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SUMMARY:Reading by Oliver de la Paz
DESCRIPTION:Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester for 2023-2025. He is the author or editor of seven books\, including five collections of poems: Names Above Houses\, Furious Lullaby\, Requiem for the Orchard\, Post Subject: A Fable\, and The Boy in the Labyrinth\, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry. His latest collection\, The Diaspora Sonnets\, was long-listed for the National Book Award and received the 2023 New England Book Award for poetry. \nOliver is a founding member of Kundiman and serves on the board of Poetry Daily. His work has appeared in journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review\, North American Review\, Tin House\, Poetry\, and in anthologies and periodicals including Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and the New York Times. He teaches creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross. \nOliver’s reading is the first event in the spring 2024 Working Writers Series\, sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Holy Cross. Other visiting writers this spring will include essayist Elena Passarello\, novelist Nicole Flattery\, poet\, memoirist\, and novelist Vesna Goldsworthy\, and poet Nathan McClain.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/reading-by-oliver-de-la-paz/
LOCATION:Booth Media Lab\, Prior Performing Arts Center\, College of the Holy Cross\, 1 College Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
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SUMMARY:Love Poems After Dark
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/love-poems-after-dark/
LOCATION:Bah-Bah- Q\, 397 Chandler St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Noonan":MAILTO:cnoonan0101@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off Beat Poets: First Event of 2024
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Donna Lange/ Brian Mosher\nWHERE: Donna Lange’s house 59 Chase Road Thompson\, CT (exit 50 off 395)\nWHEN: Sunday February 11th 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm\nWHAT HAPPENS: Our feature poets of the month will each read for 20 minutes. Then we will take a quick break for book sales\, snacks and the raffle before starting the open mic. Open mic will be round robin\, one poem at a time until 4 PM.\n\nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. There is room for 20 poets. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-first-event-of-2024/
LOCATION:Donna Lange’s House\, 59 Chase Road\, Thompson\, CT\, 06277\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading Bishop's Love Poems & Valentines
DESCRIPTION:Image from vintage Valentine postcard\, 1907 \nAt our annual birthday bash at Elizabeth Bishop’s grave in Hope Cemetery\, local poets will read aloud her sardonic valentines and tender\, poignant love poems\, mostly unpublished during her lifetime. Readers include Elizabeth Bacon\, Clair Degutis\, Judith Ferrara\, Claire Mowbray Golding\, Kate Gregoire\, John Hodgen\, Irena Kaci\, Evan Plante\, Eve Rifkah\, Susan Rooney-O’Brien\, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney — and Bishop herself! Refreshments will include birthday cake. \nTo get there\, enter the cemetery’s main gate and continue on Curtis Avenue. Take your fourth left onto Beech Street (after Elm\, Larch\, and Bush)\, proceed for one block\, and park. Bishop’s grave is behind the nearest tree on the left side of the road. \nThis event is sponsored by Mapping Worcester in Poetry. If you have any questions or wish to read a poem\, please contact Kate or Beth. Until then\, join us in pondering the “conundrum Love propounds” (Bishop\, “Three Valentines”).
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/reading-bishops-love-poems-valentines/
LOCATION:E.Bishop Grave at Hope Cemetary\, 119 Webster St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01603\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Extravaganza featuring Victor Infante
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 6th from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and contemplation. Two open-mic sessions sandwich our feature poet Victor Infante. Sign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com . Five-minute maximum\, please.\n\nFree admission. Separate area for our event. On-the-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options.\n\nRedemption Rock Brewery (RRB) serves craft beers\, coffees\, teas\, and delicious snacks. You can bring your own food but outside beverages are not allowed. The Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowski Painting.\n\nJoin the fun on Tuesday\, February 6th!\n\n\n\nVictor D. Infante is the features editor for The Worcester Telegram & Gazette and the editor for Worcester Magazine. He has appeared in dozens of journals\, including The Chiron Review\, The Collagist\, Barrelhouse\, Pearl\, Spillway and The Banyan Review\, as well as in anthologies such as “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry\,” “Spoken Word Revolution Redux\,” “The Last American Valentine: Poems to Seduce and Destroy\,” “Aim For the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry\,” “The Incredible Sestina Anthology” and all three “Murder Ink: Tales of New England Newsroom Crime” anthologies. His first full-length poetry collection\, “City of Insomnia\,” was published by Write Bloody Publishing\, and his poetic novella\, “Suffer For This\,” is set to come out later this year on Moon Tide Press. He lives in Worcester with his wife\, the poet Lea C. Deschenes\, and their army of ferrets.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-extravaganza-featuring-victor-infante-2/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thirsty Lab\, "Lessons from Yetta: What Can She Teach Us?"
