Poetry News December 14, 2009
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Here is your Poetry News for the week of December 14, 2009. Spoken word events are shining in the late autumn sun all around the Pioneer Valley and beyond. Scroll all the way down for more poetry in CT, Boston and other areas. Check out all our links to the right for poetry events everywhere!
THIS WEEK check out (scroll down for details):
Thu. Dec. 17 - Wintonbury Poetry Series, Bloomfield, CT 7pmSat. Dec. 19 - Spoken Word open mic at Thornes Basement, Northampton, 6:30pm
Holyoke/Springfield Area Poetry
Friday Nights at 8pm
Boriquen Y QuisQueya
626 St. James Ave.
Springfield MA
Starving for Art Presents open mic Tuesdays
@ Blue Fusion Bar and Grille 487 St. James Ave Springfield, MA doors open at 6pm for social hour. Showtime is 7-9pm All poets, musicians, singers, and visual artists are welcome. This event is free. For more info visit http://www.brendaschild.com/
Word in the Valley and Beyond
Green St. Poetry Series
Green Street Café Northampton, Massachusetts
The Green St. Poetry Series showcases the voices of emerging and noted poets from the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts and beyond. 7:30pm
December 10 — Jessica Fjeld & Francesca Chabrier
Jessica Fjeld is the managing editor of jubilat. Her first chapbook, On animate life, was selected for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship by Lyn Hejinian; her second, The Tide, is forthcoming from Pilot Press. Recent poems have appeared or will soon appear in GlitterPony, Fou, the Boston Review, absent magazine, and Invisible Ear.
Francesca Chabrier is the assistant editor of jubilat. Her poems appear or will appear in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Forklift, Ohio and Invisible Ear, and her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be read in Glitterpony.
January 7 — Gian Lombardo & Joe Torra
Jan 14 — Jendi Reiter & Charles Bondhus
Jan 21 — to be announced
January 28 — Christopher Cheney & Lily Ladewig
The Noises We Make: A Spoken Word Poetry Event
The Best Damn Poetry Show (Northampton's exclusively spoken-word poetry show that offers an Open Mic + Musical Interlude + Feature Poets) invites you to interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming at this ALL OPEN MIC event, where the Featured Poets =YOU.
Forbes Library, Wed. January 6. 2010
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What better way to start the new year than with poetry! Mark your calendars now for a terrific reading by bilingual poet, María Luisa Arroyo. Maria will be inviting friends to read with her. María's book, Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras, was recently reviewed by Cathleen Robinson for El Sol Latino, "María Luisa Arroyo, a transplanted Puerto Rican who grew up in the North End of Springfield, is an artist blessed with the talent of finding exactly the right words and the right cadence to show what she sees and what she feels. She shares that vision with us in her word pictures and word music. Her readers and her listeners can draw their own conclusions after experiencing the truths her poetic vision imparts." |
A Springfield North End native educated at Colby (B.A.), Tufts (M.A.) and Harvard (A.B.D.) in German Language and Literature, María Luisa Arroyo writes and publishes poetry as she raises her son, facilitates writing workshops, teaches adult learners the power of writing and of owning math concepts as a G.E.D. instructor, and supports community ventures such as Teatro V!da, the first Latin@ theater and performing arts in Springfield. A 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant winner in poetry, María Luisa Arroyo is delighted to return to the Forbes Library in order to share poems from her published collection of poetry, Gathering Words: Recogiendo Palabras (The Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ: June 2008) and from her chapbook, "Touching and Naming the Roots of this Tree" (September 2007).
This reading is part of the Seventh Annual Forbes Poetry Series. The series takes place on the first Wednesday of the month from October to May at the Forbes Library. Readings are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served courtesy of the Friends of the Forbes Library.
Upcoming Readings
Always the first Wednesday of the month in the library's elegant Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum. Free and open to all.
Feb. 3, 2010 - Northampton High School Poetry Slam Winners
March 3, 2010 - Middle School Poetry Reading
SUSAN HOWARD CASE MEMORIAL POETRY CORNER
The Forbes Library in Northampton, MA has created a new collection of the works of local poets named the Susan Howard Case Poetry Corner. This collection has been named in memory of a local poet who contributed to the library's rich poetry community through her volunteer service. The non-circulating collection consists of poetry books and chapbooks by Pioneer Valley poets, and locally published literary journals. "The idea for this collection developed in response to the abundance of many gifted poets in our area," said D.M. Gordon, Forbes Library Writer-in-Residence who created the idea for this new collection.
