openest-mic-triskaidekaphobia-at-smokestack/
LOCATION:Smokestack Roasters\, 39 Massachussetts Avenue\, Lunenburg\, MA\, 01462\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Laura DiCaronimo":MAILTO:laura.optician@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Two Poets in Southbridge a Reading with Stephen Campiglio and Bill O’Connell
DESCRIPTION:The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host “Two Poets in Southbridge” a reading by Bill O’Connell and Stephen Campiglio. \n\n\n\nYou are invited – the event is free and open to all! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill O’Connell is the author of When We Were All Still Alive (Open Field\, 2021); Sakonnet Point (Plinth Books\, 2011)\, and On The Map To Your Life (Dytiscid Press\, 1992)\, plus poems in anthologies and literary magazines\, such as The Sun\, Poetry East\, Colorado Review\, Green Mountains Review\, and others. He lives in Amherst\, MA with his wife\, Robin Marion. \n\n\n\nStephen Campiglio recently co-edited\, with AJ Juarez and Julie Murkette\, Noh Place Poetry Anthology (Lost Valley Press\, 2022). His poems and Italian translations have appeared of late in Aji\, DASH\, Gradiva\, Hole in the Head Review\, Italian Americana\, Journal of Italian Translation\, The Octotillo Review\, SLAB\, and SurVision. He is presently translating\, with Elena Borelli\, Giovanni Pascoli’s (1855-1912) volume of poetry\, Canti di Castelvecchio.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/two-poets-in-southbridge-a-reading-with-stephen-campiglio-and-bill-oconnell/
LOCATION:Jacob Edwards Library\, 236 Main St.\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off-Beat Poets
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR FOR THIS OUTDOOR EVENT \n\n\n\nWHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Joe Fusco\, Jr & Dina Stander \n\n\n\nWHERE: Betsy’s Backyard Stage 185 Arvidson Road Woodstock\, CT \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sunday September 8th\, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\nWHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 15 minutes. Then we will take a quick break for book sales\, snacks and the raffle before starting the open mic. Open mic will be round robin\, one poem at a time until 4 PM. \n\n\n\nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. \n\n\n\nSIGN-UPS: There is room for 20 poets/ 40 total guests. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: 185 Arvidson Road is a dirt road. GPS will send you to ways: If you come off Roseland Park Road (right near Roseland Park) onto Arvidson it will begin as paved and a sign will tell you when the pavement ends. Just stay to the right and 185 is about 1/2 mile up on the right side. \n\n\n\nIf it sends you up Child Hill Rd\, you will make a left onto Arvidson dirt road and it will be less than a 1/4 mile on the left. \n\n\n\nPLEASE DO NOT PARK ON STREET! Pull in the driveway and you can park on the grass along the edge or pull all the way around. Plenty of parking! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/stand-up poet from Worcester\, Massachusetts. He is the author of five books of semi-amusing poems and essays: “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 naughty ezine 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 Redemption Rock Brewery and The Richard Fox Poetry Series at Root and Press Café and Books in Worcester.Joe has taught “Humor 101” for high-school students at Gateways Academy in Shrewsbury and for adults at the Worcester Senior Center\, 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. \n\n\n\nDina Stander is a western MA based poet\, End-of-life Navigator\, burial shroud maker\, and practitioner of radical kinship. Her work has been published in Naugatuck River Review\, Silkworm\, Breath & Shadow\, and a variety of places online. She has published two books: Old Bones & True Stories (2018) and Housewife Blues (2021)\, both with Human Error Publishing. You can learn more about her projects at www.dinastander.com.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-6/
LOCATION:Betsy’s Backyard Stage\, 185 Arvidson Road\, Woodstock\, MA\, 06281\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetorium @ Starlite
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special double feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium at Starlite hosted by Paul Szlosek and Ron Whittle. It will be a full evening of poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our two featured poets Eileen Cleary (Author of 2 a.m. with Keats & Short List of Wonders) and Linda Bratcher Wlodyka (Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate\, 2023-2025) followed by poetry readings by our features\, a 10-minute tribute to a dead poet by a guest reader (T.B.A)\, a short intermission\, and then an open mic (with 5-minute slots for each reader). Admission is free\, but a hat will be passed for donations to pay our feature and compensate Starlite for the use of their space. For more information\, please get in touch with us at poetorium@mail.com or visit our website https//poetorium.home.blog/2019/04/29/the-poetorium-at-starlite-2/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen Cleary (she/her/hers) is the author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (2019)\, which won honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Award\,  2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate\, 2021) and Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate\, 2024.) She co-edited the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus\, the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival and founded and is EIC of Lily Poetry Review Books and the Lily Poetry Review. She has edited over fifty published poetry collections. A multi-Pushcart nominee\, her work is widely published in journals and anthologies. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Walsh is an English professor at Massasoit Community College in Brockton\, MA\, where he teaches literature and philosophy. Through Massasoit Television\, he created Writers at Work\, andhas developed a new show\, Out of the Marvelous\, focusing on poets and poetry in Southeastern Massachusetts. Since the mid 1990s he had helped organize and host poetry readings in Plymouth and Brockton. Mark was the head judge of the selection team for the City of Brockton’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate. He is a submission reader for The Lily Poetry Review\, and his journalism has appeared in The South Shore News and The Marshfield Mariner and his book reviews in the Lily Poetry Review and Solstice. His poetry has been published in various literary journals and publications including Beatnick Cowboy\, Lily Poetry Review\, Abandoned Mine\, Wilderness House Literary Review\, Coneflower Cafe\,and Rituals\, Mark’s first collection of poetry\, his chapbook\, In The Garden of Fortune\, was just published by Lily Poetry Review Books in May of 2024.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-starlite-7/
LOCATION:Starlite Bar and Gallery\, 39 Hamilton St\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Claire Mowbray Golding
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, August 27th\, 2024 Claire Mowbray Golding will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Mowbray Golding is a freelance writer and editor whose prose work has been published in newspapers\, magazines\, textbooks\, and reading programs. She’s the co-author of two nonfiction books: What’s That Bird? (with Joseph Choiniere\, Storey Publishing\, 2005) and Communicating through Graphic Design (with Kevin Gatta\, Davis Publications\, 2021). She was the 2003 recipient of the Worcester County Poetry Association’s Frank O’Hara Prize\, and has self-published a chapbook\, Poems and Other Offerings (Lulu Press\, 2009). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has been published in The Worcester Review\, New Millennium Writings\, Contour (as part of the 2017 Tale of Two Cities International Poetry Project with Worcester\, Massachusetts and the Poet Laureate of Worcester\, England)\, The Scenes and Seasons of a Small New England Village\, Penning the Pandemic\, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal. She lives in Princeton\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-claire-mowbray-golding/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Only
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SUMMARY:Richard Fox Poetry Series: Paul Szlosek
DESCRIPTION:The Richard Fox Poetry Series is a monthly poetry open- mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human-being extraordinaire Richard Fox. \n\n\n\nThis month’s Feature poet will be the iconic Paul SzlosekFree admission.  \n\n\n\nOn-the-street parking.  \n\n\n\nRoot and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their new location.Signup for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots available.Sponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County Poetry Association) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Szlosek is a poet born in Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, but currently residing in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. The recipient of the 2023 Stanley Kunitz Medal as well as the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry in 2001\, he was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge. In May 2019\, Paul started a brand-new open mic and featured poetry reading series with poet Ron Whittle called The Poetorium at Starlite (also in Southbridge) which closed in March 2020 due to COVID\, but reopened in June 2022 (in the two-year interim\, he ran an online print version entitled The Virtual Poetorium). His poetry has appeared in various local & national print & online publications including The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, Radius\, Sahara\, Concrete Wolf\, Soul-Lit\, Diner\, & Silkworm. Paul is probably best known in the Central Massachusetts poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms. He has invented his own including the ziggurat\, the streetbeatina\, the hodgenelle\, the lux\, and the singsangsong which he often shares on his blog\, Paul’s Poetry Playground.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/richard-fox-poetry-series-paul-szlosek/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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