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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Carolyn Oliver
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, September 26th\, 2023 Carolyn Oliver will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n  \n  \nRegister \n  \n\n\n \nCarolyn Oliver writes poems\, prose\, and hybrid forms. She is the author of Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press\, 2022; selected by Matthew Olzmann for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize for Poetry)\, The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books\, forthcoming 2024)\, and three chapbooks. Her awards include the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review\, the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC\, the Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry\, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review. Carolyn lives in Massachusetts\, where she is a 2023-24 Artist in Residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery. For more information\, visit her website.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-carolyn-oliver/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Feast of Losses\, Judy Ferrara Book Reading
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.  PREORDER \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-feast-of-losses-judy-ferrara-book-reading-3/
LOCATION:Gale Free Library\, 23 Highland St\, Holden\, MA\, 01520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Worcester Writers' Collective Tuesday Night 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-tuesday-night-workshop-2/
LOCATION:JMac/Brickbox Theater\, 20 Franklin Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Simon Hunt Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Authors Voices: A Speaker Series. \nNew Dawn Writers’ Group is proud to present poet Simon Hunt. \nReading 6-6:45 pm\, Q&A to follow. Free speaker series. Open to all\, no registration. Event will transition to the regularly scheduled Writers’ Group Open Mic night. All welcome. \n  \n \nSimon Hunt lives and writes in Massachusetts\, having lived in Monterey\, California\, for 20 years and Las Vegas\, Nevada\, for three years. He has been a teacher for more than three decades\, predominantly in California and at the high school level. His poems have been published widely in print and online journals. 2018 saw the publication of his first collection of poems\, Lesser Magi\, and in 2019 his first play\, “Re-run\,” was staged. Simon was born in what is now Zimbabwe and also lived in South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as the USA during his childhood. A father of two\, he served the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel\, California\, as a volunteer tour docent and trustee for over a decade. His second collection\, Endlings\, was published in Summer 2023
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/simon-hunt-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading and book launch by Geoff Wilkinson and Bill Tremblay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch by Geoff Wilkinson and Bill Tremblay and reading from their new books: “Confluence” and “The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems.”  It will take place in the Multipurpose Room of Sheehan Hall @ Worcester State University. The event is free and open to the public. \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 in such anthologies as the Pushcart Prize\, The Jazz Poetry Anthology\, Best American Poetry\, 2003\, In 1994\, he published his first novel\, The June Rise\, which was widely and favorably reviewed\, especially on NPR All Things Considered; In 2004\, his book\, Shooting Script: Door of Fire received the Colorado Book Award [2004]. 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 is the recipient of 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 is The Luminous Race Track\,(2023)\, memoirs about growing up in his Franco-American working-class family in the mill town of Southbridge\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-reading-and-book-launch-by-geoff-wilkinson-and-bill-tremblay/
LOCATION:Sheehan Building Worcester State University\, 486 Chandler St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winners’ Reading for the 2023 Frank O’Hara Prize
DESCRIPTION:Join the winners of the WCPA’s 2023 Annual Poetry Contest: The Frank O’Hara Prize for a reading of their work and the work of contest judge Karen Skolfield. There will be an opportunity to mingle over refreshments as well. \n  \nFirst Place: Rebecca Cross with “They Do This And Call It Mercy” \nSecond Place: John Garton with “Vernon” \nThird Place: Irena Kaçi with “Onions” \nHonorable Mention: Claire Schaeffer-Duffy with “Let Her Dance” \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKaren Skolfield was our 2023 Contest Judge.