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 John Hodgen […]
National Baseball Poetry Festival Day 1 Schedule: 4:00 PM Welcome Reception at Polar Park (DCU Club) 5:00 PM Polar Park Stadium Tour 6:05 PM WooSox Game vs. The Lehigh Valley Ironpigs (Triple-A Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies)
THE TELL IT SLANT WORKSHOPEmily Dickinson suggested, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant.” Together, we will read, discuss, and create poems that come at a story, emotion, or idea, slantwise—and often express the inexpressible. This strategy works well for emotionally difficult material, but can also be just the right tool for a comic […]
National Baseball Poetry Festival Day 2 Schedule: 2:00 PM Youth Poetry Readings The Berm, Left Field, Polar Park 3:30 – 5:30 PM Poetry Readings & Open Mic at Worcester Public Library 4:05 PM WooSox Game vs. The Lehigh Valley Ironpigs (Triple-A Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies), plus Poetry Contest Recognition and Sunset Catch on the […]
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8:30 – 11:00 AM Coffee with Poets & Visitors, Lobby, Homewood Suites by Hilton Worcester
Our next event is a triple feature in Deb Horan's backyard! The second Sunday of May is Mother's Day, so we will be having the event on the first Sunday 5/5/24. In the event of rain we will move the whole thing to Booklovers' Gourmet which is just down the street at 72 E Main […]
John Hodgen reads in the Goodwin Forum with Henry Walters and Charles Coe on Sunday May 5th. Come listen! John Hodgen 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 (University […]
Auguries & Divinations, winner of the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, tracks a young woman’s coming of age, attuned to the unspoken liabilities of women’s lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. The narrator claims a life of her own making, drawing on the classical practice of augury, or observing birds […]
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. It is difficultTo get the news from poems,Yet men die miserably every day For the lackOf what is found there ~William Carlos Williams~ […]
