Poetry News

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Here is your Poetry News for the week of April 2, 2007.
Spoken word events are raining like April showers on the Pioneer Valley and beyond.
Please email if you would like to be added to the mailing or are interested in featuring at Jester's. We need poets!
Peace through poetry - Lori

Word in Westfield:

Community Voices Poetry Open Mic
EVERY MONDAY NIGHT
at Jester's Cafe and Deli
124 Elm Street (route 10/202) in Westfield, MA
Sign up is at 7 and open mic starts at 7:30PM
followed by a guest feature.
All are welcome. This venue is PG 13 due to the kids' taking lessons
at the music store next door
Here are our next features:
Monday, April 2 - Tommy Twilite (Florence poet and really cool dude)
Monday, April 9 - Erin Cowles (former house poet back in town)

We're now booking features for May and, yes, June!
Please email [email protected] if you haven't featured in
at least 6 months and would like to return,
or if you would be interested in featuring for the first time at Jester's.

XJ Kennedy at Westfield State College
Thursday, April 5, 2007
7:00 PM
Scanlon Living Room
Westfield State College
A Massachusetts poet of national acclaim, Kennedy grew up in Dover,
went to Seton Hall (B.Sc. '50) and Columbia (M.A., '51), then spent four
years in the Navy as an enlisted journalist, serving aboard destroyers.
He studied at the Sorbonne in 1955-56, then spent the next six years
at the University of Michigan. He has taught English at Michigan, at
the Woman's College of the U. of North Carolina (now UNC Greensboro),
and at Tufts, with visiting sojourns at Wellesley, U. of California Irvine,
and the U. of Leeds. Mr. Kennedy is the author of six collections of verse,
including Dark Horses. He has also authored eighteen children's books
and several textbooks. His awards include a Guggenheim fellowship,
a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Los Angeles Times Book prize.
He lives with his wife Dorothy in Lexington, Mass.


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Chicopee/Springfield Poetry

GUMBOLIVE
Open Mic poetry and music
3rd Friday of every Month
Days Inn, 450 Memorial Drive, Chicopee, MA
Doors open at 8:30- Showtime 9:30
$9 tickets at http://www.gumbolive.com/
$13 at the door
Want to be their feature act? Email

Open Mic at the Springfield Library
Greetings Poets and Lovers of Poetry,
Join us Sunday April 20th at 2:00 ,
as we continute the 06-07 Open Mic series here at the library.

Crystal Senter Brown www.crystalsenterbrown.com is your
gracious and talented MC, and she'll have copies of
her newly released book available.

Bookmark the Poetry Page http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/poetry/poetrypage.html
for updated information, and to read the work of some of our poets
(anyone who's read at events here, send a poem to be posted!)


Word in the Valley and Beyond

WRITE ON!
Spoken Word OPEN MIC for writers and poets
on Thursday evening, April 19.
Hosted by the Equinox, a small press journal featuring
stories, poems, essays and art by local creatives and
supported in part by a grant from the Williamsburg
Cultural Council on behalf of fostering the book/word arts,
promoting connections in the writing community.
Meekins Library, 2 Main Road, Williamsburg at 7:00 pm.
Sign up begins at 6:30. Light refreshments.
Free and open to all. Info: 413 625 6728

Catalyst Cabaret at The Blue Guitar Gallery Easthampton
A brand new venue for art, poetry, music and dance,
located at 186 D Northampton St., (Rte 10),
Easthampton, called The Blue Guitar Gallery.
We are directly opposite the Easthampton Post Office, just
before the town line between Easthampton and Northampton.
We are launching our monthly series, Catalyst Cabaret,
which aims to serve as an inspiration-sharing, interactive gathering.
The idea is that by seeing the art on exhibit, people may get
inspired to write, or choose a poem that feels related to the art, or that they
would like to perform in the atmosphere created by the art.
Collaborations are encouraged, and performers
are invited to rehearse their piece at the Gallery.
This can also include music, and dance.
The second half of the evening is open mic, and the evening
ends with appreciations and a sharing of drawings
and/or writings people may have done while listening, watching.
The Blue Guitar Gallery is devoted to the
exchange of energy, inspiration and support through
interdisciplinary collaboration and response.

