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SUMMARY:Worcester Senior Center Hosts Humorist Joe Fusco Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Worcester humorist/stand-up poet Joe Fusco Jr reads his latest musings\, many from his new book ‘Random Thoughts from A Curmudgeon\,’ then answers questions about the meaning of life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree admission. Ample parking. All ages welcome. \n\n\n\nJoin Joe later for lunch at Bobby Mac’s Diner in the Senior Center. Great hot dogs!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/worcester-senior-center-hosts-humorist-joe-fusco-jr-2/
LOCATION:Worcester Senior Center\, 128 Providence St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLO/DUET: Music & Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry and music. Each evening will feature solo readings by area poets that will bookend a musical duet performance in the Merriam Gilbert library in West Brookfield\, Ma. Each program will begin at 6:00 pm. The evenings are free and open to the public and sponsored in part by a grant from the Mass Council of the Arts as administered locally by the West Brookfield Cultural Council. \n\n\n\nPoets: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Elizabeth Sharpe is a poetry editor at the Worcester Review\, and her poems have appeared in Columbia Journal\, West Trade Review\, Mom Egg Review\, Catalyst\, Mason Street Review and other magazines and anthologies. Karen has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has been a coffee-cart clerk\, a babysitter\, a journalist and editor\, a caterer\, a funeral ceremonialist\, a professional fundraiser\, and an assistant vice-president at two universities. She celebrates the healing power of forgiveness in relationships. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nand John Hodgen is Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University and Advisory Editor for New Letters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He is the author of six books of poetry\, including Grace\, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. His new book\, What We May Be\, is forthcoming from Lynx House Press. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMusic by Jerry Wilfong\, Rich Falco & Rich Ardizzone.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-music-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Merriam Gilbert Library\, 3 West Main St.\, West Brookfield\, MA\, 01585\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T130000
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SUMMARY:SLIGHTLY OFF-BEAT POETS PRESENTS FRED GERHARD & TOMMY TWILITE
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Fred Gerhard & Tommy Twilite \n\n\n\nWHERE: Steve Veilleux’s home: 112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale\, CT \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sunday April 14\, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\nWHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 20 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\n\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-presents-fred-gerhard-tommy-twilite/
LOCATION:Steve Veilleux’s Home\, 112 Fabyan-Woodstock North Road\, Grosvenordale\, CT\, 06255\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T203000
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SUMMARY:Solo/Duet: Music & Poetry in Harmony
DESCRIPTION:A poetry and music series at the Woods Memorial Public Library. This Tuesday we are featuring poets Susan Roney-O’Brien & David Thoreen.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFree and open to all!  Please stop by or call the Library at 978-355-2533 to reserve your seat. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEach evening will feature solo readings by area poets book-ended by a musical duet. This program is made possible by the Barre Cultural Council as supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Woods Memorial Library. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMusic by Jerry Wilfong (bass) and Dick Hummel (trumpet and percussion).
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-music-poetry-in-harmony/
LOCATION:Woods Memorial Public Library\, 19 Pleasant St.\, Barre\, Massachusetts\, 01005\, United States
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SUMMARY:Clemente Worcester’s Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:in collaboration with our partners: \n\n\n\nThe Worcester County Poetry Association\, Trinity Lutheran Church \n\n\n\nand Worcester Art Museum \n\n\n\nJoin us for in-depth discussions with writers\, artists\, and influencers of all dimensions. \n\n\n\nWe Welcome 2023 Kunitz Medal Winner\, Poet\, Paul Szlosek \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSzlosek’s poetry has appeared in various local & national print & online publications including The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, Radius\, Sahara\, Concrete Wolf\, Soul-Lit\, Diner\, & Silkworm. 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis Program is open to the public. No Reservations are required. Clemente Worcester is funded by: Mass Humanities\, Greater Worcester Community Foundation\, George I. Alden Trust\, Anna Maria College\, Clark University\, Quinsigamond Community College\, The Clearbrook Fund of the Greater Worcester \n\n\n\nCommunity Foundation\, and many individual donors. We are grateful to you all. To learn more about The Clemente Course in the Humanities\, Worcester please go to www.clementeworcester.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/clemente-worcesters-speaker-series/
LOCATION:Trinity Lutheran Fellowship Hall\, 73 Lancaster St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Bill O’Connell has been living in the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts between the Connecticut River and Quabbin Reservoir since 1984. A retired social worker\, he teaches literature and writing at Greenfield Community College and runs a small handyman business. Bill’s books of poetry include Sakonnet Point (Plinth Books 2011) & 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\, etc. A new collection\, When We Were All Still Alive\, is just out from Open Field Press.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill O’Connell explores the ancient and the new in these poems: the planet of rocks and soil and sea and the planet of the mind looking outward. What lives and dies are enfolded in time: O’Connell seeks to know nature’s music and what humans add to our presence in the natural world.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn the Kingdom by Jonathan Blake. ISBN: 978-1935874478 * Lost Valley Press * www.lostvalleypress.