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, January 30th\, 2024 Judith Ferrara will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n  \nRegister \n  \n \n  \nJudith Ferrara’s poems\, essays and artwork have appeared in three collections and in journals. She has been awarded a Worcester Cultural Commission/Massachusetts Cultural Council Creative Arts Fellowship and the Stanley Kunitz Medal from the Worcester County Poetry Association. Following more than a decade of research\, her biography/memoir A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son\, Poet Stanley Kunitz has been recently published by TidePool Press. Ferrara resides in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she developed a docent program at the Stanley Kunitz Boyhood Home.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/thirsty-lab-lessons-from-yetta-what-can-she-teach-us/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T193000
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SUMMARY:In the Kingdom: A Reading by Jonathan Blake
DESCRIPTION:The Jacob Edwards Library is please to host a poetry ready by Jonathan Blake. The event is free and all welcome!\n\nJonathan Blake has been following the gospel of his heart for as long as he can remember. Writer\, educator\, arts activist/organizer\, he makes his home in central Massachusetts.Currently\, he teaches in the English department at Worcester State University\n\n\nIn 1984 my parents purchased a small log cabin overlooking a pond in a sparsely inhabited valley at the end of a long dirt road in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. In time\, with the coming of grandchildren and great grandchildren\, the family built another cabin to accommodate the gatherings of the tribe. \nThe rolling hills of the pastures on the horizon\, the wildlife\, the stillness needed for dreaming\, have long been the wellspring for my writing. \nIn the late 80’s\, after a visit to our family cabin\, the poet Bill O’Connell named the place Paradise. It remains a place where poems and peace can be found. \nSponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/in-the-kingdom-a-reading-by-jonathan-blake/
LOCATION:Jacob Edwards Library\, 236 Main St.\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Bill O'Connell
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, January 23rd\, 2024 Bill O’Connell  will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n  \n \n  \n  \nRegister\n \nPublications include When We Were All Still Alive (Open Field Press 2021); \nSakonnet Point (Plinth Books 2011); & On The Map To Your Life (Dytiscid Press 1992). New poems upcoming in Naugatuck River Review\, Big Wing\, and The Lowell Review. I am currently working on a manuscript called Tarifa Moon\, poems from a winter in Europe. \nI have been living in the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts since 1984 with my wife\, Robin Marion. A retired social worker\, I teach literature and writing at Greenfield Community College and run a small handyman business when not playing with grandchildren.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-bill-oconnell/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:Worcester Writers' Collective Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome one\, come all to the weekly meetings of the WWC over at the JMAC (20 Franklin St.) \n  \n6-7 Free Writing Time \n7-9 Reading and Workshop \n  \nBuilding a small community of local writers of all genres is our priority and we are so thrilled to invite anyone interested to drop in and participate. \n  \nIt’s FREE and open to all. 🙂 \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/worcester-writers-collective-writing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:JMac/Brickbox Theater\, 20 Franklin Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240122T210000
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CREATED:20240119T181217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240120T003707Z
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SUMMARY:Free People Artist Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Artist\, poets\, writers meet to discuss\, share\, critique and encourage on-going work. \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/free-people-artist-workshop-3/
LOCATION:Preservation Worcester Board Room\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01609\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T210000