The Blue Guitar Gallery
is open Sat/Sun 12 - 4, Mon. 9-1, and by appointment.
We invite you to come see the art work,
and if inspired, share something at the Catalyst Cabaret.
We will have Openings in conjunction with Art Walk Easthampton
(www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org)
every second Saturday of the month, 5 - 9 pm,
with a short performance at 7 pm.
Allowing two weeks for people to prepare something,
The Catalyst Cabaret
will take place every 4th Saturday, at 7 pm.
A donation of $5 - 10 is requested to keep our programs running.
For further information, please contact Christina Svane:
Christina Svane
[email protected]
The Blue Guitar Gallery
186 D Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
413-247-9454/413-348-5288
http://www.theblueguitar.org/


NEW OPEN MIC
Open poetry night at 7pm
the first Thursday of the month
April 5th at
Cafe Evolution
22 Chestnut Street
Florence Mass
phone 413.586.0200


FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY
The next meeting of Florence Poets Society is April 12, 2007
From 7-9PM at the Lilly Library
19 Meadow Street
Florence, MA

For more information:
Email us at [email protected] or check out our web
page at www.florencepoetssociety.org

RADIO SHOW
Florence Poets Society founding codirector and dedicated poetry enthusiast,
Tom Clark brought his own unique form of Poetry as Entertainment to the air waves on
Wednesday March 21st @ 9 am on 103.3 FM valley free radio.
A wide variety of poetry was read.
Tom intends this show to be an open, wide ranging venue for
All Forms of Poetry from classical, to modern, formal to free verse,
academic to folk and everything in between.
This show will air on alternate Wednesdays and will feature live guests along with
recorded interviews and or readings with well known local and nationally recognized poets.
Check Tom's show out next on
Wednesday, April 4th at 9:00 AM
103.3 FM (this is a low power station and the signal doesn't get far beyond
Northampton, but the show is high power entertainment).

Writing Full Tilt Presents
Poetry and Fiction
A Reading by Workshop Members
at the Lilly Library, Florence, MA
on April 15, 2007
from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Street parking available.
Refreshments will be served.

Poetry Nights in Northampton:

Smith Poetry
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Tuesday, April 3, 7:30pm
Weinstein Auditorium (Wright Hall),
Smith College, Northampton MA
Nye calls herself a "wondering poet."
Her poems, in the words of William Stafford,
"combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along
with warmth and human insight." Growing up in
St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Nye has
spread her roots widely and deep, but a restless strain
also runs through her words and those of her speakers,
across continents and generations. Since 1980, she has
put her hand to more than twenty books, including poetry,
anthologies, novels, and children's literature.
This event also features the winners of Smith's first annual poetry prize
for high school girls, who will read their winning poems.
(For more info on the prize and to read the winning poems, visit www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/highschoolprize.html ).

For more info, visit www.smith.edu/poetrycenter or call (413)585-4891.

A CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH:
THE LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT & AFTER FROST
Wednesday, April 4, 7:00pm
Memorial Hall, UMass Amherst, Amherst MA
This event will launch the collaboration between
writer and editor Jeanne Braham and artist Barry Moser,
The Light within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall,
Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin & Stanley Kunitz.
Braham will give a talk regarding the book, including
a reading from some of the work of the poets.
Moser will give a talk with respect to the creation
of the woodcuts of the four poets. Henry Lyman,
author of After Frost: An Anthology of Poetry from
New England will also give a short reading from the
work of the poets included in The Light.
For more info, visit http://www.umass.edu/ .

PETER GIZZI
Thursday, April 5, 8:00pm
Amherst Books,
8 Main St.,
Amherst MA
Gizzi will read from his new collection of poetry
Outernationale. He is the author of numerous
volumes of poetry, including Some Values of Landscape
and Weather, Periplum & Other Poems, and Artificial Heart.
He teaches in the English department at UMass.
For more info, visit http://www.amherstbooks.com/ .

