Poetry News

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Here is your Poetry News for the week of April 9, 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 9 - Erin Cowles (former house poet back in town)
Monday, April 16 - Stephen Lindow

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.

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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

Florence Poets Society Readings:

April 14, 2007
at the Invisible Fountain,
Eastworks Building, Easthampton - 7:00 pm -
In conjunction with "Captain" Luke Cavagnac
and Easthampton Arts Night Out,
the Florence Poets Society presents:
"Poetry Night Out, A Night To Remember".
This is a no-holds-barred, group reading event
featuring members of the society.
This is the kind of poetry your grandmother
warned you to stay away from.
Light refreshments, amazing artwork and a
cheap date, it's a win-win-win extravaganza!!!

Florence Poets team up with other area poets for a good cause!
New Beginnings fund raiser
April 27, 2007
7-9 pm
Brick House
24 3rd street
Turners Falls, 01040
7 of the best poets in Western Mass come together to stand for
the next generation. This is definitely going to be an intergenerational,
multicultural, multi-poetic styled masterpiece. Poets scheduled to appear
include Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor, Tommy Twilite,
Crystal Senter Brown, Stephen Lindow, Lori Desrosiers,
Carl Russo and Karen Johnston.

For more information contact;
Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor or Tom Sanders
413 868-9559
Hot Spot Entertainment

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April 28, 2007 at the Lilly Library, Florence - 1-3 pm
Kidz Poetry Workshop with Tommy Twilite
This intensive workshop will seek to instill in your child
the discipline necessary to create the perfect poem-
Brrrrrrrzzzzttt, WRONG!!!
The only ingredients needed for this workshop are
FUN and IMAGINATION!!! Tommy, and children's librarian
Kim Perez, will encourage the kids to express themselves using
magnetic words and cookie sheets (and maybe actual cookies, too).
After that, we hope to capture these unique creations for posterity
in a special book designed to be circulated in the library collection.
Pre-register by calling the library at 587-1500.
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Listen to "Twilite's Poetry Pub"
on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Weds from 9-10 am on WXOJ-FM LP
103.3 and streaming at www.valleyfreeradio.org.
Bringing to you a variety of interesting poetry and music!
Next show - April 18th

May 18- Arms Library- Shelburne Falls
Florence Poets Society will feature at the
Arms Library monthly open mic.
7PM

June 24 -Bryant Homestead- Cummington
Florence Poets Society group reading-2 pm
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All events are free and open to the public except as noted
For more information, Call Tom at (413) 584-5914
or email at:
or: [email protected] or visit:
www.florencepoetssociety.org
or visit: http://www.tommytwilite.com/


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:

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 15, 6-9PM
Sunday April 22, 6-9PM

Elizabeth Hughey at Smith
Thursday, April 12, 7:00pm
Poetry Center, Smith College, Northampton MA
Hughey will read from her first collection of poems,
Sunday Houses the Sunday, winner of the 2007
Iowa Poetry Prize and published by the University
of Iowa Press. A native of Alabama, Hughey attended
Hollins College and UMass Amherst, where she received her MFA.
Her poems have appeared in Shampoo, the Hat,
the Southern Poetry Review, Vanitas and La Petite Zine.
She lives in Montague and teaches yoga at Sindhu Yoga in Hadley.

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.


Open Mics brought to you by THE EQUINOX
the literary journal devoted to publishing the stories,
poems, essays, and art by the wordsmiths and artists
of Western MA (and sometimes beyond)

TO: VERBIVORES (PEOPLE WHO LOVE WORDS SO
MUCH THEY JUST EAT'EM UP, metaphorically speaking, of course)

APRIL OPEN MIC SCHEDULE: plan to join your fellow
wordsmiths at one or more of the following April gatherings
for sharing our work, discussing the writing life, enjoying
good stories, poems, and word play

April 19: Thursday evening at 7pm
in Meekins Library, 2 Main Street, Williamsburg

April 26: Thursday evening at 6:30pm in
Slate Library, 332 Main Street, Gill

April 29: Sunday afternoon at 2:30
in Mocha Maya's Coffeehouse,
47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls
(note: this open mic is in lieu of the
month-end Equinox Salon)

The open mics are free and open to the public;
in most cases they are accessible, call first.
Sign up begins 20 minutes before the posted start time.
Light refreshements are offered, either free or for
purchase, depending on the venue
More info from Maureen at 625-6728.

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


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 8
This week the Asylum welcomes writer Jeff Paris to our stage. Jeff Paris lives a life of quietly frenetic contemplation in NYC. He teaches music to very little kids -- which is joyfully not-quiet. He co-edits and publishes an annual magazine, New Genre. He did slam poetry in Boston, years ago. He hasn't seen Sou or Bill in a long time, and is happy at the thought. He is most recently published in Flim Forum's "Oh One Arrow" compilation. Well ... honestly ... that's kind of the only place he's published.

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/

2007 Poets' Asylum Anthology
The Poets' Asylum is calling all local poets to submit their work for inclusion in the upcoming 2007 Poets' Asylum Anthology! This year, Heather Macpherson, Erin Jackson and Eric Urban will be editing the anthology, and they want you to submit your poems!
Submission deadline: May 1, 2007. Additional info, including a list of ways to submit your work, can be found on the 2007 Asylum Anthology webpage. Please submit. We want you to be included in our annual anthology.***

For more information on this and our previous anthologies visit
www.poetsasylum.org


CT POETRY
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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 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
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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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