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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large
DESCRIPTION:Poets at Large is happy to announce their first free poetry/spoken word event of the season willbe on June 15th\, 2-4 p.m. in the barn at Roseland Park\, 205 Roseland Park Road\, Woodstock\, CT. \n\n\n\nThis is the sixth year for the regional group to bring poets to the park. Featured will be theemerging voices of younger poets Eric Petersen\, Sarah St. George and Kashawn Taylor. \n\n\n\nFeatured Open Mic reader will be Atom Cyrus Rush. Sign up for open mic at karen.warinsky@gmail.com. 5- minute limit as time allows. \n\n\n\nEric Petersen is a social worker and resident of Gardner\, MA and the author of Brutal Rhymes for Brutal Times. Petersen’s work covers struggles with depression\, substance abuse\, parental alienation and divorce\, and he has published in several anthologies and publications including Silkworm 17 and Many Voices -One Stage. \n\n\n\nSarah St. George works in education and is the host of the Rose City Poetry Series in Norwich\, CT. Her poetry has been featured in several journals and anthologies including Vext Magazine and Alabaster and Mercury. She explores complex themes such as loss and trauma with a hint of absurdist humor. \n\n\n\nKashawn Taylor is a formerly incarcerated writer based in CT.  He holds a BA in English and Psychology and an MA in English and Creative Writing\, and is currently pursuing an MFA.  His poetry\, fiction\, and essays have been or will be published by such journals and magazines as The Meadow\, Lucky Jefferson\, Oyster River Pages\, The Shore Poetry\, and Poetry Magazine\, among others. His full-length collection of “prison” poetry\, subhuman.\, was released by Wayfarer Books in March 2025.  \n\n\n\nPoets at Large is a project of Windham Arts. Roseland Park’s barn is ADA compliant. This series is sponsored in part by bankHometown\, Charter Oak Federal Credit Union\, Linemaster Switch\, Weiss\, Hale & Zahansky Strategic Wealth Advisors and The Putnam Area Foundation.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-6/
LOCATION:Roseland Park\, 205 Roseland Park Rd.\, Woodstock\, CT\, 06281\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Warinsky%2C Poets At Large":MAILTO:karen.warinsky@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:June's Member Mingle & Board Meeting
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URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/junes-member-mingle-board-meeting/
LOCATION:WCPA Office @ Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester MA\, MA\, 01605\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off-Beat Poets: Linda Wlodyka & Cheryl Bonin
DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT: PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR FOR THIS OUTDOOR EVENT \n\n\n\nWHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Linda Wlodyka & Cheryl Bonin  \n\n\n\nWHERE: Deb Horan’s Backyard 15 Eddy St Webster\, MA \n\n\n\n              RAIN LOCATION: Steve Veilleux’s house 112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale\, CT \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sunday JUNE 8th\, 2025 @ 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\n\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 25 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-linda-wlodyka-cheryl-bonin/
LOCATION:Deb’s House\, 15 Eddy St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570\, United States
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SUMMARY:JOHN HODGEN Reads at Boylston Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Weltschmerz: Poem for the Great Divide \n\n\n\nTonight\, with all that’s happening outside\, all that’s being broken\, denied\, \n\n\n\nall that’s slithering\, roiling on the underside\, all that must be decried\,  \n\n\n\nI’m remembering a young black man who allowed himself to be tied  \n\n\n\nto a cross\, to be hoisted up at a protest rally in 1970 in Washington  \n\n\n\nagainst the killings at Jacksonville\, Kent State\, with Nixon’s incursion  \n\n\n\ninto Cambodia\, a young black man allowing himself to be crucified\, \n\n\n\nallowing his pride and the pride of all other black men to be amplified\, \n\n\n\nholding his holy rage deep inside being perfectly fit and unfit to be tied.  \n\n\n\nAnguish he was after\, performance art\, like Jesus on the stark hillside \n\n\n\nof Calvary\, anguish on that blazing hot day when graves opened wide \n\n\n\nand Judas\, poor saint that he was\, hanged himself for allowing deicide. \n\n\n\nHow are you still in my heart all these years\, you who well may have died \n\n\n\nby now? How to hold your wild courage\, how to carry you down from that hill?  \n\n\n\nI am ill at these numbers\, Hamlet sighed. I’m beaten\, dry-eyed. I can feel the chill. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/john-hodgen-reads-at-boylston-public-library-2/
LOCATION:Boylston Public Library\, 695 Main Street\, Boylston\, Massachusetts\, 01505\, United States
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SUMMARY:Richard Fox Poetry Series: David Thoreen