Writer's Group at Packard's in Northampton:
Northampton Writer's Group is an ongoing writer's group
for any kind of written word.
It meets in the library room at Packard's restaurant/bar at
14 Masonic St. in Northampton.
Participants bring copies of their work to read and have
critiqued in a supportive, gentle, constructive environment.
Admission is free, and supper and drinks are available for purchase.
The next dates -
Sunday April 1, 6-9PM
Sunday April 15, 6-9PM
Sunday April 22, 6-9PM

Writing Workshop
This is a FREE group that is sponsored by a grant.
There will be a publication at the group's commencement in the spring of 2007.
Florence Community Center
Wednesdays from 7pm - 8:30.
(please call Ellen. at 413.695.9830.
or contact at

LIVE LIT
An ongoing series - students from the UMass MFA Program
read fromrecent work; readings usually include a mix of poetry and fiction.
Reading currently scheduled for April 20.
These events, all beginning at 8:00pm on Friday evenings,
will take place at:
Amherst Books
8 Main St.
Amherst, MA
You can check their website (http://www.amherstbooks.com/) for details now and
throughout the coming months.--Don't forget to mark your calendars!


POETRY A LA CARTE
on WMUA-Amherst 91.1 FM
Fridays 4:30-5:00pm
The program, hosted by Daisy Mathias,
includes reading aloud from past
and contemporary poets, and occasionally
features live interview and
poetry-reading with a local poet.

upstreet Writers at Broadside Books
Four writers whose work appears in upstreet, the
new national literary magazine published by Ledgetop Publishing,
will be the featured readers in the sixth event of the reading
tour celebrating the publication of the magazine’s second issue.
The reading will take place at
Broadside Bookshop,
247 Main Street,
Northampton,
on Sunday, April 15, at 2:00 p.m.
The readers will be poets Chivas Sandage of Northampton
and Sara C. Rauch of Amherst, and creative nonfiction writers
Debora Seidman and Anna Viadero of Montague.
The host for the event will be upstreet editor Vivian Dorsel of Richmond,
founder of Ledgetop Publishing.
upstreet, which is published annually, includes new fiction, poetry, and
creative nonfiction.
The second issue features an interview with author Lydia Davis, translator of
Proust’s Swann’s Way and author of the novel The End of the Story and the
short-story collection Samuel Johnson is Indignant. Davis, a faculty member
at the New York State Writers Institute in Albany, was granted a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.

Refreshments will be available, and admission is free and open to the public.

For information contact:
Vivian Dorsel
(413) 441-9702 (cell)
[email protected]
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/


Wendell MA Reading
April 30th
DEJA BREW 57 LOCKE'S VILLAGE RD. WENDELL, MA
Open Mic signup: 7:15 Open Mic: 7:15-8
Followed by features
Matthew Klane, Adam Golaski, Candace Curran
ALL SMALL CAPS
A NIGHT OF SPOKEN WORD
Last Monday of each month Déjà Brew Pub, Wendell MA
Doors open 7:00 p.m.
Open mike 7:15 - 8:00
Featured readers 8:15 - 9:30
All comers are invited to read from their own
work or the works of others, poetry or prose
Admission sliding scale $1 -$5
Deja Brew, between the country Store and Post Office in downtown Wendell
*If you would like to be one of the two presenters call 978-544-8784
www.allsmallcaps.blogspot.com

Shelbourne Falls Poetry

Mocha Maya Open Mic
Open Mic at Mocha Maya's Coffee House
47 Bridge Street Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
April 5, 7:30 PM.
We have our Open Mics the first Thursday of every month.
Bring Poetry or prose, your own or another's that you
fell in love with and wish to share with others.
All are welcome.


Open Mic at the Arms Library

The Third Friday Reading Series
at the Arms Library
welcomes you
Bridge and Main Streets,
Shelburne Falls, MA
7—9pm, 3rd Friday of each month
Next Open Mic: April 20th
Open reading of poetry and prose.
Come early and sign up for a 5 minute reading.

When a writing group is featured,
the 2nd half of the evening will be an open reading.
Please plan to stay for the entire event.
Refreshments will be served.
(now in its twelfth year!)

