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SUMMARY:Arts in the Garden
DESCRIPTION:Arts in the Garden \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin us at The Garden for the first event of the season!We will be featuring the musicial talents of Cross Tracks\, and the iconic poet Tony Brown.Admission is FREE and patrons are encouraged to bring non-alcoholic beverages and snacks to this family friendly event.Join us for an awesome time at Arts in The Garden! \n\n\n\nCrossTracks is a fun Americana band\, playing bluegrass\, vintage blues\, folk\, classic country\, some originals\, and some grassed-up classic acoustic rock songs.We were very fortunate to forge a bond together in music and friendship – that clearly comes through musically as we perform.Band MembersRalph DeFlorio -Guitar\, Harmonica and VocalsRose Villani – Bass and VocalsDan Villani – Fiddle\, Mandolin and Vocals \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Brown has been writing for well over 50 years\, and publishing and performing his work for over 40.A seven-time Pushcart Prize and two-time Best Of The Net nominee\, he has traveled the country\, slammed for the Worcester Poets’ Asylum\, and organized and hosted many readings and reading series.He is the winner of the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Medal\, endowed by the late US Poet Laureate and Worcester native and awarded annually to a poet for life achievement and service to the Central Massachusetts poetry community\,
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/arts-in-the-garden-17/
LOCATION:Community Teaching Garden\, 3 West Boylston Dr.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Carl Gomes":MAILTO:carlcgomes56@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T190000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic at New Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Come out to the New Dawn Writers’ Group’s Open Mic. Every fourth Tuesday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm we host an open mic for writers of all genres and ages. Bring an excerpt from that story you started\, memoir or novel. Bring a few poems\, or that experimental thing you wrote that doesn’t fit any known category. It’s a friendly\, pressure-free atmosphere at the New Dawn Arts Center in Ashburnham. The address is 84 Main Street\, Ashburnham\, MA. \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/open-mic-at-new-dawn-2/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Dzvinia Orlowsky
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, May 28th\, 2024 Dzvinia Orlowsky will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart Prize poet\, award-winning translator\, and a founding editor of Four Way Books. She’s published six poetry collections including A Handful of Bees\, reprinted for the Carnegie Mellon University Classic Contemporary Series; Convertible Night\, Flurry of Stones\, a winner of New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award; and Bad Harvest\, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)Enchanted Desna” was selected by Robert Pinsky as 2019 winner of the NEPC Samuel Washington Allen Prize. Her newest poetry collection\, Those Absences Now Closest\, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon in fall 2024. \n\n\n\nWith regard to translations of poetry from the Ukrainian\, her co-translations with Ali Kinsella of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s selected poems\, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow (Lost Horse Press\, 2021)\, was a finalist for the 2022 Griffin International Poetry Prize\, the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\, ALTA’s National Translation Award in Poetry\, and winner of the 2022 AAUS Prize for Translation. They received a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship to support the translation into English of Halyna Kurk’s recent\, unpublished poetry\, Lost in Living\, recently released from Lost Horse Press. Their co-translation of Oleksander Dovzhenko’s novella\, The Enchanted Desna\, is forthcoming from Lost Horse Press in 2025.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-dzvinia-orlowsky-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240527T203000
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SUMMARY:Free People's Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Artists\, Poets and interested individuals meet\, share and discuss recent work. Helpful criticism is encouraged.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/free-peoples-workshop-21/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T190000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large
DESCRIPTION:POETS AT LARGE PRESENTS A NEW SHOW \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret\, and Poets at Large will host an evening of spoken word and poetry on Saturday night\, May 25th.  This performance will be from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $15.00 and includes a give-away. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA\, now in its fifth year.  Featured poets will be authors Wendy Haller and Catherine DeNunzio.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaller\, a resident of Canton\, CT just released her first book\, Kiss You Love\, Goodbye – a poetic journey through life. She says\, “It took me 30 years to publish this book. It only came to fruition because of a promise I made to my son. Before he left for college\, he made me promise to write every day. Fear was holding me back. Nine months later\, my poetic memoir has been released.”  