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CREATED:20240103T235358Z
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SUMMARY:The Poet's Cauldron Returns
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poets-cauldron-returns/
LOCATION:Crompton Collective: The White Room\, 138 Green St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Bruja TheVillain":MAILTO:thepoetscauldron@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20231226T225937Z
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SUMMARY:BOOKLOVERS' GOURMET OPEN MIC
DESCRIPTION:Booklover’s Gourmet OPEN Mic Poetry \nSaturday January 20\, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm \nJoin us for a monthly round robin style\, open poetry reading.\nBring original pieces to share. \nSign up to reserve your spot by emailing: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills quickly!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20231215T144235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231216T195212Z
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SUMMARY:Reciprocity: Paintings and Poems by Judith Ferrara
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading & Open Mic. \n  \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/reciprocity-paintings-and-poems-by-judith-ferrara/
LOCATION:Gale Free Library\, 23 Highland St\, Holden\, MA\, 01520\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T210000
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SUMMARY:Worcester Writers' Collective Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome one\, come all to the weekly meetings of the WWC over at the JMAC (20 Franklin St.) \n  \n6-7 Free Writing Time \n7-9 Reading and Workshop \n  \nBuilding a small community of local writers of all genres is our priority and we are so thrilled to invite anyone interested to drop in and participate. \n  \nIt’s FREE and open to all. 🙂 \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/worcester-writers-collective-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:JMac/Brickbox Theater\, 20 Franklin Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
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SUMMARY:The Luminous Racetrack - Poetry Reading & Book Signing by Bill Tremblay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special evening with the legendary poet Bill Tremblay at Tidepool Books as he reads from his new poetry collection\, The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems (Lynx House Press\, 2023). Bill will also sign copies of the book which will be available for sale at the bookshop.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“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” – Ostap Slyvynsky\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBill Tremblay is an award-winning poet\,‭ novelist\, teacher\, editor\, and reviewer whose work has appeared in ten full-length volumes of poetry including Crying in the Cheap Seats (University of Massachusetts Press)\, The Anarchist Heart (New Rivers Press)\, Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada [(BOA Editions Ltd.)\,  Shooting Script: Door of Fire  (Eastern Washington University Press). Hundreds of his poems have appeared in literary magazines and such anthologies as the Pushcart Prize\, The Jazz Poetry Anthology\, Best American Poetry\, 2003\, In 1994\, he published his novel\, The June Rise (Utah State University Press)\, which was widely and favorably reviewed\, especially on NPR’s All Things Considered. In 2004\, his book\, Shooting Script: Door of Fire received the Colorado Book Award. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as The Pushcart Prize Anthology and the Corporation at Yaddo. He was a Fulbright visiting Lecturer at Universidade de Lisboa\, Portugal. Mr. Tremblay edited Colorado Review for 15 years and received the John F. Stern Distinguished Professor award for his thirty-three years teaching in and directing the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University. His latest book\, The Luminous Race Track (2023)\, is a poetic memoir about growing up in his Franco-American working-class family in the mill town of Southbridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T143000
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SUMMARY:Author Event- A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son\, the Poet Stanley Kunitz.