For more information, please call Arms Library 625-0306
or Lisa Merrill 625-9765

Sunday Salon
Come on
April 29th, Mocha Maya's
47 Bridge Street Shelburne Falls, MA 01370

This is a special salon to give back to the
Town of Shelbourne for their grant to the Equinox.
625-6728 for info/directions
more information will be forthcoming in the next issue of Poetry News.

The FallEQUiNOX
Greetings to you all: got a story to tell? in rhyme, meter or prose -- maybe chapter and verse too? lyrics perhaps with some notation, or in images painted or photoed. I would like to add reviews to this issue; I hope to have space for three to five brief ones. Please share this information with fellow creatives Mo (Note that "non-fiction" can include travel tales, takes on the creative life, social/political commentary, humor and satire too.)

published by Ginger Cat Press:
interesting tales for curious readers
102 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
[email protected]
Submission Guidelines
Submission limits
Poems, lyrics: Three to five poems or lyrics with music notation (approx 50 lines/spaces max),
and/or Fiction: 2-3 short (250-500 words double-spaced) fictions, and/or
Non-fiction: 2-3 concise (500-1000 words double-spaced) non-fictions. and/or
Art/photos: line art, block prints preferably black/white suitable for 5x7 or less sizing.
NEW: Reviews of journals, books, film: incisive but fair, 250-300 words.

Starting in 2007 the journal will be published annually, in the Fall of the year. There is no guarantee that publication will be timely since natural and man-made disasters, illness, or the occasional disorganized spell may intervene.

Submission deadline: June 1st
NOTE: Electronic submissions preferred, as it saves me time. Either paste into e-mail or attach a .doc file; please, NO zip or mime files Be sure to check grammar, punctuation, line breaks, paragraphing, apt use of transitions, effective word choice etc etc. Include your full name on every page of hardcopy submissions, in case materials flutter wildly around the room, the way parakeets do, and must be recaptured and restored to their original order and completeness. Always keep a copy for your records in case they are lost in transmission and because your submitted copy will not be returned. Most, but not all edits, will be subject to author’s approval.
THEMES/GENRES: The Equinox is eclectic thematically. Its goal is to offer a forum for the many voices of our region, even at the risk of “cacophony.” Political commentary, controversial topics handled with care, history, humor, etc are all welcomed as is art work, music notations and lyrics and more. Acceptance depends totally on the subjective, arbitrary decision of the editor, who is a sucker for a thoughtful message crafted into life with well-chosen words and imagry. Simple charm or complex angst — & all points between — equally considered.
Short stories and non-fiction are especially encouraged to maintain a prosaic balance to the poetics; else wise, the excess of paddling poets will have our literary vessel turning in circles. And the wordsmiths would benefit from the tuneful and artful contributions of those who craft meaning from sounds and sights.
Previously published work OK; author responsible for obtaining written permissions. Never before published writers are welcome. Contributors’ rewards are fame and one free copy; additional copies at cost or by donation. This represents a change in policy: contributors were awarded two free copies of the biannual issue to which they contributed. The costs of publication, whether biannual or annual, are such that I must be more frugal i.e., less generous; however, in the interests of distribution, I will accept payment on a sliding scale for all copies in excess of the contributor copy -- no reader will be denied!

NOTICE: the Fall Equinox: an excursion of stories, poems, essays, and art an annual, was formerly known as the Equinox:an excursion of stories, poems, and essays a bi-annual production


Pittsfield/Stockbridge Poetry

Reading Series at Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
The next reading in the monthly poetry reading series will be
April 12, 2007 at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
will feature two local poets: David Giannini and Trina Porte.
David Giannin, a social worker who lives in Becket, has received
numerous awards for his poetry and has published numerous
collections of poetry, the latest of which is OTHERS' LINES, SECOND SERIES.

The second reader, Trina Porte, lives in Canaan, New York
and has been published in several journals and has one chapbook
to her name. The reading, which is free and open to the public,
will begin at 7:00 p.m.
The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts is located at
28 Renne Avenue (off Fenn Street) in Pittsfield

upstreet Reading
Writers whose work appears in upstreet, the new national literary magazine
published by Ledgetop Publishing, will be the featured readers in the fifth event
of the reading tour celebrating the publication of the magazine’s second issue.
The reading will take place at
Oblong Books & Music,
Main Street,
Millerton, NY,
on Sunday, March 25, at 2:00 p.m.