\nKaren Skolfield’s book Battle Dress (W. W. Norton) won the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in poetry and the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her book Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry and was a “Must Read” selection from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. She is the winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from The Missouri Review and has won additional awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America\, New England Public Radio\, the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, Split This Rock\, Hedgebrook\, and elsewhere. She loves volunteering in the public schools and bringing a little poetry into the classroom\, but she can’t decide if she prefers kindergarteners (so sweet!) or teenagers (hard to win over\, but the winning is glorious). Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, where she earned her MFA; she served as poet laureate for Northampton\, MA for 2019-2022. www.karenskolfield.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/winners-reading-for-the-2023-frank-ohara-prize/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church\, 90 Main Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01608
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SUMMARY:Gregory Stockmal Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us in ONE WEEK on September 21st 2023 7:30-9:00 for our annual GREGORY STOCKMAL reading featuring the fantastic J.D. Scrimgeour.\n \n\n\n\nJ.D. Scrimgeour is the author of four poetry collections The Last Miles\, Territories\, Lifting the Turtle\, and\, most recently\, Festival. He won the AWP Award for Nonfiction for his second nonfiction book\, Themes for English B: A Professor’s Education In & Out of Class. With musician Philip Swanson he released Ogunquit & Other Works\, a CD blending music and poetry. \nA longtime resident of Salem\, he’s written in many genres about the city. Mary Towne Eastey\, an ancestor in his direct line\, was put to death during the Salem Witch Trials. Another ancestor\, Thomas Perkins\, sat on the jury that found her guilty. For more information on the author\, please visit his website. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/gregory-stockmal-reading/
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:Arts In The Garden
DESCRIPTION:Indian Lake Community Association presents Arts in The Garden “an outdoor event that features music and poetry at the Community Teaching Garden on West Boylston Drive in Worcester. Performances will be every other Thursday starting July 7th from 6:30-8:00pm. Rain dates are the following day (Friday). \nOn September 21st we will be featuring musician Cross Tracks\, and poet Tony Brown. Admission is FREE and patrons are encouraged to bring non-alcoholic beverages and snacks to this family friendly event. Join us for an awesome time at Arts in The Garden! \n  \nCross Tracks is a 4 piece acoustic band that includes guitar\, fiddle\, mandolin\, harmonica and bass. Our name signifies that we have crossed the tracks of musical genre many times. Our music is drawn from several different traditions including folk\, bluegrass\, country\, jug band\, rock and blues that seamlessly fits together by a unified sound. We have played at many venues across New England including music venues\, orchards\, fairs and farmer’s markets. We love to perform! Our goal is to always deliver a performance that will help people feel better when they leave than they did when they arrived. \n  \n  \n\n  \n\n  \n \nTony Brown  is the author of nine individual chapbooks of poetry plus five ‘best of’ collections. He is also known for his vocal and musical talents as the front man to one of the regions most popular and provocative groups\, The Duende Project. You can purchase his chapbooks  and follow Tony’s work at his blog\, Dark Matter.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/arts-in-the-garden-14/
LOCATION:Community Teaching Garden\, 3 West Boylston Dr.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Carl Gomes":MAILTO:carlcgomes56@icloud.com
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SUMMARY:Slightly Off-Beat Poets presents: PAUL RICHMOND & CANDACE CURRAN
DESCRIPTION:  \nWHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets Presents: Paul Richmond and Candace Curran! \n\nWHERE: Betsy’s Backyard Stage 185 Arvidson Road Woodstock\, CT. \n\nWHEN: Sunday September 17th\, 2023 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm \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\nCOST: There will be a 50/50 raffle\, split between the feature and the winner. 5$ to enter. \n\nSIGN-UPS: There is room for 20 poets/ 40 guests total. To reserve a spot please email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \nPLEASE NOTE: 185 Arvidson Road is a dirt road. GPS will send you to ways: If you come off Roseland Park Road (right near Roseland Park) onto Arvidson it will begin as paved and a sign will tell you when the pavement ends. Just stay to the right and 185 is about 1/2 mile up on the right side. \nIf it sends you up Child Hill Rd\, you will make a left onto Arvidson dirt road and it will be less than a 1/4 mile on the left. \nPLEASE DO NOT PARK ON STREET! Pull in the driveway and you can park on the grass along the edge or pull all the way around. Plenty of parking! \n  \n \n  \n  \nPaul Richmond was awarded beat poet laureate three times. He is best described as political\, deadpan and wryly humorous delivered in his own style. He has been called\, “Assassin of Apathy” – “power of words / humor – on the unthinkable\, the unsolvable\, to analyze\, to digest\, to give birth\, to creativity and hope.”  