DESCRIPTION:Now\, the 1st Tuesday of every month\, The Richard Fox Poetry Series is an open- mic with a featured reader. It honors the memory of the iconic Worcester poet and human-being extraordinaire Richard Fox. \n\n\n\nOur next Featured Poet will be the very talented David Thoreen on June 3rd. Free admission. On-the-street parking. Root and Press Books and Cafe has an awesome array of food and beverages and an expanded book selection at their new location. Sign up for the open mic at joesyellowpad@gmail.com. Limited spots available. Sponsored by the ‘Fox Fund’ (Worcester County Poetry Association). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Thoreen’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Verse Daily\, Flint Hills Review\, The Greensboro Review\, New Ohio Review\, The Paterson Review\, and elsewhere. He won The Worcester Review’s Frank O’Hara Prize and has been a finalist in The Comstock Review’s Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest. He teaches writing and literature at Assumption University. When it comes to sounds at four o’clock in the morning\, he prefers the reassuring bang of a cast iron radiator or the haunting call of a barred owl to the breaking of glass or the high-rev whine of hot rods racing up and down Park Avenue
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/richard-fox-poetry-series-david-thoreen/
LOCATION:Root and Press\, 156 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poets At Large: May
DESCRIPTION:Poets at Large will welcome poet Margaret (Meg) Smith to The Vanilla Bean Café\, 450 Deerfield Road\, Pomfret\, CT on May 31 as part of its 2025 season. Smith is a writer\, journalist\, dancer and events producer living in Lowell\, Mass. She currently serves as content editor of Worcester Magazine\, and her journalism has been honored with several awards\, including first place\, from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. \n\n\n\nSmith’s poetry and fiction have appeared in The Horror Zine\, Raven Cage\, Strange Horizons\, Silver Blade\, The Cafe Review\, Muddy River Poetry Review\, Sirens Call\, Dark Dossier\, Dark Moon Digest\, and many more.  She is the creator of Poe in Lowell\, a festival honoring Edgar Allan Poe’s three visits to Lowell\, and is a member of the board of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! among her many volunteer activities in Lowell. Smith is author of six poetry books and a short fiction collection\, The Plague Confessor. Find out more at megsmithwriter.com.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPoets at Large\, presents spoken word readings of regional poets\, and is now in its sixth year. PAL and is a part of Windham Arts. All events are ADA compliant. Admission to all Vanilla Bean events is $15.00 which includes a raffle. All Poets at Large events are sponsored in part by Linemaster Switch\, BankHometown\, WHZ Financial Advisors\, the Putnam Area Foundation and Charter Oak FCU. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic. 5-minute max as time allows.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-at-large-may/
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:20250527T190000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Terry Farish
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, May 27th\, 2025 Terry Farish will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerry Farish is the author of books for children\, young adults\, and adults. A reviewer called her stories full of synergy and it’s true that she loves to create unlikely meetings or even more unlikely friendships from which something brand new and unplanned might arise.  Her books include The Good Braider\, a novel in verse\, and Go Home written with Lochan Sharma. She’s at work on a novel called “Somebody to Love” named for that old Jefferson Airplane song sung by Grace Slick. Please meet Terry at  her website.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-terry-farish/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T190000
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SUMMARY:9th Annual Women's Reading
DESCRIPTION:On May 22nd\, 2025\, the WCPA is proud to host its annual Women’s Zoom Reading. If you would like to attend\, please CLICK HERE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere is the reading list & order of readers: \n\n\n\n\nLex Thomas: Aided and abetted by careers in federal politics\, symphony musicianship\, public relations\, a history of family mental health issues\, and several decades of life lived across several borders\, Lex continues to sort out the whole mess through words. Her favorites are “jumbo” and “expunge.”\n\n\n\nCheryl Bonin is a bourbon sipping\, baseball watching\, pirate loving\, Neil Diamon singing\, cancerous wench of the breast variety who writes snark filled stories and poetry because it’s cheaper than therapy.Her rantings have been encouraged\, tolerated\, published and/or acknowledged by:her Good Sport Hubby\, random unsuspecting open mic attendees\, The Worcester Review\, Worcester Magazine\, The National Baseball Poetry Festival\, The Eastport (Maine) Library Review and the 2022 Frank O’Hara Poetry Contest. Cheryl is currently doing her damndest to outrun the devil and get her debut book of poetry and personal essays entitled: “Impressive\, but not in a good way.” out into the world while she’s still vertical.