She is currently working on her second book\, Ache\, and has a children’s book in the illustration phase.  \n\n\n\nCatherine DeNunzio lives in Ledyard\, CT and is the author of Enough Like Bone to Build On (Antrim House 2022). Her poems have appeared in The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from The Robert Frost Place\, Connecticut Literary Anthology\, Delmara Review Connecticut River Review\, Italian Americana\, Marin Poetry Center Anthology\, Scapegoat Review\, and Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. She has poems forthcoming in Delmarva Review. \n\n\n\nContact Poets at Large coordinator Karen Warinsky if you are interested in reading in the open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. There is a 5-minute limit for open mic readers and these events are recommended for ages 14 and up. \n\n\n\nPoets at Large is a project of Windham Arts.  This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown\, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union\, and Weiss\, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-5/
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: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  \nMay 25th will feature poets Wendy Haller and Catherine DeNunzio. \n  \nHaller\, a Rhode Island native\, released her first book of poems last year and is a former preschool special education teacher with two published children’s books. Her poems center on family dynamics and individual growth. \n  \nConnecticut’s DeNunzio has one volume of poetry and has published widely in lit magazines and anthologies. Her work is characterized as wide-ranging with a focus on what it means to be human. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-saturday-night-poetry-4/
LOCATION:The Vanilla Bean\, 450 Deerfield Road\, Pomfret\, CT\, 06259\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Warinsky%2C Poets At Large":MAILTO:karen.warinsky@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T200000
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SUMMARY:The Richard Fox Poetry Series: Featuring Susan Roney O'Brien
DESCRIPTION:The Richard Fox Poetry Series is a monthly poetry open mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human being extraordinaire Richard Fox. Our first Feature will be Susan Roney O’Brien\, a good friend of Richard’s and a remarkable poet herself. \n\n\n\nFree admission. On-street parking. Root and Press Books and Cafe\, now in its new location\, offers an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection. \n\n\n\nSign up for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots are available. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County Poetry Association) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Roney-O’Brien earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and published chapbooks Earth and Farmwife and collections Legacy of the Last World\, Bone Circle\, and Thira. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes and published widely\, she works with the Worcester County Poetry Association\, organizes monthly poetry readings\, and facilitates free poetry workshops. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n“Richard Fox seeks three-decker rainbows\, fluent scout dogs\, and illuminating espresso. When not writing about rock ’n roll or youthful transgressions\, his poems focus on cancer from the patient’s point of view drawing on hope\, humor\, and unforeseen gifts. The winner of the 2017 Frank O’Hara Prize\, Richard seconds Stanley Kunitz’ motion that people in Worcester are ‘provoked to poetry.’ “
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-richard-fox-poetry-series-featuring-susan-roney-obrien/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T193000
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SUMMARY:John Hodgen Library Reading Series: Princeton Edition
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to poetry by John Hodgen and Susan Roney O’Brien on Wednesday May 22nd in Princeton. \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. \n\n\n\nSusan Roney-O’Brien earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College\, published chapbooks: Earth and Farmwife and collections: Legacy of the Last World\, Bone Circle and Thira. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes and published widely\, she works with the Worcester County Poetry Association\, organizes monthly poetry readings and facilitates free poetry workshops.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/john-hodgen-library-reading-series-princeton-edition/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library\, 2 Town Hall Drive\, Princeton\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="John Hodgen":MAILTO:hodgen@hotmail.com
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SUMMARY:Fred Gerhard: Drifting to Hello