He has performed nationally and internationally. He created the project “Do It Now” He is also a publisher of over 50 writers and has 7 books himself. For more information\, go to his website. \nCandace R. Curran is author of Playing in Wrecks\, Haleys Press. She is the 2022 Slate Roof Elyse Wolf Prize winner with a chapbook released next year.  A full length poetry collection is expected in the Spring with Human Error Press. Her poetry has appeared in New Generation Beats\, Writing the Land\, Meat For Tea\, the Valley Review\, and RAW NerVZ Haiku. She is looking forward to being a Slightly Off-Beat Poet\, featuring with the infamous Paul Word Richmond.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/slightly-off-beat-poets-presents-paul-richmond-candace-curran/
LOCATION:Betsy’s Backyard Stage\, 185 Arvidson Road\, Woodstock\, MA\, 06281\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOKLOVERS' GOURMET OPEN MIC
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nOpen Mic Poetry \nSaturday September 16\, 2023@ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm \n\nJoin us for a monthly round robin style\, open poetry reading.\nBring original pieces to share. \n\nSign up to reserve your spot by email: roberteugeneperry@gmail.com \nSpace is limited to 14 participants and usually fills quickly!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/booklovers-gourmet-open-mic-4/
LOCATION:Booklovers’ Gourmet\, 72 E. Main St.\, Webster\, MA\, 01570
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SUMMARY:WCPA September Virtual Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We are back! Please join us for the return of our Monthly Board Meetings. This month’s will be virtual on Zoom. Please CLICK HERE to register and attend! \n  \n7-8pm \nWe look forward to seeing you! \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/wcpa-september-board-meeting/
LOCATION:Preservation Worcester Board Room\, 61 Harvard St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01609\, United States
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SUMMARY:Close & Apart; Music & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the world premiere of Close and Apart\, a song cycle about loss\, hope\, and the power of human connection.\n  \n \n  \n  \nThe concert is free\, open to the public\, and will be livestreamed. You can reserve tickets now (click “buy” to do so\, though tickets are free) or get them at the event. Follow these directions to Holy Cross and you’ll find the Prior Performing Arts Center right next to the visitors’ parking lot. You can watch the livestreamed concert here or view the recording later. \n  \n  \nSponsors include the Worcester Arts Council\, Mass Cultural Council\, and College of the Holy Cross (with special thanks to the Dean’s Office\, Committee on Faculty Scholarship\, Music Department\, English Department\, Chaplains’ Office\, Health Professions Program\, and Creative Writing Program).
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/close-music-poetry/
LOCATION:Luth Concert Hall\, Prior Performance Center\, 1 College Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01610\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Feast of Losses\, Judy Ferrara Book Reading
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 \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.  PREORDER \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-feast-of-losses-judy-ferrara-book-reading-2/
LOCATION:Worcester JCC\, 633 Salisbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01609\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Large
DESCRIPTION:Three distinct poetic voices will unleash their truths at Roseland Park\, 205 Roseland Park Road (in the barn) on Sunday\, September 10th at a free\, spoken word reading hosted by Poets at Large. The reading will be from 2-4 p.m. with an open mic (5-minute limit as time allows)\, and is recommended for ages 14 and up. Featured will be CT poets Pegi Deitz Shea\, T’Challa Williams and C.C. Arshagra. \n  \nDeitz Shea will start the afternoon reading some pieces from her newest book\, The Weight of Kindling (Grayson Books). This work examines her roots of inspiration including her grandmother’s history\, her own world travels\, and the family she helped create. Deitz Shea\, a Tolland resident and two-time winner of the CT Book Award\, taught Children’s Literature and Creative Writing from 2007-2020 at UCONN. She is the author of more than 450 published articles\, essays\, poems for adult readers and 16 books for young readers. She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Vernon\, and directs Poetry Rocks\, a quarterly reading series she founded in 2017 and currently serves as the President of the CT Council of Poets Laureate. Learn more at www.pegideitzshea.com; contact: pegideitzshea@gmail.com. \n  \nHartford’s T’Challa Williams will bring her urgent and timely poems to this reading. Williams is a poet\, storyteller\, actress and