DESCRIPTION:Yetta Dine\, mother to poet Stanley Kunitz\, finds her voice thanks to years of fastidious research and record keeping by the author Judith Ferrara. Come enjoy a special reading of the book by the author herself. \n\n\nClick Here for more information on the book. \n\n \n  \n  \nPortrayed in Stanley Kunitz’s poems and interviews as an unforgiving and unaffectionate mother\, Yetta Dine reveals a more complex narrative through her recently recovered letters\, memoir\, and diary. They provide vital insights into the life and work of a major American poet.  ORDER HERE
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-feast-of-losses-a-book-reading-by-the-author/
LOCATION:Tatnuck Booksellers\, 18 Lyman Street\, Westborough\, MA\, 01581\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20240103T235157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T235157Z
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SUMMARY:Monthly Board Meeting: January Edition
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin us for our monthly Board Meeting on the second Wednesday December 13th at our office headquarters over @ 61 Harvard St.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/monthly-board-meeting-january-edition/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20230919T162912Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Worcester Writers' Collective Tuesday Night Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nCANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER \nCome one\, come all to the weekly meetings of the WWC over at the JMAC (20 Franklin St.) \n  \n6-7 Free Writing Time \n7-9 Reading and Workshop \n  \nBuilding a small community of local writers of all genres is our priority and we are so thrilled to invite anyone interested to drop in and participate. \n  \nIt’s FREE and open to all. 🙂 \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/worcester-writers-collective-tuesday-night-workshop-3/
LOCATION:JMac/Brickbox Theater\, 20 Franklin Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240102T203000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20231213T185108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231213T185108Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Extravaganza Featuring Meg Smith
DESCRIPTION:Winter is coming!\n\nFortunately\, with it comes more poetry readings @ The Poetry Extravaganza!\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, January 2nd from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and revelry.\n\nTwo open-mic sessions sandwich our Feature poet the fledgling Meg Smith.\nSign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com . Five-minute maximum\, please.\n\nFree admission. Separate area for our event. On-the-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options.\nRedemption Rock Brewery (RRB) serves craft beers\, coffees\, teas\, and delicious snacks. You can bring your own food but outside beverages are not allowed.\nThe Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowski Painting.\nJoin the fun on Tuesday\, January 2nd!\n\n\n\nMeg Smith is a writer\, journalist\, dancer and events producer living in Lowell\, Mass. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Café Review\, The Lowell Review\, Poetry Bay\, Polarity\, and many more.\n\nShe currently serves as content editor for Worcester Magazine. She is an ex-oficio member of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! and produces the Edgar Allan Poe show\, and has a fabric arts enterprise\, Midnight Mews.\n\nShe is author of six poetry books and a short fiction collection\, The Plague Confessor. Her newest poetry collection is Straw\, Feathers\, Bones. WEBSITE
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-extravaganza-featuring-meg-smith/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231226T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Carla Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, December 26th\, 2023 Carla Schwartz will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n  \n  \nRegister \n  \n \n  \n\n\n  \nCarla Schwartz is a poet\, filmmaker\, photographer\, and blogger. Her poems\, which reflect life\, love\, family\, death\, the natural world\,  social issues\, and the environment\, have appeared in Banyan Review\, Fourth River\, Fulcrum\, California Quarterly\, Channel\, Glassworks\, Gyroscope\, Ibbetson Street\, Leon Literary Review\, Leveler\, Lost River\, The MacGuffin\, Mom Egg\, Naugatuck River\, New-Verse News\, Oyster River Pages\, Paterson Literary Review\, Smoky Quartz Anthology\, Solstice\, Sunlight Press\, Sweet Tree\, The EAR\, Triggerfish Critical Review\, WCAI Poetry Sunday\, and Verse-Virtual\, among others. \nHer poem\, “Anthem\,” won the May 2019 Lunch Ticket Twitter contest. Her poem\, “Wormageddon\,” appears as a model poem in The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics\, edited by Diane Lockward. Her poem “Gum Surgery” was anthologized in City of Notions\, A Boston Poetry Anthology. She is a 2023 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. Her poem\, “Pat Schroeder was our Mother” won the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings prize. \n\n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-carla-schwartz/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T203000