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Blake has been following the gospel of his heart for as long as he can remember. Writer\, educator\, arts activist/organizer\, he makes his home in central Massachusetts. On the campus of Worcester State University in the twelve years before the pandemic\, he hosted a round robin open reading series for students\, faculty and staff\, and the greater Worcester County poetry community called ONE POEM.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn 1984 my parents purchased a small log cabin overlooking a pond in a sparsely inhabited valley at the end of a long dirt road in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. In time\, with the coming of grandchildren and great grandchildren\, the family built another cabin to accommodate the gatherings of the tribe.The rolling hills of the pastures on the horizon\, the wildlife\, the stillness needed for dreaming\, have long been the wellspring for my writing.In the late 1980’s\, after a visit to our family cabin\, the poet Bill O’Connell named the place Paradise. It remains a place where poems and peace can be found.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Sheehan Building Worcester State University\, 486 Chandler St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Wanderer’s Tethering
DESCRIPTION:Boston Lyric Opera returns to the Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross with the song cycle “The Wanderer’s Tethering.” This piece\, which BLO premiered in June 2023\, combines poetry by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and music by Boston-based composer\, vocalist\, and multimedia artist Mason Bynes. It follows the story of Tobi\, a descendant of the Igbo community whose members were stolen from modern-day Nigeria and led a revolt on the shores of Georgia in 1803. Bynes’ music merges Negro spirituals and Igbo folkloric music\, reflecting the transformation experienced by the contemporary protagonist as she claims her own identity. The program will also include stirring selections of vocal music and string quartets performed by BLO artists and Castle of Our Skins. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPorsha Olayiwola is a native of Chicago who writes\, lives and loves in Boston. Olayiwola is a writer\, performer\, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black\, woman\, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola is Brown University’s 2019 Heimark Artist -In -Residence as well as the 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American poets. Olayiwola earned her MFA in poetry from Emerson College and is the author of i shimmer sometimes\, too. Olayiwola is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston. Her work can be found in or forthcoming from with TriQuarterly Magazine\, Black Warrior Review\, The Boston Globe\, Essence Magazine\, Redivider\, The Academy of American Poets\, Netflix\, Wildness Press\, The Museum of Fine Arts and elsewhere.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-wanderers-tethering/
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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SUMMARY:Write Angles Confererence
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/write-angles-confererence/
LOCATION:Northampton Center For The Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:National Baseball Poetry Festival Contest
DESCRIPTION:CONTEST INFORMATION \n\n\n\nSTUDENTS GRADES 4-12 AND LITTLE LEAGUERS\n\n\n\nPOETRY CONTEST\n\n\n\nThe National Baseball Poetry Festival is a celebration of poetry whose themes focus on Baseball and/or Softball! The Festival takes place at Polar Park\, May 3-5.  All grades 4-12 students and Little Leaguers are invited to submit poems with a baseball and/or softball theme\, for example: opening day\, ballpark food\, Polar Park\, first pitch\, athletic heroes\, uniforms\, ball parks\, Little League\, dugout chatter\, the season of the game\, etc. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCategories\n\n\n\n\nYouth Grades 4 – 12\n\n\n\nLittle Leaguers\n\n\n\n\nTeacher Resources\n\n\n\n\nContest Form\n\n\n\nLesson Plan\n\n\n\n\nCOLLEGE STUDENTS & ALL POETS EVERYWHERE\n\n\n\nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS\n\n\n\nThe National Baseball Poetry Festival invites submissions of poems that deal with any aspect of the gamesmanship\, nature\, and atmosphere of Baseball and/or Softball\, for example: opening day\, ballpark food\, childhood memories\, first pitch\, athletic heroes\, uniforms\, ball parks\, Little League\, body English\, dugout chatter\, the season of the game\, etc. \n\n\n\nNo restriction on form. Poets may submit up to 3 poems for consideration. Each poem should fit on a single page. The thematic views of baseball/softball and the game will be given wide interpretation by the judge(s). \n\n\n\nCategories\n\n\n\n\nAdults 18+\n\n\n\nCollege/University Students\n\n\n\n\nPublication\n\n\n\n\nWinners (up to 20 per category—College/University and Adult 18+) will be published on BaseballBard.com (Founder\, Mark Sickman)\n\n\n\n\nPrizes\n\n\n\n\nWinners attending the Festival will also receive a National Baseball Poetry Festival t-shirt!\n\n\n\n\nGuidelines for Submission\n\n\n\n\nDeadline: Noon\, Wednesday\, April 17\, 2024 (ET).\n\n\n\nSubmit: 1-3 poems in Word format to baseballpoetryfest@gmail.com.\n\n\n\nMust Include: Category of submission (Adult or College/University)\, poet’s name\, address\, phone number and email address.\n\n\n\nWinners Notification: Friday\, April 26\, 2024 by email.\n\n\n\n\nContest Rules\n\n\n\n\nThe contest is open to ALL 4th-12th graders and Little Leaguers.\n\n\n\nSubmit one poem only related to the theme of baseball.\n\n\n\nPoem must not exceed 200 words.\n\n\n\nEntry will be evaluated for creativity\, originality\, and style by a panel of educators\, university students\, and community members.\n\n\n\n\nPrizes\n\n\n\n\nWinners must attend the Festival in order to be recognized on Saturday\, May 4\, 2024.\n\n\n\nWinners attending the Festival will receive a National Baseball Poetry Festival t-shirt!\n\n\n\nWinners will include up to 20 elementary school students\, 20 middle school students\, 20 high school students\, and 20 Little Leaguers.\n\n\n\n\nGuidelines for Submission\n\n\n\n\nDeadline: All entries must be submitted by or before noon on Wednesday\, April 17\, 2024 (ET).\n\n\n\nSubmission: Please submit your poem in the body of your email to baseballpoetryfest@gmail.com (no attachments will be accepted).\n\n\n\nMust Include: Category of Submission (Grades 4 – 12 or Little Leaguer); Poet’s Name\, School\, Grade\, Email (if applicable); Guardian Name & Email.\n\n\n\nWinners Notification: Winners will be notified by or before Friday\, April 26\, 2024 via email.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/national-baseball-poetry-festival-contest/