community activist. She is Executive Co-Founder of the literary organization Hartford’s L.I.T; Chairperson of Weaver High School’s – School Governance Council; member of the Artists Advisory Committee for the Greater Hartford Arts Council and she sits on the Board of Directors for the Greater Hartford Arts Council. She has several collections including Papers on my floor\, The Lover and the Revolutionary and Vehemence. Find out more about her work at https://culturalyst.com/tchalla. \n  \nC.C. Arshagra of Cornwall will close out the first section of the afternoon. Activist/poet Arshagra is also a musician and publisher. One of his latest ventures is The Human Room Open Voice\, a project that supports and encourages poets in an online open mic forum. In January of this year Arshagra was profiled on Poetry Online Radio. The article states\, “Arshagra is an autodidact raised in his grandfather Arshag’s garden. Arshag\, an Armenian genocide survivor\, taught him profound attitudes of benevolence: no hate\, no enemy\, no blame and no vengeance… In more recent years\, his writing has been complemented by work on websites that serve free speech and humanitarian goals.” He is the author of several collections including Emotional Geography\, Poems\, and Scared Sacred. \n  \nCT resident Tianna Mercier will be the featured open mic reader.  Mercier’s book One Woman’s Journey came out in 2021. \n  \nThis year’s Roseland Park events are made possible in part by donations from Charter Oak FCU\, bankHometown\, Linemaster Switch\, WHZ Strategic Wealth Advisors\, Global Partners\, The Putnam Area Foundation and Atty. Mark Brouillard. \n  \nContact Poets at Large Coordinator Karen Warinsky @karen.warinsky@gmail.com to be included in the open mic. \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poets-large-2/
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:Karen Elizabeth Sharpe: Prayer Can Be Anything
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nIt’s said poems are prayers. These poems are mile markers in a life that finds faith in poetry.\n—Richard Blanco\, Presidential Inaugural Poet\, author of How to Love a Country  \nKaren Elizabeth Sharpe’s poetry collection\, Prayer Can Be Anything\, gorgeously shakes the reader into one “dream-soaked awakening” after another. The natural world\, world of bright- flashing birds and frozen-over wood frogs\, world of fields “lit with daisies” is brought to vivid life by Sharpe’s deft\, inventive use of language and her sure hand with imagery. But the world of this book is also shadowed with violence and loss as the speaker performs the difficult task of commemorating an imperfect and early-dead father and of coming to terms with the wounds that painfully shaped her own life. At once aching elegy and forthright reckoning\, Prayer Can Be Anything is proof of the exponential power in the telling of one woman’s truth. \n—Francesca Bell\, author of Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner\, What Small Sound and Bright Stain \n  \nBooks available for sale in the shop or purchase here. \nWith lush\, vibrant language and a keen and unflinching observation of the world and life\, Sharpe’s second collection asks us to shed ourselves of pretense and look at the world through our wounded\, vulnerable hearts. Whether considering the natural world around us\, or an inner world\, these poems ask us to look with a steady eye to the love\, hurt\, and healing that shape us. \n  \n  \n  \nKaren Elizabeth Sharpe is a poetry editor at the Worcester Review\, and her poems have appeared in Columbia Journal\, West Trade Review\, Mom Egg Review\, Catalyst\, Mason Street Review and other magazines and anthologies. Karen has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has been a coffee-cart clerk\, a babysitter\, a journalist and editor\, a caterer\, a funeral ceremonialist\, a professional fundraiser\, and an assistant vice-president at two universities. She celebrates the healing power of forgiveness in relationships.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/karen-elizabeth-sharpe-prayer-can-be-anything/
LOCATION:TidePool Bookshop\, 372 Chandler St. Unit 101\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Elizabeth Sharpe":MAILTO:karenelizabethsharpe@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Arts in The Garden
DESCRIPTION:Indian Lake Community Association presents Arts in The Garden featuring musician Sarah French\, and poet Meg Smith Admission is FREE and patrons are encouraged to bring non-alcoholic beverages and snacks to this family friendly event. Join us for an awesome time at Arts in The Garden! \n\n\nSarah Louise French began her music career in the small town of Red Feather Lakes\, Colorado\, where she worked in her early 20s as a wrangler by day and singer by night. \n\n\n\nSince moving back to New England and focusing on a career in Environmental Science\, French has made sure not to stray too far from her musical roots. She founded the band ‘Iza Jane’ in 2010\, and released the EP “Dirty Hands” in 2013. In 2016\, she co-founded Women of Worcester Productions – an organization focused on celebrating\, inspiring\, and encouraging women in Worcester County through