The WCPA is excited to present a virtual poetry reading with Jeff Walt on Sunday, March 14, 2021, at 3:00 pm. Registration is needed to join the event. Visit the Zoom registration link and fill in the form. A meeting link will be e-mailed to you. Register Jeff Walt won the 2018 Frank O'Hara Prize […]
Retired Professor Curt Curtin will be joined by three current students and three alumni from Westfield State University in a reading in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. Students and alumni will read from their own work; Curt and his wife Dee O’Connor (also a WSU alum) will read selections from Kerry Dancers, Curt’s latest collection. […]
The Worcester Senior Center celebrates St. Patrick’s Day and the Worcester County Poetry Association’s 50th anniversary with a reading from Kerry Dancers, Curt Curtin’s newest poetry collection. Curt, his wife, and fellow poets/friends will read selected poems. You’ll meet Da, Ma, Aunt Nora, and the rest of the family, dance a reel in Boston’s Hibernian […]
Musicians from Worcester’s Pakachoag Music School provide fiddle music to accompany Curt Curtin’s reading of selected poems from Kerry Dancers. Though the collection focuses on Curt’s Irish-American heritage, it is a more generic immigrant’s tale dedicated to “immigrants from around the world who chased their dreams to the American shores.” Pre-recorded by Pakachoag Music School; […]
Join Worcester Black History Project, Worcester County Poetry Association, and Worcester Historical Museum for an evening of Worcester Black Women creating poetry. Download a PDF of the event flyer. Registration is needed to join the event. Visit the Zoom registration link and fill in the form. A meeting link will be e-mailed to you. Register […]
The Working Writers Series at College of the Holy Cross is presenting a virtual poetry reading by Joy Priest. Registration is needed to join the event. Visit the Zoom registration link and fill in the form. A meeting link will be e-mailed to you. Register Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, […]
Register here: https://mywpl.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/poetry-writing-workshop-with-susan-roney-o-brien-syllabics-from-basho-to-yeats-and-beyond/ Do you remember clapping out the syllables of your name in first grade? Pure syllabic poetry is common in languages like Japanese but rarer in English, which counts both syllables and stresses. Starting with haikus, we will try our hands at writing tankas, nonets, roundels, cinquains, and diamantes. And as we go […]
Solstice Open Reading with Christopher Reilley as feature 3-4 Poems or seven minutes Contact Sam 508 753 4319 for questions
A nonprofit grant writer by day, Karen’s poems have been published in the Lily Poetry Review Constellations, Nixes Mate Review, Vox Populi, the Muddy River Poetry Review and others. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received the 59th Moon Prize from Writing in a Women’s Voice, and had a poem hanging on the walls […]
Artists, poets, musicians and playwrights etc. meet, share, discuss their current work, listen and offer helpful advice. Please Join Zoom Meeting by using this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6953052444 Meeting ID: 695 305 2444