LOCATION:Worcester County
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Elizabeth Sharpe":MAILTO:karenelizabethsharpe@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T180000
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SUMMARY:Two Laureates in Conversation\, with Porsha and Oliver
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 3 at 6pm\, The Prior Performing Arts Center welcomes the Worcester County Poetry Association to a live interview between Worcester Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz and Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola. Join the studio audience for this conversation about Porsha’s poetry\, her work as Poet Laureate\, and her collaboration on the operetta “The Wanderer’s Tethering\,” which makes its Central Massachusetts premiere at The Prior Performing Arts Center next week. “Poet Laureate x Poet Laureate” will be held in the Ensemble Room at The Prior. \n\n\n\nThen\, on Saturday\, April 6 at 3pm\, see Porsha Olayiwola perform in “The Wanderer’s Tethering” at The Prior!   An afternoon of poetry\, music\, and song from the Boston Lyric Opera\, “The Wanderer’s Tethering” combines African and African-American history and myth in a blend of “past and present\, realism and magical realism.” You won’t want to miss it! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPorsha Olayiwola is a native of Chicago who writes\, lives and loves in Boston. Olayiwola is a writer\, performer\, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black\, woman\, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola is Brown University’s 2019 Heimark Artist -In -Residence as well as the 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American poets. Olayiwola earned her MFA in poetry from Emerson College and is the author of i shimmer sometimes\, too. Olayiwola is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston. Her work can be found in or forthcoming from with TriQuarterly Magazine\, Black Warrior Review\, The Boston Globe\, Essence Magazine\, Redivider\, The Academy of American Poets\, Netflix\, Wildness Press\, The Museum of Fine Arts and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester\, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses\, Furious Lullaby\, Requiem for the Orchard\, Post Subject: A Fable\, and The Boy in the Labyrinth\, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His newest work\, The Diaspora Sonnets\, is published by Liveright Press (2023). With Stacey Lynn Brown he co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Oliver serves as the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. He has received grants from the NEA\, NYFA\, the Artist’s Trust\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and has been awarded multiple Pushcart Prizes. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU.  
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/two-laureates-in-conversation-with-porsha-and-oliver/
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:20240402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T203000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Extravaganza Ft.: Malt Schlitzmann
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, April 2nd from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and general craziness! Two open-mic sessions sandwich our feature poet Malt Schlitzmann. \n\n\n\nSign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com \n\n\n\n\nFive-minute maximum\, please.\n\n\n\nFree admission. \n\n\n\nSeparate area for our event. \n\n\n\nOn-the-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options.\n\n\n\n\nRedemption Rock Brewery (RRB) serves craft beers\, coffees\, teas\, and delicious snacks. You can bring your own food but outside beverages are not allowed. \n\n\n\nRedemption Rock Brewery (RRB) 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 Lewandowski Painting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMalt Schlitzmann is a literary menace. Organizer\, comedian\, and almost-award-winning screenwriter\, Malt helps organize the Dirty Gerund Poetry Show\, which recently celebrated its 14th year by crowdfunding a feature-length documentary film. Former Person of Internet is their first stand-up album.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poetry-extravaganza-ft-malt-schlitzmann/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLO/DUET Poetry-Music
DESCRIPTION:It is difficultTo get the news from poems\,Yet men die miserably every day \n\n\n\nFor the lackOf what is found there \n\n\n\n~William Carlos Williams~ \n\n\n\n\n\nThe evening will feature solo readings by area poets book-ended by a musical duet. This program is made possible by the West Brookfield Cultural Council as supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPoets: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather J. Macpherson is an essayist\, and educator at Clark University. Her focus in Literature includes Creative Nonfiction\, Essaying\, and Human-Animal Relationships in Memoir and Autobiography. Her essays and poems have appeared in the Bennington Review\, Doctor T.J. Eckleberg Review\, 580 Split\, and other fine places. Besides writing\, teaching\, and studying\, Heather enjoys traveling and spending time with friends and family\, especially her son. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n& Jonathan Blake has been following the gospel of his heart for as long as he can remember. Writer\, educator\, arts activist/organizer\, he makes his home in central Massachusetts. His poems and essays can be found in an array of journals and anthologies\, including the Atlanta Review\, Amoskeag\, Brilliant Corners\, Poetry East and The Worcester Review. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMusic by Jerry Wilfong & Dick Hummel.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-poetry-music/
LOCATION:Merriam-Gilbert Library\, 3 W. Main Street\, West Brookfield\, Massachusetts\, 01585\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T183000