The collection will be housed in the Arts & Music magazine lounge on the library's second floor. The items in the collection are to be read in the library and comfortable seating is available nearby. The library hopes to grow the collection through donations. Anyone interested in donating to the collection should contact Lisa Downing, Assistant Director, at 413-587-1017 or .
Anthology of Poems about Northampton
Call for Submissions! Deadline is March 1, 2010 Go to: http://www.nohoanthology.blogspot.com
FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY .
Next business/sharing meeting Thursday December 10, 6:30pm
ALL POETS OF ALL TYPES AND AGES are welcome, bring one of your original works to share,
(12 to 15 copies will usually be enough for all to share) The meeting is held at Lilly Library community room and begins at 6:30 PM. Poetry presentation and discussion begins at 7PM
WRITING GROUP
Rich Puchalsky and friends meet every 3rd Thursday at Lilly Library community Room at 6:30 PM. See Rich for details, this group is currently open to join.
LASTLY PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING AS A MEMBER OF FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY. THE FEE IS $15.00 FOR THE YEAR FROM SEPTEMBER TO AUGUST. Your membership supports our Fall festival,
SILKWORM our annual journal, (these first two items also are supported in part by the Northampton Arts Council via a grant) our website http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/,, our po box, the annual contest, the JAN SLAM, our spring art gallery reading. and our summer reading at William Cullen Bryant homestead.
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" now Weekly! Enjoy the "Pub" with Carl and Tom every Wednesday from 9-10 am on Valley Free Radio, WXOJ 103.3 fm, Northampton and now with improved streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ !!!
Poetry to the people! WXOJ-FM LP 103.3 and streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/. Bringing to you a variety of interesting poetry and music!
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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: or visit: http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/
POETRY A LA CARTE
on WMUA-Amherst 91.1 FM 5pm to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays this Summer, streamed live at http://www.wmua.org/.
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.
Poetry at the Leverett Library
6:30 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, Poetry reading at the Leverett Library. 75 Montague Rd. Leverett, MA
Area poets are invited to read. For more information contact Petriana at 413. 549.9336 or by email at [email protected]
Greenfield/Shelburne Falls and North
Bart’s Bards
Second Thursdays Open Microphone for Writers Bart’s Café of Greenfield 286 Main St. Greenfield, MA
7:00-9:00 P.M. (Sign up to Read at 6:45)
2009 Featured Readers:
December 10: Tim Mayo
Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Arbutus, Avatar Review, Babel Fruit, Big Toe Review, The Chrysalis Reader, Del Sol Review, 5 AM, Inertia Magazine, Mannequin Envy, Poet Lore, The Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine, Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac. Among the awards his poetry has garnered are two International Merit Awards from Atlanta Review; he was also a finalist in the 2007 Winning-Writers.com War Poetry Contest and twice nominated for the 2008 Best of the Net Anthology, once by Babel Fruit and once by The Rose and Thorn Literary E-zine . In 2000 he was a semi-finalist in the “Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest and has been awarded two fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center’s annual Vermont Artist’s Week. His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications 2008) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ontario, Canada, and his most recent publication The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards, a finalist for the 2007 Main Street Rag Award and lastly, a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. He is a former member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival author committee and lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.
2010 Featured Readers:
January 14: Janet Aalfs
February 11: Julie Payne Britton
March 11: Maureen Moore
April 8: Kerry O’Keefe
May 14: Wyn Cooper
June 10: Lori Desrosiers
July 8: Janet MacFadyen
August 12: Marie Gauthier
Sept. 10: Lesle Lewis
October 14: Susie Patlove
November 11: Laura Rodley
For More Information, Please Contact:
Larry Fader (413) 475-3321
(Open Microphone Readings are 5 Minutes or Less)
Free to All
Greenfield Spoken Word
Always the third Tuesday of the month 9 Mill St, Greenfield, MA - Doors open at 7:00 - Open Mic starts at 7:30 Open Mic will be 10 - five-minute slots -Donation - Sliding Scale $1 - $5 Book signing and selling of local writers works will be available. Come up to read! Bring your chapbooks to sell. Hope to see you there!