The readers will be poets Jonathan A. Reynolds of Sheffield and
Judy Katz of New York City and Lakeville, CT, and
fiction writer Helen Klein Ross of New York City and Amenia, NY.
The host for the event will be upstreet editor Vivian Dorsel of Richmond,
founder of Ledgetop Publishing.

upstreet, which is published annually, includes new fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
The second issue features an interview with author Lydia Davis,
translator of Proust’s Swann’s Way and author of the novel
The End of the Story and the short-story collection Samuel Johnson is Indignant.
Davis, a faculty member at the New York State Writers Institute in Albany,
was granted a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.
Refreshments will be available, and admission is free and open to the public.

For information contact:
Vivian Dorsel
(413) 441-9702 (cell)
[email protected]
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/


Word Street
is a youth literacy project and creative writing center located at
163 North Street in downtown Pittsfield.
Since 2003, Word Street has offered homework help, tutoring,
MCAS and SAT test prep, creative writing instruction,
mini-magazine publishing, summer camps, and much more to
Berkshire County youth ages 7-18 absolutely free of charge.

"Poets are the theoretical physicists of language.
Rivers of literary magma are flowing just under the
surface all over Berkshire County.
This reading is a volcano."
--Steve Dew

For more information, please contact:
Steve Dew
Development Director
Word Street
163 North Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
( 413) 458-5171 home
(415) 407-3664 mobile
( 413) 997-3307 office
http://www.blogger.com/http://www.blogger.com/

Check out this website for information on spoken word events in Pittsfield:
There are some great events so check it out. http://www.wordstreet.org


Stockbridge Booksellers

The regular open mike THE POWER OF WORDS
will take place every other month on the third Thursday of the month
I hope you can all come!! For more info call or email us or call
Garfield at 413 528 4127 after 5pm

Upcoming Events:

Will Alexander
“The $64 Tomato”
Saturday April 28 @ 2PM

John & Molly
Stockbridge Booksellers
10 Elm Street
Stockbridge, MA 413-298-3329
[email protected]


Word in Ware:

Carpe Stylum! (Latin for Seize the pen!)
meets every Wednesday 6-8pm, usually at the Ware Library
but some meetings are held elsewhere.
This group includes poets, short story writers, novelists,
historians, political satirists, video game designer and others.
All are welcome.
Call LuWanda Cheney (413) 277-9676 for a schedule.


Word in Worcester:

The d'Alzon Arts Series: Poetry Reading
meets May 18th at Assumption College
(rescheduled from March)
(500 Salisbury Street, Worcester)
in the Emmanuel d'Alzon Library.
The format is an open mic for the first half-hour or so,
a short break with refreshments and then 2 featured poets.
The reading starts at 7:00 p.m.
This month their features will be Dave Keali'i and Tony Brown.


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Shakti Women's Writing Pact
The Shakti Women's Writing Pact meets
every Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at
the Java Hut (1073A Main Street, Worcester).
Shakti was created with the intention of enhancing women's
sense of belonging within the poetry community through the
an unmoderated writing circle.
For more information please contact Sou MacMillan at
[email protected].

POET'S ASYLUM
Join us at the Java Hut
(1073A Main Street, Worcester).
Open mic sign-up every Sunday night at 6:30 p.m.
with the reading starting somewhere around 7:00p.m.

The feature follows the open mic.
Please throw some money in the bucket when it comes your way;
everything collected goes to the feature.

Sunday April 1
Join us this week for the last Open Qualifying Slam for the 2007 Worcester Slam team.
The top two finishers in tonight's slam move on to the Spring semi-final in May '07.
Slam poetry can be moving, funny and deadly serious, sometimes all in the same poem. Poets come up and perform their original work for the audience. Five people randomly chosen from the audience before the bout will give each poem a score from 0.0 to 10.0, with 10 being the highest. The high and the low scores are dropped, and the three remaining scores are added. Each poet has a time limit of three minutes, with a 10-second grace period. After the grace period is passed, points will be deducted from the poet's final score.