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SUMMARY:Poetorium @ the Starlite Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Poetorium at Starlite Poetry Open Mic & Reading Series Featuring Karen Durlach and Peter F. Crowley \n\n\n\nPlease 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 Karen Durlach (Visual Artist\, Craftsperson\, & Poet) and Peter F. Crowley (Author of Those Who Hold Up the Earth & Empire’s End) 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. \n\n\n\nKaren Durlach is a visual artist/craftsperson\, both by vocation and avocation\, making a career in the graphic arts\, photography\, ceramics\, painting\, and other media. She writes off and on when the need and muse strike\, most often when the early dawn insists. She had rarely read her poems to others until discovering our very accepting local poetry communities in Webster\, Putnam\, and Southbridge. Most of her poems strive to paint a picture of a precise moment or precious experience—something odd\, exciting or wondrous—that she wants to remember or share. Brooklyn-born\, schooled in New York\, then Michigan\, she’s straddled the border between Massachusetts and Connecticut for decades\, initially living and working in Worcester\, with interim stints in New Hampshire and Vermont\, then working in Worcester again while residing in the woods of Connecticut\, where she still struggles to grow unusual vegetables and entertains honeybees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPeter F. Crowley is a prolific author from the Boston area who writes in various forms including short fiction\, op-eds\, poetry\, and academic essays. In 2020\, his poetry book Those Who Hold Up the Earth was published by Kelsay Books and received impressive reviews by Kirkus Review\, the New Age and two local Boston-area newspapers. His writing can be found in Middle East Monitor\, Znet\, 34th Parallel\, Pif Magazine\, Galway Review\, Digging the Fat\, Adelaide’s Short Story and Poetry Award anthologies (finalist in both)\, and The Opiate. His two latest books\, That Night and Other Stories (CAAB Publishing) and Empire’s End (Alien Buddha Press)\, were released in October 2023.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-the-starlite-lounge/
LOCATION:Starlite Lounge\, 39 Hamilton St\, Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, 01550\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:Matthew E. Henry Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Mathew E. Henry: said the Frog to the scorpionPoetry readingWednesday\, March 27\, at 5:30pmJoin us for a special evening with Matthew E. Henry as he reads from his new poetry collection: said the Frog to the scorpion. \n\n\n\nBooks will be available for sale at the bookshop. \n\n\n\nFrom conversations in public school classrooms and faculty meetings\, to arguments in restaurants and folding tents\, said the Frog to the scorpion blurs the lines between pedagogy and prejudice\, romance and anti-racism. In poems referencing a ubiquitous “She\,” Matthew E Henry’s latest collection explores the options left a Black teacher in a white system when love is met with empty promises and toxic amnesia. Henry’s frog survives the initial encounter and slowly\, painfully\, “his slick\, perforated back” begins to understand: a scorpion will always be exactly who She is—someone who can’t tell Asians students apart\, who equates accountability with gaslighting\, who thinks Goldilocks was the hero of the story\, who makes wishes on the rubbed heads of magic negroes She’s dated. said the Frog to the scorpion attempts to decode Her mind\, and the fallout of the relationship\, while asking what’s the difference between a breakup and resignation letter. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMatthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publications\, 2022)\, Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag\, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press\, 2020). He has three collections forthcoming in 2023 from NYQ Books (The Third Renunciation)\, Ghost City Press (have you heard the one about…?)\, and Harbor Editions (said the Frog to the scorpion). He is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes. \n\n\n\nMEH’s poetry and prose appears or is forthcoming in Barren Magazine\, Bending Genres\, Cola Literary Review\, The Florida Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Ninth Letter\, Pangyrus\, Ploughshares\, Poetry East\, Redivider\, Relief Journal\, Shenandoah\, Solstice\, Spiritus\, The Windhover\, The Worcester Review\, and Zone 3 among others. \n\n\n\nHis awards include being a Diode Editions 2022 chapbook contest finalist\, the winner of the 2021 Fare Forward Poetry competition\, the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award finalist\, the 2020 MassPoetry.org’s “Poem of the Moment\,” the 2019 Orison Chapbook Prize finalist\, and the 2007 Relief Journal Editor’s Choice Award. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Pangyrus Literary Magazine\, Porcupine Literary\, Relief Journal\, and 3 Elements Literary Review\, and the Best of the Net by the museum of americana and 3 Elements Literary Review. \n\n\n\nMEH’s an educator who received his MFA from Seattle Pacific University yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. He writes about education\, race\, religion\, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/matthew-e-henry-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Irena Kaçi
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, March 26th\, 2024 Irena Kaçi  will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIrena Kaçi is a poet and writer living in Worcester\, MA with her spouse and two children. She moved to Worcester in 2015\, almost a decade after graduating from Clark University. She writes for Pulse Magazine\, and the Worcester Guardian. Her creative work has appeared in the Worcester Review\, Atticus Review\, Wingless Dreamer and the 45 Journal. She is currently working on her first chapbook.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-irena-kaci/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rodger Martin Poetry Reading at New Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Rodger Martin Reading 6-6:45 pm\, at New Dawn\, 84 Main Street\, Ashburnham\, MA. Q&A to follow.Free speaker series. Open to all\, no registration. Event will transition to the regularly scheduledWriters’ Group Open Mic night. All welcome! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/rodger-martin-poetry-reading-at-new-dawn/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large: Saturday Night Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret\, will again host Poets at Large spoken word and poetry performances on the last Saturday of the month\, 7-9 p.m.\, from February through May. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA\, now in its fifth year. The group’s coordinator\, Woodstock author/poet Karen Warinsky\, is the Emcee\, and those wishing to be in the open mic segment can sign up by contacting her 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  \nMarch 23 the Poets at Large show will feature well-known Worcester poets Tony Brown\, John Hodgen and Karen Elizabeth Sharpe. \nBrown has been writing for well over 50 years\, and publishing and performing his work for over 40. A seven-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best Of The Net nominee\, he is also the winner of the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Medal\, endowed by the late Kunitz\, a US poet laureate and Worcester native. \nHodgen is the Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester\, MA\, and Advisory Editor for New Letters at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.  Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace in  2005\, and is the author of five volumes of poetry. \nSharpe is a poetry editor at The Worcester Review and the author of two volumes of poetry. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and is widely published.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-saturday-night-poetry-2/
