Poetry News

****POETRYNEWS****
To receive Poetry News in your email write to

Here is your Poetry News for the week of November 19, 2007.
Spoken word events are swirling like multicolored leaves in 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 6:30 and open mic starts at 7:00PM
followed by a guest feature.
All are welcome.
This venue is PG 13

Upcoming Feature Poets:

Monday November 19 - Meghan Brennan (WSC student poet extraordinaire!)
Monday November 26 - Susanne Psyris

We are now booking features for December and January.
Please email 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.

***********************
Chicopee/Holyoke/Springfield Poetry

Women's Writing Group,
Mondays, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Springfield location,
beginners welcome, leader trained in Amherst Writers & Artists method,
for information call 413-737-4262

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

Springfield Library Events

Springfield Library Poetry Page:
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/poetry/poetrypage.html
Or contact Anna at or 413.263.6828 x426.

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

Latina Performance Art
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Latina Performance Art:Creativity as the Antithesis to Violence
with Sandra Maria Esteves and Patricia Herrera
Lecture 4:00 pm
Poetry Workshop 4:45 pm
Performance by Sandra Maria Esteves 8:00 pm
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Info: Jennifer Guglielmo 413-585-3712 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SMITH POETRY CENTER READING
Tuesday, December 4, 7:30 PM
Back to Our Roots
Elizabeth Alexander, Karl Kirchwey,
Meredith Martin’97 & Abe Louise Young ’99
Stoddard Hall Auditorium
Info: www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/readings


Forbes Library
Poetry Reading
You are invited to an evening of poetry
on Wednesday, December 5, 2007
at 7:00 p.m.
for readings by MCC artist grant recipients Dawn Lundy Martin, Kristin Bock, and Lisa Olstein.

This is the second reading in our monthly poetry reading series, now in its 5th year. Once again, the series features a wonderful array of local poets. This year’s series includes readings by MCC artist grant recipients, poets from the magazine The Equinox, Smith College’s Writer in Residence - Nikky Finney, poetry of Northampton’s poet laureate Jack Gilbert, middle school poets, and Smith College student poets. For complete program details, please visit our website http://www.forbeslibrary.org/ or pick up a program brochure at the library. Please join us for a delightful evening of poetry the first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m.

About the poets:

Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (forthcoming in October 2007 from the University of Georgia Press), which was selected by Carl Phillips for the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is also author of the chapbook, The Morning Hour, selected by C.D. Wright in 2003 for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural National Chapbook Fellowship. She is a member of the Black Took Collective, a group of young Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about gender, race and sexuality.

In addition to being published in a range of journals including FENCE, Encyclopedia, and Callaloo, Dawn has been awarded two artists grants in poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has degrees from the University of Connecticut, San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts / Amherst. Her scholarly work focuses on feminist studies and experimentalism & subjectivity in contemporary poetry. In 2004, Dawn co-edited a collection of essays on third wave feminism titled, The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Anchor Books). She is co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a national grantmaking organization that focuses on philanthropic and other social justice activism led by young women and trans youth. A new assistant professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Dawn is also on the faculty of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College.

Kristin Bock's poems have appeared in FENCE, Prairie Schooner, The Cream City Review, and The Black Warrior Review, among others. She received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts where she currently teaches. She lives with her husband in Montague, MA, where they refurbish liturgical paintings and sculptural iconography in churches throughout western Massachusetts. Bock is a contributing editor of the literary magazine Bateau, a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow, and her collection of poems, CLOISTERS, won Tupelo Press’ First Book Award and will be published in the fall of 2008.

Lisa Olstein's first book of poems RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE, won the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award. Her second, CLOUD HANDS, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Centrum Foundation. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the Associate Director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program and Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Support has been provided by the Friends of Forbes Library. Please forward this email to all your poetry loving friends.

