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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Poetorium at Starlite Poetry Open Mic & Reading Series Featuring Tom Skarzynski and Chris Reilley
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 Tom Skarzynski (Poet\, Novelist\, and Songwriter) and Christopher Reilley (Author of Breathing For Clouds & One Night Stanzas) 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 contact us at poetorium@mail.com or visit our website at https://poetorium.home.blog/2019/04/29/the-poetorium-at-starlite-2/\n\n\n\nTom Skarzynski (aka Olde Tom Woodwind) is a poet\, novelist\, and aspiring songwriter. He has been writing poetry for nearly his entire life\, with his works first flowering occurring in the mid-eighties when he had many poems and a couple of short stories appear in The Springfield Journal. For a long period\, his poetry plant went dormant while he focused on earning a living as a truck driver. Once retirement neared\, he was inspired to write a ninety-thousand-word historical fiction novel. Then when he retired\, he began becoming the writer he had always wanted to be. He sought out the local poetry community where he was welcomed like the prodigal son and received inspiration and encouragement. He has since written a fantasy novella and had poems published in the Natural Words and Beat Style Love Poems anthologies. He writes poetry every day and has an office that is littered with thousands of poems and somewhat resembles Times Square after the ball drops.\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Reilley is a former poet laureate (Dedham\, MA) a two-time Pushcart nominee\, and the creative mind behind the Bytesized Studios. His collections include Breathing for Clouds\, and more recently One Night Stanzas. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals like Boston Literary Magazine\, Frog Croon\, Word Salad\, and others. He has spent time on the boards of the Worcester County Poetry Association\, and the Newton Writing & Publishing Center.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-at-starlite-poetry-open-mic-reading-series-featuring-tom-skarzynski-and-chris-reilley/
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 Joe Fusco Jr.
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, February 27th\, 2024 Joe Fusco Jr.  will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n  \n  \nRegister \n  \n  \n \nJoe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/poet from Worcester\, Massachusetts. \nHe 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. \nJoe 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 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. \nHe is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association. \nJoe has lived in lovely Worcester with his better-half Cyndi and their large family for thirty-nine years. He is a registered Independent and sleeps with one eye always open. \nMore info on Joe can be found at joesyellowpad.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-joe-fusco-jr-3/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T200000
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CREATED:20240130T024319Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch/Reading for Fred Gerhard's book\, Drifting to "Hello"
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Fred Gerhard read from his new poetry book\, Drifting to “Hello” (Khotso Publishing\, 2024). An open mic follows at 7:00 p.m. \nPraise for Drifting to “Hello” \n“… from lucid and conversational free verse to skillful and musical rhyme. He crafts memorable lines and indelible images…” —Simon Hunt\, author of Lesser Magi and Endlings \n“These poems tap gently at our door and invite us to join the dance of dandelions and red catkins\, bobcats and trolleys\, of life and death and love.” —Barbara Morrison\, author of Terrarium\, Here at Least\, and Innocent \n“In Fred’s poetry\, there is a magical sense of loss\, and light … that envelops the reader in something mystical.” —Kirk Lawrence-Howard\, BespokeVocals.com \n“Beautiful\, touching\, and heartwarming … an enchanting read.” —Melissa Dorval\, author of the novel When You Lose Control \n“We are the lucky ones who get to experience his many loves through his poems.” —Kevin Scott Hall\, songwriter and author of A Quarter Inch From My Heart and Off the Charts! \n  \n \nFred Gerhard’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Monadnock Underground\, Pif Magazine\, and POETiCA REViEW. He is author of the chapbook Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring (Local Gems Poetry Press\, 2023) and Drifting to “Hello” (Khotso Publishing\, 2024). His poems appeared in the New Dawn Arts gallery exhibit: Long Dark Winter in January\, and are currently included in the Creative Connections gallery exhibit of ekphrastic poetry for paintings by Jennifer Jean Okumura. He is one of the 2023 winners of the Poetry in the Pines contest for which his work is installed on the trails at the Cathedral in the Pines. His poems have also been voiced by the actor Kirk Lawrence-Howard on YouTube. He is an editor for Quabbin Quills anthologies\, and Smoky Quartz – An Online Journal of Literature and Art. For many years he led a poetry therapy group in Worcester. And he is one of the founders of the New Dawn Writers’ Group where he leads monthly poetry workshops and helps host open mic nights. Visit his VIRTUAL READING ROOM