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:20240322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T190000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Storytelling with Vanessa Gonzalez-Oyola & Walter Molina
DESCRIPTION:The Future of Storytelling: A Community Gathering\nAs part of Mass Humanities’ 50th anniversary\, we are hosting a gathering to mark the occasion in Worcester.We know the importance of relationship building and collaboration in advancing the cultural sector. This event will bring together our grantees\, board members\, staff\, partners\, community stakeholders\, and local legislators to recognize our cultural endeavors in the Worcester area and help to forge new connections. \nCelebrate with the Mass Humanities community at this fun evening gathering featuring live music\, poetry\, food and drink\, and good company. \nOur featured poets Vanessa Gonzalez-Oyola and Walter Molina are graduates of the Clemente Course in the Humanities and were recently published in The Worcester Review. \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-future-of-storytelling-with-vanessa-gonzalez-oyola-walter-molina/
LOCATION:JMac/Brickbox Theater\, 20 Franklin Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Humor at the 'New' Root & Press Cafe Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of humor and poetry at the new location of Root and Press Cafe and Books at their new location 156 Shrewsbury St.\n \n\nJoe will be reading from and signing copies of his new book “Random Thoughts from A Curmudgeon.”  \nPlease sign up for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com.  Root and Press has a plethora of awesome food and beverages . \n\nAmple street parking. Free admission. Kid-friendly.\n \nJoin us in welcoming Root and Press to 156 Shrewsbury Street! \n  \n \nJoe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/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.\nJoe’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\nbookstores\, libraries\, clubs\, and coffeehouses throughout Central Massachusetts and Belgium. He is the host of the Poetry Extravaganza at Redemption Rock Brewery in Worcester. \nJoe 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\, and The Residence of Orchard Grove. He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester\nCounty Poetry Association.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-and-humor-at-the-new-root-press-cafe-bookshop/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop at New Dawn
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.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-workshop-at-new-dawn-5/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLO/DUET Poetry-Music Series
DESCRIPTION:Each evening will feature solo readings by area poets book-ended by a musical duet. This program is made possible by the West Brookfield Cultural Council as supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA poetry and music series at the Merriam-Gilbert Public Library   Free and open to all!  \n\n\n\nPoets:  \n\n\n\nAnne Love Woodhull lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts. She has coauthored five children’s books and is the author of This Is What We Have (March Street Press\, 2001)\, a poetry chapbook. In 2013 a book of her poems\, Night With Its Owl\, was published by Hedgerow Books\, Amherst\, Massachusetts. In 2021 a book of her poems\, Racing Heaven\, was published by Open Field Press\, Northampton\, Massachusetts. She is the Executive Director of Available Potential Enterprises\, and the President of the Open Field Foundation that owns Bramble Hill Farm. Working with children and adults\, she is a play therapist and teacher.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n& Bill OConnell \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBill OConnell\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMusic: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJerry Wilfong is an active freelance bassist in the Boston area. He has performed with such distinguished jazz artists as Leni Stern\, John Stowell\, and Richie Cole\, appears on several recordings and can be heard live anchoring two working trios – “Bring Back Pluto” and “The Conversation.” More can be learned about Jerry at his Website.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-poetry-music-series/
LOCATION:Merriam-Gilbert Library\, 3 W. Main Street\, West Brookfield\, Massachusetts\, 01585\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Jonathan Blake":MAILTO:jblake1@worcester.edu
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SUMMARY:The Poet's Cauldron
DESCRIPTION:The Poet’s Cauldron: March Edition \n\n\n\nSpecial guest: Elijah Divine
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poets-cauldron/
LOCATION:Crompton Collective: The White Room\, 138 Green St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Bruja TheVillain":MAILTO:thepoetscauldron@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet Open Mic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly round robin style\, open poetry reading.Bring original pieces to share. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSign up to reserve your spot by calling 508-949-6232 or emailing deb@bookloversgourmet.com \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills quickly!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-open-mic-poetry-3/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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SUMMARY:WCPA Monthly Meeting: March Edition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Board Meeting on the second Wednesday March 13th at our office headquarters over @ 61 Harvard St.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/wcpa-monthly-meeting-march-edition/
LOCATION:WCPA Headquarters\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602
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SUMMARY:2024 Annual Women's Reading