\n\n\n\nPolly Brown: spent the first two years of her retirement writing a blog about what she’d learned from teaching young adolescents\,at ayeartothinkitover.com. Now she’s resettled an old family place in western Maine\, where she’s happily raising poems. Pebble Leaf Feather Knife\, from Cherry Grove Collections\, followed two chapbooks\, Blue Heron Stone\, from Every Other Thursday Poetry\, and Each Thing Torn from Any of Us\, from Finishing Line. Recent poems have appeared in Appalachia\, Canary\, Hole in the Head Review\, and Quartet Journal\, among others\n\n\n\nGer Duffy: lives in Southeast Ireland.  Her poetry has been published by PNR(UK)\,\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Under the Radar (UK)\, The Ekphrastic Review\, (US)\,  Southword\, Wild Greens (US) and other literary magazines. She is a Pushcart nominee. She has been awarded two poetry mentoring awards.  Her poems have been anthologized in Local Wonders\, Washing Windows 111\, In the Gold of the Flesh\, The Stony Thursday Book. Her poems have been placed or commended in the following competitions: Goldsmiths International\, Travels with Joyce\, Write by the Sea\, The Francis Ledwidge Awards\, The Allingham.  She was a selected poet to read at the launch of On Being with Padraig O Tuama at the Southbank.  She was a featured reader at the Verve Poetry Festival\, UK.\n\n\n\nClaire Golding is a freelance writer and editor. She was the 2003 recipient of the Worcester County Poetry Association’s Frank O’Hara Prize\, and has self-published a chapbook\, Poems and Other Offerings (Lulu Press\, 2009). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has been published in The Worcester Review\, New Millennium Writings\, Contour (as part of the 2017 Tale of Two Cities International Poetry Project with Worcester\, Massachusetts and Worcester\, England)\, The Scenes and Seasons of a Small New England Village\, Penning the Pandemic\, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal. She lives in Princeton\, Massachusetts.\n\n\n\nSharon Harmon: has chapbook Wishbone in a Lighting Jar (Flutter Press). She has been published in Compass Roads\, The Aurorean Silkworm\, Green Living\, The Patterson Literary Review and many other publications. She is also a freelance writer and is the author of two new children’s books. She lives in the woods of Royalston.\n\n\n\nCarolyn Howe lives in Worcester\, MA\, where she has been writing poetry and painting in watercolor since her retirement from College of the Holy Cross.  She is a member of the Worcester County Poetry Association and the Rosemont Poetry Workshop.  She has published in The Worcester Review\, the poetry anthology The Senior Class\, and has a chapbook called Across the Street.\n\n\n\nEm Judkins:  is a queer poet based in central and Western Massachusetts. The assistant head of poetry at Emulate Magazine\, they are the recipient of the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize and Ruth Forbes Eliot Prize\, and their work has appeared in Emulate\, Voices and Visions\, and the Worcester Art Museum. They currently study English and Film and Media Studies at Smith College with a concentration in poetry\, and are at work on their first chapbook.\n\n\n\nIrena Kaçi: is a poet and writer living in Worcester\, MA with her spouse and two children. She moved to Worcester in 2015\, almost a decade after graduating from Clark University. She writes for Pulse Magazine\, and is a Poetry Editor In Residence for the Worcester Writers’ Collective. Her creative work has appeared in the Worcester Review\, Atticus Review\, Blue Mountain Review and others.\n\n\n\nElizabeth Lund: is the award-winning host of Poetic Lines at NewTV. The show features in-depth interviews with emerging and established poets about their work and creative process. She also interviews poets and reviews major collections of poetry for The Christian Science Monitor\, where she served as poetry editor for 10 years. From 2015 to 2020\, Elizabeth wrote a monthly column about poetry for The Washington Post. Elizabeth co-directs Haiku Newton\, which began in 2022 and brings haiku on lawn-style signs to venues around Newton. Her own poems have appeared in various publications including The Dalhousie Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Christian Century\, and the Patterson Literary Review. “Un-Silenced” is her debut collection. Elizabeth has read or spoken at festivals and venues along the East Coast including the Dodge Poetry Festival\, the largest poetry festival in the US\, and the Gaithersburg Book Festival. With all of her projects and endeavors\, Elizabeth aims to help people discover how poetry can enhance their daily lives.\n\n\n\nMaura MacNeil: is a writer\, editor\, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of the poetry collections: A History of Water (Finishing Line Press)\, Lost Houses (Aldrich Press) and This Last Place (Dancing Girl Press). She is the founder and editor of the literary website Off the Margins (www.offthemargins.com) featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience.”\n\n\n\nAndrea MacRichie has lived\, worked and traveled to many places. Art historian (docent at MMA)\, WW1 buff\, Queen fan\, YNWA\, Scentwork with Field Spaniels\, Canadian-American\, gardener\, underwriter at heart\, later a library dean. younger than I look. Hope I have more furloughs in my race\, so much still to  learn\, so much still to write.\n\n\n\nSandy Monfredo\n\n\n\nCarolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre\, 2024)\, Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press\, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize)\, and three chapbooks\, including\, most recently\, Night Ocean (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2023).