Forbes Library
Coolidge Museum
20 West Street
Northampton, MA 01060
http://www.forbeslibrary.org/


DEJA BREW
57 LOCKE'S VILLAGE RD.
WENDELL, MA
Open Mic signup: 7:15
Open Mic: 7:15-8
Followed by features
ALL SMALL CAPS
A NIGHT OF SPOKEN WORD
Last Monday of each month Déjà Brew Pub, Wendell MA
Doors open 7:00 p.m.
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
http://www.allsmallcaps.blogspot.com/


The Blue Guitar Gallery
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/


EVOLUTION OPEN MIC
The first Thursday of the month
December 6
Open poetry night at 7pm
at
Cafe Evolution
22 Chestnut Street
Florence Mass
phone 413.586.0200


FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY
The Florence Poets Society celebrates it's 5th year of existence
with the third meeting of the new season on
Thursday, December 13 at the Lilly Library in Florence.
Our new starting time is 6:30 pm so that Society business can
be conducted prior to the poetry portion of the meeting,
which will be from 7-9 pm. Regular meetings are held the second
Thursday of every month. An annual membership fee of $15 dollars
contributes to our programs and events, however it is not necessary
to be a member to participate.
All poets are welcome to attend and share original work.
We are always looking for new poets.
Discussion and critique is offered if desired.
Look for our new writing group coming soon.

For more information:
Email us at or check out our web
page at http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/

Florence Poets Society Readings:

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!

-----------------------------
All events are free and open to the public except as noted
For more information, Call Tom at (413) 584-5914
or email at: [email protected]
or: [email protected] or visit:
www.florencepoetssociety.org
or visit: http://www.tommytwilite.com/


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 November 25, 6-9PM
Sunday December 9, 6-9PM

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.


Shelbourne Falls Poetry

Open Mic at the Arms Library

Third Friday of the Month
Open Prose & Poetry
7:00 pm

Meeting Room
Arms Library
Bridge & Main Sts. Shelburne Falls
Writers of All Ages Most Welcome!
Come and be heard, or just listen to the diverse voices in our community.
Sign ups at beginning of program.

Please take a moment to visit our new web site:
http://www.geocities.com/annieteekski/now.html

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
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

News from Mo and Ginger Cat Press
102 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls (413 625 6728)
Ginger Cat Press has a new website: http://gingercatpress.com/

Equinox Poetry Journal

SUNDAY SALON
Sunday, November 25
chili, chips & chatter
1-4 at Mo's Place
102 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls

In response to a conversation with some fellow writers, I am suggesting that all who are able to attend consider bringing alone thoughts about the craft of writing: what problems, solutions, tips, complaints, questions burn in your writer's heart? Have trouble getting started, getting organized, wrapping up? This Sunday is a chance to share your experience with the writing life. (We'll make time to share a reading too)

Journal is still in production; volunteers to help fold welcomed to come an hour early. Despite production delays, journal WILL see the light of day -- some babies just take ten months.**

*DIRECTIONS: from Ashfield take 112 north to route 2, go south on Rte 2 to blinking light (Mechanic Street), turn left to gold house on first corner. Park in drive or in the next block (streets bounding the house are state hwy and prohibit parking) 625 6728

UPDATE ON PROGRESS OF EQUINOX 2007
**CLOSE ~ IT IS GETTING VERY CLOSE. Folding and sewing in progress; cover being readied for print, score, fold.

Future open mics:
Northfield, Colrain, Easthampton, Hadley, and many more towns near you!

Word in the Berkshires

Stockbridge Booksellers Open Mic
Garfield Reed hosts our bi-monthly open mike poetry night
every other month on the third Thursday of the month.
...The Power of Words. P.O.W. is open to all poets,
writers and performance artists of all types.
We also welcome those less dramatic types who prefer
to watch from the audience. recently we have seen some
amazing young poets come out and wow their audience. Don't miss out!!


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


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:

Worcester Storytellers
meets on the second Friday of each month at the Village Arts Gallery (1 Ekman Street, Worcester). The reading starts at 8:00 p.m. There will be an open mic followed by a feature from area poet Dan Lewis. Lewis writes about the everyday but often presents his images and stories with a philosophical twist that not only makes his listeners stop and think but keep on thinking for quite a while.
Free & open to the public. They will pass the hat so bring some money to support the artists! For more info please contact .

