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Here is your Poetry News for the week of June 18, 2007.
Spoken word events are spreading like waves of warm weather over the Pioneer Valley and beyond.
Please email [email protected] 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 - June 18th we will start at 7:00PM
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, June 25 - Martina Robinson
Monday, July 2 - Chelsea Winegar

We're now booking features for August and September
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.

Poetry Workshops for Kids
Lori Desrosiers will be giving two FREE poetry workshops for children
at the Westfield Athenaeum July 6 at 11AM for children 6-10,
July 30 at 2PM for 10-15 yrs. These will be fun, hands-on workshops.
Sign up at the Boys and Girls Library or call 413-568-7833

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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

Springfield Library Poetry Events:
2007 Poetry in the Park series!
This summer's open mic series will be on 3 Wednesday evenings:
June 27, July 25, and August 22.
6:00 - 7:30ish.
Under The Tent - behind the the Central Library, 220 State Street.
Your gracious hostess will be Crystal Senter Brown
http://www.crystalsenterbrown.com/

all ages - all languages - all forms of creative writing are encouraged

Bring some food to share, for a picnic potluck.
Plates, forks, napkins, and drinks will be provided.

Fore more information, e-mail , or call Anna at 263-6828 x426.
Advance sign-ups are welcome but not necessary.
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/poetry/poetrypage.html

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

MARTIN ESPADA
will be giving a free reading at New England College, Henniker NH
on Thursday, June 28th, as part of the MFA residency program.
See New Hampshire Poetry News below for details of this and other readings.

Monday, June 18, 7:00pm
The Old Creamery, Route 9, Cummington MA
Eisen will read from her new chapbook
The Permeability of Memory. For more info
on both readings, call (413)238-4236.

***The following two readings are sponsored by the Juniper Summer
Writing Institute and are part of 7 nights of poetry and fiction
readings by Faculty & Writers in Residence. For a full schedule, visit www.umass.edu/juniperinstitute.

***GRACE PALEY and MARK DOTY
Sunday, June 24, 7:30pm
Benzanson Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center,
UMass Amherst,
Amherst MA
One of the most acclaimed short story writers of our time, Grace Paley's
collections include The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at
the Last Minute, and The Collected Poems. Mark Doty is the author of
seven books of poems, including School of the Arts, and three volumes of nonfiction prose.

NOY HOLLAND and LISA OLSTEIN
Monday, June 25, 7:30pm
Benzanson Recital Hall,
Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst,
Amherst MA
Noy Holland is the author of two collections of stories:
The Spectacleof the Body and What Begins with Bird.
Lisa Olstein’s poetry collection, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone,
won the Hayden Carruth Award.

Write On! OPEN MIC for SPOKEN WORD at Smith
hosted by the Equinox, a locally published, hand-bound literary journal
devoted to publishing stories, poems, essays and art by writers and artists
of western Mass. Writers, poets, and all who love them are invited to read,
meet fellow wordsmiths, discuss the writing/reading life
at the Poetry Center at Smith College (behind the library)
Wednesday June 27 at 7p.m.
Sign-up begins at 6:30pm.
Free/open to public. Light refreshments.
Funded in part by the Arts Council of Northampton, a local agency
and Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
More Info at 413-625 6728.

The Care Center Poetry Reading
You are invited to a reading and book-signing
with the young mothers & poets of The Care Center
Nautilus II vol. 5
is a collection of poetry and art from students at
The Care Center in Holyoke, an inspiring non-profit educational
center where young women study academic subjects for their
GEDs, along with poetry, art, computers, parenting,
nutrition, athletics and more.
June 28 · Thursday · 10:30 AM
at The Odyssey Bookshop
The Village Commons
9 College St
South Hadley • MA 01075
www.odysseybks.com
Copies of Nautilus II will be available for sale, $10.

“The Care Center is a place of hope, courage, redemption,
energy and hard work. You can see it, hear it, and feel it in these poems.”
- Martín Espada, poet and essayist

