Events

Join us for our 5th Annual Women's Reading.   There will be 21 Readers  to celebrate with us. To register, please click on our LINK.   Here is a list of the 21 featured readers:   Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Catherine Reed Loretta Watts Kathleen Aguero Ashley Wonder Maura McNeil Kyle Potvin Carla-la Sharon Ann Harmon […]

  The eighteenth annual weekend retreat into poetry, prose, and music at the B. C. Harris Center, Greenfield, NH, from Friday, April 21 to Sunday afternoon, April 23.    Collegial workshops, participant readings, all in a supportive atmosphere of art and nature.  See their website or e-mail rmartin1@keene.edu.   Mentors: John Hodgen, Henry Walters, Susan […]

  WHAT: Slightly Off-beat Poets event VEILLEUX-MANIA Featuring Steve Veilleux WHERE: 112 Fabyan-Woodstock Road. North Grosvenordale, CT WHEN: Sunday April 23, 2023 from 1:00 to 4 P.M. WHAT HAPPENS: Feature poet Steve Veilleux will read for 25 minutes. Then we’ll take a break for book sales, snacks & the raffle before starting the open mic. COST: 50/50 raffle split between the […]

Join us for an open mic and reading at TidePool Books, featuring Jennifer L Freed, winner of the 2022 Frank O'Hara prize.     Jennifer L Freed’s When Light Shifts: A Memoir in Poems (finalist, 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize) explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage, touching on themes of identity and […]

An evening of poetry and music. Each evening will feature solo readings by area poets that will bookend a musical duet performance in the Merriam Gilbert library in West Brookfield, Ma. Each program will begin at 6:00 pm. The evenings are free and open to the public and sponsored in part by a grant from […]

Come out to the New Dawn Writers’ Group’s Open Mic. Every fourth Tuesday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm we host an open mic for writers of all genres and ages.  Bring a few poems, or that experimental thing you wrote that doesn’t fit any known category. It’s a friendly, pressure-free atmosphere at the New […]

The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, Mass., continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday, April 25th, 2023  Trevor Code will be the featured reader. Please click HERE to register. Trevor Code, has been a member of the WCPA since 1981, but his WCPA contact began when he met Michael True and Kenneth […]

Our exciting Poems in and Out of Places contest will be coming to a close on June 1st, 2023. Anyone interested in submitting will have two chances to come workshop their work with us @ our headquarters here at 61 Harvard St. Come celebrate our fair city, and commune with other poets and writers for […]