Sacred Fools Press Submission Call-Out:
Americana Poetry
Send us your poems about American icons and experience.
Drive down that road in that classic car.
Retell the tales of Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan.
Deconstruct American Gothic . Get nostalgic. Get
bitter. Show us humor. Political poems given
consideration, but should have a general audience appeal.
Submit poems as text in email and 20 word or less bio
to:
Deadline: January 15th, 2008.

Poetry Journals Indexed
The contents of the now defunct journal Troubadour, Le Poete Lyrique is now fully indexed at getCITED.org and The Worcester Review is on track to be the next.

As you may know, The Worcester Review has been publishing poetry since 1973. It has published poetry by some 20 Pushcart Prize winners, and other well known writers including Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Stanley Kunitz, May Swenson, ... and many others.

Chapbooks and many small press journals are partially indexed at getCITED. This a one of the few free research tools available to literary researchers and writers on the web looking for hard to find information on a very poorly funded art form!

see: Wikipedia articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetCITED

***
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 November 18
Seren Divine returns to the Poets' Asylum this week.
Currently hailing from Brooklyn, previously a denizen of the Worcester hills, Seren Divine is a feminist, educator, published writer, performance & visual artist, event producer, award winning poet and proud queer.
She's been on several slam teams, mostly Worcester, once in Providence. Seren subscribes to National Geographic, likes mint chocolate chip ice cream, kinks, things that grow, and cats.

The open mic sign-up list goes out around 7:00 p.m. and the reading starts closer to 7:30 p.m. The slam follows the open mic. No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the feature.

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/


THE ECLECTIC WORD, Radio Show
Poet and journalist Victor D. Infante hosts The Eclectic Word, an Internet radio show that will delve into literature's fringe with poets, satirists, alternative journalists and even (gasp!) bloggers. We'll be stepping off the beaten path of literature, taking a close look at the odd, the eccentric and the cutting-edge. Should be fun.

The show will run at 7 p.m. EST the first and third Friday of every month, as part of The World Wide Word Radio Network. You can listen to the shows live, or you can download it later for your listening convenience.So give it a listen! It's going to be a blast!

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

POETRY POTLUCK at The Sanctuary
Do you love poetry?
Would you like to be part of an ongoing poetry
discussion group offering food for the mind and the heart?

If so, come and join us on the first Sunday of the month
from 4.30-6.00 PM
at The Sanctuary in East Haddam, Connecticut,
to discuss poetry and build community.

This is not about sharing our own work but instead offers us a chance to share the work of poets we love, so you don't have to be a poet to be part of this group. Just come and bring your love of poetry and a poem you would like to share.

Hosted by Greg Coleman, Suzy Lamson, Marilyn Nelson, and Edwina Trentham
For more information call 860-319-1134.

DIRECTIONS
Directions to the Sanctuary for Poetry Potluck on Bogel Road – Look for sign: Labyrinth & Yurt (it's a dirt driveway)

FROM MASSACHUSETTS:
Take I-91 South to Rte 9 South. Take exit 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

FROM HARTFORD:
Take I-84 East towards East Hartford. Take exit 55 onto Route 2 East towards Norwich. Take exit 16 . Go RIGHT onto Route 149. Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Plains Road). Turn LEFT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

FROM NEW HAVEN: Take I-95 North towards New London. Take exit 67; stay to the LEFT at the fork on the ramp. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Middlesex Turnpike). Take Route 9 North towards Middletown. Take exit 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134

FROM NEW LONDON: Take I-95 South towards New Haven. Take Route 9 North towards Middletown. Take exit 7 onto Route 82 East. Turn LEFT onto Route 154 (Saybrook Road). Turn RIGHT onto Route 82 (Bridge Road). Turn LEFT onto Route 151 (Town Street). Turn RIGHT onto Daniels Road. Turn LEFT onto Bogel Road.
Phone number: 860-319-1134


WINTONBURY LIBRARY POETRY SERIES

Selected Thursdays, 7 pm
December 6, 2007

Please join us for great poetry readings this fall. Notice what's new: "Theme Nights" for the open mike portion of our evenings. In the open mike following each featured poet, you're invited to read poems applicable to the evening's theme-- or read whatever poem you'd like to share! A warm and revitalizing evening! Peace, Marilyn Johnston

Here's the list of featured poets coming up:

Patricia Ryiz, former student of Brendan Galvin, joins us December 6. Many of Ms. Ryiz's poems explore the joys and pain of romantic love and loss. A long-time member of the popular group, the Wood Thrush Poets, she is a veteran public reader, featured in many Connecticut venues including, the Buttonwood Tree Bookstore and the Wood Memorial Library. Open mike theme: "Love, As You See It..."