music\, art\, and leadership. \nThroughout her years of performing\, French has shared the stage with such notable artists as Jonathan Edwards\, Chris Thile\, and Shannon McNally. French performs solo\, as well as with the classic country and rock outfit ‘The Traveling Jones’. \nWith influences such as Bonnie Raitt\, Emmy Lou Harris\, Linda Rhonstadt\, Bob Dylan and John Prine\, French performs both original music and 60s and 70s pop folk and classic country covers in venues throughout New England and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\n  \n\n\nMeg Smith is a writer\, journalist\, dancer and events producer\, living in Lowell\, Mass. \nHer poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review\, Muddy River Poetry Review\, Poetry Bay\, Mobius\, The Lowell Review\, the anthology\, Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork (Ireland) and Lowell\, Contemporary Foreign Literature\, published by Nanjing University\, and many more.\n\nShe is author of five poetry books\, and a short fiction collection\, The Plague Confessor.\n\nShe served on the board of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! from 1995 to 2009\, and produces the Edgar Allan Poe Show\, honoring Poe’s presence in Lowell.\n\nShe currently serves as content editor for Worcester Magazine. She welcomes visit to megsmithwriter.com.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/arts-in-the-garden-13/
LOCATION:Community Teaching Garden\, 3 West Boylston Dr.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Carl Gomes":MAILTO:carlcgomes56@icloud.com
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SUMMARY:Poetry Extravaganza featuring Sara Letourneau
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, September 5th from 6:00-8:30 pm for an evening of poetry\, humor\, and revelry.\nTwo open-mic sessions sandwich our Feature poet Sara Letourneau\n\nSign up for the open-mic at jfjr6969@gmail\,com . Five-minute maximum\, please.\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.\n\nThe Poetry Extravaganza is sponsored by Lewandowski Painting.\n\nJoin the fun on Tuesday\, September 5th!\n\n\n\n\nSara Letourneau is a poet as well as a book coach\, editor\, and workshop instructor at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services. She is also the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield\, MA. Her debut poetry collection\, Wild Gardens\, will be published by Kelsay Books in 2024. Her poetry has received first place in the Blue Institute’s Words on Water contest and has appeared or is forthcoming in Amethyst Review\, Didcot Writers\, Portrait of New England\, Soul-Lit\, Full Mood Mag\, Living Crue\, Arlington Literary Journal\, Mass Poetry’s Poem of the Moment and Hard Work of Hope\, and Muddy River Poetry Review\, among others. Sara has taught poetry and writing workshops at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and other in-person venues in the Greater Boston area as well as virtually on Zoom. She lives in Foxboro\, Massachusetts
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-extravaganza-featuring-sara-letourneau/
LOCATION:Redemption Rock Brewery\, 333 Shrewsbury St\,\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T220000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
CREATED:20230727T184556Z
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UID:7388-1693508400-1693519200@worcestercountypoetry.org
SUMMARY:Poetorium @ Starlite Poetry Reading Series Featuring Bill Tremblay & Bill O’Connell
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special double “Bill” edition of our monthly open mic and featured poetry reading series The Poetorium at Starlite hosted by Paul Szlosek and Ron Whittle. It will be a full evening of poetry\, spoken word\, and music starting with a brief interview on stage with our two featured poets Bill Tremblay (Author of Shooting Script: Door of Fire and The Luminous Race Track) & Bill O’Connell (Author of Sakonnet Point and  When We Were All Still Alive) followed by readings by our 2 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 features and compensate Starlite for the use of their space. For more information\, please contact us at poetorium@mail.com or visit our website at https://poetorium.home.blog/2019/04/29/the-poetorium-at-starlite-2/\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 in 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 [2004]. 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 is the recipient of 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 is The Luminous Race Track\,(2023)\, poetic memoirs about growing up in his Franco-American working-class family in the mill town of Southbridge\, Massachusetts. It is available at www.lynxhousepress.com or order it at your favorite bookstore.\n\nBill O’Connell has been living in the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts since‭ ‬1984. A retired social worker\, he teaches writing at Greenfield Community College and runs a small handyman business. Books of poetry include Sakonnet Point (Plinth Books 2011) & On The Map To Your Life (Dytiscid Press 1992). A new collection\, When We Were All Still Alive\, is just out from Open Field Press\, available from SPDbooks.org.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetorium-starlite-poetry-reading-series-featuring-bill-tremblay-bill-oconnell/