DESCRIPTION:On March 10\, 2024\, the WCPA is proud to host its annual Women’s Zoom Reading. If you would like to attend\, please CLICK HERE. \n  \n  \n \nHere is the reading list & order of readers: \n1. Cheryl L. Bonin is a cancerous wench of the breast variety who writes snark-filledstories and poetry because it’s cheaper than therapy. Her rantings have beenencouraged\, tolerated\, published and/or acknowledged\, by The Worcester Review\,Worcester Magazine\, The National Baseball Poetry Festival\, The Eastport (Maine)Library Review\, and the 2022 Frank O’Hara Poetry Contest. Read and listen at your own psychologicalperil. \n2.  Erin Broudo is a middle school special education teacher in the Wachusett Regional School District. She lives in Sterling with her two kids and is an avid reader\, writer\, hiker\, and Red Sox fan. \n3.  Polly Brown spent the first two years of her retirement writing a blog about what she’d learned from teaching young adolescents\,at ayeartothinkitover.com. Now she’s resettled an old family place in western Maine\, where she’s happily raising poems. Pebble Leaf Feather Knife\, from Cherry Grove Collections\, followed two chapbooks\, Blue Heron Stone\, from Every Other Thursday Poetry\, and Each Thing Torn from Any of Us\, from Finishing Line. Recent poems have appeared in Appalachia\, Canary\, Hole in the Head Review\, and Quartet Journal\, among others \n4. Martha Collins’ eleventh book of poetry is Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh\, 2022); her tenth\, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh\, 2019)\, won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her fifth volume of co-translated Vietnamese poetry is Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ\, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed\, 2023).  Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com \n5. Ger Duffy lives in Southeast Ireland.  Her poetry has been published by PNR(UK)\,\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Under the Radar (UK)\, The Ekphrastic Review\, (US)\,  Southword\, Wild Greens (US) and other literary magazines. She is a Pushcart nominee. She has been awarded two poetry mentoring awards.  Her poems have been anthologized in Local Wonders\, Washing Windows 111\, In the Gold of the Flesh\, The Stony Thursday Book. Her poems have been placed or commended in the following competitions: Goldsmiths International\, Travels with Joyce\, Write by the Sea\, The Francis Ledwidge Awards\, The Allingham.  She was a selected poet to read at the launch of On Being with Padraig O Tuama at the Southbank.  She was a featured reader at the Verve Poetry Festival\, UK. \n6. Jennifer L Freed’s first full-length collection\, When Light Shifts (finalist\, Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award) explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage and the altered relationships that emerge in a family health crisis.  Other awards include the 2020 Samuel Washington Allen Prize\, the 2022 Frank O’Hara prize\, and honorable mention for the 2022 Connecticut Poetry Award. Recent work appears in Bellevue Literary Review\, Rust and Moth\, BODY\, and other journals. Please visit jfreed.weebly.com to learn more. \n7.  Pamela Gemme was born to working class parents and grew up in Gardner\, Massachusetts. She went to state universities\, is a poet\, artist\, political activist\, and a child protection social work consultant for Massachusetts DCF. Recent or forthcoming publications include The American Journal of Poetry\, Haiku Journal\, The Chicago Quarterly Review\, Heliotrope Anthology\, J Journal\, SoFloPoJo\, Ibbetson Street Magazine\, and many others. Pamela co-edited Essential Voices: A Covid-19 Anthology. She serves on the National Baseball Poetry Festival poets’ Committee \n8.  R. Joyce Heon believes that a list of degrees\, publications\, and contest placings makes for the most boring resume. She prefers saying she’s of Finnish heritage (her first spoken words as a toddler were swearing at the cat in Finnish)\, and she writes poetry in both English and French. She took first place in a French poetry contest. She has written “beaucoup de” ekphrastic poems (some in French). She lives in north-central Massachusetts\, not far from Saima Park\, a Finnish gathering place. \n9.  Carolyn Howe has been writing poetry and painting watercolor from her home on Patch Reservoir in Worcester since her retirement as a sociologist from Holy Cross College. Sociology informs many of the poems in her recently published chapbook\, Across the Street. Carolyn has been published in The Worcester Review and recently had a poem accepted for the project Mapping Worcester in Poems: Poems In and Out of Places. \n10.  Em Judkins is a queer poet based in central and Western Massachusetts. The assistant head of poetry at Emulate Magazine\, they are the recipient of the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize and Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize\, and their work has appeared in Emulate\, Voices and Visions\, and the Worcester Art Museum. They currently study English and Film and Media Studies at Smith College with a concentration in poetry\, and are at work on their first chapbook. \n11.  C. I. Marshall\, MFA\, Creative Writing\, Poetry\, California State University\, Long Beach. B.A. Fine Arts\, Mills College. Editor for ARTLIFE Magazine. Poetry Reader for the West Trade Review from June – December 2023. Poems in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art\, Verdad\, Spillway\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Poems In The Waiting Room\, UK. Marshall won the 2018 Verve International Poetry Festival Contest\, UK and received Honorable Mention\, 2021 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize. Marshall’s manuscript\, The Locksmith Journeys Into The Afterlife won the 2022 Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award\, UK and was published in 2023. Marshall was a Finalist for the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards \n12.  Maura MacNeil is a writer\, editor\, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of the poetry collections: A History of Water (Finishing Line Press)\, Lost Houses (Aldrich Press) and This Last Place (Dancing Girl Press). She is the founder and editor of the literary website Off the Margins (www.offthemargins.com) featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience.” \n13. Gloria Maruška Mindock (Mindak) New Poetry Collection: “Grief Touched the Sky at Night” (Glass Lyre Press\, 2023)Winner of the International Impact Award\, Nov. 2023 for “Grief Touched the Sky at Night——————Cervena Barva Press\, Editor and PublisherWebsite: gloriamindock.com \n14. Muriel Nelson’s publications include poetry collections\, Sightsinger (Encircle Publications) and Part Song (Bear Star Press\, Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize)\, and chapbooks\, Please Hold (Encircle Publications\, Poetry Chapbook Award) and Most Wanted (ByLine Press\, ByLine Chapbook Award). These and three book manuscripts were shortlisted in four national contests and finalists in seventeen. Nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize\, Nelson’s poems have appeared in many journals and several anthologies. Two of her poems have been set to music. She holds master’s degrees from the University of Illinois School of Music and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, and lives in Federal Way\, Washington. \n15.  