DESCRIPTION:The poems in this collection of Fred Gerhard’s work range considerably: from Victorian rooms to the Pennsylvania and New England landscapes he knows intimately; from the psychology of inner experience to the dance of interpersonal relationships; from the noise of the trains that run through all of our lives (and occasionally crash into walls) to the quiet of the “dark grape taste of twilight.” Likewise\, Gerhard’s diverse poetic techniques run the gamut from lucid and conversational free verse to skillful and musical rhyme. Throughout\, he crafts memorable lines and indelible images\, giving (as he puts it in his tribute to Edgar Allan Poe) “consonant to forlorn sound”-and to the sound of joy. You can BUY THE BOOK HERE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis poems have appeared in Amethyst Review\, Asylum Magazine\, Attachment\, Black Moon Magazine\, Cacti Fur\, Door is a Jar Magazine\, Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Global Poemic\, Harpy Hybrid Review\, Heavy Feather Review\, Monadnock Underground\, Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal\, Pif Magazine\, POETiCA REViEW\, Sylvia Magazine\, Wild Musette Journal\, and other magazines and anthologies. His chapbook\, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring (Local Gems Poetry Press)\, came out in 2023\, and a second edition from Petronella Press in 2024. His ekphrastic poetry has been on exhibit in the Creative Connections art gallery\, and the New Dawn Arts Center\, both in Ashburnham\, Massachusetts. His poetry has also been voiced by actor Kirk Lawrence-Howard in Bespoke Vocals\, as seen on YouTube. He is one of the 2023 winners of the Poetry in the Pines contest and his work is installed on the trails at the Cathedral in the Pines in Rindge\, New Hampshire. \n\n\n\nHe was the editor for the Chelmsford Poetry Review\, and is currently an editor for Quabbin Quills press anthologies\, and for Smoky Quartz – An Online Journal of Literature & Art. \n\n\n\nFred Gerhard is one of the founders of the New Dawn Writers’ Group in Ashburnham where he leads monthly poetry workshops\, and helps host open mic nights. For many years he ran a poetry therapy group at Community Healthlink in Worcester\, MA. He was one of the founding members of the Concord Poetry Center. He currently runs a Facebook group to help bring together and support local poets and authors. He is a member of Poets & Writers\, the Worcester County Poetry Association\, the Monadnock Writers’ Group\, and the New England Poetry Club\, and thrives on taking part in readings and getting to know other poets. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, Fred Gerhard is a clinical psychologist\, operator of antique trolleys\, museum guide\, folk dancer\, musician\, runner\, and hiker. He particularly enjoys sitting on his porch and spending time with family\, friends\, and a tortoise named Twyla.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/fred-gerhard-drifting-to-hello/
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:20240521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240521T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
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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-7/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T160000
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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet
DESCRIPTION:Saturday May 18th @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\nJoin 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-3/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T193000
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SUMMARY:Bill Tremblay: The Luminous Racetrack
DESCRIPTION:The Luminous Racetrack is a collection of frank and lyrical poems based on Bill Tremblay’s childhood and youth in Southbridge\, Massachusetts. It is a uniquely intimate coming-of-age story and a masterful witness to the details and beliefs of a bygone era. It is a graceful and magical narrative told with great skill and intelligence. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe book is available for sale in the shop. \n\n\n\nThe Luminous Race Track flows like the Quinebaug River in its lyrical reportage of a boy’s coming-of-age in the mill town of Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, accruing poetic force stanza by stanza as it unfolds its masterful witness to local details and beliefs which Tremblay transfigures most gracefully into the universal narratives that resonate memorably\, magically\, and profoundly.–Charles DeNiord \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill Tremblay has published ten full-length volumes of poems\, two limited edition collections\, and a novel\, and is also well-known as  librettist\, editor and reviewer. During his more than forty years on university faculties\, he became a legendary teacher who drew students to Colorado States’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing\, of which he was director for many years\, from all over the continent. He has been honored with the Colorado Book Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, and publication in Best American Poetry. His work is notable for its muscular music\, its clarity\, its great feeling for those who suffer or are down-trodden\, and its pointed and eloquent critique of the persons\, forces and institutions that are its ongoing course.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/bill-tremblay-the-luminous-racetrack/
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:20240509T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T210000
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SUMMARY:Third Annual "Poet-Pourri"
DESCRIPTION:{Poetpourri}\n \nLocal poets\, storytellers and humorists will read from their latest musings. A night that won’t soon be forgotten. Featuring: \nCheryl Bonin \nTarique Cooper \nLaura DiCaronimo \nJudith Ferrara \nJoe Fusco Jr.  \n  \nCarolyn Oliver \nXaulanda Thorpe \nRobert Eugene Perry \nOliver de la Paz  \n*Admission and Parking are free*Books by the “Poet-pourri” writers will be available for purchase via cash\, check\, Venmo\, and PayPal. \nCo-sponsored by Lewandowski Painting.Join us in celebrating Worcester County writers!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/joe-fusco-jr-s-poet-pourri/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T200000
