• A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Polly Brown

    Zoom Online Meeting , United States

    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. Polly 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 […]

  • Poetorium Too Poetry Reading & Open Mic Featuring Laura DiCaronimo, Brian Mosher, & Fadi Yousef

    TidePool Bookshop 372 Chandler St. Unit 101, Worcester, MA

    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 […]

  • Linda Wlodyka Tidepool Reading

    TidePool Bookshop 372 Chandler St. Unit 101, Worcester, MA

    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. Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts […]

  • Poetry Workshop Series: The Chapbook

    Shrewsbury Public Library 609 Main Street, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States

    Join us for this wonderful series. Registration Link.

  • POETS AT LARGE TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT THE VANILLA BEAN CAFE

    Vanilla Bean Cafe 450 Deerfield Road, Pomfret, CT, United States

    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. She returned to Connecticut after a career teaching at Evergreen College in Seattle, WA. Her poetry […]

  • Creative Sector Advocacy Week

    Boston State House 24 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    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. Creative Sector Day at the State House is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that artists, creatives, cultural leaders, and organizations make […]

  • Writers Unite!

    New Dawn Center 84 Main St., Ashburnham, MA, United States

    Writer’s Unite Event  Organizations participating:  New 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! Below is the tentative schedule for event: (Which will be upstairs.) 5:30 pm - 6 pm Exhibition open for public viewing, mingling & networking 6 - […]

  • Solo/Duet

    Merriam Gilbert Library 3 West Main St., West Brookfield, MA, United States

    A poetry and music series at the Merriam-Gilbert Public Library Free and open to all! Please stop by or call the Library at 508-867-1410 to reserve your seat. Each 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 […]

  • A Virtual Thirsty Lab with James Nicola

    Zoom Online Meeting , United States

    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. James 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 […]

  • Book Club: A Feast of Losses by Judith Ferrara

    Zoom Online Only

    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. Join Virtually  About the Book Perhaps the most enduring poet of his generation, Stanley Kunitz, once observed that “poetry is for the sake of the […]