ARMS LIBRARY READING
Third Friday Prose and Poetry Readings. 7 p.m. at The Arms Library, Corner of Main and Bridge Streets,
Shelburne Falls, Mass. 413-625-0306.
Held in the upstairs Reading Room, readers should arrive a couple of minutes early to sign up for a reading slot, and then have five minutes to share their work. The building is accessible by entering at lower level and taking the elevator upstairs.
ALL SMALL CAPS*
Monday, November 30th, the Deja Brew (57 Lockes Village Rd, Wendell) will open their doors at 7:00 for the third reading of our 4th season of All Small Caps and you will have a chance to catch up w/ us and everyone else. As usual, the Brew Special Poetry night menu will be available, bring a friend and your appetite!, and we will begin the Open Mic around 7:30 or so, followed by a break, and the featured readers will begin at 8:30.
Speaking of featured readers, we have excellent poets for your ears:
Claire Donato
Joseph Massey
Claire Donato lives and writes in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. She is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else’s Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Action Yes, Lit, and Typo. Claire graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and is currently
completing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University, where she also teaches poetry writing and was the 2008-2009 Peter Kaplan Memorial Fellow. The recipient of a 2009-2010 Brown University Graduate International Colloquia grant, Claire currently curates (with John Cayley and Adam Veal) an international arts colloquium in Providence called Incuhabitations: concepts and languages in poetic practice.
Joseph Massey was born in 1978 in Chester, Pennsylvania, and has spent the last seven years in Humboldt County, California, where all of the poems in Areas of Fog (Shearsman Books, 2009), his first full-lengthcollection, were written, as well as the chapbooks Minima St. (Range, 2003), Eureka Slough (Effing Press, 2005), Bramble (Hot Whiskey Press, 2005), Property Line (Fewer & Further Press, 2006), November Graph (Longhouse, 2007), Within Hours (The Fault Line Press, 2008), Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008), The Lack Of (Nasturtium Press, forthcoming) and Exit North (Book Thug, forthcoming). His work has also appeared in The Nation, American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Asterisk, and The Northwest Review, among other journals and magazines.
Collected Poets Series
Thursday, January 7, 2009 at 7:00 pm, poets Nancy Pearson and Afaa Michael Weaver will read from their work. Please note time change.
Suggested donation $2-$5. Mocha Maya's Coffee House, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370, 413-625-6292. Wheelchair accessible. See www.collectedpoets.com for more information.
The Collected Poets Series highlights the work of established and emerging poets. Each event showcases the remarkable local poets of Western Massachusetts and the finest regional, national, and international talent. The series is usually held every first Thursday of the month at 7pm (new time)
Mocha Maya’s Coffee House,
47 Bridge Street,
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370,
413-625-6292.
Wheelchair accessible. Free.
The Collected Poets Series will now be held the first Thursday of the month at 7:00PM. instead of starting at 7:30PM. The first reading at this time will be on Dec. 3, 2009 when Mary Koncel and Kate Greenstreet will read from their work at Mocha Maya's at 7:00PM. The Collected Poets Series is also excited to announce the dates and readers for our 2010 series beginning in January. We have many amazing poets from here in the valley and from as far away as England.
2010 Series
January 7 - Nancy Pearson and Afaa Michael Weaver
February 4 - Meg Kearney, Christopher Merrill, and Rhett Iseman Trull
March 4 - Joan Houlihan and Deborah Bernhardt
National Poetry Month
April 1 - Lawrence Raab and Regie O'Hare Gibson
April 15 - Adrian Blevins and James Haug
May 6 - Margaret Lloyd and Sarah Browning
May 16 - Special Appearance by Maxine Kumin at the Buckland- Shelburne Community Center. Sunday, May 16, at 3:30 pm.
June 3 - Mihaela Moscaliuc and Nickole Brown
July 1 - Kristin Bock and Lee Sharkey
No CPS Readings in August or September
October 7 - Josephine Dickinson and Sharon Dolin
November 4 - Barbara Ras and Jennifer Sweeney
December 2 - Aracelis Girmay and Ross Gay
The Collected Poets Series highlights the work of established and emerging poets. Each event showcases the remarkable local poets of Western Massachusetts and the finest regional, national, and international talent.
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Writing Groups
for beginning and experienced writers Come write in an encouraging supportive environment, experience the
deepening and growth of your own writing, and contribute to the deepening and growth of others' writing. No experience necessary--only the willingness to put pen to paper.