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/book-launch-reading-for-fred-gerhards-book-drifting-to-hello/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T210000
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SUMMARY:Free People's Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Artist\, poets\, writers meet to discuss\, share\, critique and encourage on-going work. \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/free-peoples-workshop-20/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T065429
CREATED:20240223T032130Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Reginald Dwayne Betts
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nA critically acclaimed poet\, scholar\, and graduate of Yale Law School\, Reginald Dwayne Betts draws on his personal experience with incarceration to work across diverse literary forms and advocacy projects for reform of the criminal justice system. \n  \nConfined as an adolescent in the worst prisons in the state of Virginia\, Reginald Dwayne Betts became a poet\, a scholar\, and an advocate for the reform of the criminal justice system. He is the author of a memoir\, “A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning\, Survival\, and Coming of Age in Prison\,” and four acclaimed collections of poetry\, including one collaboration with visual artist Titus Kaphar. Writes poet Mark Doty of “Bastards of the Reagan Era\,” “Betts has written an indelible lament for a generation”; while Sujatha Baliga\, director of the Restorative Justice Project\, says of “Felon”: “[Betts’s] compassion and breathtaking literary gifts make it impossible for us to look away or remain complicit in mass criminalization’s status quo.” In 2019\, Betts won the National Magazine Award in the Essays and Criticism category for a New York Times Magazine essay on his journey from prison to becoming a licensed attorney. He is also the founder of Freedom Reads\, a first-of-its-kind organization working to radically transform access to literature in prison. \n  \nTo reserve a ticket to this free event\, please visit the College of the Holy Cross WEBSITE \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/reginald-dwayne-betts-reading/
LOCATION:Luth Concert Hall\, Prior Performance Center\, 1 College Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T170000
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SUMMARY:Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:Songwriting Workshops and Concert \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 16\, 2024 \n\n\n\nJohn Henry’s Hammer CoffeehouseFirst Unitarian Church90 Main Street(Lincoln Square)Worcester\, MA \n\n\n\nWorkshops2:00-3:30 p.m. (check-in begins at 1:30 p.m.) \n\n\n\nAdults with Claudia\, limited to 20 participants (Dining Room/Bancroft Room) \n\n\n\nChildren—Ages 11-16\, with Sally\, limited to 15 participants (Mirick Room). \n\n\n\nAdults’ workshop—$30 includes concert ticketChildren’s workshop—$10 includes concert ticket \n\n\n\nFor workshops:Make payment to First Unitarian Church by March 10th (put “workshop” in the notes section) and email jhhcoffeehouse@gmail.com that you have signed up. This is your confirmation for registration. \n\n\n\nConcert only$25-adult\, $10-childGeneral admission concert tickets are available in advance atjhhcoffeehouse.brownpapertickets.com and at the door.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/sally-rogers-claudia-schmidt/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church (90 Main St. Worcester\, MA)\, 90 Main St.\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Jay Lavelle":MAILTO:jaylavelle2@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T150000
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CREATED:20240208T143713Z
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SUMMARY:A Walk in The Woo: 2023 Rain Poets Read
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-walk-in-the-woo-2023-rain-poets-read/
LOCATION:Jean McDonough Creative Arts Center\, 20 Franklin St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T210000
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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  \n  \n \nKicking things off for the 2024 Poets at Large series on Feb 24 will be “Home Grown\,” a show featuring Pomfret Poet Laureate Nancy Weiss\, Woodstock’s Karen Warinsky (Coordinator of PAL and Emcee) and Thompson Poet Laureate Steve Veilleux. Weiss was appointed Pomfret’s poet laureate in 2021\, is a life-long resident and writes a weekly column for The Woodstock Villager. Warinsky has published poetry since 2011\, authored three books\, is a 2023 Best of the Net nominee and a former finalist in the Montreal Int’l Poetry Contest. Author Veilleux was appointed as Thompson’s poet laureate in 2023. All three write about relationships\, politics and life events with a mix of concern and humor.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-saturday-night-poetry/
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:20240220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T065429
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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. \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 magazines including Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Pif Magazine\, POETiCA REViEW\, and Sylvia Magazine. A 2023 winner of Poetry in the Pines\, he is also an editor at Quabbin Quills and Smoky Quartz. For many years he led a poetry therapy group in Worcester at UMASS Memorial’s Community HealthLink.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-workshop-at-new-dawn-4/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T170000