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CREATED:20240419T012709Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Extravaganza Featuring Kate Gregoire
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 7th from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and contemplation.Two open-mic sessions sandwich our feature poet Kate Gregoire. \n\n\n\nSign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com .  \n\n\n\nFive-minute maximum\, please.Free 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\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\n \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowski Painting. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Gregoire is a rhythmic truth seeker\, wielding her pen as a tool for divination. She is a mother\, a church wife\, and a teacher\, doing her darndest to sing and dance the cosmic breadcrumb trail before her. Kate is also a member of the Worcester County Poetry Association’s (WCPA) Executive Board and is the coordinator of the annual Rain Poetry contest and event.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poetry-extravaganza-featuring-kate-gregoire/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T180000
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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\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~ \n\n\n\nPoets: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 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 of DINER\, a literary magazine with a 7-year run. She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. She has run an ongoing writing workshop for 15 years and taches workshop and classes at WISE (Worcester Institute for Senior Education). She lives in Worcester\, MA with her husband\, musician\, artist\, writer Michael Milligan and their cat Bela. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Szlosek is a poet born in Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, but currently resides in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. He was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge\, as well as a past recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry. In May 2019\, Paul started a brand new open mic and featured poetry reading series with poet Ron Whittle called The Poetorium at Starlite (also in Southbridge) which closed in March 2020 due to COVID\, but reopened recently in June 2022 (in the two-year interim\, he ran an online print version entitled The Virtual Poetorium which he still continues under the name The International Imaginarium For Word & Verse). His poetry has appeared in various local & national print & online publications including The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, Radius\, Sahara\, Concrete Wolf\, Soul-Lit\, and Diner. He’s probably best known in the Central Massachusetts poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms\, and has invented his own including the ziggurat\, the streetbeatina\, the hodgenelle\, the lux\, and the singsangsong which he often shares with readers on his poetry blog Paul’s Poetry Play Ground .
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/solo-duet-poetry-music-series-2/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240506T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240506T203000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
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SUMMARY:Blacksmith Poetry Reading Series: Heather Tressler
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\nBrattle Street Poetry Reading Series with Luke Allan.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/blacksmith-poetry-reading-series-heather-tressler/
LOCATION:Brattle Street\, 56 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Heather Tressler":MAILTO:htreseler@worcester.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T163000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240415T221114Z
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SUMMARY:John Hodgen Library Reading Series: Concord Edition
DESCRIPTION:John Hodgen reads in the Goodwin Forum with Henry Walters and Charles Coe on Sunday May 5th. Come listen! \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-concord-edition/
LOCATION:Concord Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, Massachusetts\, 01742\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="John Hodgen":MAILTO:hodgen@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T160000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240417T160302Z
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: An Afternoon with Curtin/ Tremblay/ Szlosek