Groups meet weekly in Greenfield, are ongoing, and open to all genres. We follow the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) method, http://www.amherstwriters.com/. $125 per 5-week session, 6 - 8 people per group. To join or for more info call or email Ann McNelly: 413 772 2375,
Word in the Berkshires
will Feature Two upstreet Poets:
Lisken Van Pelt Dus and Cynthia Saunders Quiñones
Saturday, December 12, 7:00 p.m.at Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA
WordPlay, the monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books, will feature two Berkshire County poets whose work appears in upstreet number five, the nationally distributed, award-winning literary anthology published by Ledgetop Publishing of Richmond, Massachusetts.
Vivian Dorsel, editor/publisher of upstreet, will introduce the readers, and will also read an excerpt from her interview with author Robin Hemley, which appears in the same issue of upstreet.
Gail Burns of Williamstown will host the event for Inkberry. After the reading, there will be a brief intermission during which refreshments will be available, followed by the popular WordPlay open mic.
For additional information, contact Papyri Books at (413) 662-2099 or visit Inkberry's website at www.inkberry.org.
Power of Words, Open Mic
Third Tuesdays 7pm to 8:30 pm Hosted by Garfield Reed.
This is an open opportunity to share poetry, readings, music and other spoken word.
Free and open to the public at Berkshire South Regional Community Center , Crissey Rd.,Great Barrington, MA Every third Tuesday of the month. Please call Garfield at 528 4127 for more information.
In Words, Out Words in Housatonic
In Housatonic, MA there is an open mic for poets and performers of all styles and ages.
1st Tuesday of each month at the Deb Koffman Gallery 137 Front Street, Housatonic, MA 01236. “In Words, Out Words.” is hosted by John Meeks and there is usually a $7 suggested donation for heat and electricity. There are snacks there provided by whoever wants to bring them. The sign up technically is at 6:30 however the way it works is a lottery system. If you go to check it out once, then you can put your name on the contact email list. The following month you get an email reminding you of the upcoming event. If it’s your first time performing at In Words, Out Words, you are guaranteed a spot on the roster as long as you reply to the reminder email. If you’ve performed there before then you are put into the lottery system and randomly names are selected. Sometimes there are still slots open at the door.
The open mic begins at 7 and the featured performer goes on for about 20 minutes. It usually lasts until between 9 and 9:30.
Zeitgeist Gallery Pittsfield
Monday Poetry Nights 6 to10pm 648 North Street in Pittsfield call Alan Nidle, the Director at (857) 991-8448 for detail
Lee Writers Group
(every 2nd Tuesday of the month) at the Lee Library Conference Room.
Develop and hone writing skills through constructively critiquing others as well as receiving helpful hints and suggestions. This forum will host a variety of short stories, poetic compilations, insightful and original essays, and other varieties of writing similarly tangible in length. The purpose of this group is to embody character and narrator through obsessive directive fervor with written and spoken words. The group will meet every second Tuesday sharing original works via recitation and distribution and should be prepared to accept constructive feedback and be able to, in return, deliver such feedback in a respectable and deliberate manner.
Contact or call 413 243-8116 for further information.
Word in Ware/Palmer
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 and novelists. All are welcome. Call LuWanda Cheney (413) 277-9676 for a schedule.
Word in Worcester:
The Little "a" Poetry Series
at the Q Cafe, 362 Chandler St in Worcester, MA. We run the reading every Monday night, the sign-up list for
the open mic goes up at 7:00pm and we get started shortly thereafter.
Worcester Storytellers
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. Worcester Storytellers never charges a cover. They ask you throw some money into the basket to support the artists who feature. For more info please contact [email protected]
The d'Alzon Arts Series: Poetry Reading
takes place at Assumption College (500 Salisbury Street, Worcester) in the Emmanuel d'Alzon Library on the third Friday of each month during the academic year. 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. and typically runs for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Readings run throughout the school year.
New Name - Same Great Poetry
The After Nine Poetry Series - Every Thursday Night The The After Nine Poetry Series, formerly The Spot,
is a weekly poetry reading in the Ship Room at the Hotel Vernon (1 Kelly Square, Worcester).