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:20230829T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Emily Judkins
DESCRIPTION:The Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, August 29th\, 2023 Emily Judkins will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n  \nRegister\n \n  \nEm Judkins is a queer writer and artist based in central and western Massachusetts.  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 poetry concentration\, and are at work on their first chapbook.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-emily-judkins/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
CREATED:20230802T162932Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Princeton: August
DESCRIPTION:Do you enjoy poetry? Like to read aloud? Like to share your work and the work of poets you admire? Join Clair Degutis and Claire Golding of the PAS for a Sunday afternoon hour of literary fellowship. Bring two poems—one may be your own work\, if you wish—and read them aloud to the assembled group. Try to choose poems—on any topic—that can be read in under two minutes. We’ll share old favorites and new discoveries\, laugh and marvel at what we hear. FREE. All ages warmly welcomed. \n \n  \n  \nQuestions? Contact Claire Golding: cmowbraygolding@gmail.com
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetic-princeton-august/
LOCATION:Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary\, 113 Goodnow Rd\, Princeton\, MA\, 01541\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230825T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230825T203000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
CREATED:20230814T142823Z
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SUMMARY:Openest Mic #2
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin The Openest Mic at Smokestack Roasters for a night of poetry\, music\, spoken word…whatever local creatives want to do\, they can do it at the Openest Mic! \nSmokestack Roasters will be open and have coffee\, alcoholic beverages\, sandwiches and their beautiful baked goods for sale. Smokestack has also been courteous enough to give us an extra hour because of how many people showed up and shared at the first Openest Mic! \nThe audience is as much a part of the night as the performers! Even if you don’t feel like you have anything to share\, come see the vibrant arts community right in your neighborhood! Looking forward to sharing a night of collaboration\, talent and joy together!
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
CREATED:20230419T173855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230501T011658Z
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SUMMARY:Arts in The Garden
DESCRIPTION:Indian Lake Community Association presents Arts in The Garden featuring musician Playing Hookey\, and poet Robert Eugene Perry Admission is FREE and patrons are encouraged to bring non-alcoholic beverages and snacks to this family friendly event. Join us for an awesome time at Arts in The Garden! \n\n  \n\n\nPlaying Hookey Duo: Linda Jones McCarthy and Deb Barron Northway: Linda Jones McCarthy is the author of several books\, Including Spider in\nthe Shower (as Lillie Jones)\, Old Bear and Friends and The Heart Remembers\, and has recorded a CD of original songs and stories\, Here We Go to the Sky. She performs with musical friend and fellow songwriter and arranger Rick Quimby as Owengale. Longtime host of The Folk Spot and In the Tradition on community radio station WCUW in Worcester\, Deb Barron Northway’s background is in communications\, instructional design and chimney sweeping. She sings purely for the joy of it. Now retired from jobs and obligations\, Linda and Deb are Playin’ Hookey\, harmonizing just for fun. They hope their music will be fun for you\, too! \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\nRobert Eugene Perry is a native of Massachusetts and the author of five books. His most recent book of poetry Earthsongs\, was published by Human Error Publishing in 2022. He 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 & Friends Remembering Jack Kerouac on his 100th Birthday\, and Soul-Lit: a journal of spiritual 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.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/arts-in-the-garden-12/
LOCATION:Community Teaching Garden\, 3 West Boylston Dr.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01602\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Carl Gomes":MAILTO:carlcgomes56@icloud.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Thirsty Lab with Elizabeth Lund
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe Thirsty Lab poetry reading\, normally based out of Princeton\, Mass.\, continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday\, August 22nd\, 2023 Elizabeth Lund will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. \n\n\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  \n  \n\n\n\nRegister
