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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  \nApril 27th will feature two women poets reading in a volta-style on the issue of child abuse and healing\, MA residents Candace Curran and Janet MacFayden created the piece and began performing it last year. \n  \n  \n \n Curran\, twice named as Western Massachusetts Poets’ Seat Laureate and winner of the 2022 Elyse Wolf Prize\, collaborated with MacFayden\, who is the author of three full-length collections\, the recipient of a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and a 7-month Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. She is managing editor of Slate Roof Press. \nAlso on the program will be MA resident Roger Kechawah Mbianda\, a native of Cameroon in Africa. He is presently pursuing a Doctorate in Curriculum Development and Instruction. Mbianda has a poetry collection titled Rays of My Days and is about to finish his first novel. The evening will also present several “Quiet Corner Poets” who will present work created through their monthly writing group.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-saturday-night-poetry-3/
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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SUMMARY:Individual Teen Poetry Prelims: Worcester Edition
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/individual-teen-poetry-prelims-worcester-edition/
LOCATION:MA
ORGANIZER;CN="Shantelle Campbell":MAILTO:CampbellS@worcesterma.gov
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T183000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Presentation by Bill Tremblay and Bill O’Connell
DESCRIPTION:Inaugural Town of Southbridge Poet Laureate Bill Tremblay will present a reading and discussion of his newest collection of poetry The Luminous Racetrack as well as other work that relates to Southbridge followed by fellow poet Bill O’Connell reading from his own work including his latest book When We Were All Still Alive
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-presentation-by-bill-tremblay-and-bill-oconnell/
LOCATION:Jacob Edwards Library\, 236 Main St.\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240424T180000
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SUMMARY:John Hodgen Library Reading Series: Hubbardston
DESCRIPTION:John Hodgen reading from his new book at the Hubbardston Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn 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 of Pittsburgh Press\, 2005). His fifth book\, The Lord of Everywhere\, is out from Lynx House\, which is also publishing his new book\, What We May Be\, this spring. He has won the Grolier Prize for Poetry\, an Arvon Foundation Award\, the Yankee Magazine Award for Poetry\, the Bluestem Award\, the Balcones Prize\, the Foley Prize\, the Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal\, the Collins Prize from Birmingham Poetry Review\, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in Poetry. His poem “Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Playing Upon the Pipe\,” published in The Antioch Review\, was chosen for inclusion in Scribner’s Best American Poetry 2017.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/john-hodgen-library-reading-series-hubbardston/
LOCATION:Hubbardston Public Library\, 7 Main St # 8\, Hubbardston\, MA\, 01452\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="John Hodgen":MAILTO:hodgen@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T220000
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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\n\n \n\n\n\nFred Gerhard leads the Poetry Workshop\, and is one of the open mic hosts\, for the New Dawn Writers’ Group. His poems appear in numerous anthologies and magazines. His new book is Drifting to “Hello” (Khotso Publishing)\, and his first chapbook\, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring came out in 2023 from Local Gems Poetry Press. He is also an editor at Quabbin Quills Press and Smoky Quartz. For many years he led a poetry therapy group in Worcester at UMASS Memorial’s Community HealthLink. More about him can be found at FredGerhard.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-workshop-at-new-dawn-6/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Nancy Baillie Strong
DESCRIPTION:he Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, April 23rd\, 2024 Nancy Baillie Strong  will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNancy Baillie Strong lives in Manchester\, NH. While cleaning out her parents’ home in 2019\, she discovered that her mother had kept a not-very-good poem written by Nancy when she was 10 years old.  She began writing poetry more seriously in the early 1990’s\, and workshopped with Jim Beschta at the Worcester (MA) Art Museum from 2012-2018.  She has participated in the Monadnock Pastoral Poets annual retreat\, and presently workshops with several other fine poets 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).  Her poem “Four Corners” was named by Worcester’s Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz as one of two dozen winners in the “Poems in and out of Places” contest of the “Mapping Worcester in Poetry” project of the Worcester County Poetry Association.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-nancy-bailie-strong/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T203000
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SUMMARY:Solo/Duet: Music  & Poetry in Harmony
DESCRIPTION:A poetry and music series at the Woods Memorial Public Library Free 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\nFeaturing Poets Clair Degutis & Jonathan Blake. and music by Jerry Wilfong (bass) and Rich Falco (guitar) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt 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~
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-music-poetry-in-harmony-2/
LOCATION:Woods Memorial Public Library\, 19 Pleasant St.\, Barre\, Massachusetts\, 01005\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T170000
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SUMMARY:Auguries & Divinations: Heather Treseler's Book Launch
DESCRIPTION: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 to discern human fate.HEATHER TRESELER is also the author of Parturition\, which won the Munster Literature Centre’s international chapbook prize. Her poems appear in The American Scholar\, Harvard Review\, The Irish Times\, The Kenyon Review\, and PN Review. Her essays appear in Boston Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and in eight books about American poetry. Recipient of the W. B. Yeats Prize\, Frontier Poetry’s prize\, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review\, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.\n\n\n\nIntroduction by Holy Cross’ Susan Elizabeth Sweeney\, and book available for purchase or pre-order at Bedlam Books.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/auguries-divinations-heather-tresslers-book-launch/
LOCATION:WSU Eager Auditorium\, 486 Chandler Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T150000
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CREATED:20240412T142944Z
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SUMMARY:Worcester County College Contest!!
