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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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:Massachusetts
ORGANIZER;CN="Shantelle Campbell":MAILTO:CampbellS@worcesterma.gov
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240424T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T190000
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CREATED:20240330T015515Z
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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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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
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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
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240415T040616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T040621Z
UID:9160-1713375000-1713382200@worcestercountypoetry.org
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
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240405T202908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T202913Z
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
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240322T162122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T162127Z
UID:8732-1713290400-1713297600@worcestercountypoetry.org
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:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240322T161742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T161747Z
UID:8730-1713263400-1713267000@worcestercountypoetry.org
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:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240318T231745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T143846Z
UID:8685-1713247200-1713297600@worcestercountypoetry.org
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:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240313T221324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T153814Z
UID:8646-1713099600-1713110400@worcestercountypoetry.org
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
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240405T145617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T145700Z
UID:8869-1712685600-1712694600@worcestercountypoetry.org
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
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240330T021518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240330T021522Z
UID:8812-1712685600-1712688300@worcestercountypoetry.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240325T223004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T161438Z
UID:8772-1712494800-1712505600@worcestercountypoetry.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240322T163251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T163257Z
UID:8736-1712415600-1712422800@worcestercountypoetry.org
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240407
DTSTAMP:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240223T173615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240223T173615Z
UID:8424-1712361600-1712447999@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:Write Angles Confererence
DESCRIPTION:
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:20260613T001421
CREATED:20240405T204607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T204612Z
UID:8920-1712304000-1713384000@worcestercountypoetry.org
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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