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-virtual-thirsty-lab-with-elizabeth-lund/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T210000
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SUMMARY:Jess Mynes Poetry Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nNew Dawn Writers’ Group is proud to present poet: JESS MYNES \nTuesday August 22\, 2023 \n6 PM – 7 PM \n84 Main Street\, Ashburnham \nReading 6-6:45 pm\, Q&A to follow. \nFree speaker series. Open to all\, no registration. Event will transition to the regularly scheduled Writers’ Group Poetry night. All are welcome. \n  \nJess Mynes is the author of several books including Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) and One Anthem (Pressed Wafer Press). His poems have appeared in numerous publications including: The Brooklyn Rail\, The Nation\, Blazing Stadium\, Hyperallergic\, Let the Bucket Down\, Vlak\, Shampoo\, and Big Bell. He co-curated a reading series\, All Small Caps\, in Wendell\, MA for eight years. He publishes innovative contemporary poets as the editor of Fewer & Further Press. Jess is the Library Director at Stevens Memorial Library in Ashburnham. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFor more information/direct website\, please CLICK HERE.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/jess-mynes-poetry-reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T203000
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SUMMARY:Pints & Poems
DESCRIPTION:  \nReading and book signings featuring Worcester Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz and poets Karen Elizabeth Sharpe and Chris Noonan. \n  \nOliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester\, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: 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 newest work\, The Diaspora Sonnets\, is forthcoming from Liveright Press in 2023. With Stacey Lynn Brown he co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. A founding member\, Oliver serves as the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board and on the board for Poetry Daily. \n  \n  \n  \n \nElizabeth Sharpe is from Westminster\, Massachusetts. Karen is the author of Prayer Can Be Anything\, by Finishing Line Press (2023) and a poetry editor at The Worcester Review. Her poems have recently appeared or will appear in The MacGuffin\, West Trade Review\, Mom Egg Review\, Catalyst\, the Mizmor Anthology\, Mason Street Review\, among others. Karen has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nChris Noonan is a philosopher at heart and an environmental scientist by trade. He has authored three books of poetry; Penumbra\, Hearts & Highways and Kaleidoscopic. He enjoys writing\, outdoor activities\, traveling and spending time with family and friends. He grew up in Central Massachusetts and lives in Worcester with his family. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/pints-poems/
LOCATION:Wormtown Brewery\, 72 Shrewsbury St.\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Elizabeth Sharpe":MAILTO:karenelizabethsharpe@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230819T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230819T183000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
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SUMMARY:A Great Notion Independent Bookstore Celebrates 6 Months with Poetry!
DESCRIPTION:NEW MASSACHUSETTS INDY BOOKSTORE TO CELEBRATE ITS 6-MONTH ANNIVERSARY WITH A FREE POETRY EVENT \n  \n\nA Great Notion independent bookstore (located at 65 Southbridge St. in Auburn\, MA) will celebrate it’s 6-month anniversary on Saturday\, August 19th with a free interactive poetry event. \n  \nThe event will include games\, giveaways and refreshments. A Great Notion opened in February and is owned by Worcester residents Tyler and Courtney Galicia. Woodstock poet/author Karen Warinsky will host the event which will run from 5-6:30 p.m. and she will also read some selections from her book Sunrise Ruby and her new release\, Dining with War. This event is recommended for ages 14 and up and reservations are encouraged. \n  \n 
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-great-notion-independent-bookstore-celebrates-6-months-with-poetry/
LOCATION:A Great Notion Bookshop\, 65 Southbridge St.\, Auburn\, MA\, 01501\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Karen Warinsky%2C Poets At Large":MAILTO:karen.warinsky@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T203000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
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SUMMARY:The Shawna Foundation Library Poetry Tour Presents Joe Fusco Jr in Uxbridge