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nIn the event of rain we will move the whole thing to Booklovers’ Gourmet which is just down the street at 72 E Main Street Webster\, MA. \n\n\n\nIMPORTANT: PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR FOR THIS OUTDOOR EVENT  \n\n\n\nWHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: An Afternoon with Curt Curtin/ Bill Tremblay/ Paul Szlosek \n\n\n\nWHERE: Deb Horan’s Backyard: 15 Eddy St Webster\, MA \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sunday May 5th\, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\nWHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 15 minutes. Then we will take a quick break for book sales\, snacks and the raffle before starting the open mic. Open mic will be round robin\, one poem at a time until 4 PM. \n\n\n\nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. \n\n\n\nSIGN-UPS: There is room for 20 poets/ 30 total guests. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCurt Curtin is a lifelong poet with six full-length poetry collections\, three chapbooks\, and many individual poems published in anthologies and journals. Curt has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer prize. In 2010 he received the first Frank O’Hara Poetry award from the Worcester County Poetry Association\, and in 2019 he won second place in the annual contest of the Connecticut Poetry Society. In 2023 Curt won grants from both the Worcester Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council to support his work\, including translating some of his young adult poetry into Spanish.  Curt taught college English and creative writing for 20 years at Westfield State College\, MA\, following several years teaching younger students. He has been a featured reader in many poetry venues in Massachusetts and New Hampshire\, and twice in Ireland. Updates on his poetry can be found at www.curtcurtinpoet.com. Due to Curt’s low vision and other challenges\, Curt’s poems will be read by his wife of 43 years\, Dee O’Connor. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBill Tremblay has published ten full-length volumes of poems\, two limited edition collections\, and a novel\, and is also well-known as  librettist\, editor and reviewer. During his more than forty years on university faculties\, he became a legendary teacher who drew students to Colorado States’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing\, of which he was director for many years\, from all over the continent. He has been honored with the Colorado Book Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, and publication in Best American Poetry. His work is notable for its muscular music\, its clarity\, its great feeling for those who suffer or are down-trodden\, and its pointed and eloquent critique of the persons\, forces and institutions that are its ongoing course. He was recently named by the Town Council of Southbridge MA as it’s first Poet Laureate. Born and raised in Southbridge\, BILL TREMBLAY will present readings from his books of poetry which include among others: Crying in the Cheap Seats (U Massachusetts Press)\, The Anarchist Heart (New Rivers Press) as well as Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada (BOAEditions\, Ltd.)\, Shooting Script: Door of Fire (Eastern Washington U. Press)\, Walks Along the Ditch (Lynx House Press) and most recently The Luminous Race Track (Lynx House Press). In 1973\, Bill left Amherst with his wife Cynthia and three sons to take a professorship at Colorado State University. During his tenure he has received honors including a Fulbright-Hays Lectureship in Portugal\, a National Endowment for the Humanities at NYU\, poems in Best Poems (2003) and Pushcart\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, Pushcart Prizes\, inclusion in Best American Poems (Scribner’s: NY)\, the Colorado Book Award (for Shooting Script) and grants from the Corporation at Yaddo and the Mountain Writers Center. He retired from Colorado State University having been awarded the Stern Distinguished Professorship. Bill has just been appointed by the Town Council as the inaugural Poet Laureate of his home town of Southbridge\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\nPaul Szlosek\, a recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry in 2001 and the Stanley Kunitz Medal in 2023\, was born in Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, but currently resides in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. He was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge. In May 2019\, Paul started a brand new open mic and featured poetry reading series with poet Ron Whittle called The Poetorium at Starlite (also in Southbridge) which closed in March 2020 due to COVID\, but reopened in June\, 2022 (during the two-year interim\, he ran an online print version entitled The Virtual Poetorium which he still occasionally continues under the name The International Imaginarium For Word & Verse). Last year\, Paul’s poem “My Mother’s Dreams” made the shortlist for the International Dylan Thomas Day’s “Love the Words” poetry competition. His poetry has appeared in various local & national print & online publications including The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, Radius\, Sahara\, Concrete Wolf\, Silkworm\, Soul-Lit\, and Diner. He’s probably best known in the Central Massachusetts poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms\, and has invented his own including the ziggurat\, the streetbeatina\, the hodgenelle\, the lux\, and the singsangsong which he often shares with readers on his poetry blog Paul’s Poetry Play Ground.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-presents-an-afternoon-with-curtin-tremblay-szlosek/
LOCATION:Deb’s House\, 15 Eddy St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T110000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
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SUMMARY:National Baseball Festival
DESCRIPTION:8:30 – 11:00 AM Coffee with Poets & Visitors\, Lobby\, Homewood Suites by Hilton Worcester
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/national-baseball-festival/
LOCATION:Homewood Suites\, 1 Washington Square\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01604\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Elizabeth Sharpe":MAILTO:karenelizabethsharpe@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T220000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240329T181320Z