Wintonbury Branch Library
1015 Blue Hills Ave
Bloomfield, CT 06002 860-242-0041

WOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Spoken Word Series II

Four evenings of poetry and a Poetry Workshop
Read by distinguished Connecticut poets.

Monday December 3rd at 6:30 P.M.
Poetry Workshop with Ken Cormier, Instructor in Creative Writing,
University of Connecticut
Fee: $20
(no open mic this evening)

Thursday, December 6th at 6:30 P.M.
Poetry for the Deaf: hosted by John Basinger and Tom Nicotera
Open mic follows the poetry
Using the synthesis of American Sign Language and spoken word
developed by the National Theater for the Deaf

Each evening will conclude with refreshments
Wood Memorial Library
783 Main Street
South Windsor, CT
(860) 289-1783
The Wood’s website: woodmemoriallibrary.org
Admission is free except where noted


Spoken Palabra Spoken Word Open Mic
Every Monday evening starting at 8:00pm
Hosted by MIRA & Mind Evolution
at La Paloma Sabanera Coffee House
405 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel 860.548.1670(on the corner of Babcock St & Capitol)
for more information:
http://www.lapalomasabanera.com/Events.html


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


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


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/


Boston Area Poetry Info:

RICHARD HOFFMAN at POETRIBE
Saturday, November 24, 8 pm
7:45 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

Richard Hoffman is author of the poetry collections,
WithoutParadise and Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press
Poetry Prize, as well as the award-winning Half the House: a Memoir.
His work, both verse and prose, has appeared in Agni, Ascent,
Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Witness and other magazines.
He has been awarded several fellowships and prizes, most recently a
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in fiction, and The
Literary Review's Charles Angoff Prize. He is Writer-in-Residence at
Emerson College and also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at
the University of Southern Maine.
www.abbington.com/hoffman
http://mnemosynesmemes.blogspot.com

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. Poetribe meets in the Community Room,
which is a separate entrance toward the rear of the library.


CAMBRIDGE READINGS

The Boston Poetry Slam Simone Beaubien,
SlamMaster http://www.slamnews.com/

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.

• Wednesday, November 21
Internationally touring folk poet and progressive queer artist-activist Alix Olson arrives in Boston for the release of Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution. This impressive collection of work contains work from Alix herself, plus familiar names like Patricia Smith, Eileen Myles, and many others. Stay tuned for other special guests reading from this new book at this feature!

• Wednesday, November 28
Stone Soup Host Chad Parenteau features.Semi-final slam in the 8x8 series: Lonzelle, Steve Subrizi, Charley Pope, Ben Teitel

• Wednesday, December 5
Long-time-local slammer, lyricist, and all-around poetic artist James Caroline (Jme).
Final slam for the Fall championship: 11/21 winner vs. 11/28 winner

The Boston Poetry Slam
Downstairs at the Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Ave,
Central Square, Cambridge, Mass
(617) 354-2685_
(mailto:) _
www.slamnews.com_ (http://www.slamnews.com/)

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]



Not For Mothers Only
Friday, November 30, 2007,
7:30pm
Democracy Center,
45 Mt. Auburn St.,
Cambridge, MA

Please join this outstanding group of women poets:
Jenny Browne
Mairead Byrne
Annie Finch
Caroline Knox
Akilah Oliver
in celebrating the publication by Fence Books
(distributed by the University Press of New England)
of the poetry anthology on contemporary motherhood,
"Not For Mothers Only".
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-9771064-8-9.html

"The experiences of motherhood are not to be met with silence and/or platitudes. This anthology brings to light the many strong, scary, gorgeous motherhood poems being written right now-poems that address the politics and difficulties and stubborn satisfactions of mothering-while it reminds us of earlier poems that opened the space in which this new work might appear."