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/8969/
LOCATION:WCPA Headquarters\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T160000
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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly round robin style\, open poetry reading.Bring original pieces to share. \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-7/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T203000
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CREATED:20240415T035154Z
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SUMMARY:Bonnie Johnson & Nat Needle: Spine Poems and Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Bonnie Johnson & Nat Needle: Spine Poems and Jazz NightFriday\, April 19\, 7pmIn honor of National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month\, join us for our second – hopefully-annual! – Spine Poems and Jazz Night! Create a Spine Poem and listen to music provided by Nat Needle and his students with WICN Colors of Jazz host Bonnie Johnson! We will use Annette Dauphin Simon’s fabulous book Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers as the model for creating our own short verses using the spines of books here at the bookstore. “Writing” a spine poem is fun\, it’s quick (~5 minutes\, unless you start reading the books)\, it’s easy. In fact\, they pretty much write themselves! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBonnie Johnson is an innovative design thinker\, radio personality and public speaker. She is producer and on-air host of Colors of Jazz\, a weekly program streaming live online at the NPR affiliate station 90.5 WICN. In addition to positioning herself in media as a jazz presenter\, Bonnie is a content creator\, podcast producer and data engineer. Stealth in her track record of advancing the cultural exchange\, Bonnie delivers STEM leadership\, and seeks to find pathways for collaboration through the lens of music and social justice.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/bonnie-johnson-nat-needle-spine-poems-and-jazz-night/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T193000
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CREATED:20240415T040616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T040621Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Readings from Chis Noonan’s New Release: The Theory of Xera Altamon
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/open-mic-poetry-night/
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:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T203000
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UID:8901-1713294000-1713299400@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Nonviolent Solutions for an evening of Verse
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/an-evening-of-poetry-2/
LOCATION:Phelan Center\, Blessed Sacrament Church\, 551 Pleasant Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Claire Schaeffer Duffy":MAILTO:theresecw@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T200000
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CREATED:20240322T162122Z
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SUMMARY:Charlton Library Celebrates National Poetry Month with an Open Mic night featuring Joe Fusco Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month at the Charlton Library by reading in the Open Mic and enjoying the musings of Joe Fusco Jr.Admission is free. Ample parking. Dexter Hall is an awesome space to be creative!Contact the library at 508-248-2219 to register for the open mic \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/stand-up poet from Worcester\, Massachusetts.He is the author of five books of semi-amusing poems and essays: “Random Thoughts from a Curmudgeon “ (2023)\, “Pondering the Pandemic during The Rust years”(2021); “Hmm…That’s Different” (2020); “Three Score” (2014); and “The Lost and Found Essays” (2012)\, all available at local bookstores and Amazon. Joe’s musings have appeared in Damfino Press\, Ballard Street Poetry\, Worcester Review\, Asinine Poetry\, Soul Lit\, and the naughty ezine Clean Sheets. He was a co-winner of the Jacob Knight Poetry Award in 2002 and was named Best Poet by Worcester Magazine readers in 1999 and 2002.Joe is a Humor columnist for Worcester Magazine and the last Worcester Mega-Slam winner in 2017. He features at bookstores\, libraries\, clubs\, and coffeehouses throughout Central Massachusetts and Belgium. He is the host of The Poetry Extravaganza at Redemption Rock Brewery and The Richard Fox Poetry Series at Root and Press Café and Books in Worcester. Joe has taught “Humor 101” for high-school students at Gateways Academy in Shrewsbury and for adults at the Worcester Senior Center\, Eisenberg Assisted Living\, Notre Dame Assisted Living\, The Residence of Orchard Grove\, and Christopher Heights Assisted Living. He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association. Joe 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.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/charlton-library-celebrates-national-poetry-month-with-an-open-mic-night-featuring-joe-fusco-jr/
LOCATION:Charlton Public Library\, 40 Main St.\, Charlton\, MA\, 01507\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T113000
DTSTAMP:20260613T014828
CREATED:20240322T161742Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T014828
CREATED:20240318T231745Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T014828
CREATED:20240313T221324Z
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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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CREATED:20240405T145617Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T184500
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CREATED:20240330T021518Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T014828
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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
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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T190000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T200000
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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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DTSTAMP:20260613T014828
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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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