\n\n\n\nCatherine Reed: is an ordained minister and poet.. She is the author of four books of poetry. Crossing Boundaries\, Between Midnight and Dawn\, Sankofa and Fire Goes Out Without Wood.\n\n\n\nEve 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 DINER\, a literary magazine.She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. She lives in Worcester\, MA. The play\, Outcasts the Lepers of Penikese Island\, was based on her first book. She has 6 published books\, none self-published.\n\n\n\nSeher Sayed\n\n\n\nNancy Baillie Strong  lives in Manchester\, NH. When 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 Poets annual retreat\, and 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 (2002). Her poem “Four Corners\, Cambridge and Southbridge Streets” was selected 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..\n\n\n\nHeather 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\nRhett Watts: has lived in Beirut\, San Francisco\, New York and Connecticut. She now lives beside a brook south of Worcester with her husband and Siberian cat. Some of her poems have appeared in Sojourners Magazine\, The Worcester Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Canary\, San Pedro River Review and in the books The Best Spiritual Writing 2000\, and The Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Rhett’s chapbook No Innocent Eye was co-winner of the Rane Arroyo Award from Seven Kitchens Press. Her books are Willing Suspension\, The Braiding\, and coming in 2025 The Double Nest. Rhett facilitates AWA (Amherst Writers & Artists) writing workshops well as SoulCollage workshops in Connecticut and Massachusetts.\n\n\n\nEleanor Wilner: is the 2019 Frost Medal recipient of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement\, is the author of nine books of poetry\, most recently Before Our Eyes; New and Selected Poems\, 1975-2017  and Gone to Earth: Early & Uncollected Poems 1964-1975. \n\n\n\nSusan Roney O’Brien:  earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She’s published two chapbooks: Earth and Farmwifeand three full-length poetry collections: Legacy of the Last World\, Bone Circle and Thira. Nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes and published widely\, she works with the Worcester County Poetry Association\, runs a monthly on-line poetry reading series and facilitates free poetry workshops through area libraries. She\, her husband Philip. and Oliver\, their Chocolate Lab\, live in central Massachusetts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/9th-annual-womens-reading/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Only
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SUMMARY:Poetry Extravaganza featuring Irena Kaçi
DESCRIPTION:We’re back on May 21st at our awesome new location! \n\n\n\nThe Mill is right off Rt 190\, has a spacious parking lot\, serves delectable apps\, entrees\, and desserts with a full bar. We’ll have a seperate room for our monthly shenanigans. Admission will still be free. All of the Tip Jar proceeds go to the Feature. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Extravaganza (PE) is the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 6:30-8;30 pm. Sign up for the open mic at jfjr6969@gmail.com\, Five minute maximum\,There are no language restrictions. We are not kid-friendly! \n\n\n\nOur featured writer on May 21st will be the very talented Irena Kaçi.Lewandowski Painters still sponsors our event. That’s how we pay the poets!  Join the Fun on May 21st! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIrena Kaçi is a poet and writer living in Worcester\, MA with her spouse and two children. She moved to Worcester in 2015\, almost a decade after graduating from Clark University. She writes for Pulse Magazine\, and is a Poetry Editor In Residence for the Worcester Writers’ Collective. Her creative work has appeared in the Worcester Review\, Atticus Review\, Blue Mountain Review and others.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-extravaganza-featuring-irena-kaci-2/
LOCATION:The Mill\, 185 W. Boylston Street\, West Boylston\, Massachusetts\, 01583\, United States
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SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly round robin open poetry share\, moderated by Robert Eugene Perry. Bring original pieces to share in a friendly\, supportive environment. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills up quickly. \n\n\n\nSign up to reserve your spot by calling 508-949-6232 or emailing deb@bookloversgourmet.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-10/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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SUMMARY:The Poem Next Door
DESCRIPTION:DO YOU KNOW A PLACE THAT IS WORTHY OF A POEM? \n\n\n\nJoin us on Friday\, May 16th as we open “The Poem Next Door” in the Museum’s Booth Gallery\, 10AM – 4PM. \n\n\n\nThis newest exhibit In partnership with Mapping Worcester in Poetry\, this exhibit traces how poems can grow from memories of places\, including the city itself. Join us to learn about six nationally known poets who found inspiration in Worcester’s streets\, buildings\, parks\, or neighborhoods. Discover how the city nurtures new poems today. \n\n\n\nThe Poem Next Door is sponsored in part by College of the Holy Cross\, and a grant from Mass Cultural Council.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-poem-next-door/