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SUMMARY:The Packing House Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n\n \nThe December 21st show of The Packing House Poetry Series will feature Massachusetts based authors Robert Eugene Perry and Paul Szlosek.\n\n\nRobert Eugene Perry has had several poems published in Worcester Magazine\, as well as Poetica Magazine’s Mizmor Anthology\, NatureCulture’s Honoring Nature collection\, National Beat Poetry Foundation Remembering Jack Kerouac on his 100th Birthday\, Beat Style Love Poems and Natural Worlds\, Florence Poetry Society’s Silkworm 16\,  and the online publications Soul-Lit: a journal of spiritual poetry\, Poetica Magazine and The Academy of the Heart and Mind\, and his poem Primal was a finalist in the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry. His short story In the Company of Trees was published by Wordpeace Journal.  As a metaphysical poet\, he finds inspiration in nature and endeavors to draw connections between our higher selves and the natural world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Szlozek is a poet born in Southbridge\, Massachusetts\, but currently residing in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. The recipient of the 2023 Stanley Kunitz Medal as well as the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry in 2001\, he was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge. His poems have 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.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe show’s format will consist of two open mic segments as well as a pair of 15-minute slots for each of the featured artists. Intermission will give the audience and poets the chance to meet one another and the opportunity to purchase signed publications.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe open-mic segments will provide the opportunity for audience members to read their own original work. We are planning to allow for two half-hour sessions\, one at the beginning of the event\, and the other at the end. Readers will be given up to five minutes to present\, and we will have a sign-up sheet. This program is hosted by the “Eastern Connecticut Center for History\, Art\, and Performance” (EC-CHAP) and Steve Veilleux. Writers who are interested in featuring should reach out to either Steve Veilleux (Veilleuxs50@gmail.com) or Tom Buccino (info@ecchap.org).\n\n\n\n\nSoft drinks and snacks available. We are pleased to offer our exclusive “BYOB&F” TM model – Bring Your Own Beverage & Food TM (Wine & Beer Only -I.D. Required).\n\n\n\nFree Admission
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-packing-house-poetry-series/
LOCATION:The Packing House\, 156 River Road\, Willington\, CT\, 06279\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231219T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231219T190000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
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SUMMARY:Artists Who Are Poets/Poets Who Are Artists Winter Solstice Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Tidepool Books for an open mic (two poems or five minutes for each reader) followed by featured readings by Christopher Reilley & Robert Steele.\n\nFor more information\, contact Huck at (508) 753 2500\n\n\n\nChristopher Reilley is a former poet laureate (Dedham\, MA) a two time Pushcart nominee\, and the creative mind behind the Bytesized Studios. His collections include Breathing for Clouds\, and more recently One Night Stanzas. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals Like Boston Literary Magazine\, Frog Croon\, Word Salad\, and others. He has spent time on the boards of the Worcester County Poetry Association\, and the Newton Writing & Publishing Center.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Steele is living a happy and largely anonymous life in Charlton with Carrie\, a librarian\, and Marcel\, a cat. He has been writing since 9th grade when he had a vision of immortality while staring out the window of Mr. Donnelly’s Latin class. He will read sections from chapter 15 of his novel East Wind – West Rock.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/artists-who-are-poets-poets-who-are-artists-winter-solstice-poetry-reading/
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:20231216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231216T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20231204T214638Z
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SUMMARY:Sue Shepard's Book Release
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Book release: Balancing My SeeSaw… Through Life’s Ups & Downs by “Just Sue” (Sue Shepard) \n  \nWHERE: Booklovers’ Gourmet 72 E Main St Webster. MA \n  \nWHEN: Saturday December 16\, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n  \nWHAT HAPPENS: Life’s ups and downs – we all have them\, whether we have been diagnosed with a chemical imbalance or not. Sue has learned how to live with them\, especially since her diagnosis of a condition over 29 years ago. \nWith God in the middle of it all\, He helps to keep us balanced when life’s circumstances are trying to bring us down or throw us off. \nThrough short stories and poems\, Sue has found her voice and wants to share the hope and inspiration she has discovered so that others can also find ways to balance their own SeeSaw of Life. \n  \nCOST: FREE!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/sue-shepards-book-release/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20231206T204256Z