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SUMMARY:Self-Awareness: A Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Creative Connections Gallery for a reading of ekphrastic poems inspired by the paintings of Jennifer Okumura\, as well as additional works by Jess Mynes\, Elayne Clift\, Fred Gerhard\, Simon Hunt\, Pat Frederick\, Robert Brooks\, and Heidi Larsen. Coffee and refreshments will be served. 56 Main St (Rt 12)\, Ashburnham\, MA (second floor). Open Tuesday-Saturday\, 10AM to 6PM. 978-827-6211. info@ccgiftgallery.com \n \n  \nJess Mynes\, Elayne Clift\, Fred Gerhard\, Simon Hunt\, Pat Frederick\, Robert Brooks\, and Heidi Larsen are local published poets with great diversity in styles and voice.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/self-awareness-a-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Creative Connections Gallery\, 56 Main Street\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01430\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T160000
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SUMMARY:BOOKLOVERS' GOURMET OPEN MIC
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic Poetry \nSaturday February 17th @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm \nJoin us for a monthly round robin style\, open poetry reading.\nBring original pieces to share. \nSign up to reserve your spot by calling 508-949-6232 or emailing deb@bookloversgourmet.com \nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills quickly! \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-open-mic-6/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T203000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Oliver de la Paz
DESCRIPTION:Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester for 2023-2025. He is the author or editor of seven books\, including five collections of poems: 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 latest collection\, The Diaspora Sonnets\, was long-listed for the National Book Award and received the 2023 New England Book Award for poetry. \nOliver is a founding member of Kundiman and serves on the board of Poetry Daily. His work has appeared in journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review\, North American Review\, Tin House\, Poetry\, and in anthologies and periodicals including Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and the New York Times. He teaches creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross. \nOliver’s reading is the first event in the spring 2024 Working Writers Series\, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Holy Cross. Other visiting writers this spring will include essayist Elena Passarello\, novelist Nicole Flattery\, poet\, memoirist\, and novelist Vesna Goldsworthy\, and poet Nathan McClain.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/reading-by-oliver-de-la-paz/
LOCATION:Booth Media Lab\, Prior Performing Arts Center\, College of the Holy Cross\, 1 College Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T193000
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SUMMARY:Love Poems After Dark
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/love-poems-after-dark/
LOCATION:Bah-Bah- Q\, 397 Chandler St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Noonan":MAILTO:cnoonan0101@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T160000
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off Beat Poets: First Event of 2024
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Donna Lange/ Brian Mosher\nWHERE: Donna Lange’s house 59 Chase Road Thompson\, CT (exit 50 off 395)\nWHEN: Sunday February 11th 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.\n\nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. There is room for 20 poets. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-first-event-of-2024/
LOCATION:Donna Lange’s House\, 59 Chase Road\, Thompson\, CT\, 06277\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T110000
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SUMMARY:Reading Bishop's Love Poems & Valentines
DESCRIPTION:Image from vintage Valentine postcard\, 1907  \nAt our annual birthday bash at Elizabeth Bishop’s grave in Hope Cemetery\, local poets will read aloud her sardonic valentines and tender\, poignant love poems\, mostly unpublished during her lifetime. Readers include Elizabeth Bacon\, Clair Degutis\, Judith Ferrara\, Claire Mowbray Golding\, Kate Gregoire\, John Hodgen\, Irena Kaci\, Evan Plante\, Eve Rifkah\, Susan Rooney-O’Brien\, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney — and Bishop herself! Refreshments will include birthday cake. \nTo get there\, enter the cemetery’s main gate and continue on Curtis Avenue. Take your fourth left onto Beech Street (after Elm\, Larch\, and Bush)\, proceed for one block\, and park. Bishop’s grave is behind the nearest tree on the left side of the road. \nThis event is sponsored by Mapping Worcester in Poetry. If you have any questions or wish to read a poem\, please contact Kate or Beth. Until then\, join us in pondering the “conundrum Love propounds” (Bishop\, “Three Valentines”).