Akiko Busch at The Blue Guitar Gallery Easthampton
On Friday, June 22nd at 7:30, the Blue Guitar will host
four writers reading from their new books/poems/essays.
All the writers also happen to be mothers, and the theme
of the evening is the relationship between motherhood
and the creative life.
Akiko Busch will read from her new book,
“Nine Ways to Cross A River: Midstream Reflections on
Swimming and Getting There from Here"
Akiko lives in upstate New York.
Mary Beth Brooker is a yogini, dancer, visual artist, & writer from
Northampton. She will read from a new group of poems and ruminations on desire.
Jenny Fox, will read poetry and a new essay. A writer and artist who works in various media, including handmade paper, video, language, and eggs, Jenny is also a healing arts practitioner based in New York's Hudson River Valley, specializing in craniosacral & polarity therapy. Her background in anthropology is the glue that holds it all together.
SuEllen Hamkins is the co-author of
The Mother-Daughter Project, a ten-year local experiment that proved erroneous our culturally-shared assumption that the process of growing up for girls automatically
means a loss of trust and friendship with their mothers.
More about Akiko Busch:
Akiko Busch has written about design and culture since 1979. She is the author of Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live and the editor of Design Is. Her last book of essays, The Uncommon Life of Common Objects: Essays on Design an the Everyday was published by Metropolis Books in 2005. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years. Her essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues, and she has written articles for Architectural Record, Elle, Home, House & Garden, Metropolitan Home, London Financial Times, the New York Times, Traditional Home, Travel & Leisure and Wallpaper*, among other publications. In Fall, 2005 she served as a Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair for the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She has lectured widely on architecture and design and has appeared on public radio in the U.S. and Canada. Her book, Nine Ways to Cross a River, a collection of essays about swimming across American Rivers, will be published in 2007 by Bloomsbury/USA. Currently, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday regional section. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and two sons.

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
July 5
Open poetry night at 7pm
at
Cafe Evolution
22 Chestnut Street
Florence Mass
phone 413.586.0200


FLORENCE POETS SOCIETY
The next meeting of Florence Poets Society is July 5, 2007
From 7-9PM at the Lilly Library
19 Meadow Street
Florence, MA

Annual Contest - submissions being accepted now,
through July 1 visit their website for more information
http://www.florencepoetssociety.org/

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!

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: [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 June 17, 6-9PM
Sunday July 8, 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

Mocha Maya Open Mic
Open Mic at Mocha Maya's Coffee House
47 Bridge Street Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
First Thursdays 7:30 PM.
Bring Poetry or prose, your own or another's that you
fell in love with and wish to share with others.
All are welcome.

Writing, Writing, Writing! with Laura Rodley
Writing exercises guaranteed to break writing blocks,
beginning and experience writers welcome.
Held Tuesday evenings in Shelburne Falls,
7 to 9 :30 p.m. Call 413-625-8424 for more information.


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
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
Sunday, June 24fh
Scintillating Sunday Salon
for writers, poets, artists and all who love'em
at Mo's Place (102 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls)
drop in between 1 - 5
chili and chips on hand ~ chatter too!

Open Mic for Spoken Word schedule
* June 7, 6:30-8:30 ~ Food for Thought Books, Amherst
* June 14, 6:30-8:30 ~ Conway Library, Conway
* June 27, 6:30-8:30 ~ Poetry Center at Smith College, Northampton
These open mics are funded in part by grants from Greenfield, Amherst, Conway, Northampton Cultural Councils, local agencies, and Mass Cultural Council, a state agency

Ginger Cat Press has a new website: http://gingercatpress.com/


Pittsfield/Stockbridge Poetry

Stockbridge Booksellers
Garfield Reed hosts our bi-monthly open mike poetry night
every other month on the third Thursday of the month.
July 19th
...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!!

John, Eve and Hannah
Stockbridge Booksellers
10 Elm Street
Stockbridge, MA 01262
http://www.stockbridgebooksellers.com/


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:

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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 June 17
This week we'll hold a just-for-fun Dead Poets Slam for bragging rights and fabulous prizes.
In a regulation poetry slam each performer use their own original work. In the Dead Poets Slam the performers must use the work of a poet who is deceased though their words may live on. We'll throw out the costume rule because what could be cooler than a modern day Milton or faux Plathe taking the stage. Otherwise it's the usual deal - 2 rounds, 3 minute time limit, 5 judges, and so on. Come on down, it's bound to be a hoot!

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/


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

ROSE GARDEN POETRY READING
Featured Readers: Dennis Barone, Lonnie Black, Christine Palm,
John Orofino, Dan Schnaidt and Phil Tegeler
They’ll read the work of Hugh Ogden, Wallace Stevens and others.
This reading is held in conjunction with the annual
Rose Festival Weekend at Elizabeth Park.
June 23, 1 p.m.The Pond House, Elizabeth Park
(Asylum and Prospect, Hartford CT)
For More Information, contact Christine Palm, 860/232-3583

Bonnie Enes Workshop
Bonnie Enes, poet laureate of South Windsor will be teaching a five-week poetry course:
"The Who, What When, Where, Why and How of Poetry"
for LifeLearn -- West Hartford Continuing Education.
The course is for people interested in understanding
how poetry "works" and how to enhance the art of writing poetry.
The course will run during June and July and those interested
should call West Hartford Continuing Education at 860-523-3535
and ask for LifeLearn brochure be sent to them.

