The Thirsty Lab poetry reading, normally based out of Princeton, Mass., continues to meet virtually. On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Jenith Charpentier will be the featured reader. Jenith Charpentier writes to dissect the human condition with less formaldehyde than middle school biology applied to the frog. She is quite certain that at some point, there […]
Please join us for the Halloween 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 spooky and fun poetry and spoken word starting with a brief interview on stage with our featured poet Alan Ira […]
Do you remember the 'A Tale of Two Cities' project from 2018 The WCPA partnered with Nina Lewis, the Poet Laureate from Worcestershire, UK to arrange a call & response poetry collaboration. We're thrilled to see it repeated - poets from Worcester, UK, and Worcester, USA, paired up to write call-and-response poems. And this time, […]
Poetry Extravaganza Returns to Worcester November 1st featuring Joe Fusco Jr.! Join us on Tuesday November 1st from 6-8pm for an evening of poetry, humor, and revelry. Two open-mic sessions sandwich our feature performer, humorist/poet Joe Fusco Jr. (me). Sign up for the open mic at jfjr6969@gmail.com. Joe Fusco Jr. is a well-seasoned poet/humorist […]
Join us on Saturday November 5th for an afternoon of poetry. Curt Curtin and his wife, Dee O’Connor, will read from the collection at Booklover’s Gourmet, located at 72 East Main Street in Webster, MA on Saturday, November 5, 2022. A brief open mic will start at 2 p.m. followed by the featured reading. Copies […]
Worcester's Humorist/poet Joe Fusco Jr. hosts 'Humor 101," a four-class deep-dive into the history of comedy featuring such iconic characters as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball, The Three Stooges, Rodney Dangerfield, Phillis Diller, Richard Pryor, David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Mel Brooks, etc. We'll explore slapstick, stand-up, topical, observational, and improvisational humor. Classes are four […]
Join us for our monthly reading at TidePool Books, featuring Karen Warinksy. Karen Warinsky began publishing poetry in 2011 and was named as a finalist for her poem “Legacy” in the Montreal International Poetry Contest in 2013. Her work appears in several anthologies including Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands, the 2019 Mizmor Anthology, […]
November 9th @ 7:00 am - 8:30 pm Join us for our Virtual Board meeting to learn more about what we are up to. Join using our Zoom Link
Worcester’s Humorist/poet Joe Fusco Jr. hosts ‘Humor 101,” a four-class deep-dive into the history of comedy featuring such iconic characters as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball, The Three Stooges, Rodney Dangerfield, Phillis Diller, Richard Pryor, David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Mel Brooks, etc. We’ll explore slapstick, stand-up, topical, observational, and improvisational humor. Classes are four […]
Wonderful Worcester Black History Project & Antiquarian Society Event: Join us as Worcester poets share their responses inspired by material from the Brown Family Collections, one of the earliest and largest intact nineteenth-century Black family’s libraries in America. The collections center around William and Martha Ann Brown, who were married in Worcester in 1850, […]