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SUMMARY:National Baseball Festival Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Bring your best Baseball Poetry
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/national-baseball-festival-open-mic/
LOCATION:Steel & Wire\, 124 Millbury Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01610\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T220000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
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SUMMARY:National Baseball Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:National Baseball Poetry Festival Day 2 Schedule: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n2:00 PM Youth Poetry Readings The Berm\, Left Field\, Polar Park \n\n\n\n3:30 – 5:30 PM Poetry Readings & Open Mic  at Worcester Public Library \n\n\n\n4:05 PM WooSox Game vs. The Lehigh Valley Ironpigs (Triple-A Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies)\, plus Poetry Contest Recognition and Sunset Catch on the Field \n\n\n\n7:00 – 10:00 PM Canal District Open Mic Night Featuring Two Evening Open MicsVenues: Steel & Wire and Boland’s Cafe
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/national-baseball-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Boland’s\, 81 Water Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01602\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T160000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T012725Z
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SUMMARY:Tell It Slant: A Generative Poetry Workshop with Meg Kearney
DESCRIPTION: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 twist. There will be an emphasis on poets producing new work\, with feedback that focuses on what’s memorable and working in each piece. Together we will form a group where each individual feels seen and safe to share new poems. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeg Kearney’s All Morning the Crows\, winner of the Washington Prize\, made SmallPress Distribution’s poetry bestseller list April through September\, 2021. Meg is also author of An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now\, winner of the PEN New EnglandL.L. Winship Award; a heroic crown/chapbook\, The Ice Storm; three verse novels for teens; and award-winning picture book\, Trouper\, illustrated by E.B. Lewis. She directs the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University in Massachusetts. Visit her WEBSITE for more information.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/tell-it-slant-a-generative-poetry-workshop-with-meg-kearney/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240405T203557Z
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SUMMARY:National Baseball Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:National Baseball Poetry Festival Day 1 Schedule: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n4:00 PM Welcome Reception at Polar Park (DCU Club)  \n\n\n\n5:00 PM Polar Park Stadium Tour \n\n\n\n6:05 PM WooSox Game vs. The Lehigh Valley Ironpigs (Triple-A Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies)
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/national-baseball-poetry-festival-2/
LOCATION:Worcester
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Elizabeth Sharpe":MAILTO:karenelizabethsharpe@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T213000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240412T150423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T150428Z
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SUMMARY:Poetorium at Starlite 
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special double feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium at Starlite hosted by Paul Szlosek and Ron Whittle. It will be a full evening of poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our two featured poets John Hodgen (Author of The Lord of Everywhere and What We May Be) and Karen Elizabeth Sharpe (Author of Prayer Can Be Anything and This Late Afternoon) followed by poetry readings by our features\, a 10-minute tribute to a dead poet by a guest reader\, 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 features 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\n\n\n\n\nJohn Hodgen is 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 forthcoming 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. \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. She is the author of Prayer Can Be Anything (Finishing Line Press\, 2023) and This Late Afternoon (Dunn & Co. 2004). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Karen has been a member of Marge Piercy’s juried poets group and a member of the PoemWorks community in the greater Boston area.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-at-starlite/
LOCATION:Starlite Bar and Gallery\, 39 Hamilton St\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240430T200000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240330T015723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240418T170715Z
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Cynthia Snow