Catherine Reed is an ordained minister and poet.. She is the author of four books of poetry. Crossing Boundaries\, Between Midnight and Dawn\, Sankofa and Fire Goes Out Without Wood. \n16. Eve 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 DINER\, a literary magazine.She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. She lives in Worcester\, MA. The play\, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island\, was based on her first book. She has 6 published books\, none self-published. \n17. Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz‘s poems have been widely published and anthologized\, including in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward\, Ed)\, and in her collection Intimacy with the Wind (Finishing Line\, 2017). Her CB99videos youtube channel has 2\,400\,000+ views. When she’s not writing or filming\, you might find her reading\, gardening\, swimming\, skating\, skiing\, cycling\, walking the woods\, and finding love in all of it. Learn more at carlapoet.com\, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com\, or find her on YouTube\, Twitter\, or Instagram @cb99videos. \n18.  Susan Elizabeth (Beth) Sweeney’s poems have appeared in Diner\, Worcester Review\, Journal of Irish Literature\, and elsewhere\, and have won an Academy of Poets Prize\, a Frank O’Hara Poetry Prize\, and other awards. Her chapbook\, Hand Me Down\, was a semifinalist in the 2012 New Women’s Voices Competition. More recently\, Close and Apart\, a sequence of nine poems\, was adapted by composer Matthew Jaskot and performed by a dozen musicians at a world premiere in 2023. Beth also coordinates the Creative Writing Program at the College of the Holy Cross and directs Mapping Worcester in Poetry\, an initiative supported by the MellonFoundation with the Worcester County Poetry Association as community partner. \n19.  Nancy Baillie Strong lives in Manchester\, NH. She has workshopped with Jim Beschta at the Worcester (MA) Art Museum\, and participates in Susan Roney-O’Brien’s virtual workshop. Her poetry has been published in The Poets’ Touchstone\, Smoky Quartz\, and was included in the anthology Women’s Uncommon Prayers (2000). \n20.  (Barbara Thurston) bg Thurston’s third book of poetry\, titled: The Many Lives of Cathouse Farm/Tales of a Rural Brothel\, is forthcoming in 2024 from Cervena Barva Press. \n21.  Linda Warren lives in Princeton with her dog\, who is pretty much indifferent to poetry..  She (the woman\, not the dog) has a chapbook forthcoming this year from Finishing Line Press. \n22.  Loretta ‘Rhett’ Watts has lived in Beirut\, San Francisco\, New York and Connecticut. She now lives beside a brook south of Worcester with her husband and Siberian cat. Some of her poems have appeared in Sojourners Magazine\, The Worcester Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Canary\, San Pedro River Review and in the books The Best Spiritual Writing 2000\, and The Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Rhett’s chapbook No Innocent Eye was co-winner of the Rane Arroyo Award from Seven Kitchens Press. Her books are Willing Suspension\, The Braiding\, and coming in 2025 The Double Nest. Rhett facilitates AWA (Amherst Writers & Artists) writing workshops well as SoulCollage workshops in Connecticut and Massachusetts. \n23.  Lex Thomas writes\, usually with fountain pens. \n24.  Eleanor Wilner is the 2019 Frost Medal recipient of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement\, is the author of nine books of poetry\, most recently Before Our Eyes; New and Selected Poems\, 1975-2017  and Gone to Earth: Early & Uncollected Poems 1964-1975.  \n25.  Susan Roney-O’Brien earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She’s published two chapbooks: Earth and Farmwifeand three full-length poetry collections: Legacy of the Last World\, Bone Circle and Thira. Nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes and published widely\, she works with the Worcester County Poetry Association\, runs a monthly on-line poetry reading series and facilitates free poetry workshops through area libraries. She\, her husband Philip. and Oliver\, their Chocolate Lab\, live in central Massachusetts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/2024-annual-womens-reading/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:SLIGHTLY OFF-BEAT POETS PRESENTS STEVE VEILLEUX & ROBERT EUGENE PERRY
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Steve Veilleux and Robert Eugene Perry \nWHERE: Steve Veilleux’s home: 112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale\, CT \nWHEN: Sunday March 10\, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \nWHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 20 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. \nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. \nSIGN-UPS: There is room for 18 poets. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \n  \n \n  \nPhotographer\, Poet\, Artificer\, Steve Veilleux paints with an abstract brush\, combining partial and recombined parcels of images into his kaleidoscopic montages. \nThe Town of Thompson appointed him as its first Poet Laureate\, and he works to promote the Spoken Word by hosting and co-hosting at several different venues\, including the Packing House Poetry series in Willington Connecticut\,  where poets from the region perform monthly. Coordinating with the Thompson Public Library art show\, Expanses\, he is currently recruiting Quiet Corner poets to explore Expanding Horizons: Poets Exploring the Cosmos. Participants will be invited to read at our Community Center on the evening of April 22. He has been featured locally by Poets at Large and Cross-Pollinating Poets\, and will be performing a multi-media show from his screenplay Breckenridge County on May 16th at the Packing House. \nSteve makes his home among the forests and farms of North Grosvenordale\, Connecticut\,and has been inspired in recent years by the magical beauty of his remote environment. He is a published author\, and his latest work\, Event Horizon\, is available from Amazon Books. \n~ \nRobert Eugene Perry is a native of Massachusetts and the author of five books. His most recent book of poetry Earthsongs\, was published by Human Error Publishing in 2022. \nPerry has emceed the monthly Open Mic at Booklovers’ Gourmet in Webster\, MA (USA) since May 2017. \nHe has had several poems published in Worcester Magazine\, as well as Florence Poetry Society’s Silkworm 16\, Poetica Magazine’s Mizmor Anthology\, NatureCulture’s Honoring Nature collection\, National Beat Poetry Foundation Remembering Jack Kerouac on his 100th Birthday\, Beat Style Love Poems and Natural Worlds anthologies\, and the online publications Soul-Lit: a journal of spiritual poetry\, Poetica Magazine\, The Academy of the Heart and Mind and his poem Primal was a finalist in the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry. His short story In the Company of Trees was published by Wordpeace Journal. \nAs a metaphysical poet\, he finds inspiration in nature and endeavors to draw connections between our higher selves and the natural world.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/8402/