The Poets' Asylum -- in its fifteenth year of
bringing the best in Performance and Slam poetry
to Central Massachusetts and beyond.
http://poetsasylum.org/mailman/listinfo/

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Setting the Stage
Setting the Stage, the fourth and latest anthology published
by the Worcester Poetry Project, is now available.
The latest installment from Voices from the Asylum
series includes forty-four works from members of the

Poets' Asylum community. The amazing cover art was created by Gary Hoare.
For more information on this and our previous anthologies visit
www.poetsasylum.org


CT POETRY
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Reading and Book Signing by Steve Foley
Friday,
March 30 2007
7:00pm
Steve Foley's collection of poems, A Place at the Table,
has just been released by Antrim House
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Recital Hall
15 Vernon Street
Hartford, CT(Use parking garage off Washington Ave.)
For information: 860-651-3464 or www.AntrimHouseBooks.com.
A Place at the Table is Steve Foley's second volume of poetry. Of this collection, Hugh Ogden (Steve's former teacher and long-time colleague in one of the area's oldest poetry work-shops) has said, "The beauty of Steve Foley's poetry is that he gives us a threshold and lets us stand there and watch with nothing except the depth and resonance of the moment. A moment of solitude sprung from the social world he knows so well. His poetry brings us to a deep emotional awareness and a tenderness of feeling, but it does so with intelligence that places fatherhood, motherhood and childhood in the context of American society. At the end of a Steve Foley poem, we stand with him because of his warmth, his knowledge and his skill with words, more aware of the preciousness of life and what it means to be sensitively aware."Rennie McQuilkin says, "Steve…is one of those well-hidden secrets that need to be revealed. He is a fabulous poet."Steve Foley's poetry has appeared in publications such as Northeast Magazine, Friends' Journal and The Portland Review. His chapbook, With the Hollow of Your Hand, was published by Andrew Mountain Press in 1999. During the past twenty-five years he has given many poetry readings at venues such as the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Selected as 1980 Poet of the Year by the New England Association of Teachers of English, Foley has taught English and directed dramatic productions in Connecticut public high schools for more than three decades. He currently chairs the English Department of the High School and Middle School in South Windsor. Having grown up in Hartford, he now resides in Weatogue, Connecticut with his wife, Diane, an elementary school teacher. They are the parents of Justin, a professional musician, and Lindsay, a speech pathologist.

Visit the CT Poet Online calendar, updated weekly: http://www.poetz.com/connecticut

Windsor Workshop:
A workshop for serious poets interested in critique
at the Windsor Library, Windsor, CT
each second and fourth Monday at 6:30 PM.
For information call Alice Ahrens Williams 860-668-6142
or Janet Henderson 860-688-5770

WINTONBURY LIBRARY POETRY SERIES

April 19 (Thurs) 7:00 P.M. Wintonbury Branch Poetry Series
We are honored to be hosting Patricia Fargnoli as our special guest for National Poetry Month. She is author of several books and chapbooks, including Necessary Light, winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award. Ms. Fargnoli is currently the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.

An open mike follows the featured poets.

Join the Wintonbury Branch Poetry Series in celebrating
ten years of great poetry!

Wintonbury Branch Library
1015 Blue Hills Avenue
Bloomfield, CT 06002


THE SPOKEN WORD SERIES
at the Wood Memorial Library and Museum
South Windsor, CT

April 26th 6:30
Robert saunders and the Greater Poetry Ensemble

May 24 6:30
New Voices of Poetry
featuring Greg Scott, Sympetalous, Nancee Cheffet, June Mandelkern, and Lina Garber.

Admission is free. Refreshments provided.