Jenny Browne
is a Texas based author, writer and educator. She has studied, lived and worked in West Africa, Central America, Eastern Europe and Southern France before migrating to Texas where she now calls a hundred-year-old house in downtown San Antonio home. She is the author of two books; a chapbook, Glass (Pecan Grove, 2000) and a full collection, At Once (University of Tampa, 2003.) Her poems have appeared in many journals including: Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, CrossConnect, 5AM, Skanky Possum, The Seneca Review, Post Road and Many Mountains Moving. Browne is Associate Professor of Poetry at Trinity University.

Mairéad Byrne
Her book Nelson & The Huruburu Bird was published by Wild Honey Press in 2003. Her poems have also been published in many journals including the Seneca Review, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Natural Bridge, Readme, VeRT, The Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, Folio, Flashpoint, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, and numerous anthologies. Her diverse current projects include a daily poetry blog at http://www.maireadbyrne.blogspot.com/; her latest work is Talk Poetry. A freelance playwright, theater critic and feature writer, she is widely published in her native Ireland as well. She is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. She received both an M.A. (Literature and Creative Writing) and a Ph.D. (Theory & Cultural Studies) from Purdue.Poet, editor, critic, and translator.

Annie Finch
is the author of three books of poetry, Calendars (2003), shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award; Eve (1997), and The Encyclopedia of Scotland (1982, 2005). Her translation of the complete poetry of Louise Labe is published by the University of Chicago Press, and her opera libretto, Marina, was produced by American Opera Projects. Finch has also published seven books of poetics, most recently the anthology An Exaltation of Forms and the essay collection The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self. She earned her BA at Yale University and her PhD at Stanford University and is now Director of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
Caroline Knox's collection He Paves the Road with Iron Bars won the 2005 Maurice English Award for a book by a poet over 50. Her previous collections include A Beaker: New and Selected Poems, The House Party, To Newfoundland, and Sleepers Wake. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Fund for Poetry, the Senior Fellowship Program of the Fine Arts Work Center, and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. Quaker Guns is forthcoming from Wave Books.

Akilah Oliver
is a poet and performance artist. Her most recent publications are the chapbooks "a(A)ugust" (Yo-Yo Labs Portable Press, 2007), "The Putterer's Notebook" (Belladonna, 2006), and "An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet" (Farfalla Press, 2004). She is also the author of the she said dialogues: flesh memory, a book of experimental prose poetry honored by the PEN American Center's "Open Book" program. She has read and performed her work throughout the country as a solo artist and as a founding member of the post-feminist performance arts collective, Sacred Naked Nature Girls. She has been artist in residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles, and has received grants from the California Arts Council, The Flintridge Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is former faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she taught research writing.

Brockton Library Poetry Series,
Joanna Nealon, Maria Conley
Saturday, November 17
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. Danielle Legros Georges,
2:15 - 3:30 Open reading
3:45 - 4:45 Feature

Upcoming Features:
December 15th Steven Cramer, James G.H. Moore

For park information, call 978-369-3254.

Cambridge Community Television
Tuesdays at 11:00 PM Saturdays at 10:30PM
Catch the latest from the Boston Poetry Slam I
NFO: [email protected]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

the Poetry Session at O’Shea’s
THE CAPE GETS ITS VOICE BACK
Every Third Thursday! The Poetry Session at O’Shea’s
is a free monthly all-ages open mic for poets and lovers
of poetry held in the Back Room at O’Shea’s Olde Inne.
348 Main Street (Route 28) in the village of West Dennis.
Info: call Gregory Hischak at 508-398-5434

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 Street
Medford, MA. 02155
Third Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM.
Free refreshments open mic.
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 Governor St, corner of Wickenden St
Providence, RI 02903-4429
(401) 273-7278

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

BRATTLEBORO VERMONT POETRY SERIES

Reading series in downtown Brattleboro on the first Saturday of every month.

Hooker-Duhnam Theater
139 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT
7:00 PM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
News for Poetry News must be received by [email protected] by Wednesday for Thursday or Friday publication Lori Desrosiers - Publisher, Wearer of all Hats, even yours.