LOCATION:Steve Veilleux’s Home\, 112 Fabyan-Woodstock North Road\, Grosvenordale\, CT\, 06255\, United States
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SUMMARY:Openest Mic #6
DESCRIPTION:The Openest Mic is back at Smokestack Roasters for The Openest Mic #6! \nBring your poems\, your jokes\, your stories\, your songs\, your whole ass self to our openest mic!  \n  \nAll ages and genders and life experiences are welcome and encouraged to share with a supportive and enthusiastic audience. Everyone gets 2 songs or 5 minutes to do whatever they want with. \n  \nDon’t feel mic ready? That’s fine! Your community still needs you there\, cheering them on and sharing your energy. You’ll find something new to fall in love with: tons of talent in every genre is present in the room. Do you love queer folk punk? Heart aching poetry? Stories from your neighbors that you NEVER expected to hear? Yeah\, we got all that and more! \nSmokestack Roasters has tasty bites\, delicious sips\, and the kindest staff. Come through for a fun night\, we’re looking forward to seeing what you got! \n  \n*The Openest Mic does NOT currently have a feature poet for this or any upcoming event\, please reach out to The Openest Mic if you’re interested!*
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/openest-mic-6/
LOCATION:Smokestack Roasters\, 39 Massachussetts Avenue\, Lunenburg\, MA\, 01462\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Laura DiCaronimo":MAILTO:laura.optician@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T150000
DTSTAMP:20260613T032920
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SUMMARY:Andrea Cohen Reading
DESCRIPTION:For over a decade\, the poet & Worcester State alumna Judy Hoyer has sponsored a poetry reading at her Alma Mater\, featuring well-established poets for readings and discussions of their work with WSU students\, alumni\, and the greater Worcester community. This year\, we are excited to host Andrea Cohen for a reading on our campus on Thursday\, March 7\, at 1 pm in the Sheehan Multi-Purpose Room (1st floor\, Upper Campus). The location is fully accessible. \n  \n  \n \nAndrea Cohen‘s poems and stories have appeared in “The New Yorker\,” “The Threepenny Review\,” “The New York Review of Books\,” “The Atlantic Monthly\,” and elsewhere. She is the author of eight collections of poetry including her latest book\, “The Sorrow Apartments\,” to be published by Four Way Books in March of 2024. She is the director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series and currently teaches at Boston University. \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/andrea-cohen-reading/
LOCATION:Sheehan Building Worcester State University\, 486 Chandler St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Heather Tressler":MAILTO:htreseler@worcester.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T210000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Extravaganza featuring Karen Warinsky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 5th from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and contemplation.Two open-mic sessions sandwich our feature poet Karen Warinsky. \n\n\n\nSign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com . Five-minute maximum\, please.Free admission. Separate area for our event. On-the-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options. \n\n\n\nRedemption Rock Brewery (RRB) serves craft beers\, coffees\, teas\, and delicious snacks. You can bring your own food but outside beverages are not allowed. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowski Painting.Join the fun on March 5th! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Warinsky is retired from careers in media and teaching. She was a correspondent for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette for ten years. Her poetry appears in over a dozen anthologies including Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands\, the 2019 Mizmor Anthology\, New Generation Beats 2022\, Ms. Aligned 4 and a host of lit mags including Blue Heron\, Circumference\, Consilience\, and Wordpeace.She is a former finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Contest\, and a Best of the Net nominee. Her books are Gold in Autumn (2020) and Sunrise Ruby (2022) from Human Error Publishing\, and Dining with War (2023) from Alien Buddha Press. She writes about everything including politics and spirituality and sets up poetry readings as coordinator of CT-based Poets at Large \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poetry-extravaganza-featuring-karen-warinsky/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240303T140000
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SUMMARY:WCPA Annual Meeting 2024
DESCRIPTION:The annual meeting of the Worcester County Poetry Association will be held in the ball room of The Salisbury House\, followed by a reading of  Central Massachusetts poet Rhett Watts. \n  \n \n  \nRhett Watts has lived in Beirut\, San Francisco\, New York and Connecticut. She now lives beside a brook south of Worcester with her husband Kim and Siberian cat\, Hugo. Some of her poems appear in: Sojourners Magazine\, The Worcester Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Soul-Lit\, Naugatuck River Review\, and in the books The Best Spiritual Writing 2000\, and in The Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Rhett’s chapbook\, No Innocent Eye was co-winner of the Rane Arroyo Award. Her books are: Willing Suspension\, The Braiding\, and coming in 2025 The Double Nest from Fernwood Press. Rhett facilitates Amherst Writers & Artists writing workshops as well as SoulCollage workshops in CT and MA.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/wcpa-annual-meeting-2024/
LOCATION:Salisbury House Ball Room\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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