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/reading-bishops-love-poems-valentines/
LOCATION:E.Bishop Grave at Hope Cemetary\, 119 Webster St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T203000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Extravaganza featuring Victor Infante
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 6th from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and contemplation. Two open-mic sessions sandwich our feature poet Victor Infante. Sign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com . Five-minute maximum\, please.\n\nFree admission. Separate area for our event. On-the-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options.\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\nJoin the fun on Tuesday\, February 6th!\n\n\n\nVictor D. Infante is the features editor for The Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the editor for Worcester Magazine. He has appeared in dozens of journals\, including The Chiron Review\, The Collagist\, Barrelhouse\, Pearl\, Spillway and The Banyan Review\, as well as in anthologies such as “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry\,” “Spoken Word Revolution Redux\,” “The Last American Valentine: Poems to Seduce and Destroy\,” “Aim For the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry\,” “The Incredible Sestina Anthology” and all three “Murder Ink: Tales of New England Newsroom Crime” anthologies. His first full-length poetry collection\, “City of Insomnia\,” was published by Write Bloody Publishing\, and his poetic novella\, “Suffer For This\,” is set to come out later this year on Moon Tide Press. He lives in Worcester with his wife\, the poet Lea C. Deschenes\, and their army of ferrets.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-extravaganza-featuring-victor-infante-2/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T065429
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SUMMARY:Thirsty Lab\, "Lessons from Yetta: What Can She Teach Us?"
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, January 30th\, 2024 Judith Ferrara will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n  \nRegister \n  \n \n  \nJudith Ferrara’s poems\, essays and artwork have appeared in three collections and in journals. She has been awarded a Worcester Cultural Commission/Massachusetts Cultural Council Creative Arts Fellowship and the Stanley Kunitz Medal from the Worcester County Poetry Association. Following more than a decade of research\, her biography/memoir A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son\, Poet Stanley Kunitz has been recently published by TidePool Press. Ferrara resides in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she developed a docent program at the Stanley Kunitz Boyhood Home.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/thirsty-lab-lessons-from-yetta-what-can-she-teach-us/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T193000
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CREATED:20240109T223914Z
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SUMMARY:In the Kingdom: A Reading by Jonathan Blake
DESCRIPTION:The Jacob Edwards Library is please to host a poetry ready by Jonathan Blake. The event is free and all welcome!\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.Currently\, he teaches in the English department at Worcester State University\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. \nThe rolling hills of the pastures on the horizon\, the wildlife\, the stillness needed for dreaming\, have long been the wellspring for my writing. \nIn the late 80’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. \nSponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/in-the-kingdom-a-reading-by-jonathan-blake/
LOCATION:Jacob Edwards Library\, 236 Main St.\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Bill O'Connell
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, January 23rd\, 2024 Bill O’Connell  will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n  \n \n  \n  \nRegister\n \nPublications include When We Were All Still Alive (Open Field Press 2021); \nSakonnet Point (Plinth Books 2011); & On The Map To Your Life (Dytiscid Press 1992). New poems upcoming in Naugatuck River Review\, Big Wing\, and The Lowell Review. I am currently working on a manuscript called Tarifa Moon\, poems from a winter in Europe. \nI have been living in the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts since 1984 with my wife\, Robin Marion. A retired social worker\, I teach literature and writing at Greenfield Community College and run a small handyman business when not playing with grandchildren.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-bill-oconnell/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:Worcester Writers' Collective Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome one\, come all to the weekly meetings of the WWC over at the JMAC (20 Franklin St.) \n  \n6-7 Free Writing Time \n7-9 Reading and Workshop \n  \nBuilding a small community of local writers of all genres is our priority and we are so thrilled to invite anyone interested to drop in and participate. \n  \nIt’s FREE and open to all. 🙂 \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/worcester-writers-collective-writing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:JMac/Brickbox Theater\, 20 Franklin Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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