Join award-winning poet Susan Roney-O'Brien as she teaches Poetry Writing 101! in a virtual workshop from Worcester Public Library. You have the tools already: experiences, emotions, insights, and language. Poetry gives you voice. Sometimes you go deep, delve into an incident or memory you had feared, and bring it into the light. Sometimes there is […]
The WCPA is happy to help the Thirsty Lab poetry reading go virtual for their 4th Tuesday reading. Please join a virtual Thirsty Lab on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, at 7:00 pm. Elizabeth McKim will be the feature. Register for the reading and Zoom will send you an e-mail with the meeting details and link. […]
The WCPA is happy to help the Thirsty Lab poetry reading go virtual for their 4th Tuesday reading. Please join a virtual Thirsty Lab on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at 7:00 pm. Heather Macpherson will be the feature. Register for the reading and Zoom will send you an e-mail with the meeting details and link. […]
Bedlam Book Cafe will host a virtual version of their monthly Deep Thoughts Poetry Open Mic. A group of wordsmiths, poetry aficionados, and lovers of semantic bedlam get together on the 1st Friday of every month to create a little bedlam in the virtual world. Register for the event and Zoom will email you all […]
Guardians of Traditions / Guardianes de Tradición is hosting an online event with Worcester's first youth Youth Poet Laureate, Amina Mohammed, called The Power of My Voice on Tuesday, October 6th. Amina will be joined by Dominican writer and anthropologist Leonardo Nin. You can learn more about the event at their Facebook event page or visit http://bit.ly/thepowerofmyvoice […]
Join the board of the Worcester County Poetry Association for our monthly board meeting. This will once again be a virtual meeting due to the continued need for social distancing. This is a working meeting, not a poetry reading. We welcome to the respectful input of the central Massachusetts poetry community. Please register in advance […]
The WCPA is thrilled to present a virtual poetry reading with Ibbetson Street Press founder Doug Holder on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at 3:00 pm. Holder served as the judge for our 2020 Annual Contest: the Frank O'Hara Prize. Registration is needed to join the event. Visit the Zoom registration link and fill in the […]
Join the collective known as Poets who are artists, Artists who are poets for a virtual reading with Philosopher Courtney Dorian Schlosser. Other readers include Michel Duncan Merle, Paul Lavallee, Sotirios Evangelos Lalos “Sam”, Prakash, Sue Coles, Elaine Reardon, Holly Lynn Lavallee, Robert Steele, and Jeffrey Ferrara. This event will take via Zoom - click this […]
Join the City of Worcester’s Cultural Development Division and Main IDEA for a live virtual teen open mic on Wednesday, October 22 from 7-8pm featuring Worcester Youth Poet Laureate Amina Mohammed! They will be using Facebook Live - here's the Facebook event link. Poets, authors, and musicians ages 10-18 are invited to share original […]
Bob Perry, who organizes the poetry readings at Booklovers' Gourmet in Webster sent the following event along. If you have a hankering for a road trip and a socially distanced in-person poetry event read on. The public is invited to attend another free poetry reading featuring six regional poets at Roseland Park. The event will […]