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/


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:

POETRIBE
Thomas Lux
Saturday, June 9, 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/

Future features:
June 23 Joyce Peseroff
July 21 Joe Torra
August 18 Daniel Tobin

Hosted by David R. Surette and Victoria Bosch Murray
For info and bookings, contact [email protected]
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.

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/)

Wednesday, 8 pm open mike; 9:30 pm feature; 10:30 pm slam
Hosted by:
Slammaster Simone Beaubien,
Co-hosts: Dawn Gabriel, Ryk McIntyre,
J*me, Adam Stone.
$3 at the door
Please Note:*****18+ everyone must have a photo ID*****

June 20, 2007
Remember the youth poet who made Albuquerque's slam team
two years in a row? Esme Vandraager can finally get into our bar to feature.
Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

June 27, 2007
A Bay Area superstar, Suicide King Geoff Trenchard comes by for
an east coast welcome. Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

July 4, 2007
NO SHOW TONIGHT. Go out and get some fresh air, people!

July 11, 2007
He was awesome well before he won the 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam:
Columbus's Ed Mabrey makes his way east to feature for us.
Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

July 18, 2007
A long-ago regular returns: welcome home Sean Thomas Dougherty.
Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

July 25, 2007
C.P. Maze (that's Maze Forever to you) from Charlotte.
This is your rare chance to see this remarkable slammer
from a very solid poetry scene. Open poetry slam in the 8x8 series.

August 1, 2007
The official send-off for the 2007 Cantab Slam Team!
Expect greatest hits, group work, and a few surprises in this extended team feature.
No open slam tonight.

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]



Ibbetson Press Journal Release
On June 10, 2007 at 5PM at McIntyre and Moore Books in Davis Square ( 255 Elm St.), Somerville, the Ibbetson Street Press will celebrate the release of its literary journal "Ibbetson Street 21" The press was founded in 1998, by Doug Holder, Timothy, Richard Wilhelm and Dianne Robitaille, and started publishing from its home on (33) Ibbetson Street in Somerville, Mass, later moving several streets down to 25 School Street in the same city. Since its inception the press has released over 30 books of poetry from local and national authors, and 21 issues of the journal "Ibbetson Street." Ibbetson Street is listed in the "Index of American Periodical Verse," and won several pics of the month from the "Small Press Review." Many of the journals and books published over the years are archived at Harvard, Brown, Buffalo, Yale, university libraries, as well as "Poet's House" in New York City.The reading will cellebrate the release of "Ibbetson 21" The new issue has poetry from such local stars as : Timothy Gager, Bert Stern, Deborah Priestly, Lo Galluccio, Dorian Brooks, Robert K. Johnson, Dianne Robitaille, Marc Widershien, and many more. Front and back cover photographer is the work of poet/vocalist Jennifer Matthews. Featured readers: will be Doug Holder, Bert Stern, Richard Wilhelm, Molly Lynn Watt, Dorian Brooks and others. There will be an open mic to follow. Refreshments provided. Free admission. Handicap Accessible.

Brockton Library Poetry Series,
Tony Brown, Randall Horton
Saturday, June 16th
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, Melissa Guillet, Painter
12:00 – 2:00 Writing Workshop. Danielle Legros Georges,
2:15 - 3:30 Open reading
3:45 - 4:45 Features Tony Brown, Randall Horton

Upcoming Features:
July 21st Tom Chandler, Walter Howard
August 18th an Afternoon with painter, philosopher Arnie Danielson
September 15th Maxine Kumin, Carole Oles
October 20th Dr Jeffrey Thomson
November 17th Joanna Nealon, Maria Conley
December 15th Steven Cramer, James G.H. Moore

Summer Solstice A Poetry Picnic at Walden Pond
On the longest day of the year, in the place made famous by Henry David Thoreau,
celebrate the beauty of the natural world through poetry.
Thursday, June 21, 2006 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Featuring Simone Beaubien & Eric Darby
Hosted by Douglas Bishop
Bring a picnic supper and/or poems to share (an open reading follows
the feature).Walden is a carry-in, carry-out park, so please be respectful of the
environment and be prepared to clean up after yourself.
If the weather is reasonably good, the reading will be outdoors.
For information and directions to the site, go to the Tsongas Gallery next
to the Thoreau Society gift shop.
Walden Pond State Park
915 Walden Street
Concord, MA 01742
Free of charge; $5 parking fee per vehicle