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SUMMARY:WCPA Monthly Board Meeting: December Edition
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for our monthly Board Meeting on the second Wednesday December 13th at our office headquarters over @ 61 Harvard St. \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/wcpa-monthly-board-meeting-december-edition/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
CREATED:20231110T184321Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Extravaganza
DESCRIPTION:Winter is coming!\n\nFortunately\, with it comes more poetry readings @ The Poetry Extravaganza!\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, December 5th from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and revelry.\n\nTwo open-mic sessions sandwich our Feature poet the fledgling Irena Kaçi.\nSign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com . Five-minute maximum\, please.\n\nFree admission. Separate area for our event. On-the-street parking or check redemptionrock.beer for other parking options.\nRedemption Rock Brewery (RRB) serves craft beers\, coffees\, teas\, and delicious snacks. You can bring your own food but outside beverages are not allowed.\nThe Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowski Painting.\nJoin the fun on Tuesday\, December 5th!\n\nIrena Kaçi is an Albanian-American poet and writer living in Worcester\, MA with her spouse and two children. Her poem “Onions” placed 3rd in the 2023 O’Hara Prize contest and her work has appeared in the Worcester Review\, Atticus Review and 41 Journal. Irena’s work touches on themes of parenting\, immigration\, and longing. She is currently working on putting together her first chapbook.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poetry-extravaganza-2/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
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SUMMARY:Random Thoughts from a Curmudgeon: Book Signing and Open Mic Featuring Joe Fusco Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Joe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned humorist/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 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\, and The Residence of Orchard Grove.  He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association.\n\nJoe has lived in lovely Worcester with his better-half Cyndi and their large family for thirty-eight years. He is a registered Independent and sleeps with one eye always open.\nMore info on Joe can be found at joesyellowpad.com\n\n\n\n\n\nTo sign up\, please call 508-949-6232 or email deb@bookloversgourmet.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/random-thoughts-from-a-curmudgeon-book-signing-and-open-mic-featuring-joe-fusco-jr/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T220000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
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SUMMARY:Poetorium at Starlite Poetry Open Mic & Reading Series Featuring Glenn D’Alessio and Kerrissa Cobb
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 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 Glenn D’Alessio (Author of In My Sea Cliff Years of Innocence\, A Carpenter’s Building\, Homes for His Poems\, and Some Tanka in Thanks to Elroy\, Not the Most Cantankerous Dog) and Kerrissa Cobb (Writer\, Educator\, & Poet) 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 feature and compensate Starlite for the use of their space. For more information\, please contact us at poetorium@mail.com or visit our WEBSITE \n  \nGlenn D’Alessio plays flute in the Worcester State Jazz Band\, and in the Florence MA Community Band. He was a past college instructor about energy conservation\, and also green building\, who is still a carpenter and builder from West Brookfield\, MA. For several years he was a volunteer with the “Worcester Energy Barn Raisers” (WEBr) who weatherized numerous places — weatherization being like tightening a ship to keep water\, ants\, and rot out; and during the winter\, the heat in. His Finishing Line Press chapbooks are In My Sea Cliff Years of Innocence\, A Carpenter’s Building\, Homes for His Poems\, and Some Tanka in Thanks to Elroy\, Not the Most Cantankerous Dog. Other poems of his have appeared ‘Here and There\,’ which hopefully sounds like quite a journal. A full-length manuscript he has high hopes for is Between Merwin and Greger\, Overtones of Poetry. Poems there play off of quotes from both W.S. Merwin’s Migration and Debora Greger’s The 1002nd Night. He shares many of their environmental attitudes and loves their poetry. plays flute in the Worcester State Jazz Band\, and in the Florence MA Community Band. He was a past college instructor about energy conservation\, and green building\, and is still a carpenter and builder from West Brookfield\, MA. For several years he was a