The reading is held in the Ship Room of the Hotel Vernon (1 Kelly Square, Worcester). The official start time is 8:00 p.m. but honestly, things get going closer to 9. Maybe this week will be different. 21+ and proper id is required
Poets Asylum
Sunday Dec. 13:
Poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on what they're saying and how they're saying it. Slam poetry can be moving, funny and deadly serious, sometimes all in the same poem. If that sounds like a good time then join us for some great words.
Come on down to Jumpin' Juice and Java (335 Chandler Street, Worcester). The reading starts at 6:00 p.m. No cover; please throw some money in the bucket to support the feature.
The Dirty Gerund
There's a new poetry reading in town! The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show will be held every Monday night starting at 8:30 p.m. The reading is being held at Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner (148 Grove Street, Worcester) and is hosted by Rushelle Frazier. There will be an open mic every week with a mix of poetry s lams and featured poets. No cover; donations accepted. 21+ Please join us at our new home,
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
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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!
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Wednesday Night Poetry Series
Bring your fractured seasonal carols, your stale fruitcake, your rhyme of the reasonless season. You can read cynical Xmas verse, dark poems from the Christmas stocking coal mine, or bring Santa sacks of good will and Peace on Earth to all!! Whatever you read, we listen. So come, celebrate or kavetch. Either way – BE THERE!
The Wednesday Night Poetry Series (WNPS) has been running for 14 plus years - the open myk starts at 8pm, the feature at 9pm. You can sign up for the open myk starting around 7:40 or when ever the host puts out the sign up sheet. WNPS is warm and friendly environment for new open myk readers. You can read your own work or that of a favorite author or literary figure. Storytellers, singer-songwriter poets and other acoustic performers are also welcome. Our website, listing future features and containing other info on the series is located at http://wedpoetry.wordpress.com.
Connecticut Poetry Society Annual Holiday Poetry Reading.
December 13th 2 to 4 p.m., Butterworth Hall, University of Hartford, 1265 Asylum Ave., Hartford, CT
You're invited! Open microphone: read an original poem relating to the season or bring one you love. We will have a folio of seasonal poems from which to choose. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments. Free raffle prizes. Yes, you can bring cookies or baked goods or your favorite snack to share as well. Looking forward to seeing you there. - Tony Fusco- and the CT Poetry Society
New Poetry/Reading Series to begin at Billings Forge
The Studio @ Billings Forge is pleased to introduce to its programming a new poetry/reading series entitled,WordForge. WordForge is a series of readings featuring local poets along with an open mike component.
All events will be scheduled for Monday nights, with a 7 p.m. start time.
WordForge is curated and organized by local poet, Jim Finnegan. Harvest Reading, is the first reading in the series, scheduled for Monday, November 16th, and participants are asked to bring a canned good or small donation that will be contributed to a local food bank. Many of the readings will have a featured theme in addition to featured invited poets.
Upcoming events include:
Monday, January 11, 2010 - Favorite Poem Project: Poetry in Spanish + Open Mike -Readings from the great tradition of poetry written in Spanish (Neruda, Paz, Lorca, and many others). Bring favorite poems to read in Spanish or you may read English translations.
Monday, February 1, 2010 – Ten Thousand Things + Open Mike -The ancient Chinese thought of world as being comprised of 10,000 things. We invite you to bring poems about “things”, any object or thing (animal, mineral, vegetable, etc.).
For further information about the WordForge series and to participate, please contact: Jim Finnegan at 860.508.2810 or at [email protected].
The Studio @ Billings Forge is a program of Billings Forge Community Works, a non-profit organization focused on reinvestment in the Frog Hollow neighborhood of Hartford. The Studio offers programs that bring vitality and arts to the neighborhood and include jazz and world-class music series, artistic and educational workshops and classes, family film series and more.
Billings Forge Community Works (BFCW), located in the Frog Hollow neighborhood of Hartford, is a nonprofit organization committed to revitalization in the community. At the forefront of the project is the award winning Firebox Restaurant.
For further information about The Studio @ Billings Forge contact Janice La Motta,
Program Coordinator, 860.548.9877 or [email protected].
Wintonbury Branch Poetry Series & Open Mike
my time my place my creativity Third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. Fall 2009 Hosts: Marilyn Johnston/Tom Nicotera
You're invited to evenings of poetry to stir your heart, soul, and your creativity!