ABOUT OUR FEATURED POETS:
Simone Beaubien works as an EMT and volunteers for the local ultimate
disc league. Lifetime nerd and part-time athlete, she co-hosts the
Wednesday night poetry at the world-famous Cantab Lounge. An engaging
writer and formidable performer in her own right, she has competed at
the 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006 National Poetry Slams as a member of the
Boston-Cantab Slam Team, and also received the 2002 Best Performance
Poet (female) award from the Boston Poetry Awards.

Eric Darby, a nationally-recognized writer and performance poet, has
been ranked in the top twenty in two National Poetry Slams, was one
of seven National Finalists in 2005, and has competed in two
Individual World Poetry Slams. Currently a member of the Boston-Lizard
Lounge Slam Team, he co-hosts the Lizard's weekly Poetry Jam. Eric is
a past host of the Detroit Poetry Slam and has been published in four
nationally-distributed spoken word anthologies. His unique, full
length CD/book project The Secret Dream-lives of Engineers was
released by Wordsmith Press in February 2006.

Bring your own poems and participate in the open reading that follows
the feature.For information about the reading, email or
call 617-731-6567.
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]
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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. 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

New Hampshire Poetry News

SUMMER POETRY READINGS AT NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
New England College announces its annual schedule of readings
by the internationally acclaimed faculty of the Master of Fine Arts in Poetry program.
The readings will be offered between June 24 and July 1.
All readings are free and open to the public and will be held
in the Simon Center Great Room on Bridge Street in Henniker, NH at 7:30 p.m.
The schedule of readings is as follows:

Sunday, June 24
Jeff Friedman, Carol Frost, Ross Gay 7:30 p.m.
Simon Center Great Room – New England College

Jeff Friedman is the author of four collections of poetry:
Black Threads, Taking Down the Angel, Scattering the Ashes,
and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave.
His poems and translations have appeared in many literary magazines,
including American Poetry Review, Poetry, 5 AM, New England Review
and The New Republic.

Carol Frost’s poems have appeared in four Pushcart Prize anthologies,
and she served as the poetry editor for Pushcart XXVIII.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded her two fellowships,
and her writing has been honored by PEN, the Elliston and the Poets’ Prize
committees, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her books include Love
and Scorn, New and Selected Poems, Venus and Don Juan, Pure,
I Will Say Beauty, and The Queen’s Desertion. Her essays and poems
appear in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, American Poetry Review,
Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Kenyon Review,
New England Review, and the New York Times. She founded and directs
the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College, where she is Professor
of English and writer-in-residence.

Ross Gay’s book, Against Which, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2006.
His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review,
and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry among many others.
He is a Cave Canem fellow and a former Bread Loaf scholar.
He has been nominated for the Pushcart three times, and has been recognized
by the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the New Millenium Poetry Prize, and
The Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize. In addition to being a contributing editor at
Q Avenue Chapbook Press, his collaborative paintings and artists’ books
have been shown in galleries in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Ross teaches at Montclair State University.

Monday, June 25
Judith Hall, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Alicia Ostriker 7:30 p.m.
Simon Center Great Room – New England College

Judith Hall is the author of The Promised Folly, To Put the Mouth To,
which was selected for the National Poetry Series, Anatomy, Errata,
winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in
Poetry and Three Trios. She has received grants from the National
Endowment of the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundations, and a John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. She serves as the poetry editor
of the Antioch Review and teaches at the California Institute of Technology.

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of three collections of poetry. Her book,
When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering, received the Green Rose Prize in Poetry,
and Desdemona’s Fire was the winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
She has been published in the Washington Square Journal, Ploughshares,
Crab Orchard Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Missouri Review,
Ninth Letter, African American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Antioch, and the Iranian literary magazine She’r. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a fellow of the Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat.

Alicia Ostriker is author of nine volumes of poetry, most recently
The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998 and No Heaven .
Her awards include a William Carlos Williams Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize,
the San Francisco State Poetry Award, Guggenheim, Rockefeller and NEA
fellowships, and two Pushcart prizes. She has been twice a finalist for the
National Book Award. As a critic, Ostriker is the author of two volumes on
women's poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language:
The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. She has also published
two books on the Bible, Feminist Revision and the Bible and the controversial
The Nakedness of the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions.

