Events

Join us for our final monthly Board Meeting of the summer on the second Wednesday June 12th at our office headquarters over @ 61 Harvard St.

Arts in the Garden On June 13th, We will be featuring the musical duo Lydia Fortune & Phil Nigro, and the iconic Worcester County poet Susan Roney O'Brien.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! […]

Open Mic Poetry Saturday June 15th @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Join us for a monthly round robin style, open poetry reading. Bring original pieces to share. Sign up to reserve your spot by calling 508-949-6232 or emailing deb@bookloversgourmet.com Space is limited to 14 participants and usually fills quickly!

Bancroft Tower – 6 participants – We finished reading Telemachus Hope Cemetery – 4 participants – We read twenty pages of Hades Tidepool Bookstore – 3 participants  - We read 30 pages of Scylla and Charybdis Root and Press – 3 participants – 35 pages of Eumaeus Redemption Rock – 4 Participants – 25 pages […]

Poets at Large is happy to announce their first free poetry/spoken word event of the season willbe on June 16th , 2-4 p.m. in the barn at Roseland Park, 205 Roseland Park Road, Woodstock, CT. This is the fifth year for the regional group to bring poets to the park. Featured readers thatafternoon will be […]

Sunset/Sunrise Zoom Reading: Poetry Bridging Continents: Poem in two languagesJune 20, 8 p.m. Zoom Registration China poets: Zi Chuan, Chen Yihai. Sinan, Yue QiU.S. poets: Susan Roney-O'Brien, John Hodgen, Claire Golding, J.D. Scrimgeour, Rodger Martin, Jackson Caffrey Please use this ZOOMLINK to register:  You will receive a reading link shortly before the event.

Please join us for a special afternoon with the legendary poet Bill Tremblay at Booklovers’s Gourmet as he reads from his new poetry collection, The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems (Lynx House Press, 2023). Bill will also sign copies of the book which will be available for sale at the bookshop. The Luminous Racetrack is a collection of frank and lyrical […]

Creative writers, poets, visual artists, musicians meet to share current work. Constructive criticism always appreciated.

The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, Mass., continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 Susan Roney O'Brien will be the featured reader. Please Click Here to register. Susan Roney-O’Brien earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She’s published two chapbooks: Earth and Farmwife and three full-length poetry collections: Legacy of the Last World, Bone Circle and Thira. Her poetry has […]