On December 17, come celebrate “Family Night” during the holidays with a special mother-daughter duo. Maggie Green, poet, nurse, and singer, reads with her daughter, Nora Pasco. Maggie Green is a long-time Hartford-area poet, veteran of local poetry venues with publishing credits including Rattle magazine. Nora Pasco, a student at Tunxis Community College, is a gifted young poet of high promise whose work has recently been published in Freshwater.
An open mike and light refreshments follow the featured poet at each event.
Wintonbury Branch Library 1015 Blue Hills Ave
Bloomfield, CT 06002
860-243-8855
www.prosserlibrary.info
Mishi-maya-gat Spoken Word & Music Series
at Manchester Community College, Great Path Academy, Community Commons (Use Parking Lot B), Manchester, CT 06040
Sponsored by MCC Foundation / Hosted by Stephen Campiglio
2rd Thursday of each month; 7-9 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public
For more information and directions: www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14
7 p.m. – Featured Musician: Barbara Hopkins, solo flute
Award winning flutist Barbara Hopkins’ CD releases include Telemann Methodical Sonatas, Vol. 1 and the best-selling Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano, now in its second printing. She was awarded a fellowship to Tanglewood Music Center, where she had the honor of playing principal flute under Leonard Bernstein. She has been a member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra since 1993, and teaches flute at the University of Connecticut. She also founded The Rosewood Chamber Ensemble with guitarist Judy Handler and plays concerts of nineteenth century American music. Hopkins earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. More information is available at www.BarbaraHopkins.com.
8 p.m. – Featured Writers: “A Celebration of Quale Press” with Brian Clements, Elizabeth Bryant, and Dennis Barone
Initially starting as the quarterly literary magazine, key satch(el), in 1997, Quale Press has been publishing chapbooks and collections of prose poetry since 2004. A full catalog of their titles and subscription information are available at: www.quale.com. Founder and editor Gian Lombardo will speak briefly about the press’s history and mission.
Brian Clements is the author of several collections of poetry, including Disappointed Psalms, Essays Against Ruin, and his Quale Press title, And How to End It. Clements is also editor of the independent, non-profit press Firewheel Editions and of Firewheel’s flagship publication, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. He is professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process at Western Connecticut State University and coordinator of WestConn’s MFA in Professional Writing.
Elizabeth Bryant's forthcoming book from Quale Press is nevertheless enjoyment. She is the author of the chapbook Fluorescence Buzz (Dusie/Hex Presse, 2009), as well as the forthcoming chapbook from the same publisher, No Subject. Also forthcoming is her second, full-length book, Reality Visits the Land of Illusions. She lives and writes in Red Hook, NY, where she co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series. More information is available at: http://elizabeth-bryant.org.
Dennis Barone’s work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight, among others. Left Hand Books published an edition of his selected poems, Separate Objects, in 1998. He is a professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford. Quale Press has published several works of his: Precise Machine, Walking Backwards, The Disguise of Events, and the most recent, North Arrow.
Boston Area/Cape Cod Poetry Info:
the Poetry Session at O'Shea's
7 to 8:30PM 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,
Rte. 28 West Dennis, MA 02670 Free Contact Info: Gregory Hischak
The Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts
Presents Poetry Series at the Brockton Library 304 Main Street. Our website www.gbspa.org Celebrating Poetry One Saturday Every Month
Sat. Nov. 21- Wendy Mnookin & Daniel Tobin
Our workshop and venue are free, the seats comfortable, the refreshments delicious.
12:00 - 2:00 Poetry Writing Workshop
1:30 - 2:00 Sign up for Open-Mic Reading
2:15 - 3:15 Open-Mic Reading
3:30 - 4:30 Feature Poets
During Open-Mic Reading share your own poetry or read from works of your favorite poets
Upcoming Features (For information on the following poets click on our website)
Sat. Nov. 21- Wendy Mnookin Daniel Tobin
Sat. Dec. 19 - Faye George Everett Hoagland
Sat. Jan. 16 - Fred Marchant Raena Camacho
WEDNESDAYS at the CANTAB
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Central Square's world-famous Cantab Lounge presents weekly performances from local and national poets, as well as a chance to present your own work in the open mic or poetry slam. DJ Muse spins before the show and between poets.