DESCRIPTION:he Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, April 30th\, 2024 Cynthia Snow will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCindy Snow’s writing has appeared online and in the Massachusetts Review\, Peace Review\, Worcester Review\, Crannóg\, and Maria Sibylla Merian: Changing the Nature of Art and Science.  Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart\, and her chapbook\, Small Ceremonies\, was published by Slate Roof Press.  Cindy served as a Platte Clove Artist in Residence and was a writing fellow at Cill Rialaig\, Ireland.  She holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University\, works at Greenfield Community College\, and lives in Shelburne Falls\, MA\, with her family.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-cynthia-snow/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240403T165810Z
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SUMMARY:Poets At Large: April Edition
DESCRIPTION:POETS AT LARGE PRESENTS A NEW SHOW \n\n\n\nThe Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret\, and Poets at Large will host a special National Poetry Month reading of spoken word and poetry on Saturday night\, April 27th. This performance will be from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $15.00 and includes a give-away.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPoets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA\, now in its fifth year. Featured poets will be Massachusetts residents Candace Curran\, Janet MacFadyen and Victor Infante. Special readers in the open mic will be members of the Quiet Corner chapter of the CT Poetry Society. Curran and MacFadyen will read their new work\, “Rocking the Boat\,” which is about childhood trauma\, abuse and healing. This will be done in the style of a Volta.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCurran\, 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. \n\n\n\nInfante has published his poetry and fiction in numerous publications\, and is the author of the full-length collection\, City of Insomnia from Write Bloody Publishing. He’s won five NENPA Awards for Arts & Entertainment Reporting\, and has been a nominee five years in a row for the Boston Music Awards’ “Music Journalist of the Year.” Infante is the features editor for the Telegram & Gazette and the editor of Worcester Magazine. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nContact Poets at Large coordinator Karen Warinsky if you are interested in reading in the openmic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. There is a 5-minute limit for open mic readers and theseevents are recommended for ages 14 and up. \n\n\n\nPoets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. This series is sponsored in part by bank Hometown\, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union\, and Weiss\, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-at-large-april-edition/
LOCATION:The Vanilla Bean\, 450 Deerfield Road\, Pomfret\, CT\, 06259\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Warinsky%2C Poets At Large":MAILTO:karen.warinsky@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large: Candace Curran\, Janet MacFayden & Victor Infante
DESCRIPTION:The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road in Pomfret\, and Poets at Large will host a special National Poetry Month reading of spoken word and poetry on Saturday night\, April 27th.  This performance will be from 7-9 p.m. Admission is $15.00 and includes a give-away. Poets at Large is a regional group of poets who read in CT and MA\, now in its fifth year.  Featured poets will be Massachusetts residents Candace Curran\, Janet MacFadyen and Victor Infante. Special readers in the open mic will be members of the Quite Corner chapter of the CT Poetry Society. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCurran and MacFadyen will read their new work\, “Rocking the Boat\,” which is about childhood trauma\, abuse and healing.  This will be done in the style of a Volta.  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. \n\n\n\nAlso on the program will be Victor Infante.  He has published his poetry and fiction in numerous publications\, and is the author of the full-length poetry collection\, “City of Insomnia\,” from Write Bloody Publishing. He’s won five NENPA Awards for Arts & Entertainment Reporting\, and has been a nominee five years in a row for the Boston Music Awards’ “Music Journalist of the Year.” Infante is the features editor for the Telegram & Gazette and the editor of Worcester Magazine. \n\n\n\nContact Poets at Large coordinator Karen Warinsky if you are interested in reading in the open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. There is a 5-minute limit for open mic readers and these events are recommended for ages 14 and up. \n\n\n\nOne more show remains in the spring Vanilla Bean season set for May 25.   Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts.  This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown\, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union\, and Weiss\, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-candace-curran-janet-macfayden-victor-infante/
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:20240427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T203000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240328T174019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T174024Z
UID:8785-1714069800-1714077000@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:Individual Teen Poetry Prelims: Worcester Edition
DESCRIPTION:
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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T193000
DTSTAMP:20260612T182826
CREATED:20240417T155220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T155224Z
UID:9195-1714069800-1714073400@worcestercountypoetry.org
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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