Wood Memorial Library and Museum
783 Main Street
South Windsor, CT 06074
860-289-1783

For more information, visit the website:
http://www.woodmemoriallibrary.org
Or email:

HARTFORD HAPPENINGS

SOUL SESSIONS at The Art Space Gallery

The creator of the Monday Night Love Jones brings you--
"Soul Sessions" every Monday night at 8:00 PM

Join us for live Jazz Jams & share your Poetry and Song
backed by a live band or just come and chill in the vibe
of Hartford’s Hottest Open Mic Event.
Hosted By Charmagne

$5.00 donation. B.Y.O.B.
For more info, call 860-874-8797
or email mailto:[email protected]

The Art Space Gallery
555 Asylum Street
Downtown Hartford


Monday Night Love Jones Experience
The Russell
103 Pratt Street Hartford,CT
Join The Russell for this Smooth Poetry and Spoken Word Event.
Bring your poems and rhymes and share them backed by a live band.
Relax and release with This Love Jones Experience.....
Hosted by Charmagne Tripp. Want to share?
Amateurs welcome and encouraged to perform.
Please call 860-874-8797 or email
[email protected]
Mondays : 7 p.m.

Freestyle Hip-Hop Open Mic
Tuesdays
in Hartford
Filthy Kleen host Sully’s Hip-Hop Open Mic night
every Tuesday in Hartford
Sully’s Pub
2071 Park St.Hartford, CT
860-231-8881
http://www.sullyspub.com/


NEW SERIES AT MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Announcing a New Arts Series at Manchester Community College
“The Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series”
On the 2nd Thursday of Each Month from 6:00 - 8:30pm in MCC’s Fireside Commons.
Featuring Live Music, a Spoken Word Open Mic, and a Featured Poet/Writer for
each event.
Sign up for the Spoken Word Open Mic upon arrival.

Manchester Community College
Great Path
Manchester, CT
For more information, and for directions, please visit the Mishi-maya-gat web
page at:
www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php


Boston Area Poetry Info:

CERVENA BARVA PRESS CELEBRATES
TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY
McIntyre & Moore Booksellers
255 Elm St. (Davis Square) Somerville, MA 02144-3222
April 26th, 7:30 PM, Free, Handicap Accessible
Readers: Andrey Gritsman, Doug Holder, and Don Share


Poetry Series: at the Brockton Library
Celebrating National Poetry Month.
304 Main St.
Brockton, MA
(508) 580-7890 x 207
www.thinkworks.com/bps

Please join us as we Host the Hosts
Featuring Poetry Hosts who work tirelessly to bring us
the best poetry from across the nation to our backyard.

Saturday, April 7th,
Special Date. 1st Saturday
12-5 PM: Featured Artist:
Kathleen Brooks, Painter. 2:00-3:15 PM:
Open reading 3:30-5:00 PM:
Special Guest Host Michael Brown
Poetry Host Showcase: Sean Theall, Main St Poetry
Simone Beaubien, Cantab Lounge
Len Germinara, Nantucket Poetry Series
Chad Parenteau, Stone Soup Poetry Series
Frank Miller, Brockton Library Poetry Series
Valerie Lawson, Poet Mistress, Multiple Venues
David R. Surette and Victoria Bosch Murray, Poet Tribe
Nancy Brady Cunningham, Blackthorne Tavern

POETRIBE
NADIA NURHUSSEIN
Saturday, April 7, 8 pm
7:30 Open Mike Sign Up
8:00 Open Mike
9:00 Feature Poet
The Community Room
East Bridgewater Public Library
32 Union Street East Bridgewater, MA
http://www.poetribe.org
Nadia Nurhussein was named a finalist for the 2006
Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in
Tuesday: an Art Project, the Harvard Review,
580 Split, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, and Good Foot.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Staten Island,
she has degrees from Harvard and UC Berkeley, and is
currently an Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Massachusetts Boston.

FUTURE FEATURES
Apr 21 Wesley McNair
Apr 28 Barbara Adler
May 12 Jeffrey Thomson
Jun 9 Thomas Lux

Hosted by David R. Surette and Victoria Bosch Murray
For info and bookings, contact
Directions to Poetribe
(from the East Bridgewater Public Library
website http://www.sailsinc.org/ebpl/):
Take Route 24 to Exit 16A, Route 106 East towards
West Bridgewater. Follow Route 106 for about 4 miles
to Route 18. Take a left onto Route 18 North.
At the 6-way intersection in East Bridgewater center
stay straight on Route 18. The red brick library building
is one block north on the left, at the corner of
Union Street and Route 18.