LOCATION:Museum of Worcester\, 30 Elm Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T183000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading featuring Katie Fuller and Fred Gerhard
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Poetry Reading with two local poets! \n\n\n\nKATIE FULLER is a poet from Maine and teaches writing at Mount Wachusett Community College. She is also the author of the chapbooks Valve (DoubleCross Press) and The Greenwood Cemetery (Dancing Girl Press). Her first book\, Careful\, won the 2022 Anhinga Poetry Prize. Recent work can be found online at Prelude and The City of Boise’s Cultural Commission Archive Project. \n\n\n\nFRED GERHARD’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Pif Magazine\, and POETiCA REViEW. He is the author of Drifting to “Hello” (available through CW MARS) and the chapbook\, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring. He is one of the 2023 winners of the Poetry in the Pines contest for which his work is installed on the trails at the Cathedral in the Pines in Rindge\, NH\, and winner of Art on the Trails\, 2024 in Southborough\, MA. He is an editor for Quabbin Quills anthologies\, and Smoky Quartz – An Online Journal of Literature and Art. As one of the founders of the New Dawn Writers’ Group he leads monthly poetry workshops and hosts open mics in Ashburnham\, MA. Conversations with family and friends\, and a tortoise named Twyla\, are some of his favorite pastimes. Visit his virtual reading room at FredGerhard.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-reading-featuring-katie-fuller-and-fred-gerhard/
LOCATION:Stevens Memorial Library\, 20 Memorial Drive\, Ashburnham\, Massachusetts\, 01430\, United States
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SUMMARY:Monthly Board Meeting: May Edition
DESCRIPTION:Monthly Board Meeting \n\n\n\nJoin us for our monthly discussion and planning. Come see what what we have been up to and will be up to. 😉 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBut first…. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a screening of the award-winning Dirty Gerund Documentary\, which captures two unforgettable nights at one of America’s best open mics. \n\n\n\nIt will be followed by a live arts event host training. If you’ve ever wanted to run your own writer’s group or open mic\, we can show you how to get started! \n\n\n\nwww.hellomalt.net
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/monthly-board-meeting-may-edition/
LOCATION:Preservation Worcester Board Room\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01609\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T193000
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SUMMARY:The Many Lives of Cathouse Farm: Tales of a Rural Brothel
DESCRIPTION:Boylston Public Library is pleased to announce bg Thurston\, who will be reading from The Many Lives of Cathouse Farm Tales of a Rural Brothel her upcoming book\, on Wednesday May 7 at 6:00 P.M.  The reading is also available on Zoom. Please call the library at 508-869-2371 to register. The reading has been made possible through a grant from the Boylston Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBG Thurston is a former systems analyst and a graduate of Vermont College’s MFA in Writing Program. Most of her poetry focuses on nature as an illumination of human thought and emotion. Her work has appeared in Tar River Poetry\, The Comstock Review\, The Worcester Review\, and The Christian Science Monitor. Her chapbook\, Saving the Lamb\, was released by Finishing Line Press and her first full-length collection\, Nightwalking\, was published in 2008. The Many Lives of Cathouse Farm Tales of a Rural Brothel will be out in 2025. She lives with her family\, including sheep and chickens\, on a farm in central Massachusetts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-many-lives-of-cathouse-farm-tales-of-a-rural-brothel/
LOCATION:Boylston Public Library\, 695 Main Street\, Boylston\, Massachusetts\, 01505\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T183000
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SUMMARY:Henry's Classroom Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The book is Henry’s Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood. TidePool Bookshop in Worcester is hosting my launch event on Tuesday\, May 6\, at 5:30pm. The book explores complex parenting and the challenges of navigating the American special education system while neurodivergent. I’ll be doing a short overview of and reading from the book\, followed by a Q&A discussion (with snacks!). I would love to meet some of my fellow Massachusetts writers there!  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n“Henry’s Classroom follows one mother’s tenacious commitment to ensure the best outcome for her child while revealing a larger story of outdated and ineffective systems that are failing millions of families across America. This book seeks to encourage broader conversations on how parents\, public schools\, and community organizations can work in collaboration with one another\, rather than in conflict\, toward serving the needs of all students\, particularly those with disabilities.”