Upcoming features include:
• Wednesday, December 16
Def Poet, National Poetry Slam veteran, and Cave Canem fellow Tara Betts brings us work from her debut collection, Arc and Hue. A prolific writer, her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals, including both Spoken Word Revolution anthologies. Second semi-final in the 8x8 series: Sean, Charley, April, and the 12/2 winner.
• Wednesday, December 23
Six trips to the National Poetry Slam with the Denver team, including the 2006 champions and the 2004 runners-up, might make Paulie Lipman Colorado’s original franchise player. This post-punk contemporary nerd sweetheart is swinging through New England on another leg of his seemingly perpetual tour schedule. Season final slam: 12/9 vs. 12/16 winners.
Virtually unknown to New England before the 2008 NorthBEAST tournament, Philadelphia slammer Leslie McIntosh wowed the local audience with the craft and subtlety of his slam work. After a year of negotiations, we’ve convinced him to take a break from his own poetry studies to bring something new for us to hear. Last open poetry slam of 2010.
Barry Hellman's Annual Poetry Open Mic
"Memory & Desire": In Celebration of National Poetry Month. Read your own work or just come to listen.
Sunday Afternoon, April 11, 2010, 2-4 pm at The Chapel In The Pines, 220 Samoset Rd., Eastham, MA
Directions:
Rt. 6 to traffic light at Eastham Town Hall
West on Samoset Rd. 1/4 mile -
just beyond the Eastham Library
Information: http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman
Contact:
Last Thursday Open Mic
at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod
307 Old Main St.,
S. Yarmouth, MA
co-hosts Joe Gouveia and Barry Hellman:
The last Thursday of every month, 7pm.
Open mic and featured poet.
Bring your own refreshments.
Arrive early to sign up for open mic.
For updated info on this and other Cape activities go to:
http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman
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The Chapel In The Pines in Eastham
Biannual Poetry Open Mic (April & October) 10AM-Noon October 25, 2009. Hosted by Barry Hellman
Free & Refreshments Served Read Your Own Work Or Just Come to Listen Plus this time around: A Featured Poet!
CHECK OUT http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DETAILS
ABOUT ALL OF THESE EVENTS.
Lowell Poetry Slam and Open Mic Every FIRST Thursday at Brew'd
Awakening! Only poets can compete in the slam and win the prize... but the mic is open to musical performers as well. Whether you come to perform, compete or just enjoy some coffee and great local talent, don't miss this event! 7:00pm - 9:30 pm *Sign-up between 6:30-7:00* The event is free and open to the public—so come on down for an evening of good company and some terrific regional voices!
Brew'd Awakening Coffeehaus
61 Market Street
Lowell, MA 978-454-BREW
For more info, please email
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SATURDAYS
The Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts
Presents Poetry Series: at the Brockton Library 304 Main Street. Map it! New website!! www.gbspa.org
Celebrating Poetry One Saturday Every Month This is a Free Event with really comfortable chairs and divine refreshments
12:00 - 2:00 Workshop with Danielle Legros Georges
1:30 - 2:00 Sign up for Open-Mic Reading
2:15 - 3:15 Open-Mic Reading
3:30 - 4:30 Feature Poets
During Open-Mic Reading share your own poetry or read from works of your favorite poets
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OPEN BARK
meets @ the Out Of The Blue Art Gallery, 106 PROSPECT ST. (the home of Stone Soup) CENTRAL SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE. SIGN-UP AT 8:00pm OPEN MIC STARTS @ 8:15pm,
FEATURE @ 9:00pm Come and perform or listen!
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Sunday Night!
Cambridge Common 1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge $5 Cover Every Sunday Poetry Slam: 8:00 pm,
Feature: 9:30 pm, Open Mike: 10:30 pm 617-547-0759 http://poetryjam.org/
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Stone Soup Poetry
Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike si gn-up at 7:30 p.m. http://stonesouppoetry.blogspot.com/
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Newton Free Library Poetry Reading Series
The series meets the second Tuesday of every month open mic after features. Starts 7PM For complete information go to http://newtonfreelibrarypoetryseries.blogspot.com/ Director: Doug Holder http://authorsden.com/douglasholder
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Cambridge Community Television
Tuesdays at 11:00 PM Saturdays at 10:30PM Catch the latest from the Boston Poetry Slam I
NFO:
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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 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.
NH/VT POETRY
For VT poetry events calendar go to: http://www.phayvanh.com/
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