volunteer with the “Worcester Energy Barn Raisers” (WEBr) who weatherized numerous places — weatherization being like tightening a ship to keep water\, ants\, and rot out; and during the winter\, the heat in. \n \nKerrissa Cobb is a writer\,‭ poet\, and educator from Dudley\, Massachusetts. You’ll often find her a bit further south\, ‬attending events around Putnam\, Connecticut. While she has only a singular poem officially published\, she continues to write and work towards a full collection of poems. Outside of poetry her writing interests lie in short stories\, \n\nespecially flash fiction. Many of her works incorporate nature\, mythology\, and mysticism and how they relate to her own life. Outside of writing\, her hobbies are numerous and sometimes fleeting. She is proudly a jack-of-all-trades\, although eventually\, she would like to master at least one of them.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-at-starlite-poetry-open-mic-reading-series-featuring-glenn-dalessio-and-kerrissa-cobb/
LOCATION:Starlite Bar and Gallery\, 39 Hamilton St\, Southbridge\, MA\, 01550
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Szlosek":MAILTO:poetsparlor@hotmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
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SUMMARY:Free People's Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Writers\, poets\, visual artists\, musicians\, etc. meet to share and discuss current work.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/free-peoples-workshop-19/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260613T093801
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Cheryl Bonin
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, November 28th\, 2023 Cheryl Bonin will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n  \n  \nRegister \n  \n \n  \n\n\n  \nCheryl L. Bonin is a cancerous wench (of the breast variety) who writes darkly humorous snark-filled poetry\, nonfiction essays and short stories about her experiences living with a shitty disease because it’s cheaper than therapy. She counts among her finer yet distinctly dubious experiences: firing a civil war cannon twice without loss of limb\, driving a team of sled dogs across a frozen Canadian tundra without falling off the sled and busting her fat ass\, getting motorboated by a complete stranger in a Nashville honky tonk\, and kissing Tony Orlando\, Burt Reynolds and Johnny Depp without their permission. She is the 3rd place winner of the 2022 Frank O’Hara Poetry Contest\, for her poem “Burnt”\, which was subsequently published in the Worcester Review. She also had one of her nonfiction essays published in the Worcester Magazine in October of 2023. When not ranting about how much she despises the color pink or out seeking random photo ops with famous male celebrities\, Cheryl is hard at work on her debut manuscript\, “ Impressive\, But Not In a Good Way” which she hopes to have published while she’s still vertical.. \n\n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-cheryl-bonin/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231125T203000
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large: Two Poets Read at the Vanilla Bean Cafe
DESCRIPTION:  \nChase away the post-Thanksgiving blues with a night of spoken word/poetry at The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road\, Pomfret\, CT on November 25th. The show will start at 7 p.m. and admission is $15.00 which includes a chance at a give-away. Featured readers will be poets Paul Word Richmond and Victoria Nordlund. There will also be an open mic. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up. Recommended for ages 14 and up. \n  \n  \n \nPaul Word Richmond was named Beat Poet Laureate for Life in 2022 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation and he previously served as National Beat Poet Laureate (2019-2020)\, and as Beat Poet Laureate for Massachusetts (2017-19). Richmond is internationally known and hosts monthly readings and organizes yearly Word Festivals in Holyoke and Greenfield\, MA\, and he has a stage at the Garlic & Arts Festival each fall. He is the owner of Human Error Publishing and has overseen the publications of 55 poets and authors. His own works include Living in the Breakdown Lane\, You Might Need a Bigger Hammer\, Quadrillions Down the Pentagon Drain\, and Swimming on the Titanic. He is also a member of the Funkadelic band “Do It Now.” \n  \n  \n  \nVictoria Nordlund is the creative writing director at Rockville High School in Vernon\, CT\, an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut\, and lead master teaching artist of the The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Her poetry collections Wine-Dark Sea and Binge Watching Winter on Mute are published by Main Street Rag. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee\, whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine\, Rust+Moth\, Chestnut Review\, Pidgeonholes\, Connecticut Literary Anthology\, Maudlin House\, trampset\, Drunk Monkeys\, and elsewhere. \n  \n \n​
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-two-poets-read-at-the-vanilla-bean-cafe/
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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