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/henrys-classroom-book-launch/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T160000
DTSTAMP:20260611T190842
CREATED:20250421T172916Z
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off-Beat Poets
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: KAREN DURLACH & KATE GREGOIRE \n\n\n\nWHERE:                    Deb Horan’s Backyard 15 Eddy St Webster\, MA \n\n\n\nRAIN LOCATION:     Steve Veilleux’s house112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road N Grosvenordale\, CT \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sunday May 4th\, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\n\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\nSIGN-UPS: There is room for 25 POETS. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nKAREN DURLACH is a visual artist/craftsperson\, both by vocation and avocation\, having made a career in the graphic arts\, photography\, ceramics\, and various media. She writes off and on when the muse strikes\, most often when the early dawn insists. Most of her poems strive to paint a picture of a precious moment\, place or experience—something odd\, exciting or wondrous—that begs to be remembered and shared. She only started sharing her poems aloud at open mics after discovering the encouraging local poetry communities in Putnam\, Southbridge and Webster. Her poems have appeared in the online Virtual Poetorium and in Nancy Weiss’s column in the Thompson Villager newspaper during April poetry month. Three of her poems appear in the anthology Many Voices-One Stage by Slightly Off-beat Poets. Brooklyn born\, schooled in New York\, then Michigan\, she’s straddled the border between Massachusetts and Connecticut for decades\, living in the woods of Northeast Connecticut for close to four decades\, where she still struggles to grow unusual vegetables and entertains pollinators. \n\n\n\nKATE GREGOIRE is a poet and mother. It feels like a lifetime ago when she was teaching German language and literature full-time at university. Now she is raising her little girl\, supporting her husband’s ministry\, and volunteering for the Worcester County Poetry Association. She attended some 30+ weddings in this post-covid era with her husband and wrote a collection of poems about this experience called “Plus One”. Another volume on motherhood grew with her daughter in her first year of life. What feels most pressing now\, however\, is her work towards a collection of alchemical incantations in poetic form that will contribute to healing the relationship between man and nature.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-9/
LOCATION:Steve Veilleux’s Home\, 112 Fabyan-Woodstock North Road\, Grosvenordale\, CT\, 06255\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Club: A Feast of Losses by Judith Ferrara
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 1\, at 6:30 pm\, with the author Judith Ferrara to discuss her book A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son\, the Poet Stanley Kunitz. \n\n\n\nJoin Virtually \n\n\n\nAbout the Book \n\n\n\nPerhaps the most enduring poet of his generation\, Stanley Kunitz\, once observed that “poetry is for the sake of the life.” Based on his mother’s recently recovered memoir\, diary\, and letters\, Judith Ferrara’s A Feast of Losses offers fresh and intimate insights into both her own and her son’s lives. Yetta Dine emigrated from Lithuania to New York’s Lower East Side in 1890 and learned the garment trade before moving to Worcester\, Massachusetts\, in 1893 to marry Solomon Kunitz. Readers will have an unprecedented opportunity to hear Yetta’s own voice\, understand her story\, and explore the influence she had on Stanley Kunitz as a poet and a person. In the foreground is her complex relationship with her brilliant son. As her experiences unfold in her writing\, they become touchstones to current debates about immigration and death with dignity. A central question is: What happened in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, to transform a hopeful\, independent woman into a bereft\, even tragic woman of reduced circumstances? Yetta’s voice is an astonishing discovery; she lacked fame or formal education but was a skilled and lively storyteller. Who was this woman\, immortalized as the mother in “The Portrait\,” who “slapped me hard” when Stanley found his dead father’s portrait in the attic? Yetta’s original papers and the striking details of her life have emerged against all odds―a story within a story.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/book-club-a-feast-of-losses-by-judith-ferrara-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with James Nicola
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, April 29th\, 2025 James B. Nicola will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames B. Nicola was born in Worcester\, raised in Holden\, and lives in New York City. He is the author of eight collections of poetry\, the latest three being Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense\, Turns & Twists\, and Natural Tendencies. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience: The Practical Actor’s Guide to Live Performance won a Choice magazine award. A graduate of Yale\, he has received a Dana Literary Award\, two Willow Review awards\, Storyteller’s People’s Choice award\, one Best of Net\, one Rhysling\, and eleven Pushcart nominations—for which he feels stunned and grateful. James also hosts an International Writers’ Round Table at his library branch in Hell’s Kitchen\, Manhattan (usually second and fourth Saturdays of the month\, 1-3 pm): walk-ins are always welcome.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-james-nicola-2/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T193000
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SUMMARY:Solo/Duet
DESCRIPTION:A poetry and music series at the Merriam-Gilbert Public Library \n\n\n\nFree and open to all! \n\n\n\nPlease stop by or call the Library at 508-867-1410 to reserve your seat. \n\n\n\nEach evening will feature poetry readings from the shelves of the library book-ended by a musical duet. This program is made possible by the West Brookfield Cultural Council as supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, In celebration of National Poetry Month \n\n\n\nJoin us the following Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAPRIL 29th: Jerry Wilfong and percussionist Dick Hummel / Blake reads Gluck and Hodgen \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \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-7/
LOCATION:Merriam Gilbert Library\, 3 West Main St.\, West Brookfield\, MA\, 01585\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Unite!