CAMBRIDGE READINGS

Central Square’s world-famous Cantab Lounge
presents performances from local and national poets, as well as a
chance to present your own work in the open mic or poetry slam.
Upcoming features include:

• Wednesday, April 4
Cantab Team Selection Semi-Finals! The Cantab’s biggest poetry slam of the year. Twenty-three of this season’s slam winners have earned an invite to two rounds of no-holds-barred, no-story-left-untold poetry slam. The top scorers from tonight advance to Finals next week. Special $5 cover tonight to help send the Cantab Slam team to the 2007 National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas.

• Wednesday, April 11
Cantab Team Selection Finals! The top poets from last week’s semi-final throw down in four no-repeat rounds to determine the 2007 Cantab Slam Team. This will be, by far, our hottest poetry slam of the year; the stakes are very high for our competing poets. Special $5 cover tonight to help send the Cantab Slam team to the 2007 National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas.

• Wednesday, April 18
She’s been called the nation’s foremost and best-known slam poet, poetry slam’s “keynote artist,” and is perhaps loved most of all here in Cambridge as the mother of the Boston Poetry Slam. No matter how you slice it, Patricia Smith is the best-known slam poet in the world, and her unparalleled four-time National Slam Championships and exceptional, ground-breaking work are at the very root of the city’s fifteen years tradition of poetry slam.

Don't forget: April is National Poetry Month! The Boston Poetry Slam will be
holding the annual show-stopping Team Selection Slams, plus features from some
of the finest poets slam has to offer. No joke! Keep your Wednesdays free...

Doors for the show open at 7:30. The open mic begins at 8:00, the feature performs at approximately 9:30, and an open poetry slam follows. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.

The Boston Poetry Slam at The Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass.



http://www.slamnews.com/ [email protected]



Brockton Library Poetry Series
Brockton Public Library
304 Main St.
(508) 580-7890 x 207
www.thinkworks.com/bps

Free Event with really comfortable chairs and cool refreshments

12:00 - 5:00 Art Exhibit
12:00 - 2:00 Writing workshop with Danielle Legros Georges
2:15 - 3:30 Open reading
3:45 - 4:45 Feature

Upcoming Features:

Special Event and Date
April 7th, 1st Saturday,
Celebrating Poetry Month with a Special Feature:
Poetry Hosts Showcase

May 19th Ryk McIntyre, Lolita Paiewonsky

June 16th Tony Brown, Randall Horton

July 21st Tom Chandler

August 18th an Afternoon with painter, philosopher Arnie Danielson

September 15th Maxine Kumin, Carole Oles

October 20th Dr Jeffrey Thomson

November 17th Joanna Nealon


Cambridge Community Television
Tuesdays at 11:00 PM Saturdays at 10:30PM
Catch the latest from the Boston Poetry Slam I
NFO: [email protected]
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LETRA Poetry Nights
in LAWRENCE MASS
Every TUESDAY at
Julio's 99 Club
99 Essex Street Lawrence, MA
Doors open at 7pm open mic starts at 8pm
Admission $3.00
For more information or for directions please call
Michelle Richardson at 978-423-7045

Gypsypashn's Poetry Caravan
at Bestseller's Cafe
24 High StreetMedford, MA. 02155
Third Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM.
Free refreshments open mic. July 20 Sean Theall '
The Poetry Man' hosts
The Main St. Cafe, North Easton MA.
August is Biker Poetry Month,
and celebrated at Besteller's on the 13th.
After this reading there'll be a 2nd annual BBQ at Gypsy's.
Come one come all, come and enjoy a night of poetic delight
in a cozy bookshop setting!


Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
Every Sunday 21+ $5 at door
1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
617-547-0759 Website - http://poetryjam.com/
Blog - http://poetryjam.com/blog/poetryjam.html


Providence Poets

GOT POETRY LIVE
Every Tuesday starting at 7:30 PM

@ Reflections Cafe
8 Govenor St, corner of Wickenden St
Providence, RI 02903-4429
(401) 273-7278

http://www.gotpoetry.com/ContactUs.html

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