DESCRIPTION:The Shawna Foundation presents The Library Poetry Tour with Worcester poet and humorist Joe Fusco Jr. on August 17\, 7 p.m. at the Uxbridge Free Public Library.\n\nThe event is free.\n\n\n\nHe is the author of four books of semi-amusing poems and essays: “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.\n\nJoe’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.\n\nJoe 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.\n\nJoe taught “Humor 101” for high-school students at Gateways Academy in Shrewsbury and for adults at the Worcester Senior Center and Eisenberg Assisted Living. He is the Vice-President of Programming for the Worcester County Poetry Association.\n\nThe Library Poetry Tour is a program of the Shawna Foundation\, bringing live poetry readings to the Milford Town Library and the Uxbridge Free Library quarterly throughout 2023. The program is hosted by Worcester poet Tony Brown\, the winner of the 2022.\nStanley Kunitz Medal\, endowed by the late U.S. Poet Laureate and Worcester native and awarded annually to a poet for lifetime achievement and service to the Central Massachusetts poetry community.\n\nThe Library Poetry Tour is supported in part by the Milford Cultural Council\, The Uxbridge Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.\n\nThe Shawna E. Shea Memorial Foundation\, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to support and showcase artists in filmmaking\, performance arts and creative endeavors with a focus on underrepresented communities.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/the-shawna-foundation-library-poetry-tour-presents-joe-fusco-jr-in-uxbridge-2/
LOCATION:Uxbridge Free Public Library\, 15 North Main Street\, Uxbridge\, MA\, 01569\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T190000
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SUMMARY:Artists Who Are Poets/Poets Who Are Artists Featuring Richard Fox
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for what promises to be an amazing evening of poetry featuring local poet & legend Richard Fox. The event will be hosted by poet Paul Szlosek (filling in for the series’ regular host Sam Lalos) with Richard reading precisely at 5:30 PM followed by the open mic (two poems or five minutes for each reader with the sign-up starting at 5 pm.) So come and enjoy Richard’s incredibly thought-provoking poetry and listen to other local poets at Tidepool Bookshop. \n \n  \nRichard Fox is a local poet and legend born and bred in Worcester MA. He attended the progressive Webster University in the early 1970s. These diverse cultures shaped his worldview and love of words. John Hodgen\, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize\, writes of him: “Rich Fox calls himself a small poet at large\, but there is nothing small about his poems . . . They are large-themed and large-hearted\, framed by a world at war with itself and a world all the more lovely when it is almost taken from us\, when we see how filled to overflowing it is with light and joy and longing and loss. These are well crafted\, poignant\, clever\, and ultimately wise poems which leave the reader wanting to believe one can throw one’s arms around this hard-won world\, and\, better yet\, that the world will hold us in its arms as well.” Richard’s poems feature rock ’n roll and youthful transgressions\, but his focus is cancer from the patient’s point of view. He is the author of eight poetry collections\, the latest\, Poems for my Zady & Miscellany (2023). Winner of the 2017 Frank O’Hara Prize\, Richard seconds Stanley Kunitz’s motion that people in Worcester are “provoked to poetry”.
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/artists-who-are-poets-poets-who-are-artists-featuring-richard-fox/
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:20230816T110000
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SUMMARY:A Feast of Losses\, Judy Ferrara Book Reading
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 \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.  PREORDER
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/a-feast-of-losses-judy-ferrara-book-reading/
LOCATION:Worcester Senior Center\, 128 Providence St\, Worcester\, MA\, 01604\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230815T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230815T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T141548
CREATED:20230802T161705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230802T162118Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop at New Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Come out to the New Dawn Writers’ Group’s Poetry Workshop. Every third Tuesday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm we will discuss poems and writing\, write to prompts\, give feedback\, encourage one another\, and discuss upcoming projects. It’s a friendly\, pressure-free atmosphere at the New Dawn Arts Center in Ashburnham. The address is 84 Main Street\, Ashburnham\, MA. The workshop is being led by Fred Gerhard. \n \nFred Gerhard leads the Poetry Workshop\, and is one of the open mic hosts\, for the New Dawn Writers’ Group. His poems appear in numerous magazines including Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Pif Magazine\, POETiCA REViEW\, and Sylvia Magazine. A 2023 winner of Poetry in the Pines\, he is also an editor at Quabbin Quills and Smoky Quartz. For many years he led a poetry therapy group in Worcester at UMASS Memorial’s Community HealthLink. For more information on the New Dawn Center Click Here
URL:https://worcestercountypoetry.org/event/poetry-workshop-at-new-dawn-3/
LOCATION:New Dawn Center\, 84 Main St.\, Ashburnham\, MA\, 01607\, United States
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