DESCRIPTION:Writer’s Unite Event  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganizations participating:  \n\n\n\nNew Dawn Arts Center\, New Dawn’s Writer’s Group\, Quabbin Quills?\, Straw Dogs\, The Openest Mic\, Worcester County Poetry Association\, Worcester Writers’ Collective and more! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBelow is the tentative schedule for event: (Which will be upstairs.) \n\n\n\n5:30 pm – 6 pm Exhibition open for public viewing\, mingling & networking \n\n\n\n6 – 6:15 – Have guests take their seats \n\n\n\n6:15 – 7:20 – Intro and welcome from Melissa Dorval\, Simon Hunt \n\n\n\n7:20-7:30 – Panel discussion With Melissa Dorval\, Simon Hunt\, and Chris O’Carroll\, moderated by Abigail Abbott  \n\n\n\n7:30 – 7:45 – Break & regroup: break out sessions- mini groups to discuss anything writing related- April being poetry month\, writing groups\, publishing\, the ever-changing landscape re: reading/writing- whatever people are interested in \n\n\n\n7:45 – 8:30 – Writer’s round robin where each person who wants to share their work/chapbook etc can have a turn. We will have a sign up sheet for the order of people speaking/presenting. Someone will be keeping time. Each reader can decide how to spend their allotted time whether it be performing\, talking about their published work\, etc.  \n\n\n\n8:30 – 9 – Socializing & Wrap Up \n\n\n\nThroughout: Complimentary Hors d’oeuvres/water served & meals\, beer & wine for sale at the performance hall bar. 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/writers-unite/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T200000
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SUMMARY:Creative Sector Advocacy Week
DESCRIPTION:MASSCreative seeks artists\, cultural organizations\, and creative businesses across disciplines to join us as featured exhibitors and performers during the 2024 Creative Sector Day at the State House on Wednesday\, April 30\, 2025. \n\n\n\nCreative Sector Day at the State House is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that artists\, creatives\, cultural leaders\, and organizations make in Massachusetts. Throughout the day\, we will host performances\, displays and demonstrations by members of the creative sector in the Great Hall and the Grand Staircase. Performances and displays will be open to the public from 1 pm – 3 pm and all selected participants will receive a $300 stipend for participating. \n\n\n\nBecause the day is focused on Massachusetts’ creative sector\, all performers and exhibitors – including nonprofits and creative businesses – must reside or be headquartered in the Commonwealth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTIMELINE FOR PROPOSALS \n\n\n\n\nMarch 7: Applications open\n\n\n\nApril 1: Applications close (at 11:59 pm)\n\n\n\nApril 2-7: Applications reviewed\n\n\n\nApril 9: Applicants notified of status\n\n\n\nApril 11: Deadline to accept offer to participate\n\n\n\n\nTo Submit a Proposal
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/creative-sector-advocacy-week-4/
LOCATION:Boston State House\, 24 Beacon Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02133\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260611T190842
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SUMMARY:POETS AT LARGE TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT THE VANILLA BEAN CAFE
DESCRIPTION:word open mic and reading featuring Sandy Yannone. Yannone is the Poet Laureate of Old Saybrook\, CT\, and is the author of two collections: The Glass Studio (2024) and Boats for Women (2019)\, both published by Salmon Poetry in County Clare\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nShe returned to Connecticut after a career teaching at Evergreen College in Seattle\, WA. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, SWWIM Every Day\, ABQ InPrint\, Prairie Schooner\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Lavender Review\, and Women’s Review of Books. Since March\, 2020\, she has hosted the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Zoom via Facebook. Visit her at www.sandrayannone.com.   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoets at Large\, a group of poets who read in the tri-state area\, is in its sixth year and is a part of Windham Arts. All events are ADA compliant. Admission to all Vanilla Bean is $15.00 which includes a raffle. All Poets at Large events are sponsored in part by Linemaster Switch\, bank Hometown\, WHZ Financial Advisors\, the Putnam Area Foundation and Charter Oak FCU. Contact karen.warinsky@gmail.com to sign up for the open mic. 5-minute max as time allows.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-at-large-to-celebrate-national-poetry-month-at-the-vanilla-bean-cafe-2/
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:Poetry Workshop Series: The Chapbook
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this wonderful series. Registration Link.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-workshop-series-the-chapbook/
LOCATION:Shrewsbury Public Library\, 609 Main Street\, Shrewsbury\, Massachusetts\, 01545\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T203000
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SUMMARY:Linda Wlodyka Tidepool Reading
DESCRIPTION:Linda Bratcher Wlodyka MA Beat Poet Laureate\, will be reading poetry from her latest publication\, If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems as the poet feature at Tidepool Bookshop 372 Chandler Street in Worcester on April 24th at 7:00 pm. The event starts with Linda’s reading and an open mic will follow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate\, 2023-2025. Linda retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown. Linda’s poem “Secret Cottage” was voted “Best in the Berkshires” in 2012. She has previously self-published three chapbooks\, Her Spirited Cameo\, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock.  If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems\, is Linda’s first full-length poetry collectionpublished by Human Error Publishing (2023). Linda attended Lowell Celebrates Jack Kerouac in October to represent The National and International Beat Poetry Foundation and served on an all women’s panel to discuss the Beat Movement and feature her beat poetry. Linda is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society and serves as a participant on their editing board for their annual anthology\, Silkworm.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/linda-wlodyka-tidepool-reading/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetorium Too Poetry Reading & Open Mic Featuring Laura DiCaronimo\, Brian Mosher\, & Fadi Yousef