Tuesday, June 26
Anne Marie Macari, Judith Vollmer, Michael Waters
7:30 p.m. Simon Center Great Room – New England College
Anne Marie Macari’s second book, Gloryland, was published in 2005
by Alice James Books. Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman
first book prize in 2000. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines
such as The Iowa Review, The American Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly.
In 2005 she won the James Dickey Prize for Poetry from Five Points magazine.
Macari is a member of the core faculty at the New England College
low residency MFA program in poetry.

Judith Vollmer’s most recent book of poetry, Reactor, published in 2004,
was featured in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and was a nominee
for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include The
Door Open to the Fire, awarded the Cleveland State Poetry Prize in 1997
and finalist honors for the Paterson Prize in 1999; Black Butterfly; and
Level Green, the Brittingham Prize winner published by Wisconsin in 1990.
Vollmer has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her essay on Baudelaire,
“The Stroll and Preparation for Departure,” appears in the Cambridge
Companion to Baudelaire. Vollmer also co-edits the national poetry magazine 5 AM.

Michael Waters’ books of poetry include Darling Vulgarity, Parthenopi:
New and Selected Poems, Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum, Bountiful,
The Burden Lifters, and Anniversary of the Air. He has co-edited Contemporary
American Poetry and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali.
The recipient of a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment
for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes, he has published poems in numerous
journals, including Poetry, The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review,
Rolling Stone, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg
Review, The Georgia Review, The North American Review, and Ploughshares.

Thursday, June 28 Martin Espada
7:30 p.m. Simon Center Great Room – New England College
Martin Espada is a poet, editor, and translator and has published thirteen books.
His eighth book, The Republic of Poetry, received the 2007 Paterson Award
for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
His work, Imagine the Angels of Bread, won an American Book Award and
was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of
numerous awards and fellowships including the Robert Creeley Award,
the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Premio Fronterizo, the PEN/Revson Fellowship,
and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He has been published in The New Yorker,
The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s and The Nation.
He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Friday, June 29 Maxine Kumin, Gerald Stern
7:30 p.m. Simon Center Great Room – New England College

Maxine Kumin's new poetry collection, Still to Mow, will be published
in September 2007. Author of Jack and Other New Poems,
The Long Marriage and a memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond:
Anatomy of a Recovery, Kumin's awards include the Pulitzer and
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals.

Gerald Stern is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
He has written thirteen books of poetry, including American Sonnets.
This Time, New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award of Poetry in 1998.
Other collections include Last Blue, Odd Mercy, and Bread Without Sugar.
His most recent books are Everything is Burning and What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes on My Life. Stern has received the Lamont Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three NEA grants, a fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Ruth Lilly Prize.
Until his retirement in 1995, he taught at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
He has also served on the faculty of Columbia University, New York University,
Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Pittsburgh. In 2005, he won the
prestigious Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Sunday, July 1
Joan Larkin, Paula McLain, Malena Morling
7:30 p.m. Simon Center Great Room – New England College

Joan Larkin’s most recent collection is My Body: New and Selected Poems.
She is the translator, with Jaime Manrique, of Sor Juana’s Love Poems;
co-editor of the Living Out series at the University of Wisconsin Press,
and recent poetry editor of Bloom. She co-founded Out & Out Books as
part of the feminist literary explosion of the 1970’s and co-edited
Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time.
Her anthology of coming out stories, A Woman Like That, was nominated for
Publishing Triangle and Lambda awards for nonfiction in 2000.
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council,
and has served on the faculties of Brooklyn, Sarah Lawrence, and Goddard Colleges
and as Distinguished Visiting Poet at Columbia College Chicago.

Paula McLain has been a resident at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony,
and is the recipient of a 2001 fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment
for the Arts. She is the author of Stumble, Gorgeous and Less of Her which
received a grant from the Greenwall Fund of the Academy of American Poets.
Her memoir Like Family was published in 2003.. Her work has appeared in
various journals, including the Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West and The
Bellingham Review.

Malena Morling, a native of Sweden, is the author of two books of poetry.
Her book, Ocean Avenue, was selected by Philip Levine for the New Issues
Press Poetry Prize in 1998. She has translated poems by the Swedish poet,
Tomas Transtromer, and has been published in The New York Times Book
Review, The New Republic, Washington Post Book World, Double Take/Points
of Entry, and Five Points. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation
Writers Award and the Lotos Club Foundation Prize. She has taught at New
York University, the University of Montana, Syracuse University, The New School,
and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

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