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special Worcester Wednesday triple feature edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium (usually held at the Starlite in Southbridge) at TidePool Books on April 23rd from 5 pm to 7 pm hosted by Paul Szlosek. It will be a full two hours of poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our three featured poets Laura DiCaronimo (Author of Winner For Trying)\, Brian Mosher (Author of A Muster of Melodious Musings)\, and Fadi Yousef (Author of Flowers for the Dying Moon) followed by poetry readings by our three features)\, a short intermission\, and then an open mic (with 5-minute slots for each reader). Copies of books by all three featured poets will be available for purchase in the store that evening. For more information\, please get in touch with us at poetorium@mail.com or visit our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura DiCaronimo is a poet and optician from North Central Massachusetts. She was selected as the first recipient of the annual Dan Lewis Poetry Fellowship by the Worcester County Poetry Association in 2023\, and hosts and curates The Openest Mic open mic series. Her debut chapbook Winner for Trying was released by Metaphysical Fox Press in 2025. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Mosher is a poet and writer residing in Mansfield\, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in Blue Villa\, Nixes Mate\, eMerge\, Books and Pieces\, Confetti\, Rituals\, Coneflower Cafe\, Written Tales\, Esoterica Magazine\, Half and One Magazine\, and others. He has self-published three books: One Bad Day Deserves Another (short stories) and Moon Shine and Lemon Twists(poetry)\, both in 2016; and The Broken Mosaic (poetry and prose) in 2021. His poetry chapbook Dreams and Other Magic (2023) was published by Alien Buddha Press. His unpublished short-story manuscript was short-listed for the Unleash Press 2025 Book Prize. Brian’s most recent release is a collection of poems and song lyrics from Metaphysical Fox Press titled A Muster of Melodious Musings (2025). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFadi Yousef was born in Beirut\, Lebanon in 1977 and immigrated to the States in 1983 at the age of six with his family. He currently resides in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, and works for Worcester Public Schools as an Instructional Assistant. He attended Worcester State University from 1995-2000 and graduated with a degree in English Literature. He enjoys the liberating solace of a writing style he has coined as “Romantic Existentialism”. Fadi has a ravenous appetite for reading as much poetry as he can in all its forms. Some influences include Pablo Neruda and Wallace Stevens\, as well as Gibran Khalil Gibran. He views writing as a tool to look behind the curtain of the world’s stage. Flowers for the Dying Moon released by Pegasus Publishers is Fadi Yousef’s second collection of poetry (his first was The Homeless Gentleman with Fulton Press).
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-too-poetry-reading-open-mic-featuring-laura-dicaronimo-brian-mosher-fadi-yousef/
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:20250422T200000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Polly Brown
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, April 22nd\, 2025 Polly Brown will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPolly Brown took the first two years of her retirement to write a blog about what she’d learned from teaching young adolescents\, at ayeartothinkitover.com. Now she’s resettled an old family farm in western Maine\, where she’s raising poems and a few green beans. Pebble Leaf Feather Knife\, from Cherry Grove Collections\, followed two chapbooks\,Blue Heron Stone and Eac
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-polly-brown-3/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T193000
DTSTAMP:20260611T190842
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SUMMARY:Solo/Duet
DESCRIPTION:A poetry and music series at the Merriam-Gilbert Public Library \n\n\n\nFree and open to all! \n\n\n\nPlease stop by or call the Library at 508-867-1410 to reserve your seat. \n\n\n\nEach evening will feature poetry readings from the shelves of the library book-ended by a musical duet. This program is made possible by the West Brookfield Cultural Council as supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, In celebration of National Poetry Month \n\n\n\nJoin us the following Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM … \n\n\n\nAPRIL 22nd: bassist Jerry Wilfong and vocalist Lydia Fortune / Blake reads Stern and Oliver. \n\n\n\n\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-4/
LOCATION:Merriam Gilbert Library\, 3 West Main St.\, West Brookfield\, MA\, 01585\, United States
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UID:11089-1745073000-1745080200@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop Series: Art & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this wonderful series. Registration Link.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-workshop-series-art-poetry/
LOCATION:Shrewsbury Public Library\, 609 Main Street\, Shrewsbury\, Massachusetts\, 01545\, United States
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UID:11270-1745071200-1745078400@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:Booklover's Gourmet
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic Poetry \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 19th2:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\n\n\nJoin us for our monthly round robin open poetry share\, moderated by Robert Eugene Perry. Bring original pieces to share in a friendly\, supportive environment. \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills up quickly. \n\n\n\nSign up to reserve your spot by calling 508-949-6232 or emailing deb@bookloversgourmet.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-9/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250418T170000
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UID:11118-1744995600-1745010000@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:The Openest Mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-openest-mic-2/
LOCATION:Smokestack Roasters\, 39 Massachussetts Avenue\, Lunenburg\, MA\, 01462\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Laura DiCaronimo":MAILTO:laura.optician@gmail.com
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